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‘Stop The Crimes’: Congressional Leaders Reveal How They Will Usher Immigration Agenda Under Trump Admin

By The Daily Caller

Congressional leaders in both the House and Senate revealed what they have in store for border enforcement and immigration reform if former President Donald Trump reenters the White House.

Beefing up border security and cracking down on interior enforcement are all on the table if Trump is reelected in November, according to several GOP lawmakers who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Sen Ted Cruz and Rep. Troy Nehls of Tennessee, along with Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, have zeroed in on the issue in Congress and say they are ready and waiting to assist the incoming Trump administration.

“Every day we hear about illegal aliens assaulting or murdering another American,” Cruz said to the DCNF. “I’ve been fighting for justice for Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old from Houston who was brutally murdered by two illegal aliens released into Texas under the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”

“Next Congress I look forward to passing and to having President Trump sign into law my Justice for Jocelyn Act,” Cruz continued. “This legislation is aimed at ensuring that no child and no family ever again experiences what happened to Jocelyn.”

Nungaray was a 12-year-old Houston girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered in June by two Venezuelan men. Federal immigration authorities say the two men entered the United States unlawfully before their arrest for Nungaray’s brutal killing.

The Justice for Jocelyn Act would require the Department of Homeland Security to “exhaust all reasonable efforts” to keep an illegal migrant in custody before resorting to releasing them into the interior of the country, according to the legislation. Should an illegal migrant be released, however, the bill would call for continuous GPS monitoring until their removal from the country or the completion of their immigration proceedings.

The legislation also would empower federal immigration officials to immediately deport illegal migrants who violate their terms of their release — a proposal that could potentially prevent an incredible number of crimes by illegal migrants who repeatedly encounter law enforcement.

“Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have released dangerous illegal aliens into our country that have gone on to take the lives of American citizens,” Nehls stated to the DCNF. “I have introduced pieces of legislation that would remove illegal aliens who fail to comply with their release order and to improve the mandatory tracking and detention of illegal aliens for the entire process.”

“Too many Americans have lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden let into our country,” Nehls continued. “Congress must do everything to ensure that Americans are put first, not illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be here in the first place.”

Nehls, whose district largely covers the Houston suburbs, is a sponsor for the Justice for Jocelyn Act on the House side. Like Cruz, the Republican congressman has also ripped the Biden-Harris administration for the release of illegal migrants when there has been detention space available within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities.

“In a second Trump administration, the House Committee on Homeland Security will do everything possible to help the United States return to an era of secure borders and robust interior enforcement,” Green, who serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, stated to the DCNF. “Ending the Biden-Harris border crisis will require two things — policy changes to end the flow of inadmissible aliens into our country, and more funding for interior enforcement to demonstrate that there are consequences to entering illegally.”

With Green as its chairman, the House Homeland Committee has remained one of the Biden-Harris administration’s fiercest critics, demanding answers on a slate of immigration-related controversies, such as the vetting process that went into the entry of an Afghan recently arrested for allegedly plotting an Election Day terrorist attack, the alleged failure of the administration to properly vet foreign nationals before they boarded domestic flights, the handling of unaccompanied alien children into the country, among numerous other border issues.

“While we don’t control the budget process, I believe that providing massive increases for ICE detention and removal operations will be paramount, and I will be vocal about their necessity,” Green continued.

All three lawmakers have also been presented with the 2024 Congressional Champions of Interior Enforcement award by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) for their legislative efforts. NICE has championed hawkish border policy in Washington, D.C., and tracked data that demonstrates the consequences of lax enforcement — such as when the group collected data on how substantially fewer criminal illegal migrants are being removed from the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration compared to Trump’s time in office.

There were 423,102 deportations of criminal aliens under the first three fiscal years of the Trump administration, with that number falling to 134,617 during the same time period under the current administration, NICE uncovered. Those numbers marked a 74% decrease in removals altogether.

NICE advocates for the end of catch-and-release of illegal migrants at the border, the abolition of sanctuary city laws, requiring all employers in the country to use E-Verify, among numerous other hawkish policies.

“President Trump will be ready, Congress just needs to provide the resources,” RJ Hauman, president of NICE, said to the DCNF. He added that more detention beds are needed and called for “immediate” GPS monitoring of every illegal migrant on the non-detained docket in order to properly conduct sweeping deportations.

“Our champions of interior enforcement will be sure to lead the charge on Capitol Hill,” Hauman said.

The lawmakers said they are ready to work with their allies and hit the ground running if Trump occupies the Oval Office in January.

“I am deeply grateful to the National Immigration Center for Enforcement for all their work pushing back on the open-borders, anti-enforcement policies of the Biden-Harris administration, and to inform the American people about the damage these policies have caused,” Green said of the organization. “I encourage my colleagues on the Hill to consider partnering with them in pursuit of creative and effective policy solutions to this self-inflicted crisis.”

“I’ve been proud to work with some great allies on this bill, including the National Immigration Center for Enforcement,” Cruz said, referring to his Justice for Jocelyn Act. “Together, we will act to stop the crimes enabled by this Biden-Harris administration.”

AUTHOR

Jason Hopkins

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An Open Letter from over 200 Homeland Security Professionals

By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.

Please read the below Open Letter to America signed by over 200 retired Homeland Security Professionals.

The majority of those who signed this letter were in senior leadership positions prior to their retirement. The first-hand experience and years of service for each signer is remarkable. None of these signers were invited to come onto the open letter by any PAC (Political Action Committee) political organization or the Trump Campaign.

The extreme concern for the welfare of our nation, our national sovereignty, and the welfare and future of Americans led these professionals to come together.

The United States is under active assault both across our once far more secure borders (north and southern) as well as from within by those holding public office at various levels and degrees of influence and power. The signers on this open letter have placed love for country and their fellow American above worry over being politically correct or the feedback and fallout that could follow. Much like those in the 13 colonies back in 1775, these patriots chose to stand and be counted no matter the cost.

I pray this demonstration of 200 names at least speaks to your heart a bit if not much. I pray you are able to find your voice like these fellow Americans who signed a letter for all to see.

We truly are at war to preserve this exceptional nation.

