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Democrats’ Immigration Values ‘Out of Step with Most Americans’: Trump Border Official

By Family Research Council

The biggest problem with America’s broken border policy is that it perfectly reflects the values of the Biden-Harris administration, an immigration expert told a group of Christian conservative leaders.

“They’ve said for three years now that they have designed an immigration system that comports with their values,” explained Chad Wolf, acting secretary the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and now executive director of the America First Policy Institute, at the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit (PVSS) in Washington, D.C., last Saturday.

While a values-based immigration policy may sound appealing, especially to people of faith, Wolf told PVSS that the devil’s in the details. The Left’s anti-American “values” clash radically with the views of most Americans.

The Left’s first immigration-based “value is anyone and everyone should be able to come to the United States, full-stop,” said Wolf. If someone can reach American shores, they should be able to emigrate. Since America is a proposition nation — a “nation of immigrants” with no historic roots in Western Christian culture — the United States should serve as a home for anyone of any background or viewpoint.

Secondly, the Left believes that “anyone should be able to seek asylum here in the United States — and we may be the only country that people seek asylum in, which is a crazy notion. There’s a lot of other safe countries around the world that a lot of these illegal aliens actually travel through to get to the United States,” he said. Numerous alleged “refugees” from Nicaragua, Honduras, or Guatemala pass through Mexico en route to the United States. “Why aren’t you seeking asylum there?” asked Wolf. “They’re forum shopping. They want to come here to the United States for other reasons,” primarily for economic reasons, “and they’re using the asylum system to get there.”

Immigration experts have long documented the abuse of the asylum system, as Western liberals coach economic migrants on what to say in order to obtain asylum status, making them harder to remove.

The Left’s final values-based immigration policy, said Wolf, is that once illegal immigrants “get here, they shouldn’t be removed, that it’s okay that under almost no circumstance should they be removed from the United States.” You can see the results playing out today, he said. “There’s 1.5 million people with a final order of removal today who have said, ‘Nope. You know what, I’m not going to listen to that immigration judge. I’m just going to stay here in the United States.’ And we’re not removing them. There’s no deterrence in our immigration enforcement posture right now. And I think that needs to change, because otherwise, it’s going to continue to be abused.”

“Their values seem to be out of step with most Americans,” Wolf told PVSS. Indeed, polls show a majority of Americans favor mass deportations.

Instead, this administration has incentivized a mass influx of illegal immigrants, said Wolf. “During three-and-a-half to four years, you have about 12 million folks who have illegally come across that border: 10 million have been encountered, and about two million are what we call gotaways — these are folks that don’t come into contact with law enforcement. We don’t know who they are. We don’t know why they wanted to come to the United States. And most importantly, we don’t know where they are today. And this is only increasing.”

“It’s not because Congress passed any bill, because they didn’t. It’s because” the Biden-Harris administration “took certain actions that incentivized people to come here,” he said. “You saw about 94 executive actions taken by the Biden-Harris administration that caused this crisis. Now they have been in overdrive trying to explain that they didn’t cause the crisis, that it was either Republicans or it was the weather cycles, or it was all these other global migration … concerns or reasons, but it’s actually their actions that that” brought about the historic illegal immigration crisis.

“This is all by design. This isn’t because they’re incompetent. This isn’t because they’re bad at their job,” Wolf told the Christian conservative audience. “They have put a plan in place from day one, and they continue to execute that plan.”

The moderator, Jody Hice, senior vice president of Family Research Council, agreed U.S. immigration policy represents “a self-inflicted injury.”

FRC Action President Tony Perkins thanked Wolf for helping Americans in “accurately defining the problem.” He reminded Americans that “personnel is policy. We need to make sure we have the right people in place to have the right policies.”

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2024 Family Research Council.


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THE ILLEGAL VOTE: Kamala calls for mass amnesty for criminal illegal aliens

By The Geller Report

Kamala Harris calls for MASS AMNESTY for millions of illegal aliens on day one.

WATCH: THE ILLEGAL VOTE: Kamala calls for mass amnesty for criminal illegal aliens

By Andrew Arthur • The Washington Post

Progressive Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday and called for “comprehensive immigration reform” — including a “pathway to citizenship”, i.e., amnesty, for 11 million illegal immigrants.

She then said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a President Kamala Harris “will work with Congress to get that done.”

This Democratic call for amnesty is nothing new.

One of the first acts of the Biden-Harris administration was to release a framework for the “U.S. Citizenship Act.”

Ignore the title: that bill would have put virtually every illegal immigrant in the United States — including serious criminals — on a path to citizenship, while at the same time opening the door for aliens deported under Trump to return.

What’s more, that Biden-Harris proposal would have weakened immigration enforcement and doubled future legal immigration.

Read more.

Elon is right. Here he explains how this will be our last real election if Kamala Harris wins.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Lying ‘fact checkers’ claiming FEMA horror stories about running out of money for suffering hurricane survivors are ‘misinformation’ get hard dose of reality

By Leo Hohmann

Let me preface this post by saying I’m not a big fan of Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas). He has positioned himself right in the thick of the neocon globalist camp of the GOP alongside Lindsey Graham and those types. In short, he’s a servant of the military-industrial complex and has never met a foreign war he didn’t like or want to spend our tax dollars fomenting.

But anyone who delivers a smack down to the lying, ever-scheming corporate media deserves kudos for putting them in their place.

And Cotton did just that on in a recent interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.

The neoliberal “journalist” tried to fact-check Cotton and accuse him of spreading “misinformation,” which the lying, scheming, arrogant media is so fond of doing these days whenever they’re presented with the truth or even mildly challenged on their lies.

Cotton pushed back on Welker Sunday when she tried to lie and say it was “misinformation” that FEMA was funding illegal aliens while claiming to be out of money for Americans whose lives have been destroyed by Hurricane Helene.

WATCH: Sen. Tom Cotton: “It is true that FEMA and DHS have been spending billions of dollars on migrants.”

Welker must be getting her information from the army of so-called factcheckers who have become a centerpiece of the government’s personal propaganda factory in recent years. Check out this winner of a piece from Snopes, claiming falsely that FEMA doesn’t run short of money for hurricane survivors while spending it freely on illegal aliens.

Florida GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna brought the receipts to prove that it is actually the corporate mainstream media that is spreading misinformation in an all-out effort to cover up FEMA’s shameful spending spree on illegal aliens.

On October 6, Rep. Luna posted screenshots from FEMA press releases bragging about its funding of shelters and other goodies for illegal aliens.

Click here to view the infographic on how much FEMA has allocated to fund criminal illegal aliens.

Another great piece reporting the truth about FEMA was published recently by American Voter Polls.

It’s almost gotten to the point where if the mainstream corporate media takes the time to “fact check” someone, that means whatever that person is saying must be true. Because these evil propaganda outlets are totally committed to deceiving their mostly dumbed-down viewers.

By spreading obvious lies, these evildoers accomplish two very important goals for the globalist one-party state working for the final takedown of America.

First, they continue to deceive the sleeping masses of ill-informed citizens. Att the same time, they gaslight those of us who know what’s going on and hope will will resort to violence so they can call martial law and start rounding us up.

Secondly, they hope to misdirect Americans’ attention away from the real enemy, which is the media and the globalists, while keeping us at each other’s throats and stoking the embers of civil war in America. Don’t take the bait.

It’s no longer appropriate to call them reporters, journalists or newscasters, because they don’t even pretend to be objective or in any way independent of the bureaucratic state that has gone into full attack mode against we the people. They are professional propagandists, repeating big lie after big lie. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

I will continue to call out their lying deceptions as often as I possibly can.

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.

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It’s time for Kamala to go away, go away, go away!

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

I served in the United States Army for 23 years. I was a Cold War Warrior. I studied Communism, it ideology, its tactics and its policies to subjugate people. I understood the dangers of the former Soviet Union and its allies. I understood the death and destruction that Communism bring to nations.

I neve expected Communism to gain power in our Constitutional Republic, but sadly, it has. This is why I firmly believe that it’s time to tell Kamala to go away!

Time to send Kamala back to the Communist state of California where she will be welcomed with open arms by Gavin, illegal aliens, and her fellow Democrat Socialists.

Kamala go away, go away, go away!

Here are just a few reasons why we must make Kamala go away:

  1. Kamala’s crashing economy.
  2. Kamala’s rise in the cost of everything imaginable.
  3. Border Czar Kamala’s border crisis.
  4. Kamala’s failed attempt to turn our Constitutional Republic into a failed democracy.
  5. Kamala’s funding for foreign terrorist groups and states like Hamas, Hezb’allah, Iran and Qatar.
  6. Kamala’s death wish for the unborn.
  7. Kamala’s embrace of the LGBTQIE+ agenda.
  8. Kamala’s funding the Green New Deal, a very bad deal for Americans.
  9. Kamala’s anti-freedom of speech agenda.
  10. Kamala’s gun grabbing policies.
  11. Kamala’s cackle.
  12. Kamala’s turning away from we the people to those with money and power.
  13. Kamala’s failure as a Vice President, which is how she will be as a president. A failure.

READ: FEMA doled out millions pushing ‘equity,’ prioritizing ‘underserved communities’ leading up to hurricane season

In a Wall Street Journal column titled The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages Edward Pinto from the AEI Housing Center wrote,

Her plan would stimulate demand, not supply, and redistribute wealth to the sellers of existing homes.

A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000 in down-payment support, at a total cost of $100 billion over four years. Absent a severe recession, this policy is all but certain to lead to higher home prices. That’s because the four million program recipients would become price setters for all buyers in their neighborhoods.

According to the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center, 77% of all home purchases would be subject to this home buyer “tax,” causing the price of these homes to increase by 3.6%. Over four years the increase in home prices would total $175 billion, more than the $100 billion cost of the program. The price increase would show up in higher revenue for sellers, thus acting as a wealth transfer to them.

Read full column

Bidenomics will become Kamalanomics, which will fundamentally transform America’s economy into that of a Communist dictatorship if she is not stopped and sent back to California. Go away Kamala!

Act for America in a column titled Breaking America to “Build Back Better” notes,

Biden and Harris didn’t lie about “Build Back Better”—they just conveniently left out that their strategy involves breaking America first. The U.S. is spiraling into crisis, and every American feels it, no matter their political affiliation. This administration, continuing the radical policies that began in the Obama-Biden era, is systematically destabilizing not only our nation but also the global order.