United States Homeland Security Professionals Open Letter to America

October 2024

Dear America,

On November 5th you will select a new president to lead us. The single most important factor when evaluating the candidates should be ensuring the safety and security of the United States. Of the countless issues to consider, every one of them is dependent upon our national security. National
security has many facets, but it does not exist without enforceable international borders. In this election, there is no need to speculate what each candidate might do. When reviewing their records you can see both candidates have very clear, but distinctly different track records.

The Biden/Harris administration enacted policies that systematically dismantled a proven 27-year bi-partisan border security strategy that prevented crime, both at the border and in towns across America, through deterrence and consequences. The appalling results were immediate and will have lasting consequences. US Customs and Border Protection, the frontline of America’s defense against cartels and Human trafficking syndicates, was forced to pull law enforcement personnel from critical enforcement duties protecting the borders to cope with over 10 million illegal aliens. This record setting illegal immigration overwhelmed every aspect of border security.

Unfortunately, with the majority of our borders left unprotected, approximately two million illegal aliens and narcotics smugglers were observed but evaded apprehension, disappearing unchecked into your neighborhoods. Even more frightening are the unknown numbers that made it through in areas of the border completely unpatrolled. Additionally, millions of aliens were intentionally released into the United States with a simple paper giving them a notice to appear in court at some future date, many years from now.

Pundits and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum continue to overcomplicate border
security. Border security is simply the ability, and willingness, to know and control who and what enters our homeland. Similar to our personal homes, if we cannot control who and what enters our home then we have zero real security. Our nation is no different; border security is national security.

Immigration policy is not synonymous with border security. However, immigration policy and
immigration law directly affect border security. Immigration policy can enable or destroy border security.

Bottom line, as we have seen in the last three and a half years, immigration policy encouraging fraud and illegal entry, decimates our nation’s ability to know and control who, or what enters our homeland.

Illegal immigration also erodes our legal immigration system and forces legal immigrants to the back of the line. Families with relatives here in the United States, doctors, engineers, even legal migrant workers, are all negatively impacted by unfettered illegal aliens who were allowed to jump to the front of the line. Additionally, when illegal aliens are released in significant numbers into the US, the incentivized follow-on illegal immigration will always exceed our nation’s ability to control it. Finally, consider the fact when discussing immigration policy, if we cannot, or will not control who is allowed to enter our homeland then any policy discussion becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore, transnational criminal organizations (TCO), commonly known as cartels, control illegal immigration to strategically distract and overwhelm US law enforcement. This tactic has been very successful over the last several years, as you have seen in the news reports highlighting the terrorists, murderers, rapists, violent gangs and record levels of fentanyl that made it into the US. The TCOs have been able to operate with minimal risk of being apprehended while increasing their profits by billions of dollars, all courtesy of policies implemented by the Biden/Harris administration.

President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice. When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted. The Trump administration supported policies and programs that reduced illegal immigration, instilled integrity into our legal immigration system and ensured that the US government was doing all we could to control who and what entered our homeland. The borders of the US were never more secure than they were during the Trump administration.

This same expert information, evidence, and advice was offered to the Biden/Harris administration. However, they chose to ignore the career border security experts and instead, under VP Harris’ watch, idealist political appointees with zero border security experience were empowered to implement disastrous and deadly border security policy for the United States. The devastating results have handed complete control of our border to the cartels, provided them with astronomical record profits, ballooned legal immigration backlogs, and have l0 millions of illegal aliens in the country.

The men and women whose signatures appear below, each an honorably retired career civil servant that specialized in border security, dedicated their careers to the protection of this great nation. Most are not interested in engaging in any political actions other than voting but realized after witnessing the unravelling of the rule of law at our borders and the horrific impacts on our local communities with heinous central and south American gang crimes, and the terrible loss of life from the fentanyl crisis that this election is too important to stand on the sidelines. Campaign ads can portray anything. We encourage every American to take a lesson from law enforcement and simply follow the evidence of the last eight years. The first four resulted in the most secure border in history and the other has resulted in significant increases in the loss of life and record illegal immigration.

Assuming you care about border security as much as we do, the choice is clear. President Trump is the only candidate that we can trust to secure our nation’s borders.

Rodney Scott, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
R.P. Buck Brandemuehl, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Homan, Director, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mark Morgan, Former Acting Commissioner CBP, Former Chief, US Border Patrol
Mathew Hudak, Deputy Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ronald S. Colburn, Deputy Chief-Retired, DHS/CBP, US Border Patrol
Aaron Heikte, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael S. Williams, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired U.S. Border Patrol
Chris Clem, Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Kelly Good, Deputy Executive Director- Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Sheehy, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, Miami Sector, Retired
Joel Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mark Haynes, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Roseborough, Senior Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian S. Hastings, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Bell, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Matthew J. Roggow, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Martin, Directorate Chief – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Joseph Banco, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, New Orleans Sector, Retired
John Smietana Jr, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara E. Matthews, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alan F. Zeitvogel, (A) Division Chief LE Ops-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hector M. Regalado, Special Operation Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael J. Clark, Operations Officer – Retired, US Border Patrol
Irvin Ray Harris, Special Agent-Retired, USINS (former Border Patrol)
David J. McElheran, Border Patrol Agent-Retired US Border Patrol
Steven J. Anderson, Supervisory Air & Marine Agent-Retired, Air & Marine Operations
Victor J. Mancini, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Genaro F. Miranda, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Dennis W. Harmon, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Derrall Brown, Sector Intelligence Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion S. Byrum, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer- ICE-Retired
Kevin L. Nix, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bruce H. Roberts, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jose R. Martinez, Special Operations Supervisor U.S. Border Patrol
Patrick T. Murray, Assistant Field Office Director (Retired) ICE/ERO Seattle
Raul R. Valadez, Field Operations Supervisor (Retired) US Border Patrol
Jimmy F. Vance, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Hann II, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired), U.S. Border Patrol
David Espino, Operations Officer (Retired). U.S. Border Patrol
Darrel Walraven, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired) U.S. Border Patrol
Jeffery Abrams, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brent Johnson, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roger Kemp, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Doty, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Ball, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Jenkins, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Ashley Taylor, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Blanca Flanagan, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jeff Snavely, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
M.G. Boone, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary Viens, Deputy Division Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael I Cano, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara Kermzner, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jennie Marquez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, CBP/OTD Artesia
Steve R. Martinez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent –Retired, El Centro Sector
Kai Libby, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick M. Seeley, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Paisley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gilbertina Paisley, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Zimmer, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kimberly Young, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Travis Darling, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose M. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jason A. Feldman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S, Border Patrol
Michael E. Powell, Director – NBCC – CBP/USBP – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Tom McKenney, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dean Williams, Supervisory Air Interdiction Agent- Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Matthew Whittaker, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (Ret), US Border Patrol
Dorian LaPaglia, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny M. Meadors, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol-Headquarters
Jim Pilkington, Chief of Staff -Retired, DHS/ICE/ERO Targeting Operations Division
Fernando Grijalva, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Johnson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edward Harper, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Heckler, Special Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Fogle, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Arvin E Sepulveda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jerry Knight, Branch Chief-Retired ICE, Homeland Security Investigation
Rafael Castañeda, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Lambrix, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Shawn Palmer, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roy Dan Cason, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Cruz, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Leo Ayala, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joseph W Mason, Filed Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Todd Bryant, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Glenn Fouty, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Chuck Huthmaker, Chief Officer-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Anthony M. Fiorita, Senior Patrol Agent/ National Recruiter- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Brent Wies, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer-Retired, USICE
Hugo Ruthling, Special Agent, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Raul G. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael Castaneda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wallace, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jaime X. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
J.P. Mansell, Director, CBP Firearms and Tactics- Retired, US Border Patrol
Arturo Torrez, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny Garcia, Watch Commander- Retired, US Border Patrol
Lino Giulio Mescia, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
William G. Justice, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Mike Lawler, Associate Chief- Retired, US Border Patrol
David Burke, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent K-9- Retired, US Border Patrol
Elias Herrera Jr., Field Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
Christopher I Ewing, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Senorina Ewing, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Strauch, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Spear, Special Agent-Retired ICE,
Homeland Security Investigations
Stephen Henesy, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Krause, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jared Browne, Special Agent-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Peter J. Forcelli, Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
William E. Seward, Commander, USCG (Retired)
Robert Vazquez, Border Patrol Agent -Intelligence-Retired, US Border Patrol
Craig Olson, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Kevin Wiley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Steve Gulotta, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Esquivel, (A)Chief Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Marco Saltarelli , Special Agent-Retired, ICE/Homeland Security Investigations
Hilario Leal, Assistant Field Office Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Kyle Hobart, (A)Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Rene Dorantes, Senior Federal Air Marshal-Retired, Transportation and Security Administration
Thomas Feeley, Field Officer Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Christopher Short, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Duke Conchola, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Shawler, Supervisory Air and Marine Agent-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Frank Carrillo, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
ScoƩ Moore, Director-investigations-Retired, Office of Air and Marine, CBP
ScoƩ M Plasse, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent–Intelligence (Retired), US Border Patrol
David Krohn, Supervisory Borer Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joe Vaiasuso, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dick Graham Jr. Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert V. Argento, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary L. Tharpe, Deputy Chief-Retired, Northern and Coastal Operations, US Border Patrol
Brian R. Armstrong, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Raymond V. Russell, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Meshirer,
William C Doggess, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Harry Beall, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edgar J. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Louie Wayne Collins Jr. Division Chief -Retired, US Border Patrol
Michele Albertson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lance E. Martin, Special Operations Supervisor -Retired, US Border Patrol
Anthony R. Pool, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thaddeus Cleveland, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol, Sheriff -Terrell Ct. TX
Christopher S. Myhra, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael L. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Lynne M. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
James M. Obert, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Larry Blakemore, Senior Patrol Agent/Supervisory CBP Officer-Retired, US CBP
Mark Lieberman, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
George W. Gale, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mary Olivares, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bart Swindle, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hunter Davis, Director-Retired, Air Marine Operations, US Customs and Border Protection
Martin Aguilar Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Retired, U.S Border Patrol
James Parker, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John M. Sisk II, Special Agent/DHS Attaché-Retired, Homeland Security Investigations
Martha Irwin, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Burton, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard K. Moody, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wagner, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kurt R. Weismantel, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Arlin Kaul, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lizdelia Lerma, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Herman Tiger Hunt Jr. Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert C Gilson, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alex van Gils, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick Straub, , Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rosendo Hinojosa, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion Leon Stroud Jr. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
James R. Herrick, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David M. Shipley, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Clark Messer, Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Logan Wayne Snider, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Haynes, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Gill, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hermann Rivera, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
JoAnne Federico, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Scott Tedford, Senior Patrol Agent, USBP. Brown Field
Greg N. Terrones, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-retired, US Border Patrol.
Arthur Contreras, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rowel Smith, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Tedford, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Tony Ortiz, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kevin Orr. Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gil Maza, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert J Carney, Supervisor-Retired, Air and Marine Operations, US/CBP
Bruce Busby, HSI Criminal Investigator, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Carlos Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Chris Wells, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Charles McLoughlin, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Hallmark, Deportation Officer-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Jorge Arcinienga, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Eloisa L. Bejarano, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
William Kirkman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard F. Lopez, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ted Stark, Supervisory Special Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesus Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Terrence M. Donnelly, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose Del Campo Martin, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Freddy Medina, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesse Shaw, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David P Ward, Resident Agent in Charge- Retired, DHS/Homeland Security Investigations
Bob Hood, Assistant Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Dana E. Graydon, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Paul Moran, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Fisher, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lisa Hoechst, Chief of Staff-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Cliff Timmons, Deportation Officer, US Immigration and Enforcement
John G. Derrah, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
David Maibaum, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

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Harris Heckled at Black Church in Philly, Says She has G-d’s Endorsement

By The Geller Report

Going down in flames, she is.

By: Chris Donaldson, BizPac Review, October 26, 2024;

Kamala Harris was heckled at a black church in Philadelphia where she invoked God to convince the vital demographic to turn out in big numbers before next week’s pivotal election.

The Democrat nominee took to the pulpit at the Church of Christian Compassion in the City of Brotherly Love on Sunday morning where she debuted yet another new accent and appealed to the congregation, coming very close to suggesting that God himself has endorsed her in a late appeal to believers despite her record of contempt for Christians.

At one point during Harris’ campaign speech, she was interrupted by someone in the audience who shouted at her, the church’s band then turned up the music to drown out the protest which caused a brief interruption of her cynical spiel.