Look at what their policies have done—skyrocketing inflation, a housing crisis, and a border crisis fueled by mass migration. Open-border policies, enabled by globalist institutions like the U.N. partnering with the White House, lure migrants into the U.S. with the real promise of benefits that the American taxpayer is forced to fund. We’re footing the bill for this engineered flood of migration while American citizens are left to suffer in the wake of natural disasters.

When hurricanes strike and Americans lose everything, what do they find? They discover that federal relief funds, already thin, are funneled to assist illegal immigrants while Americans struggle with homelessness, hunger, and destruction. An astonishing eighty million families on the East Coast live in flood-prone areas where they can’t even get insurance, leaving them vulnerable dependents on government rescue when trouble comes.

Read the full article.

It’s her policies, stupid!

Kamala in her own and other’s words.

Here are video clips of Kamala and her true beliefs. Don’t believe the attempt to white wash her by the media, social media and the DNC. Kamala is and always has been a Marxist.

Kamala Harris publicly BRAGGED about importing another 100,000 Haitian migrants

Cocaine Kamala

Kamala Harris Caught Chanting ‘Down With Deportation’ In Unearthed Video

Kamala Harris ‘Entirely Supportive’ of Pausing Arms to Israel

Kamala Harris, “There’s a balance between being tough and a bitch!”

Lying Kamala – Any Questions?

Kamala does not want this ad going viral that shows her saying she’ll ban fracking

The Bottom Line

Perhaps this music video titled Trump Is Always On My Mind by The Article III Project best explains what is happening and how Kamala, and her deep state co-conspirators,  intend to steal the 2024 election.

Remember what President Donald J. Trump said, “They’re not after me, they’re after you, and I just happen to be standing in the way.”

WATCH: Elon Musk: If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election

Get it? Got it? Good!

Vote accordingly on November 5th, 2024.

©2024. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

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Cognitive Warfare and the Battle for Your Brain

By Linda Goudsmit

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.


The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance of 31 sovereign nations from Europe and North America. The treaty is a pact between member states that considers a military attack against one member a military attack against all members, and obligates all members to assist the attacked member. A shocking October 8, 2021, article by journalist Ben Norton, “Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries,”[i] provides a chilling analysis of cognitive warfare. Excerpts from the article follow:

Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”

NATO is developing new forms of warfare to wage a “battle for the brain,” as the military alliance put it.

The US-led NATO military cartel has tested novel modes of hybrid warfare against its self-declared adversaries, including economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, and psychological warfare.

Now, NATO is spinning out an entirely new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare. Described as the “weaponization of brain sciences,” the new method involves “hacking the individual” by exploiting “the vulnerabilities of the human brain” in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering.”

Until recently, NATO had divided war into five different operational domains: air, land, sea, space, and cyber. But with its development of cognitive warfare strategies, the military alliance is discussing a new, sixth level: the “human domain.”

2020 NATO-sponsored study of this new form of warfare clearly explained, “While actions taken in the five domains are executed in order to have an effect on the human domain, cognitive warfare’s objective is to make everyone a weapon.”

“The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century,” the report stressed. “Humans are the contested domain,” and “future conflicts will likely occur amongst the people digitally first and physically thereafter in proximity to hubs of political and economic power.” …

In a chilling disclosure, the report said explicitly that “the objective of Cognitive Warfare is to harm societies and not only the military.”

With entire civilian populations in NATO’s crosshairs, the report emphasized that Western militaries must work more closely with academia to weaponize social sciences and human sciences and help the alliance develop its cognitive warfare capacities.

The study described this phenomenon as “the militarization of brain science.” But it appears clear that NATO’s development of cognitive warfare will lead to a militarization of all aspects of human society and psychology, from the most intimate of social relationships to the mind itself….

Norton reports that the researcher who wrote the definitive 2020 NATO-sponsored study on cognitive warfare, François du Cluzel, is a former French military officer who helped create the NATO Innovation Hub (iHub) in 2013. Du Cluzel continues to manage iHub from its base in Norfolk, Virginia. Norton continues:

Although the iHub insists on its website, for legal reasons, that the “opinions expressed on this platform don’t constitute NATO or any other organization points of view,” the organization is sponsored by the Allied Command Transformation (ACT), described as “one of two Strategic Commands at the head of NATO’s military command structure.”

The Innovation Hub, therefore, acts as a kind of in-house NATO research center or think tank. Its research is not necessarily official NATO policy, but it is directly supported and overseen by NATO.

François du Cluzel participated in an October 5, 2021, panel discussion on cognitive warfare.

Du Cluzel summarized his research in the panel this October. He initiated his remarks noting that cognitive warfare “right now is one of the hottest topics for NATO,” and “has become a recurring term in military terminology in recent years.” …

“Cognitive warfare is a new concept that starts in the information sphere, that is a kind of hybrid warfare,” du Cluzel said.

“It starts with hyper-connectivity. Everyone has a cell phone,” he continued. “It starts with information because information is, if I may say, the fuel of cognitive warfare. But it goes way beyond solely information, which is a standalone operation—information warfare is a standalone operation.”

Cognitive warfare overlaps with Big Tech corporations and mass surveillance, because “it’s all about leveraging the big data,” du Cluzel explained. “We produce data everywhere we go. Every minute, every second we go, we go online. And this is extremely easy to leverage those data in order to better know you and use that knowledge to change the way you think.” …

Du Cluzel defined cognitive warfare as the “art of using technologies to alter the cognition of human targets.”

Those technologies, he noted, incorporate the fields of NBIC—nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. All together, “it makes a kind of very dangerous cocktail that can further manipulate the brain,” he said.

Du Cluzel went on to explain that the exotic new method of attack “goes well beyond” information warfare or psychological operations (psyops).

“Cognitive warfare is not only a fight against what we think, but it’s rather a fight against the way we think, if we can change the way people think,” he said. “It’s much more powerful and it goes way beyond the information [warfare] and psyops.”

Du Cluzel continued: “It’s crucial to understand that it’s a game on our cognition, on the way our brain processes information and turns it into knowledge, rather than solely a game on information or on psychological aspects of our brains. It’s not only an action against what we think, but also an action against the way we think, the way we process information and turn it into knowledge.

“In other words, cognitive warfare is not just another word, another name for information warfare. It is a war on our individual processor, our brain.”

The NATO researcher stressed that “this is extremely important for us in the military,” because “it has the potential, by developing new weapons and ways of harming the brain, it has the potential to engage neuroscience and technology in many, many different approaches to influence human ecology…because you all know that it’s very easy to turn a civilian technology into a military one.”

As for who the targets of cognitive warfare could be, du Cluzel revealed that anyone and everyone is on the table….

And the private sector has a financial interest in advancing cognitive warfare research, he noted: “The massive worldwide investments made in neurosciences suggests that the cognitive domain will probably [be] one of the battlefields of the future.”

This “creates a new space of competition beyond what is called the five domains of operations—or land, sea, air, cyber, and space domains. Warfare in the cognitive arena mobilizes a wider range of battle spaces than solely the physical and information dimensions can do.”

In short, humans themselves are the new contested domain in this novel mode of hybrid warfare, alongside land, sea, air, cyber, and outer space.

And anyone could be a target of these cognitive warfare operations: “Any user of modern information technologies is a potential target. It targets the whole of a nation’s human capital,” the report ominously added.

“As well as the potential execution of a cognitive war to complement a military conflict, it can also be conducted alone, without any link to an engagement of the armed forces,” the study went on. “Moreover, cognitive warfare is potentially endless since there can be no peace treaty or surrender for this type of conflict.” …

The NATO-sponsored study noted that “some NATO Nations have already acknowledged that neuroscientific techniques and technologies have high potential for operational use in a variety of security, defense and intelligence enterprises.”

It spoke of breakthroughs in “neuroscientific methods and technologies” (neuroS/T), and said “uses of research findings and products to directly facilitate the performance of combatants, the integration of human machine interfaces to optimise combat capabilities of semi-autonomous vehicles (e.g., drones), and development of biological and chemical weapons (i.e., neuroweapons).”

The Pentagon is among the primary institutions advancing this novel research, as the report highlighted: “Although a number of nations have pursued, and are currently pursuing neuroscientific research and development for military purposes, perhaps the most proactive efforts in this regard have been conducted by the United States Department of Defense; with most notable and rapidly maturing research and development conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).” …

This weaponization of neuroS/T can and will be fatal, the NATO-sponsored study was clear to point out. The research can “be utilised to mitigate aggression and foster cognitions and emotions of affiliation or passivity; induce morbidity, disability or suffering; and ‘neutralise’ potential opponents or incur mortality”—in other words, to maim and kill people.

The report quoted US Major General Robert H. Scales, who summarized NATO’s new combat philosophy: “Victory will be defined more in terms of capturing the psycho-cultural rather than the geographical high ground.” …

The study spoke of “the crucible of data sciences and human sciences,” and stressed that “the combination of Social Sciences and System Engineering will be key in helping military analysts to improve the production of intelligence.”

“If kinetic power cannot defeat the enemy,” it said, “psychology and related behavioural and social sciences stand to fill the void.” …

All academic disciplines will be implicated in cognitive warfare, not just the hard sciences. “Within the military, expertise on anthropology, ethnography, history, psychology among other areas will be more than ever required to cooperate with the military,” the NATO-sponsored study stated.

The report nears its conclusion with an eerie quote: “Today’s progresses in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC), boosted by the seemingly unstoppable march of a triumphant troika made of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and civilisational ‘digital addiction’ have created a much more ominous prospect: an embedded fifth column, where everyone, unbeknownst to him or her, is behaving according to the plans of one of our competitors.”

“The modern concept of war is not about weapons but about influence,” it posited. “Victory in the long run will remain solely dependent on the ability to influence, affect, change or impact the cognitive domain.”

The NATO-sponsored study then closed with a final paragraph that makes it clear beyond doubt that the Western military alliance’s ultimate goal is not only physical control of the planet, but also control over people’s minds:

“Cognitive warfare may well be the missing element that allows the transition from military victory on the battlefield to lasting political success. The human domain might well be the decisive domain, wherein multi-domain operations achieve the commander’s effect. The five first domains can give tactical and operational victories; only the human domain can achieve the final and full victory.”