That’s why we fight for democracy,” Harris said, clapping as the heckler was escorted from the building.

“Every voice is important,” the veep said as she clapped her hands. “Every voice is important.”

“In just nine days, we have the power to decide the fate of our nation for generations to come. And on this day, then on this beautiful Sunday morning, I am reminded God expects us to help Him,” Harris told the congregation to applause, hinting that the Almighty wants her to win the election. “We got work to do.”

“Like Paul, we must remember that divine power works through our actions, and we have the power to move past division, fear, and chaos,” she later told the congregation, according to Fox News. “It is in and within our power to fulfill the promise of America and the promise to create opportunity for every child and to protect our basic freedoms, the power to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God power the black Church understood and has used for generations.”

The undisputed queen of cringe also debuted another one of the phony accents that she uses for effect with different audiences.

Harris recently drew criticism for mocking Christian college students who shouted Jesus is Lord” during an event in LaCrosse, WI, telling them they were at the wrong rally before they were booted out by security.

“Here in Pennsylvania right now, each of us has an opportunity to make a difference, because in this moment, we do face a real question: what kind of country do we want to live in? What kind of country do we want for our children and our grandchildren?” Harris said.

“A country of chaos… fear and hate, or a country of freedom, justice and compassion. And the great thing about living in a democracy is We the People have the choice to answer that question,” she added, spouting pure projection from the figurehead of the party of chaos, fear, and hate.

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Supermajority of Americans Support Photo ID, Only U.S. Citizens Voting in Elections: Poll

By Family Research Council

An overwhelming supermajority of Americans from all political parties and ethnic backgrounds believe that only Americans should vote in U.S. elections, and that voters should have to provide a photo ID before casting their ballot, a new survey has found.

In all, more than eight out of 10 Americans — including a majority of Democrats — support the provisions designed to enhance election integrity, which most Democratic elected officials oppose.

In all, 84% of Americans favor requiring voters to show a photo identification before being given a ballot, and 83% are in favor of “requiring people who are registering to vote for the first time to provide proof of citizenship.” Only 15% of Americans oppose each measure.

Support for the election integrity measures cuts deep across members of all political parties and ethnic identities, according to the Gallup poll, released last week. Republicans favored the measures by a near-unanimous margin: 98% of Republicans favor photo identification, and 96% support proof of citizenship for voters. But so did more than eight in 10 registered Independents (84% support both measures). Surprisingly, the vast majority of rank-and-file Democrats also say they would support laws “requiring all voters to provide photo identification at their voting place in order to vote” (67%) and limiting elections to those who can provide reliable proof of their U.S. citizenship (66%).

Although Democratic politicians have likened voter ID laws to Jim Crow — or, as President Joe Biden has said, “Jim Eagle” — the measure has intense support among minority voters. Laws stating that voters must show photo identification are favored by 86% of white voters and 80% of minority voters. (Minority voters are those who identify as Alaska Native, American Indian, Asian, black, Hispanic, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.) Limiting the franchise to those who can prove their U.S. citizenship is backed by more than three-quarters (76%) of non-white voters, as well as 87% of white, non-Hispanic voters.

The question about restricting the vote to U.S. citizens is new; however, the numbers largely track with previous Gallup polls asking about photo identification. In October 2022, the polling organization found 79% of Americans favored such laws, and 21% opposed. Similarly, a Gallup poll conducted in August 2016 found that 80% of U.S. voters favored photo identification laws, and 19% opposed them.

Significantly, Democratic support for photo ID laws plummeted 10 points during the Trump and Biden years. While similar supermajorities of Republicans and Independents favored photo ID laws in 2016, so did nearly two-thirds (63%) of Democrats, compared to a bare majority (53%) of Democrats in 2022.

These widely-supported policies make up the core of the SAVE Act, sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and supported by former President Donald Trump and current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.).

The issue takes on added salience, as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that, if a fraction of illegal immigrants turned out to vote, they could, change the course of the election in swing states and well beyond. “Mathematically, there are 12 states, plus the Nebraska 2nd congressional district, where the voting-age non-citizen population is larger in 2024 than the state winner’s margin of victory in the last presidential election,” found a new CIS report.

A relatively small turnout of illegal immigrants could change election results from Donald Trump to Kamala Harris in Georgia (4.5%) and Arizona (5.1%), the group found. They could even impact a seeming impenetrable bastion of Republican electoral votes such as Texas. If 54% of illegal immigrant residents in Texas turned out to vote, and two-thirds voted for Harris-Walz, it could tip the nation’s largest Republican state in favor of the Democratic ticket for the first presidential election since 1976. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) has led state efforts to remove non-citizens from the voting rolls.

Although audits have found thousands of non-citizens were registered to vote — and had, in fact, cast a vote — in swing states, the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department has sued to prevent states from removing non-citizens from the voting rolls. The DOJ alleges election integrity measures in Virginia and Alabama violate the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day Quiet Period Provision, curtailing all such actions during the 90 days before an election.

Surging numbers of illegal border crossings have catapulted the issue of illegal immigration into the top three issues on voters’ minds ahead of the 2024 election. Before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, the largest number of illegal border crossings in American history took place in 1986, the last year Congress gave amnesty to illegal immigrants: 1,692,544 illegal crossings took place that year. All four years of the Biden-Harris administration have broken that record.

There were 1,965,519 illegal crossings during FY 2021 — 1,577,840 since February 2021, when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially took office. However, many illegal immigrants began arriving before that date in anticipation of a Biden-Harris victory, some wearing campaign paraphernalia.

Some pro-life advocates intend to help secure the vote on election day and beyond. Students for Life Action is recruiting election integrity volunteers for the states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Election year irregularities may be confounded by another factor: Illegal immigrants also favor Donald Trump at slightly higher rates after four years of the Biden-Harris administration than in 2016. “[T]here is some evidence naturalized citizens may prefer Harris over Trump by roughly a 60 percent to 40 percent margin,” reports CIS. “If non-citizens had this voting preference it would require 7.48 percent of non-citizens in Georgia and 8.55 percent of non-citizens in Arizona to vote in 2024 for the net gain in support for Harris to exceed the margin of victory in the last presidential election.” That margin would require more than 90% of illegal immigrants to vote in order to paint Texas blue.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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

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WATCH: Tom Homan Crushes 60 Minutes’ Attempted ‘Hit Piece’ on Mass Deportations

By The United West/ Defend The Border

President Trump and Tom Homan led America to have the most secure Southern border in our history.