The NATO report emphasizes military-industrial cooperation, and openly asserts the necessity of Western militaries working more closely with academia to weaponize social sciences and human sciences and help the alliance develop its cognitive warfare capacities. As du Cluzel said, “cognitive warfare is not just another word, another name for information warfare. It is a war on our individual processor, our brain.”

The capacities of cognitive warfare are particularly dangerous, because its ambition alters the entire concept of warfare and supports globalism’s overarching reset of the world and everyone who lives in it. BigBrain and BICAN neurotechnology will facilitate the imposition of technocracy and transhumanism on the world’s population. How they will accomplish this is the subject of the next chapter.

©2024. Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.

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[i]  Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militarieshttps://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/08/nato-cognitive-warfare-brain/


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A Nation Without Borders becomes Irrelevant and on Track to Marxism

By Geoff Ross

To protect our constitutional republic from foreign election interference the new Republican led Congress in 2025 under President Trump should draft legislation that allows only American citizens born and raised in this country to run for any political position.

A majority of Democrats and a few Republicans who as elected representatives are making decisions on behalf of the American people. Yet these people are not even Americans, they grew up in foreign countries that follow different laws, cultures and forms of governance.

Many of these politicians have no clear understanding of how our constitution works and their voting record, legislative agenda and their words on the public record clearly demonstrate they do not represent our constitutional rights.

For example:

  • Senator Mazie Hirono is a Buddhist Socialist Democrat representing Hawaii she was born in Japan in 1947. Her father Hirono Matabe, a Japanese veteran of World War II was killing Americans before we ended the war with a nice nuclear surprise. Her family should never have been granted asylum in the United States.
  • Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu Somalia representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. She is a Jew hating Communist whose father served in the Somali Army. She and her family should never have been granted asylum to enter our republic in 1995. Her positions include abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), free universal communist-style healthcare, and she constantly berates and works against the citizens of Israel.
  • The impeached director of Homeland Security Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas was born in Communist Cuba. During his tenure he opened the borders to our nation deliberately flooding the nation with over 20 million illegal immigrants. During the Clinton administration he was the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) so there is no excuse for his actions, he absolutely knew what he was doing opening up our borders to illegal immigration.
  • Esther Elizabeth Manheimer is the mayor of Asheville North Carolina. She was born in Denmark and her mindset is that of a Socialist Danish ideology not a patriotic American. She is part of the problem putting illegal immigrants over American citizens thus people with her mindset drained all the federal emergency funding and is there is no money for FEMA hurricane relief in North Carolina.
  • Kayse Jama is a Communist Democrat Muslim State Senator from Oregon who was born into a nomadic family in Somalia. He entered the United States in 1998 moving to Oregon from San Diego. From 2005 to 2007, he trained immigrant and refugee community leaders in five Western states — Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah and Idaho helping to bring more Muslims with no love for Israel into our republic.
  • Dotie Joseph is a Socialist Democrat member of the Florida legislature, representing the 108th district. She was born and raised in Haiti and is currently an attorney with Ottinot Law, an all-black law firm. Can you imagine an all white law firm operating in Miami, It would not be permitted by these far left maggots. An all white law firm would be called racist in need of DEI training.
  • Sulman Lalani is a Muslim Socialist member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 76th district. He was born and raised in Pakistan the country that protected Usama Bin Laden. His loyalty is to Allah not US constitutional governance or the citizens of Texas (my opinion).

To conclude, there are five members of the U.S. Senate who were not born in the United States including Republican Ted Cruz who was born in Canada.

There are twenty seven members of Congress who are foreign born including Republican Dan Crenshaw who was born in Scotland and raised in Ecuador and Colombia. In 2002, he graduated from Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá, Colombia.

There are ninety one foreign born state legislators across a majority of Socialist ran blue states who may not have a total allegiance to our constitutional governance.

If you want to know why our republic mainly in blue states is actually supporting a full blown Marxist like Kamala Harris it’s important to realize that the majority of real high IQ Americans do not advocate this form of evil ideology in our republic.

It’s the massive unchecked, un-vetted insane immigration policies of the far left Communists under Obama and Biden that have created this problem. The Democrat party no longer exists it’s now a Communist herpes sore.

Trump will start the process to fix this problem on January 20, 2025 and hopefully we will finally have sound high intelligence leadership like his that will continue way past his tenure.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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RIGGING 2024: Illegal Immigrants Sent to Swing States In Mass Numbers Under the Biden, Harris Regime

By The Geller Report

Several swing states are home to large numbers of unauthorized immigrants or have seen a large surge in their numbers since 2021, according to federal court data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

Illegal-immigration surge has cost these swing-state taxpayers billions, study says

By Chris Matthews

Immigration boosts federal tax revenue, but states and localities bear unique costs

Immigration is a central theme in this year’s presidential election, as former President Donald Trump seeks to capitalize on voter discontent over a recent surge in unauthorized immigration to the U.S.

Polling suggests immigration is a top concern for Americans in 2024, and immigration-court data shows that swing states including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona are among those with the greatest increase in unauthorized migrants since 2021.

Winning these bellwether contests could be decisive for Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in the November election.

Immigration, both legal and illegal, tends to grow the national economy and improve the federal fiscal budget outlook, according to a July report from the Congressional Budget Office. That’s because even undocumented immigrants typically pay more in income and payroll taxes than they receive in federal benefits.

It’s a different story for many state and local governments.

“The research literature has generally found that increases in immigration raise state and local governments’ spending — particularly on education, health care, and housing — more than their revenues,” the report said.

A record share of Americans said in February that they see illegal immigration as a “critical threat to the vital interests of the United States,” and the issue ranks as the No. 1 most important problem facing the country, according to Gallup.

A separate Gallup poll released last month showed that for the first time since 2005, a majority of Americans would like to see a decrease in all immigration.

[ … ]

The most popular destinations are large states with strong economies, including Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York.

But several key swing states have also seen their unauthorized populations grow, according to court filings.

State Unauthorized migrant population Percent increase since 2021 Rank
Georgia 45,747 401% 7
North Carolina 32,681 446% 9
Pennsylvania 25,721 241% 11
Arizona 24,563 734% 13
Nevada 15,931 562% 22
Michigan 13,162 775% 26
Wisconsin 10,768 467% 28

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Pamela Geller

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WATCH: Fearless Trump Returns to Butler! Elon Joins Him! Fight! Fight! Fight!

By The Geller Report

We must Fight! Fight! Fight! to save America.

Former President Donald Trump is a patriot warrior. He’s been impeached, arrested, convicted — and had two attempts on his life, but he’s still standing strong for America.

Trump’s triumphant return to the scene of the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Walz woos Islamic voters, promises Muslims would ‘serve side by side’ in a Harris White House

By Jihad Watch

Democrats are dedicated to advancing the red-green axis. Tim Walz “sought to appeal to Muslim American voters on Thursday during a virtual meeting with Emgage Action” — exactly as Joe Biden did in 2020 when he sold out America for votes. In early 2020, the same organization, Emgage, launched its Million Muslim Votes campaign in order to galvanize a million Muslim Americans to vote for Biden.

Read all about it here: Biden’s pact with Muslim Brotherhood-linked group Emgage, and his conundrum over Hamas’ war on Israel.

Both America and Israel have been betrayed enough during the Biden administration. The pattern will continue, and get much worse, during a Harris-Walz administration.

Walz declares Muslims would ‘serve side by side’ in a Harris administration 

Washington Examiner, October 5, 2024:

Democratic vice presidential hopeful Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) sought to appeal to Muslim American voters on Thursday during a virtual meeting with Emgage Action.

While speaking during the online meeting hosted by the Muslim American advocacy organization, Walz vowed to give Muslim Americans a voice in a Harris-Walz administration should they win the presidential election, Reuters reported. The Minnesota governor announced to viewers in attendance that Muslim Americans would be actively engaged and “serve side by side.”

Emgage Action announced its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris last week. Walz’s participation in Thursday’s event coincided with the debut of Arab Americans for Harris-Walz, NBC News reported.

“Vice President Harris and I are committed that this White House… will continue to condemn in all forms anti-Islam, anti-Arab sentiments being led by Donald Trump, but more importantly, a commitment that Muslims will be engaged in this administration and serve side by side,” Walz declared….

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Christine Douglass-Williams

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9 Ways Harris and Walz Built Their Campaign on Misinformation and Disinformation

By Family Research Council

More than any time in history, the Democratic Party has spent the last eight years warning that politics runs the risk of being contaminated by the foul specter of “misinformation and disinformation.” Anyone conversant with politics knows “misinformation and disinformation” have long been synonymous with political campaigns from candidates of all backgrounds, but the Harris-Walz campaign wants to criminalize political differences.

In 2019, then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised the NAACP that she will “hold social media platforms accountable” if they “act as a megaphone for misinformation.” But if she did that, Harris might turn her own campaign into a federal case. She has frequently been guilty of what the head of her proposed federal disinformation board, Nina Jankowicz, called “information laundering”: repeating lies in a prominent political or media outlet. As we have noted, ABC News moderators let at least 10 Kamala Harris lies slide at her (apparently only) debate with Donald Trump on September 10, many of which she had made in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention and some of which the party had enshrined in the 2024 Democratic Party platform. Here are a few more:

1. Pro-Life Laws ‘Kill Women’

Harris has long claimed that “Trump abortion bans” kill women, and she recently felt invigorated that she had found one — in a swing state, no less. But the facts cannot hold the weight of her fact-defying narrative. The mother, 28-year-old Amber Thurman, died from the side effects of the abortion pill and medical negligence — perhaps reinforced by media misinformation about abortion “bans.”

Thurman ingested the two-drug chemical abortion cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol but, as they frequently do, the pills failed to expel all of her aborted babies’ body parts from her womb. As she went into sepsis — alone, in her home, with no help from anyone in the industry — she sought medical care for her incomplete miscarriage. The standard of care would call for a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove her deceased children’s remaining fetal tissue. As one witness boldly testified to the U.S. Senate recently, no pro-life law in the nation prevents women from receiving appropriate care for a miscarriage, including a D&C.

Yet the media and Democratic politicians, Kamala Harris foremost among them, lie that pro-life protections bar doctors from administering emergency care. Doctors may be confused by these narratives and refuse to provide lifesaving care after a miscarriage, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy based on misinformation, disinformation, and unwarranted support for the abortion cartel.

It’s impossible to know for sure what would have happened if these states had managed to enact pro-life protections for unborn babies at all stages — including the abortion pill cartel’s often-illegal activities trafficking chemical abortion agents into pro-life states, efforts facilitated by the Biden-Harris administration and its blue state allies. But one can make an educated guess. If red states had abortion pill bans, Amber Thurman would be alive today, anticipating what it will feel like to hold her baby. Today, she’s a victim of the abortion industry’s neglect and the Democratic presidential candidate’s lies and distortions on its behalf.

2. Springfield Bomb Threats

After former President Donald Trump and his running mate Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) reported Haitian migrants harming resident of Springfield, the media blamed them for a string of bomb threats against the city, especially its “migrant” population.

“Trump and Vance are still stoking fears of Haitian migrants, as Ohio community faces bomb threats,” claimed the Associated Press. “Vance continues fueling false rumors about migrants in Ohio as community receives threats,” said PBS (at your expense). “Bomb Threats Don’t Stop J.D. Vance From Attacking Immigrants in Ohio Town,” charged Rolling Stone.

As it turned out, all of those were “hoaxes,” said the state’s anti-Trump governor. “So 33 threats, 33 hoaxes,” summarized Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) on September 16. “None of them have panned out. We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country,” although he refused to specify which country made dozens of threats against the citizens of his state (as well as the tens of thousands of Haitians currently resident there). Multiple media reports, sometimes citing U.S. government whistleblowers, indicate that Iran has attempted to organization assassination plots against Trump and clearly wants Harris to remain in office.

Yet Harris continued to baselessly blame the bomb threats on “hateful rhetoric” from Trump and Vance, whom she claimed are “spewing lies … grounded in tropes.” Likewise, PBS twisted the governor’s explanation in a taxpayer-funded misinformation headline stating, “Springfield facing threats from overseas after Trump’s lies about Haitians, Ohio governor’s office says.”

Taking matters to their logical extension, a Haitian immigrant group known as the Haitian Bridge Alliance has demanded officials arrest Trump and Vance for allegedly having “wreaked havoc” against the “Haitian community” in Springfield. The group has received more than $1 million from the Open Society Foundations, a nonprofit founded by George Soros.

3. J.D. Vance: School Shootings Are ‘a Fact of Life’

During a September 5 speech, J.D. Vance addressed the issue of school shootings. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it. I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. He went on to say that would-be psycho killers “realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

That’s an entirely mainstream message: For all the Left’s insistence that federal funding must turn public schools into “safe spaces,” it never wants to spend a dime improving students’ physical safety. Statistics show that schools which end their status as a “gun-free” zone are incredibly safe. Only a vast distortion of his message could make it controversial.

Enter the Associated Press. Within hours, the AP targeted Vance, posting a social media message claiming, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” After backlash, AP replaced that post with a placeholder message (although the headline is still on AP’s website) — but the original message had served its purpose, which is to let the Harris-Walz campaign repeat the inaccurate reporting, as they did. The campaign released a statement distorting that quotation and another from Trump saying America has to deal with its grief and go on. Walz recycled the falsehood in a September 22 rally in Pennsylvania, claiming the Republican candidates “want to tell you that [you should] just get over it, it’s a fact of life. This is the way it is.”

4. Trump Called for ‘Execution’ of the Central Park Five, Who Were Later Found Innocent

Kamala Harris has repeatedly foisted another blood libel on Donald Trump, claiming he called on police to execute innocent teens of minority backgrounds for allegedly raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. At their presidential debate, Harris instructed her audience, “Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five — took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

Nearly everything in that statement is false. In response to the brutal rape and beating of a woman jogging through Central Park in 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in a number of newspapers, including the Times and the New York Daily News, attacking soft-on-crime policies … but he said nothing about executing the Central Park Five.

Trump’s ad called on city officials to protect “New York families — White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian” — against street thugs and “murderers.” And, “when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” he declared. “We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal element of this city.”

Moreover, the notion that the “wilding” youths were innocent is underwhelming. As columnist Ann Coulter noted in a column that deserves to be read in its entirety:

“Four of The Five gave videotaped confessions, at least three of them in the presence of parents or guardians. Defense attorneys spent weeks attacking the confessions as ‘coerced,’ but two multicultural juries and the trial judge concluded that the confessions were voluntary.”

Additional evidence implicates members of the crowd even after another individual gave his own confession.

5. Bailing Violent Criminals Out of Jail Is ‘Misinformation’

Despite posting the words on social media, Kamala Harris has claimed that ties to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out 2020 BLM rioters who went on to commit other crimes.

“I am the child of parents who marched for civil rights,” the “middle-class” kid began, “and I will always be and will always be a supporter of peaceful protests.” She called the allegations another example of “misinformation and disinformation” in an October 2022 interview with WCCO-4, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis. WCCO tailored a “fact-check” story, not on whether Harris ever promoted the group, but instead noting carefully that “Despite Trump claim and 2020 tweet showing support, Harris never donated to Minnesota Freedom Fund,” a story subsequently updated days after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

This is a rare case of double disinformation. Of course, the BLM riots in Minneapolis, the nation, and the world as a whole were far from peaceful. Violent BLM riots claimed 19 lives — including 77-year-old retired St. Louis police officer David Dorn, whose widow endorsed Trump — and caused at least$2 billion in property damage.

But Harris did, in fact, support bailing out rioters. On June 1, 2020, Kamala Harris posted a message to her followers on social media, stating, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” The tweet remains on her timeline. She later called the deadly riots “an essential component of evolution in our country, as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.”

Arguably, the story makes CBS News and Kamala Harris look worse. Trump never claimed Harris personally donated; he said she “helped” bail out Shawn Michael Tillman, who had been jailed for gross indecent exposure and went on to murder a man after the Harris-endorsed fund bailed him out. The fact that Harris did not personally support the cause while encouraging her followers to do so could arguably make her seem insincere or hypocritical.

6. J.D. Vance’s Erotic Dalliance with a Couch

The Walz-Harris campaign engaged in “information laundering” with a coarse internet statement self-consciously offered as an internet lie.

Shortly after his selection as her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) targeted J.D. Vance. “I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is, if he’s willin’ to get off the couch and show up,” said Walz with evident self-satisfaction. “Ya see what I did there?” he said, in case anyone missed it.

He referred to a July 15 social media post from an online account created the day Trump announced Vance as his running mate, with the handle @rxckrxdxscxlvxs (Rick Rude’s calves). The anonymous poster said he “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f****** an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).” He later posted a meme exposing his previous post as a lie.

No such citation exists in the book.

The Associated Press branded the story false in a fact-check — but then pulled the story, allegedly because editors felt it did not meet their editorial standards. But Snopes.com has rated the story “False” (while helpfully including a section asking, “Why is this rumor so believable?”). Walz opposition research team undoubtedly knew the story was fallacious. But like certain rumors contained in the Russian dossier about Donald Trump (rumors paid for by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign), the rumors served their purpose.

7. ‘We Are Not Taking Anybody’s Guns Away’

During the presidential debate on September 10, Harris stated, “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We are not taking anybody’s guns away.”

But at a joint campaign appearance with Walz in Philadelphia on August 6, Kamala Harris promised, “Together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an ‘assault weapons’ ban.” Red flag laws allow law enforcement to remove firearms from the homes of legal gun owners without due process. The controversial laws, which both candidates have supported, take guns away from law-abiding Americans who purchased their firearms lawfully after receiving a report — possibly from an abusive ex, a jealous neighbor, or a local thief — that the individual poses a threat to himself or others. A so-called “assault weapons ban” would prevent Americans from purchasing such weapons. Harris has promised to support a “mandatory buy-back” for guns possessed lawfully.

Production of “Modern Sporting Rifles” (such as AR-15s and AK-47s) increased 32% between 2020 and 2021, bringing the total number produced since 1990 to 28.1 million, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Americans own an estimated 473.2 million firearms.

8. Trump Promised a ‘Bloodbath’

Harris has accused Trump of another blood libel, claiming he will lead another violent revolution against the government.

The comment came as Trump spoke near Dayton, Ohio, promising to “put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across” the border from Mexico, some of them built by Chinese companies. “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole” automotive industry, Trump continued.

As I wrote at the time at The Washington Stand:

“The term ‘bloodbath’ is regularly used in the financial sector to describe an industrial contraction. The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists one of the definitions of ‘bloodbath’ as ‘a major economic disaster.’ … Democratic campaign operatives pounced on Trump’s use of the term ‘bloodbath’ to insinuate he wanted to foment a blood-drenched revolution if he lost the election. … The [then-]Biden campaign promptly wrenched the president’s remarks out of context to create a digital campaign ad titled ‘Bloodbath,’ which recycles other erroneous statements, such as falsely claiming Trump praised rioters at the Charlottesville and January 6 D.C. riots.”

Despite extensive reporting about the full context of the former president’s remarks, Harris attacked Trump during their presidential debate, insisting that “Donald Trump the candidate has said in this election there will be a bloodbath, if the outcome of this election is not to his liking.”

9. Trump Said There Were ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ Rally

Joe Biden claimed he decided to launch his third presidential bid because of Trump’s response to Charlottesville. The 2024 Democratic Party platform contains a reference to the remarks. And Kamala Harris has dredged up the comments, telling viewers of the presidential debate to “remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were ‘fine people’ on each side.”

In reality, President Donald Trump began his remarks by condemning “some very bad people” in that group. “But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” Trump continued. “And I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” because they were “protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.” Trump went on to declare the Woke mob would not stop at destroying statutes of Confederate heroes but would come for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

He went on to establish a 1776 Commission, which proposed erecting a series of monuments depicting historic Americans heroes, which the Biden-Harris administration canceled via executive order.

See also The 10 Kamala Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC News Debate and Tim Walz’s Lies: The Top 7.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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MSNBC host shocked by Trump impeachment witness who now says he’s voting for Trump

By The Geller Report

Gordon Sondland spoke the truth: “I’ve now lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies and I have to say that those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country’s way of life, but to our allies as well.”

Ari Melber was shocked because he only had Sondland on thinking that he would slam Trump. Reality intervened, in the form of an honest assessment of the last three and a half years.