In a matter of moments, Biden – Harris REVERSED all of the Trump policies and the result was the unmitigated disaster that has impacted every American.

On November 5, it is essential, for the sake our of country and families to elect President Trump and once again return sovereignty to the United States of America.

With nine days until Election Day, former President Trump has stepped up his attacks on the Biden-Harris administration’s record on illegal immigration and pledged that, if elected, he’ll conduct the largest deportation in American history.

There are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.…about 3% of the population. Nearly 80% of them have lived in the country for a decade or more.

How realistic is this mass deportation campaign promise? What would be the human and financial cost?

We took these questions to one of the people Donald Trump has said would join him if he wins a second term – Tom Homan… who led immigration enforcement during the first Trump administration when thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents at the border.

Tom Homan: I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist. It’s— it’s— it’s threatening to immigrant community. It’s not threatening to the immigrant community. It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. But on the heels of [a] historic illegal immigration crisis. That has to be done.

At the Republican National Convention this summer… Tom Homan, a Fox News contributor, was the proud pitchman of mass deportation…

Tom Homan speaking at the RNC: I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden’s released in our country. You better start packing now. 

Over three decades, he worked his way up from border patrolman to acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – the agency known as “ICE” — during the first year and a half of the Trump administration.

This election cycle, former President Trump has mentioned mass deportation at nearly every rally…

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Kamala Is The October Surprise

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Democrats are in disarray and openly talking about losing the election in November.

After Kamala Harris’s disastrous appearance at a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday, even the network’s hyper-partisan Dana Bash said that if her job that night was to close the deal with voters, she wasn’t sure she accomplished it.

Kamala stumbled when questioned on her new-found support for a border wall, exhibited a breathtaking mendacity, and repeated her theme for the night, “Trump is a fascist,” in the most unlikely places.

Democrats have always believed Republicans are preparing an “October Surprise” to upend the election, and have gone to extraordinary lengths to “pre-bunk” news stories they know will be damaging.

Remember how they treated the New York Post scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020? Even Attorney General Bob Barr, no friend of Trump, has said he believes the media blackout on that story probably cost Trump the 2020 election.

This time, there is little the Democrats can do, because the October Surprise is Kamala herself.

Her abysmal performance in interview after interview with friendly networks has left her partisans openly skeptical of her qualifications to hold the highest office in the land.

Former Obama advisor David Axelrod said in the CNN spin room after the town hall that Kamala had a tendency to head to ”word salad city” whenever she was challenged.

Her worst moment was when a Republican man from Pennsylvania who said he remained undecided asked her what she felt were her biggest weaknesses.

You could almost her the little gremlins in her brain opening and closing file drawers, searching for the answer. Finally, she came up with this: “I really do value having a team around me of really smart people who bring to my decision-making process different perspectives.”

Given all the reports of the Harris’s inability to retain qualified staff because she dresses them down in obscenity-laden rants, this was laugh-out loud pathetic. Even NPR has reported on the high staff turnover, which has been estimated at 92% during her nearly four years as vice-president, according to employment statistics.

And those low moments were not the exception.

Anderson Cooper, to his credit, asked her what she felt was her biggest mistake as Vice President. She replied by saying, “that I probably worked very hard at making sure that I am well versed on issues.”

Given her inability to discuss any issue in anything other than platitudes and repeated talking points, this was a joke.

In the end, the joke will be on the Dems. Who ever would have thought they would be the cause of their own October surprise?

On Thursday, Putin and his congeries of dictators and enablers posed for a group photo at the latest BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

The expansion of BRICS to include Iran, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and possibly Turkey and Saudi Arabia, poses a real threat to America’s long-term interests. Their immediate goal is to create an alternative world trading system to the US dollar. Already in 2020, the BRICS economies surpassed the G7 as a share of world GDP. Today, they now account for 35.4% or world GDP, while the G7 has dropped below 30%.

Ultimately, they would like to establish a new reserve currency. And while that’s much further down the road, no one should underestimate the harm this would do to our economy. This is why Donald Trump has been saying he will restore the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, making up for the erosion suffered over the past four years.

I do not actually discuss Kamala in this week’s edition of Prophecy Today Weekend. Instead, I spend much of the time discussing BRICS, the Axis of Opportunism of Russia-China-Iran and North Korea, and the latest Chinese naval exercises to simulate a naval blockade of Taiwan and a maritime and ground assault.

As always, you can listen live at 1PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM and 550 AM, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Later, you can download the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/how_were_crucial_intelligence_documents_leaked_to_iran.html

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The Irresponsible Harris-Biden Border Policy

By Bruce Bialosky

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

The surge in illegal border crossings is what the American people have determined is the single most critical issue in this election because of the often-devastating effects across our country. Here is a different view of this issue.

Most Americans do not know that the number of naturalized citizens in 2022 was 969,380 and 878,500 in 2023. That is a lot of people to embrace as new citizens each year. Some politicians talk in platitudes about how so many people want to come to America and how there are many refugees in their native countries due to poor circumstances. As someone who has been to nearly 90 countries worldwide, I can tell you from our discussions that America is a popular place, and a lot of people want to come here. The question is whether we should admit them.

More importantly, are we prepared to do that? In my column on the Harris housing proposal, you learned we already have a shortage of 4.5 million homes for citizens. That is without considering the burgeoning homeless problem, particularly in Democrat-run cities like Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Think of this other aspect. If we want to greet more future Americans, we need to be prepared to do so. When Wal-Mart opens a new store, they take months hiring and training their personnel. They stock their shelves and do test runs before the doors open. If you open a restaurant, you have to develop your menu, hire your cooks and chef, get the front of the house personnel in place. Then you have dry runs and a soft opening before you can operate at full throttle.

I can tell you with the number of naturalized citizens we are currently processing, our system is stretched beyond its limit. People may want to come here, but if we don’t have the infrastructure to manage those people and the housing to offer them then it does not matter whether they can obtain work. We must have all the elements in place before we have our “grand opening” event and tell them we are ready for them. It is unfair both to us and to them.