MSNBC host shocked as impeachment witness says Trump regained his support: ‘So striking!

by Alexander Hall, Fox News, October 3, 2024:

Gordon Sondland, who served as then-President Trump’s ambassador to the EU and who became a star witness against him in his first impeachment, shocked an MSNBC host by saying Trump won his support once again.

MSNBC host Ari Melber spoke with three former Trump officials, including White House advisor Peter Navarro, White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews, and Sondland about topics such as how working for the Trump administration has impacted their lives or what the most important thing was that they learned about the former president. Sondland in particular was asked whether he stands by a previous disavowal of the president after the events of January 6, 2021.

“No, I don’t stand by it, and I’ll tell you why,” Sondland began. “I’ve now lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies and I have to say that those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country’s way of life, but to our allies as well.”

The host loudly interrupted him and began shouting, “I’m going to let you finish, but this is so striking. You said it was a ‘no for me’ after that, after January 6. And here we are right now, And you’re saying it’s a yes for you?”

“It is a yes, for me. It is an absolute yes for me,” Sondland said. “That is how badly the Biden-Harris team have prosecuted their job.”…

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Atlas Shrugs

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American Government Treason: The Abandonment of the American Citizen By Damon Galdo

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

The Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies have placed a tremendous strain on American citizens, particularly taxpayers, who are forced to bear the financial, social, and security consequences of unchecked illegal immigration. As border control continues to weaken, the ripple effects extend deep into our economy, healthcare, and public safety, leaving American citizens increasingly vulnerable.

One of the most eye-opening consequences of open-border policies is the spike in crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Several high-profile tragedies have underscored the personal cost of these policies. Laiken Riley, a young mother, lost her life in a brutal attack by an illegal immigrant, drawing attention to a recurring theme of violent crimes perpetrated by individuals who should not have been in the country in the first place. Her tragic story is not isolated.

Other victims include Kathryn Steinle, who was killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, sparking nationwide debate on sanctuary city policies. Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old college student, was also murdered by an undocumented immigrant in Iowa. Twelve year old Jocelyn Nungarway from Houston, raped and murdered by 2 illegal immigrants. These cases are emblematic of a much larger problem. According to a recent report by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), there are over 15,000 convicted murderers and 14,000 convicted  rapists who are illegal immigrants residing in the United States, a statistic that should be alarming to any citizen concerned with public safety. Where is the news coverage? The Democrat owned legacy media won’t report it, especially this close to the election.

The influx of illegal immigrants into the country also puts an immense burden on the American healthcare system. Hospitals across border states like Texas and Arizona have reported being overwhelmed with migrants seeking medical treatment. The cost to U.S. taxpayers is staggering. A 2023 report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated that illegal immigrants drain over $18.5 billion annually from American healthcare services. These services include emergency room visits, medical procedures, and even ongoing care, all provided to individuals who have not contributed to the tax system.

But the financial damage extends beyond healthcare. The Harris administration’s mismanagement has also siphoned critical disaster relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Over $1billion was diverted from FEMA to cover expenses related to migrant housing, transportation, and other needs. Now, in the wake of Hurricane Halene, American citizens who have lost everything find that there are no remaining funds to aid them in rebuilding their lives. They are left in the cold while the government prioritizes illegal immigrants who have never paid a dime in taxes.

At the heart of these policies is a political agenda driven by the Democratic Party’s need to retain power. By allowing a flood of illegal immigrants into the country, the administration is not only reshaping the demographics of America but also hoping to secure future votes. Some argue that efforts to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections are part of a larger plan to create a permanent Democratic majority.

But what does this mean for the average American? It means a government more focused on securing votes through illegal means than protecting its own citizens. It means higher taxes, overburdened public services, and a justice system that seems to prioritize non-citizens over Americans. Meanwhile, our borders remain open, our safety compromised, and our rights eroded.

These actions raise serious questions about the integrity of our government. Some believe that the Democratic Party has been infiltrated by foreign interests that aim to weaken America from within. This is not a wild conspiracy theory but a logical conclusion based on the administration’s actions, which seem more intent on eroding national sovereignty than upholding it. Historically, America has been most vulnerable to internal threats. As President Abraham Lincoln once warned, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

The Harris administration’s policies reflect a disturbing trend of self-destruction. Rather than securing our borders and protecting American citizens, the administration is willfully allowing foreign influence to take root, eroding the very fabric of our nation.

The American government has a duty to its citizens—a duty to protect, serve, and prioritize their needs above all else. Yet, under the current administration, American citizens are being abandoned, left to bear the brunt of misguided policies that favor illegal immigrants over hard working Americans. With our public safety compromised, our healthcare system strained, and disaster relief gutted, it’s clear that the Democrats’ open border policies are not just a failure of governance; they are a betrayal of the American people.

It’s time for Americans to stand up and demand that their government fulfills its primary responsibility: to protect its citizens from threats, both foreign and domestic. If this administration continues to ignore that duty, the damage will be irreparable, and the American people will be left to pick up the pieces of a broken, if not dead nation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Damon Galdo is a co-host on the Conservative Commandos Radio Show which is broadcast on the AUN TV Network.   Damon’s day job is as  a union carpenter, construction superintendent, husband, and father who campaigned for the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District.  Getting into politics was never something Damon planned on doing. However, when he looked at his children and at the direction this country is heading, he feared for the future, and has decided that he could not wait for someone else to make a change. As they say, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.  With that, Damon jumped in!

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Over Half a Million Criminal Illegal Aliens on ICE “Non-Detained Docket” Roaming Free in U.S.

By Judicial Watch

In the latest of countless scandals involving the Biden administration’s failure to secure the border, over half a million illegal aliens with criminal histories are roaming freely in the United States, 435,719 with convictions and another 226,847 with pending charges. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), created after 9/11 to protect the country from another terrorist attack, has released the foreign criminals in cities around the U.S., according to the Deputy Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the DHS agency charged with “enforcing immigration laws to preserve national security and public safety.” In figures reluctantly provided to Congress ICE’s second in command, Patrick Lechleitner, reveals that as of July 21, 2024 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories are on the agency’s “non-detained docket” and therefore roaming freely throughout the country. The data is “beyond disturbing,” said the Texas congressman, Republican Tony Gonzales, who forced DHS to provide the records.

Nearly 15,000 of the freed illegal aliens have been convicted of or charged with murder, more than 20,000 with sexual assault, 60,268 with burglary, larceny, or robbery, 105,146 with assault, 16,820 with weapon offenses, 3,971 with commercialized sex crimes and 3,372 with kidnapping. Over 126,000 have committed traffic offenses, more than 70,000 are in the system for drug crimes, 21,106 for fraudulent activities and 12,000 for obstruction of justice. “Under President Biden and his ‘border czar,’ Vice President Harris, DHS law enforcement has been directed to mass-release illegal aliens whom they know have criminal convictions or are facing charges for serious crimes—and these dangerous, destructive individuals are making their way into every city and state in this country,” said Tennessee Congressman Mark E. Green, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security that recently exposed the alarming DHS stats. “How many more Americans need to die or be victimized before this administration is forced to abide by the laws they swore to uphold? This is madness. It is something no civilized, well-functioning society should tolerate.”

Lechleitner explains to federal lawmakers that his agency uses a few guidelines to determine detentions and notes that “most noncitizens who are convicted of homicide are typically not eligible for release from ICE custody” under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act. When that measure does not apply, ICE officers may use their discretion in making custody determinations and release noncitizens with conditions, the Deputy Director says, adding that custody determinations are made on a case-by-case basis and take into account individual circumstances, risk of flight, national security threat and threat to public safety. “ICE takes other factors into consideration as well, including when a noncitizen has a serious medical condition, is the primary caregiver of minor children, or other humanitarian considerations,” Lechleitner writes in the letter with the latest criminal alien statistics. He also blasts local sanctuary districts that refuse to honor ICE detainer requests, even for illegal aliens convicted of serious felonies who pose an ongoing threat to public safety.

While detrimental to immigration enforcement, local sanctuary measures alone cannot be blamed for the release of hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens into unsuspecting American communities. It is simply part of the Biden administration’s expansive open border policies, which have welcomed a record-breaking number—over 7 million and counting—of illegal immigrants into the country. Just a few weeks ago, the House Homeland Security Committee released an eye-popping report documenting the Biden-Harris administration’s unprecedented border crisis, which has allowed droves of violent gang members, Islamic terrorists, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals and a myriad of criminals into the country. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is on pace to record more than 11.6 million illegal immigrant encounters by the end of the Biden administration, an astounding 274% increase from the 3.1 million encounters recorded between fiscal years 2017 to 2020, according to figures in the congressional report. That does not even include around 2 million known “gotaways” that have entered the nation under this administration.

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‘Closer To A Third World War Than Ever Before’: Hundreds Of National Security Officials Endorse Trump

By The Daily Caller

Hundreds of national security and foreign policy leaders endorsed former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, contrasting his foreign policy with the failures of the Biden-Harris administration.

National security officials, former ambassadors, retired military officials and families of service members killed during President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal signed the letter, which was obtained by Capitalist Notes. The endorsement referenced Trump’s “[focus] on restoring peace” and the escalation of global conflicts as reasons to support the former president.

The officials urged Americans to vote for Trump, citing his record of diplomacy and support of a strong military. The letter characterized the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy as “repeated failures” and warned that “we are closer to a third world war than ever before.”

“By contrast, the Presidency of Donald Trump focused on restoring peace throughout the world,” the letter stated. “This was supported by a strong American military and resolute international diplomacy.”

25 cabinet and equivalent officials signed the letter, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf.

11 Gold Star family members of the troops killed at Abbey Gate also signed the letter. The Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan led to the deaths of 13 service members and around 170 civilians, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

“The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden-Harris Administration in 2021, led to the unnecessary deaths of thirteen brave American troops at Abbey Gate and left untold billions of dollars of high grade military equipment to the Taliban, making it the most well-armed terror organization in the world,” the letter read.

Hundreds of senior national security and foreign policy professionals also signed the letter, including former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence Kash Patel and former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney S. Scott.

The letter repeatedly emphasized Trump’s diplomacy, stating that “securing peace is in the greatest tradition of American foreign policy and the Judeo-Christian principles upon which our nation was founded.”

Members of National Security Leaders For America (NSL4A), including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former CIA Director John Brennan, recently endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

America’s national security requires a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief. That is why 741 National Security Leaders proudly endorse @KamalaHarris for President of the United States. #nationalsecurity #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #DefeatTrumphttps://t.co/ySwJYA29ZI pic.twitter.com/DiMUn0xqMF

— National Security Leaders for America (@NSLforAmerica) September 22, 2024

Numerous officials had ties to intelligence agencies, defense contractors, and global organizations, the Daily Caller reported.

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You Will Own Nothing and Have Joy!

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

“A republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”


The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted that, by 2030, individuals would own nothing and be happy and joyful.

Here are 8 predictions made by the WEF:

Does this sound familiar? It should because it mirrors the Kamala’s platform for 2024.

Comparing the WEF’s 8 Predictions for the World in 2030 and Kamala’s 2024 Platform

WEF: You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.

WATCH: Kamala Harris wants YOU to Own Nothing and Be Happy

WATCH: Tim Walz makes the case to elect Trump because, “we can’t afford 4 more years of this!”

WEF: Whatever you want you’ll rent. And it will be delivered by drone.

Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC — Homeownership and what that means — it’s a symbol of the pride that comes with hard work.  It’s financial security.  It represents what you will be able to do for your children.  And sadly, right now, it is out of reach for far too many American families.  There’s a serious housing shortage in many places.  It’s too difficult to build, and it’s driving prices up.

WEF: The U.S. won’t be the world’s leading superpower. A handful of countries will dominate.

WATCH: ‘Superpower’ USA Struggling To Keep Election Safe? After Trump Claims Iran Hack Attack, Kamala Says…

WEF: You won’t die waiting for an organ donor. We won’t transplant organs we’ll print new ones instead.

The National Library of Medicine published on May 19, 2022 3D Bioprinting of Human Hollow Organs stating, “3D bioprinting is a rapidly evolving technique that has been found to have extensive applications in disease research, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. 3D bioprinting might be a solution to global organ shortages and the growing aversion to testing cell patterning for novel tissue fabrication and building superior disease models. It has the unrivaled capability of layer-by-layer deposition using different types of biomaterials, stem cells, and biomolecules with a perfectly regulated spatial distribution. The tissue regeneration of hollow organs has always been a challenge for medical science because of the complexities of their cell structures. In this mini review, we will address the status of the science behind tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting of epithelialized tubular hollow organs. This review will also cover the current challenges and prospects, as well as the application of these complicated 3D-printed organs.”

WEF: You’ll eat much less meat. An occasional treat, not a staple for the good of the environment and our health. A billion people will be displaced by climate change. We’ll have to do a better job of welcoming and integrating refugees.

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WEF: Polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide. There will be a global price on carbon. This will help make fossil fuels history.

In a September 10, 2024 The Washington Post published a column titled Kamala Harris’s climate policies, explained by , and  who wrote:

As vice president, Kamala Harris helped pass the largest government investment into climate and clean energy initiatives, and grants to states to help recover from extreme weather events.

Causes of climate change

Q: Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?

A: Harris calls climate change an existential threat and says the United States needs to act urgently to address it. As a presidential candidate in 2019, she released a $10 trillion climate plan that calls for investing in renewable energy, holding polluters accountable, helping communities affected by climate change and protecting natural resources. As California attorney general, she prosecuted oil companies for environmental violations. As vice president, she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate for the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided about $370 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade.

Climate change and extreme weather

Q: Do you believe climate change is making disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves more intense?

A: Harris has said the United States must take action to fight climate change in the face of increasing drought, floods, hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise. As vice president, Harris announced more than $1 billion in grants in 2022 for states to address flooding and extreme heat exacerbated by climate change. “The frequency has accelerated in a relatively short period of time,” she said. “The science is clear. Extreme weather will only get worse, and the climate crisis will only accelerate.’’

How to address climate change

Q: Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?

A: The Biden-Harris administration’s signature Inflation Reduction Act represents the largest infusion of government cash into climate and clean-energy initiatives. Harris and Biden sought to put the U.S. on a path to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Under Harris’s climate plan as a 2019 presidential candidate, she advocated for a blend of government action and market forces to combat global warming. “A climate pollution fee can play an important role as one of several interrelated policies to reduce emissions and hold polluters accountable…” she said. “However, history shows us that reliance on market mechanisms alone can often leave communities behind.”

Clean energy tax credits

Q: Do you support clean-energy tax credits such as those for electric vehicles?

A: In 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies for electric cars and other clean-energy technology, including tax credits for clean-energy and energy-efficiency home projects. She has been a proponent of electric vehicles and as a senator supported a national zero-emissions vehicle standard. In May, she visited Detroit to announce federal grants for smaller companies making electric-vehicle parts.

WEF: You could be preparing to go to Mars. Scientists will have worked out how to keep you healthy in space. The start of the journey to find alien life?

NSA.gov states, “Mars remains our horizon goal for human exploration because it is one of the only other places we know where life may have existed in the solar system. What we learn about the Red Planet will tell us more about our Earth’s past and future, and may help answer whether life exists beyond our home planet. Like the Moon, Mars is a rich destination for scientific discovery and a driver of technologies that will enable humans to travel and explore far from Earth.”

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WEF: Western values will have been tested to the breaking point. Checks and balances that underpin our democracies must not be forgotten.

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On September 24, 2024 The Hill published an article titled Harris’s agenda mirrors the Democratic Socialists of America by public policy and political analyst Merrill Matthews who wrote,

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, is a communist and Marxist and refers to her as “Comrade Kamala.” While it’s doubtful that Trump’s name calling helps him win over voters, if he has to call her something, he should have tagged her as a socialist. That’s because Harris’s major policy proposals are almost identical to those promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

The DSA lists 10 policy positions under the heading “Our Platform.”

First up is “Deepening and Strengthening Democracy.” Of course, President Biden, Harris and nearly all Democrats repeatedly claim “democracy is under attack” and that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”

The DSA says it wants to “end minority rule” by getting rid of the Senate and the Electoral College. Harris would likely settle for ending the Senate’s filibuster so bills and all presidential appointments could be decided by a majority vote.

In addition, the socialists want to add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court (court packing) and impose term limits on the justices. Harris and most Democrats are pushing both SCOTUS reforms.

The DSA’s second item is “Abolition of the Carceral State” (“carceral” refers to prison and jail time). The DSA wants to “defund the police” — where have you heard that before? — and “free all incarcerated people.” Harris supported the “defund” movement and eliminating bail for some crimes until those positions became political liabilities. Now she tries to hide her soft-on-crime policies by stressing her background as a prosecutor.

Under “Abolish White Supremacy,” the DSA wants the government to pay reparations to Black people, “extend and expand sanctuary protections across the U.S.” and “end environmental racism.” Harris is on board with all of those, or at least she used to be.

There is a long DSA list of demands under “A Powerful Labor Movement,” including a right to unionize and an end to “right to work laws.” Isn’t the Biden-Harris administration supposed to be the most pro-union in history?

One of the DSA’s biggies is “Economic Justice,” where we find a whole host of demands, including free public college, canceling all student loan debt and medical debt and massive new regulations. Harris’s “opportunity economy” includes all three.

Of course, you had to assume “Gender and Sexuality Justice” would be on the DSA’s list, which includes “reproductive justice for all” (i.e., abortion) and a “guarantee of queer-friendly and gender-affirming healthcare.” Harris embraces both.

Next is the “Green New Deal,” which isn’t green or new. The GND has always been a social justice program masquerading as environmental policy. Harris was one of the original GND co-sponsors.

Under the topic of “Health Justice” the DSA supports Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Medicare for All bill — which is a government-run health care system and has no resemblance to Medicare. Harris was a co-sponsor until she decided it would be a political liability.

The ninth DSA item is “Housing for All.” Wait, has Harris been talking about expanding government-built housing and providing a $25,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers? Yes, come to think of it, she has.

The DSA’s last heading proposes “International Solidarity” and “Anti-imperialism.” It’s not clear what Harris’s foreign policy is, but it likely reflects Biden’s appeasement policy with respect to China and Iran.

To be sure, the DSA’s agenda goes into much more depth on each major point than Harris does. But then who doesn’t go into more depth that Kamala Harris? So, while it’s possible that Harris would disagree with some DSA sub-points, it’s undeniable that she agrees, or has agreed, with the socialists on their major themes.

Harris has tried to separate herself from some of her past publicly stated positions — thus hoping to be “unburdened by what has been.” But she hasn’t made a meaningful shift on any issue. She made that clear in her softball interview with CNN’s Dana Bash when she asserted her “values haven’t changed.” That was a wink to anyone who was concerned Harris might have moved toward the center.

Her values — and those of today’s Democratic Party — are essentially identical to those of the Democratic Socialists of America. The only major difference is DSA members aren’t trying to hide their socialist beliefs; Harris is.

The Bottom Line

Mary Rooke in a Daily Caller column titled Walz Solidifies Harris Policy Position That Would Transform Country As We Know It wrote, “The issue is that Democrats like Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris use the expression “fire in a crowded theater” to excuse the suppression of a wide variety of speech protected under the First Amendment. Anything Democrats consider ‘hate speech,’ ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ is grounds for censorship in their view.”

The destruction of the First Amendment will fundamentally transform America into a Marxist dictatorship.

The Harris platform mirrors that of the World Economic Forum.

That is the reality of what is as stake on November 5th, 2024.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness under our Constutional Republic or Democrat Socialismo under Harris/Walz.

©202. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

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‘Nervous As Hell’: Bewildered Walz Emerges From Media Quarantine Only To Get Shelled By Vance

By The Daily Caller

After hardly speaking to the media since becoming Democrats’ Vice Presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stumbled and gaffed through his highly anticipated debate against Senator JD Vance.

Vance and Walz faced off Monday on CBS News in what appears to be the last debate of the 2024 election cycle. Vance, who has done about seven times more media appearances than the Harris-Walz ticket combined, was noticeably confident next to Walz, who tripped through his defense of past lies.

“I think the lack of interviews he has done with local media, with national media, it shows. He needed more practice,” CNN’s Dana Bash said on the network’s post-debate show.

Walz’s nerves were on display from the moment he took the debate stage and stumbled through an answer on how his administration would support Israel in retaliation against Iran.

After Walz blamed Trump for the crisis in the Middle East, Vance pivoted to point out that the former president wasn’t the one in charge when the war broke out.