I wrote the following ten years ago during my interview with an immigration attorney, Warren Winston. He now has 50 years with the system:

“We cannot have a legal immigration system without the assets and personnel to be able to efficiently approve the immigrants allowed under the current law. Winston described the decrepit court facilities, overcrowded courts without sufficient personnel to manage the workload, and inadequate systems to process the immigrants we do allow. Immigration Judges are often forced to postpone cases because government lawyers either don’t have the immigrant’s files or are not prepared to complete the cases. Requests for short continuances are often granted, but for years instead of months because of overwhelmed court calendars.”

That situation is demonstratively worse now.

President Biden has on multiple occasions stated if he had the assets he could do the job on immigration. He and Harris constantly talk about the bipartisan border bill that was proposed and supposedly shut down by Trump for political reasons. There was a very well-respected Republican senator, James Lankford, who participated in drafting the bill. By time the bill got to the U.S. Senate, there were a sufficient number Republican senators and six Democrats rejecting it that so it would never have gotten to the floor for a vote. Trump followed their lead when he rejected the bill, not the other way around. The bill would have allowed 1.5 million immigrants to enter annually without going through the legal process. That is why it was rejected.

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The bill would have covered some aspects of what needs to be done at the border, but not enough. We urgently need to add at least 3,000 judges. Where exactly are we going to get those people? You can’t simply be an attorney. You must be extremely knowledgeable in one area of the law – immigration.

Then we need 3,000 more court rooms. That is a lot. Here is an idea: Utilize the empty classrooms in many of our cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. There are numerous reasons the student population has shrunk, and fewer kids are going through these rotten municipal school systems than ever. The teachers’ unions will not free up the classrooms for charter schools or other independent operations. Why not convert the classrooms into courtrooms?

In addition, we need the support staff (bailiffs and secretarial) to add to those darn Judges.

You get the point. We are nowhere near ready for the scale of immigration we are getting – legal and illegal. Not only are we incapable of managing the legal immigrants; we are way far away from being able to manage the illegal ones. It is not only unfair to our citizens, but also unfair to the people coming here.

We need to get a handle on this process. Before we let any more people in, we must have the operational structure to manage them. We need the store manager, the department heads, the support staff, and the janitorial staff before we open our doors.

That is what Ms. Harris is missing and that is why her plan is a complete bust.

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This article was published by Flash Report and is reproduced with permission from the author.

TAKE ACTION

The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Harris/Obama/Biden leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.

Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.

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Trump Within Striking Distance Of Harris In State GOP Hasn’t Won Since New Millennium

By The Daily Caller

Former President Donald Trump has closed within striking range of Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, a state the GOP hasn’t claimed in a presidential race since 2000.

A new Emerson College Polling/WHDH poll, conducted Oct. 21-23, shows Harris with a narrow lead of just three points over Trump, garnering support from 50% of likely voters compared to Trump’s 47%. Third-party candidates pull 2%, with 1% of voters still undecided.

This slim margin signals a more competitive race than many anticipated in the Democratic-leaning state as Trump gains momentum in a state that President Joe Biden carried by over 7% in 2020. Recent polling shows a noticeable shift among male voters in favor of Trump, while Harris maintains a lead among women similar to Biden’s in the last election.

“Harris’ margin among women is similar to that of Biden in 2020 — however, male voters have shifted about two points toward Trump,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. “In addition, Harris is underperforming Biden’s 2020 support among independent voters, who break for Harris by 13 points, but broke for Biden by about double that amount.”

Trump cuts Harris lead to 3 points in New Hampshire: Poll https://t.co/nlf7U1zdF6

— The Hill (@thehill) October 25, 2024

Economic concerns dominate the political landscape in New Hampshire, with 34% of respondents identifying the economy as their top issue, followed by housing affordability at 26%, which may play into Trump’s hands as he campaigns on promises of financial recovery and job creation, pressing an agenda aimed squarely at discontent over inflation and rising costs, Emerson College Polling stated. For Harris, addressing these economic anxieties will be critical as she works to consolidate her base in New Hampshire.

Other polls conducted recently suggest trouble for Harris as well, in a tight race for Arab American support, a new Arab News/YouGov poll shows Trump edging out Harris, with 45% backing Trump over Harris’s 43%. As the election nears, Harris’s team is reportedly concerned about her standing in key swing states like Michigan, where Arab American and Muslim communities could prove pivotal.

With just under two weeks until election day, Trump holds a slight 47%-45% lead nationally over Harris, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday. This shift follows August’s poll, where Harris held an advantage, now within the margin of error.

AUTHOR

Mariane Angela

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The Political Landscape of the Ted Cruz-Colin Allred Race

By Amil Imani

The race for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas is heating up as incumbent Senator Ted Cruz faces off against Democrat Colin Allred. Texas, a state known for its conservative values and robust economy, has long leaned Republican. Significant achievements and unwavering support from the electorate have marked Cruz’s political career. In contrast, Allred, a former NFL linebacker turned politician, presents a starkly different vision for Texas, raising questions about his experience and alignment with the state’s values.

Ted Cruz, first elected to the Senate in 2012, has built a formidable political career committed to conservative principles and strong advocacy for Texas interests. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz’s intellectual prowess matches his oratory skills, making him a prominent figure in national politics.

Cruz has consistently championed tax cuts, border security, and religious freedom, resonating deeply with Texas voters. His role in spearheading the fight against the Affordable Care Act and advocating for the Second Amendment has solidified his reputation as a staunch defender of conservative values.

Cruz’s political career is marked by significant accomplishments, including:

  • Legislative Achievements: He has played a pivotal role in bipartisan efforts, such as the CHIPS and Science Act and tax relief initiatives for hurricane victims. His ability to navigate complex legislative landscapes has earned him respect among his peers and constituents.
  • Popularity in Texas: Despite criticism for specific actions—such as his controversial trip to Cancun during a winter storm in 2021—Cruz maintains a strong support base among Texas Republicans. Polling data shows he consistently leads Allred by margins ranging from 2% to 5% in recent surveys, indicating that many Texans still view him as their representative in Washington.

Cruz has also been instrumental in shaping Republican strategies on a national level, positioning himself as a critical player in the fight against big government and for individual liberties. His influence extends beyond Texas, as he is often called upon to provide insight into the Republican Party’s direction.