“I think that something Gov. Walz just said is quite extraordinary. You, yourself just said Iran is as close to a nuclear weapon today as they have ever been. And Gov. Walz blamed President Trump. Who has been the vice president for the last three-and-a-half years? And the answer is your running mate, not mine,” Vance said.

VANCE: “Governor Walz, you blamed Donald Trump. Who has been the Vice President for the last three-and-a-half years? And the answer is your running mate, not mine.” pic.twitter.com/gSroaviOEq

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 2, 2024

“Walz is nervous as hell,” Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points and former Daily Caller White House correspondent, tweeted four minutes into the debate.

“I think that something Gov. Walz just said is quite extraordinary. You, yourself just said Iran is as close to a nuclear weapon today as they have ever been. And Gov. Walz blamed President Trump. Who has been the vice president for the last three-and-a-half years? And the answer is your running mate, not mine,” Vance said.

VANCE: “Governor Walz, you blamed Donald Trump. Who has been the Vice President for the last three-and-a-half years? And the answer is your running mate, not mine.” pic.twitter.com/gSroaviOEq

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 2, 2024

“Walz is nervous as hell,” Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points and former Daily Caller White House correspondent, tweeted four minutes into the debate.

Walz is nervous as hell

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) October 2, 2024

Walz’s first major stumble came about forty minutes into the debate when he was asked about a CNN report stating that he had falsely claimed to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

“Now look, my community knows who I am.  They saw where I was at. I will be the first to tell you, I poured my heart into my community. I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect, and I’m a knucklehead at times, but it’s always been about them. Those same people elected me to Congress for 12 years and in Congress, I was one of the most bipartisan people working on things like farm bills that we got done and working on veterans’ benefit,” Walz said, adding that sometimes he gets caught up in the rhetoric.

After he failed to explain the discrepancy, the CBS moderators asked Walz again. The governor then said he misspoke, before repeating the lie that he was in Hong Kong during the massacre.

“All I said on this was I got there that summer and misspoke on this. So I, I will, just, that is what I said. So I was in Hong Kong and China during the Democracy protests [inaudible] and from that I learned a lot about what needed to be in governance,” Walz said.

His most consequential gaffe of the night came when Walz claimed he was friends with school shooters while trying to answer a question on gun control.

“Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but only later in your political career did you change your position. Why?” moderator Norah O’Donnell asked.

“Yeah, I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents. I’ve become friends with school shooters. I’ve seen it,” Walz began. “Look the NRA, I was an NRA guy for a long time. They used to teach gun safety. I’m of the age where my shotgun was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football practice. That is not where we live today.”

My daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting. It’s absolutely abhorrent that Tim Walz has befriended school shooters. Disqualifying. https://t.co/Q0tkhmHFAi

— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) October 2, 2024

Vance’s confidence and assertiveness towards moderators O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan was also a theme. 

Twenty minutes into the debate, Brennan attempted to fact-check Vance on the migration in Springfield, Ohio, after the network agreed to not do any fact-checking beforehand. Vance expressed concern about how 20,000 Haitian migrants have flooded into Springfield, Ohio, over the past three years and overwhelmed the town.

Brennan attempted to move onto another question after, adding that the Haitian migrants had “legal status.” Vance, while trying to challenge the assertion, had his mic cut.

“Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status,” Brennan said.

“But Margaret … The rules were that you guys weren‘t going to fact-check, and since you‘re fact-checking me, I think it‘s important to say what‘s actually going on,” Vance responded. “So there‘s an application called the CBP One app — where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. That is not a person coming in applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years — ” Vance started to reply before Brennan told the senator they needed to move on and his mic was cut.

CBS cuts Vance’s mic while he’s explaining how the Biden/Harris admin has allowed over 800,000 migrants to enter the U.S. via the CBP One App “lawfully”. It then sounded like Walz claimed the CBP One app has been used since the 90s, which is completely false. The Biden/Harris…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 2, 2024

Polling has shown Americans have found Walz to be a more attractive running mate than Vance. Early on after being tapped, Vance faced a barrage of Democratic attacks that branded him as “weird” for past statements. Yet Vance, to Republicans’ satisfaction, began to find his footing as Walz was forced to defend his close ties to China and false claims about his military record.

Despite Walz’s favorability advantage, Democrats began to pivot mid-debate and argue that the vice presidential debate has little to no impact on the state of the presidential race.
“Bottom line on this is that I don’t think this changes the race at all,” former Obama advisor David Axelrod said on the CNN post show.

Here’s the thing:

VPs don’t make policy. Presidents do.

Who talks about the Pence years?!?

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) October 2, 2024

“I actually think most Americans fundamentally understand that the VP is not the President,” former Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill tweeted.

Whether the vice president pick affects the race or not, nearly an hour into the debate, Politico admitted Vance had the upper hand.

Vibe check: JD Vance is doing really well tonight https://t.co/sHhzI0EV9w

— POLITICO (@politico) October 2, 2024

“Vibe check: JD Vance is doing really well tonight,” their headline read.

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‘Timmy Got Issues’: Edgar The Puppet’s Rap Debut | MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW

By The Daily Caller

Get ready for the biggest rap beef since Biggie and Tupac. Edgar the Puppet is throwing down bars, and he’s coming right for Lil’ Timmy Walz.

Check out Edgar’s rap debut with the world premier of “Timmy Got Issues.”

You might remember Edgar’s hilarious off-color antics on the streets of D.C. But interviewing college students and DNC protesters wasn’t enough for this flame-throwing puppet. Now, he’s back with a vengeance and has some bigger fish to fry.

Lil’ Timmy thought he could get away with claiming to be a combat veteran, but Edgar’s calling him out.

“Your story’s so fake, ain’t even got a memoir / Now you ain’t nothin’ but Kamala’s ‘Stolen Valor’ Czar.”

Timmy thought no one would notice he put tampons in the boy’s bathroom, but Edgar knows who the real “weirdo” is in this election cycle.

“Who is the weirdo? Mr. Creepy Grandpa? / You’re like Mr. Magoo, giving little boys tampons.”

Don’t forget Walzy’s record kissing up to China.

“Tiananmen Timmy, kissin’ the booty of Xi Jinping / Sure loves them commies, gettin’ wined and dined by the CCP.”

The Daily Caller chased Edgar down backstage where he gave us an exclusive comment: “I wanted to make a shallow cash grab on the Kendrick vs Drake beef and thought I needed a proper target. Well, there’s no one more deserving than Tim Walz, who is the ultimate weenis.”

Watch the full music video for “Timmy’s Got Issues” now to catch every epic diss, and subscribe to Edgar’s Youtube page to keep up with all his hilarious antics!

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‘A Self-Feeding Circle’: How A Web Of NGOs Enabled By Biden-Harris Is Fueling The Migrant Crisis

By The Daily Caller

A web of NGOs is collaborating with government agencies to facilitate the resettlement of refugees – and Biden-Harris policies have only exacerbated the migrant crisis, sources told the Caller.

Immigration was thrust into the public spotlight as towns in America were overwhelmed with migrants, from Springfield, Ohio to Aurora, Colorado. Bureaucracies and non-profits often work in tandem to resettle refugees, and NGOs have only grown in influence under the Biden-Harris administration, experts said.

“It’s undeniable that the Biden Administration’s border policy has benefited the network of immigration NGOs that receive massive government contracts and grants to deal with the logistical and humanitarian problems that mass illegal immigration has caused,” the Capital Research Center’s Parker Thayer told the Caller in a statement.

While it’s difficult to quantify precisely how much NGOs have benefited, Thayer pointed to a USA Spending database. It shows that since 2020, federal spending on loans, grants, and contracts with the keyword “immigrant” has skyrocketed by almost tenfold.

Screenshot from USA Spending.gov

Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, told the Caller there is a process in place for resettling refugees, and NGOs work with government agencies to further that goal.

He pointed to the Biden-Harris administration’s Welcome Corps.

The Welcome Corps is a refugee sponsorship program where “groups of at least five people” can sponsor a refugee, according to the initiative’s site. The State Department’s Office of the Spokesperson claimed last year the program “is the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades.”

“Welcome Corps was launched the Biden administration under the refugee resettlement program, and it basically allows private individuals to select their own refugees and future American citizens,” Lynn told the Caller.

Kevin Lynn, Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy, told the Caller there is a process in place for resettling refugees, and NGOs work with government agencies to further that goal.

He pointed to the Biden-Harris administration’s Welcome Corps.

The Welcome Corps is a refugee sponsorship program where “groups of at least five people” can sponsor a refugee, according to the initiative’s site. The State Department’s Office of the Spokesperson claimed last year the program “is the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades.”

“Welcome Corps was launched the Biden administration under the refugee resettlement program, and it basically allows private individuals to select their own refugees and future American citizens,” Lynn told the Caller.

Our Executive Director weighs in on Springfield Ohio. “Let’s be clear about what’s going on here: Corporations are maximizing their profits while the government is socializing the costs at the taxpayers’ expense.” https://t.co/fvH3vSoI3P

— Institute for Sound Public Policy (@ifspp) September 13, 2024

The program’s partners include the Department of State and its Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). It also partnered with the Church World Service (CWS) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which transformed the city into the “refugee capital of the world,” according to Lynn.

The city’s website denotes itself as “America’s refugee capital” and explains that it assists in resettling refugees.

fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Housing and Development for landlords and property managers states the federal government collaborates with 10 resettlement agencies that have over 340 affiliates nationwide. The documents list various financial assistance and support that refugees receive, including employment services.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has an agency called the Administration for Children & Families, and under its purview is the Office of Refugee Resettlement which partners with nonprofits in states that participate in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. The only state not listed is Wyoming.

In fact, the site even has a tool for people to locate various refugee resettlement NGOs in their area.

Rather than trying to figure out how to stop the administration from resettling more aliens in OH, perhaps OH should consider reducing the incentives for them to come. Here’s a starting point:

1) Mandatory E-Verify;
2) Restrictions on welfare benefits;
3) Enforcement of…

— Immigration Accountability Project (@I_A_Project) September 10, 2024

Thayer noted many of these NGOs would not exist without government support. “It’s hard to call them grassroots,” he told the Caller.

He pointed to The Vera Institute for Justice as an example of governments funneling taxpayer dollars into nonprofits.

The Institute gets millions in federal dollars to represent illegal immigrants in immigration court while it pushes for soft-on-crime and open borders polices that lead to larger government contracts, Thayer said.