As for Colin Allred, one of the most significant drawbacks is his limited experience in national politics. While Cruz has spent over a decade navigating the complexities of Senate legislation and building a national profile, Allred’s tenure in Congress has been marked by just one term. This lack of experience raises concerns about his ability to effectively represent Texas at a time when critical national issues are at stake.

In a state as large and diverse as Texas, voters often look for candidates with proven track records in leadership and governance. Allred’s relatively short political career could hinder his ability to connect with seasoned voters who prioritize experience when electing their representatives.

Allred’s policy positions present another challenge as he seeks to unseat Cruz. Many of his stances, including support for expanded government healthcare programs and strict gun control measures, diverge significantly from the values held by many Texans. According to a recent Texas Public Policy Foundation survey, 68% of Texans oppose new gun control measures (Texas Public Policy Foundation, 2024), making Allred’s advocacy on this issue potentially unpopular.

Furthermore, Allred’s proposed increase in taxation and regulation is at odds with Cruz’s focus on economic growth through lower taxes and deregulation. In a state that has experienced significant economic expansion, particularly in the energy sector, voters may be reluctant to support a candidate who advocates for policies perceived as detrimental to job creation and financial stability.

Allred’s several other policy positions may also alienate some voters in Texas. He has advocated for progressive policies that may not resonate with the state’s conservative electorate, such as Abortion Rights. Allred has been vocal about protecting abortion rights, opposing Texas’s stringent regulations. While this stance may appeal to specific demographics, it risks alienating conservative voters who prioritize pro-life policies.

These policy differences highlight how Allred’s positions contrast sharply with Cruz’s conservative platform, which emphasizes individual freedoms and limited government intervention.

Public perception plays a crucial role in any political campaign, and Allred has faced scrutiny regarding his background and affiliations. While he positions himself as a candidate for change, his association with more progressive elements of the Democratic Party has raised eyebrows among conservative voters.

Any past controversies or missteps could impact voter trust:

  • Lack of Transparency: Critics have pointed out that Allred’s campaign has not always been transparent regarding funding sources and endorsements. This lack of clarity may raise questions among voters about his integrity and motivations.
  • Association with Controversial Figures: While seeking endorsements from former Republican representatives like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney may seem strategic, it could backfire by alienating core Democratic supporters who view these figures unfavorably due to their opposition to Trump.

Additionally, there have been reports of ethical concerns regarding some of his campaign financing, which could further complicate his efforts to build trust with voters.

In contrast, Cruz has navigated controversies with political acumen, allowing him to maintain his support base. His ability to confront challenges head-on, including those posed by his opponents, has only solidified his reputation as a resilient leader.

These factors contribute to an image that may not resonate with all voters, particularly those prioritizing transparency and accountability.

As the race progresses, concerns about Allred’s electability become increasingly prominent. Polling data indicates that while he has garnered some support, particularly among urban voters, Cruz still maintains a commanding lead in statewide surveys.

  • Polling Data: Recent polls show Cruz leading by approximately 2% to 5%, with around 5% of respondents still undecided.

  • Voter Sentiment: Analysts have noted that despite demographic shifts in Texas favoring Democrats, many voters still identify strongly with Cruz’s conservative values. Allred’s challenge will be mobilizing enough support from moderate Republicans and independents while retaining Democratic voters.

The race between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred is emblematic of broader trends within Texas politics – a state grappling with shifting demographics and political ideologies. While Allred presents himself as a moderate alternative to Cruz, several negative aspects associated with his candidacy raise questions about his viability as a challenger.
In summary:

  • Experience: Allred’s limited political experience compared to Cruz raises concerns about his readiness for Senate responsibilities.

  • Policy Positions: His progressive stances may not align with the values of many Texas voters.

  • Public Perception: Issues related to transparency and past associations could undermine voter trust.

  • Electability: Although polling data suggests he is within reach, doubts remain about his ability to defeat an established incumbent like Cruz.

As Texans prepare to vote on November 5th, they must weigh these considerations carefully. Their choices will shape the future of Texas and influence the balance of power within the U.S. Senate.
With Cruz’s track record of fighting for conservative principles and advocating for Texas’s interests, the stakes have never been higher. In a time when leadership matters more than ever, the choice between experience and inexperience, conservatism and progressivism, could define the Senate seat and the future trajectory of Texas politics.

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References:

1. Emerson College Polling Results on Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred.
2. Analysis from The Hill on polling trends.
3. Coverage from AP News regarding debates and public perceptions.<
4. Insights from Politico on campaign strategies.
5. Background info.rmation on Ted Cruz’s political career is from Wikipedia.<
6 Sen. Ted Cruz’s Leadership Secured Approval for Four International Bridges
7. Cruz’s legislative accomplishments touted
8. Ted Cruz, Colin Allred clash on abortion, border, transgender rights in US Senate debate

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Large Migrant Caravan Heads to U.S. ahead of Presidential Election

By Family Research Council

After four years under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, a number of U.S. Border Patrol agents have threatened to quit if Harris is elected as president this November. This comes after tens of millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the border, causing an influx in crime, terror threats, sex trafficking, drug smuggling, and more. While the agents are fearing an election in Harris’s favor, illegal immigrants are publicly announcing their fear of Republican nominee Donald Trump winning.

The migrants are concerned, should Trump be elected, that he will strengthen border policies, making it harder for illegal crossings. To get ahead of that, roughly 2,000 hopped on a caravan headed straight to America on Sunday. The convoy of men, women, and children, which left from Tapachula, Mexico earlier this month, has made its way across Latin America — including people from Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, and Africa.

“In the last two years,” the New York Post wrote, approximately “1.3 million migrants have made it into the U.S. using the likes of Biden’s CBP One app and other legal avenues under the Biden-Harris administration” that have made it easier for immigrants to apply for asylum and enter the country. However, this hasn’t stopped millions from still sneaking into the U.S. illegally. The outlet added that “Sunday’s caravan is just the latest to start its way across Mexico in recent weeks, but also the largest in recent days.”

Earlier this month, two other caravans left Mexico, one carrying roughly 600 to 800 migrants, another carrying about 1,000. As such, among the three caravans is a total of almost 4,000 immigrants. Border Report noted an estimate of an additional 40,000 migrants that are still in southern Mexico.