“It’s a self-feeding circle,” he concluded.

Over the last 40 years, the corporatocracy has created massive networks supported by business, NGOs and governments at the federal, state and local levels to prioritize the hiring of both legal and illegal immigrants over Americans.

The education system and corporate media… https://t.co/5J8i13bcdr

— Project for Immigration Reform (@PFIRorg) September 19, 2024

One group listed on HHS’s site is Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio, a non-profit that partners with the State Department for Refugee Resettlement. According to a 2023 audit of the group’s finances, one of its main sources of revenue is grants and fees from the government, to the tune of several million dollars.

A facility in Springfield opened up earlier this year to assist with immigration services, and it’s directed by Catholic Charities Southwest Ohio, the Springfield News-Sun reported. CEO Tony Stieritz said the organization has been giving aid in the city for over a year, according to the outlet.

However, the organization states on its website that it “had no role in bringing migrants to the Springfield area,” and it does not provide “resettlement services in Springfield.”

The national organization Catholic Charities recently came under fire on social media after reports showed the Galveston, Texas, chapter substantially increased its revenue under the Biden Administration.

🚨QUESTION: How does the Revenue for the NGO the Catholic Charities nearly quadruple since the Biden Administration took over?

In 2018 the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston only brought in $44 million

In 2021. the revenue for NGO blossomed to $217 million. pic.twitter.com/m5mGfNY12l

— Merissa Hansen⚡️ (@merissahansen17) September 9, 2024

Illegal immigration to the U.S. has accelerated rapidly under Biden.

The Biden-Harris administration is attempting to make open borders “a part of the infrastructure,” according to Chris Chmielenski, President of the Immigration Accountability Project.

“And just to be clear, all of these people are technically in the country illegally, because they’ve been paroled by the administration,” he emphasized.

Kevin Lynn pointed to Biden’s CBP One app, arguing that it expedites illegal immigration. “They’re granting these blanket paroles, where the whole intention of parole was to be determined on a case-by-case basis.”

He explained the initial intent of parole was to grant travelers temporary status if they needed to come to the U.S. for a specific reason, such as for an emergency medical procedure.

The app was originally created during COVID-19 in Oct. 2020 to reduce the amount of time that travelers spent in person with CBP officers to schedule appointments, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

Now, the Biden-Harris administration uses it to allow people without the necessary documentation to enter into the U.S. interior, according to CIS. The app allows migrants to make appointments in Central America and Mexico, which CIS argues incentivizes illegal immigrants to use smugglers.

The legislation that Kamala Harris championed during her four years in the U.S. Senate reveals a disturbingly extreme immigration agenda.

Report: https://t.co/mbccMo1e5i pic.twitter.com/9G6JJdDpeY

— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) September 6, 2024

There is another parole process specifically for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, Lynn told the Caller. A person in the U.S. can sponsor someone from these nations – but the sponsor doesn’t have to be an American citizen, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The agency’s definition of a supporter includes “asylees, refugees, and parolees” along with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) individuals. In June, the Biden administration granted TPS for 300,000 Haitians.

“Now these refugees parolees can sponsor people, people who are here on temporary protected status,” Lynn said.

Chmielenski told the Caller that NGOs are facilitating the resettlement process for migrants. “They’re helping [migrants] go through the process of applying for their work permit,” he stated, adding they could be eligible for public benefits.

“Essentially, the administration is having the NGOs do their dirty work for them,” Chmielenski said.

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‘I Have Not Seen This In Ages’: Pollster Warns Of Concerning Data For Dems In Nearly All Swing States

By The Daily Caller

Veteran polling analyst Matt Towery detailed Monday on Fox News a worrying trend for Democrats due to a rise in support for former President Donald Trump among voters in crucial swing states.

During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Towery, who claims to have access to recent polls soon to be released to the public, reported a significant uptick in favor of the former president, not just in the usual hotspots but across almost every battleground state, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

“I’ve looked at polling that I’ve been privy to, and I’ll probably be public in the next few days. Trump is trending up in almost every single battleground state, almost every one,” Towery told Laura Ingraham when asked why Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin was concerned about the polling. “And when you ask the question, how are your neighbors going to vote? You have very shy Trump voters sometimes. Those numbers explode, and I’ve not seen this in ages. And you know me, I’m usually Mr. Doom and Gloom for the Republicans and Trump.”

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While Towery is typically more pessimistic about Republican prospects, his current observations indicate a shift in public sentiment that spans beyond traditional strongholds.

“I am seeing a true shift in public sentiment, not just in Michigan and in Pennsylvania. I’m seeing it in Nevada, as a matter of fact, there’s been a turnaround there. The only problem child right now is Georgia, and that’s because the Republicans, you have two groups, traditionalist Republicans who go way back,” he continued. “They’re not feeling the groove with Trump right now. It’s the more new-come Republicans and those who live in the exurbs and down in those areas that were hit by this storm.”

Towery also touched on the recent severe storm that has wreaked havoc across the Southeast, particularly affecting Republican-dominated areas. “That storm affected Republican areas, and I’m just saying, demographically, all the way up, basically majority Republican other than Asheville. So what effect that’s gonna have on turnout? I have no earthly idea,” Towery added.

Experts suggest that Nevada’s shift toward Trump could significantly impact Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, despite the state’s modest six electoral votes. The unique economic and demographic factors in the swing state, which has consistently voted Democratic since 2008, might now tilt the balance in this tight race.

A New York Times and Siena College poll indicates a neck-and-neck race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in key swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. In Michigan, Harris leads Trump by a narrow margin of 48% to 47%, while in Wisconsin, her lead is slightly larger at 49% to 47%, according to the Saturday report from the NYT.

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Nearly Every Poll Finds Americans Believe the Country Is on the ‘Wrong Track.’ But Why?

By Family Research Council

For the first time since 2022, the amount of Americans pessimistic about the future of the country has dropped below 70%. But the numbers still aren’t great.

According to a recent NBC News national poll, which was conducted between September 13 and 17 on 1,000 registered voters, 65% of those surveyed believe America is on the “wrong track,” with only 28% feeling otherwise. Of these two-thirds, Republicans remain the most skeptical, with 92% who believe the country is on the wrong track. A much lower percentage of Democrats feel this way, sitting at 36%, while Independents are leaning into the concern found on the Right at 70%.

NBC noted that this poll is merely the latest in recent years that have had the same conclusion: most Americans think the U.S. is on the wrong track. Similar to the survey conducted in 2020, this poll found that at least some of the data was tied to how voters feel about the upcoming election. In this case, 65% marked themselves as “very interested.” And yet, the outlet highlighted, that is still “a 10-point drop from the same point in the 2020 election.”

The poll took into account the perspective of numerous age groups, ranging from 18 to over 75. And while it did not specify what explicitly caused the respondents to feel America was on the wrong track, it did highlight some of their top concerns. According to the data, inflation was the top issue on the voter’s minds. In terms of describing the economy in one word, 66% chose a negative word, and 66% said their family’s income was “falling behind” the cost of living.

Other indicators of why those surveyed feel poorly about the future of America includes the violence that has surfaced in the political square, such as the assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump. Most respondents felt “rhetoric [was] an important contributor” to those occurrences. Additionally, the poll revealed that the majority of those polled lack a strong confidence that either presidential candidate will “do a good job” as the leader of the country.

Another poll, this one conducted by Gallup, found similarly low views of the U.S. According to their research, an even more dramatic 76% were “dissatisfied with the ways things are going in the United States at this time.” Before these two latest polls were released, Newsweek’s David Faris took a shot at answering why Americans feel the way they do. According to Feris, the root causes range from “policy failure” to a series of financial woes. “None of these problems has an easy solution,” he wrote.

In fact, one commentator drew attention to the reality that there really hasn’t been a true solution. “Pollsters love to ask Americans what they think about the direction of the nation,” the writer from ABC 3340 expressed, but experts are starting to point out how “that common survey question has become obsolete.” In the words of Dante Chinni, the founder and director of the American Communities Project, rather than continuing to ask the same question year after year, “We need to ask ourselves why we keep asking it” in the first place. To ask whether America is on the “right” or “wrong track” is “the beginning of a conversation, not a meaningful measure.”

And if you go around asking random people their reason for feeling the U.S. is on the wrong track as Chinni went on to do, you’ll find a variety of unique and biased answers. Well, this makes at least one thing clear: we need an objective answer, at least the beginnings of one. Anything can be analyzed from a biblical worldview, which is rooted in objective truth, so perhaps that’s the best place to turn.

Family Research Council’s David Closson, director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, helped address this topic in what he shared with The Washington Stand. “For decades,” he said, “American pollsters have asked voters whether they believe the country is on the right or wrong track.” But “in my experience, it seems that regardless of who is in power, a majority of Americans sense the country is on the wrong track” — which is evidenced by the polls.

In some sense, Closson explained how the party running the country likely has much to do with who feels most strongly that the country is heading in the wrong direction. For instance, “if a Republican is in office, more Democrats will tell pollsters they think the country is on the wrong track. And the reverse is true if Democrats are in power.” But when viewing these same variables as a Christian, Closson emphasized, “a question about the trajectory of America provides an opportunity for deeper reflection.”

He continued, “Most all Americans can agree, whether they get their news from Fox News or MSNBC, that something has gone deeply wrong in our society.” However, where we tend to disagree “is the cause of why things are the way they are.” Believers “understand sin is at the heart of everything that goes wrong in our country and our institutions and in our people.” As such, these “questions related to the trajectory of the country are of limited value,” only truly serving to indicate “something all of us instinctively know, which is that something has gone wrong,” and “decades of polling data seem to show that a majority of Americans don’t see it getting better,” either.

Closson further contended that if we’re to shy away from subjective speculation and inch toward an objective reality, only the biblical framework “explains why politics can’t ultimately cure that which ails society.” Only from Scripture can we glean a proper understanding of the sin that’s corrupted the world, the gospel that offers hope through all circumstances, and how the future we long for rests securely for those who put their faith in Christ.

Jesus said in John 16:33 that in this world, we will face tribulation. But He also said to “take heart,” for He has overcome the world. We need this reminder, because it’s unlikely to show up in the news or the polls. And yet, in a world that always seems to be on the wrong track, Christians ought to best understand the only right track is the track of faith.

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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