Former President Donald Trump has made it clear that closing the border is his “first priority” if he wins the election. As part of that promise, he has said he will deport millions of illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. “We have no choice,” Trump stated in a July interview. “[W]e have to get the criminals out. These are murderers. These are drug dealers. These are people that will take women and put them in the trunk of a car and sell them to the highest bidder.”

On the other hand, Harris, who has been in office for the nearly four years since the border crisis escalated to its current standing, has only offered vague policies to address the issue if she were elected as president. In September, she gave a speech in Arizona where she said, “Those who cross our borders unlawfully will be apprehended and removed and barred from re-entering for five years.” As the official Democratic presidential nominee, Harris took a trip to the border where she claimed she would “do more to secure our border, to reduce illegal border crossings” and “will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry.”

Illegal immigration has consistently polled as one of the top issues for voters this election season, and yet, many do not know how to respond to the current events. However, in a comment to The Washington Stand, David Closson, director of Family Research Council’s Center for Biblical Worldview, offered some ways to analyze the ongoing border crisis.

“The old adage that elections have consequences is proven correct every four years,” he said. Regarding the caravans that are bringing thousands of immigrants to America, Closson emphasized how “it is noteworthy that thousands of immigrants perceive that a Trump victory on November 5th will represent a return to policies that were more restrictive when it comes to immigration.” He continued, “The optics of large caravans headed north to our southern border is the precise image that the Harris-Walz campaign does not want to see, [even though] it is true that the Biden-Harris administration has been more lax on immigration than the Trump administration.”

“It’s not surprising that people fleeing from desperate situations would perceive Trump’s win as a narrowing window through which they could enter the country without being turned away,” Closson observed. He went on to highlight the importance of Christians to understand what the Bible has to say on matters such as immigration. He referred to Romans 13 and Titus 3 to explain how Scripture teaches that “a Christian framework for government understands that the state exists to punish wrongdoing and promote good. A fundamental task of government is to provide for the common welfare, which includes protecting its citizens.”

According to Closson, this biblical framework should help Christians see that citizens are not being protected, because “the broken border represents an increasing threat to the health and safety of Americans that has led to all sorts of human suffering. Christians should rightly be concerned about a porous southern border that is exploited by the enemies of the United States.” However, Closson insisted, “In the same breath, Christians understand that all people are made in God’s image.”

He continued, “This is one of the reasons why Christians don’t use dehumanizing rhetoric to refer to people who are legitimately trying to pursue a better life. We also need to recognize that the United States can’t grant asylum to everyone in the world who wants to come to this country.”

Closson concluded that “Christians are the people that can say two things: One, all people have dignity and value and should be respected. But two, we need to be the people that are really careful about what immigration policies we support, because we recognize that national sovereignty, as well as the health and safety of our citizens, is at stake.”

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

By Kelleigh Nelson

“Music is the only industry where you don’t need to know what you’re doing to get ahead.  Well, that and politics.” —  Gene Simmons

“Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.” —  Dmitri Shostakovich

“Music is critical in our lives and culture.  It’s the inspiration that drives us.  It’s also the window to our souls.  It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for, and where we’re going.” —  Bill Walton

Music is telling us everything.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) wants to rid the earth of animals because they allegedly cause problems with the climate…even though animals were put on the earth before man.  Crazy huh?

Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon – The Beatles

Who Let the Dogs Out – Baha Men

WEF also tells us that we’re going to eat bugs in the future. There are already ground grasshoppers and various other creepy crawlies being put in processed foods.  Ranchers are being put out of business and chicken farms destroyed.

Thank God I’m a Country Boy – John Denver

Just look at the list of food processing plants that have burned down, been blown up or otherwise destroyed under Joe Biden’s administration in 2021-2022. Check out the US map showing every destroyed processing plant.

Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino

Certainly, it appears that the prognostications of WEF, and other One World Order promoters are being helped along with purposeful destruction.  Resilient supply chains are necessary to our national security and survival and economic security.

Destruction to bring about the future desired by the unelected elitists?

Eve of Destruction – Barry McQuire

Government Spying on Citizens

The U.S. government has long been afraid of the American people.  This is why the 4th amendment has been ignored and the government is watching us.

The 2002 movie, Minority Report, was about knowing every human’s thought and response to stimuli.  Privacy was a thing of the past, the government spied on you in every way.  Here we are 22 years later and there are auto license readers everywhere, cameras at intersections, cameras inside and outside businesses and in apartment buildings.  Police cars are able to drive by your home and know everything about you via computer.

In communist Red China, the CCP can track a person no matter where they are and we thought that was only in the TV series, Person of Interest, with Jim Caviezel.

How about Google?  You are the product with Google, they track every command, every text, every video, they own YouTube, take your phone with you and they know where you’ve been.  If you use Gmail, they know every single email you’ve ever written.  It’s exploitative, Google uses your personal profile to sell ads.

Cities and counties use drones to check homeowners and see if they’ve made property improvements and if so, they raise your real estate taxes.  No, we never own our property, the county government owns it.

Madame Vice President Harris wants to send police into the homes of firearm owners to make sure firearms are properly secured.  And, how many people have said, “But I have nothing to hide.”  Really?  A totally stupid and foolish statement. You’d allow the Stasi into your home to make sure you are properly storing your firearms like Madame VP Harris wants to do?

Everyone has something that is no one else’s business and that they want to keep private, but the government in all its bloated bureaucracy is afraid of the people.  Thus, they need to know everything about you and what you own, think, care about and rely on.

One-Hundred Years of Music

They’ve warned us in the past what they’re going to do, through movies, television, articles and most importantly, through music.

Music has so many genres, from country and rock to blues and opera.

Up until the 1960s, music was about love, unrequited love, yearning, blessings, loss, marriage, patriotism, home and family.

Baby boomers surely remember these tunes…

1920 – Louis Armstrong – West End Blues – Jazz, blues and ragtime.

1925 – Gene Austin – Yes Sir, That’s My Baby

1930s – Big Bands – Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman

Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ethel Waters, Cole Porter

1938 – Kate Smith – Irving Berlin’s God Bless America

1939 – Judy Garland – Somewhere Over the Rainbow

1941 – The Ink Spots – I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire

Andrews Sisters, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Woody Guthrie, Peggy Lee

1954 – The Chordettes – Mr. Sandman, Lollipop

The Kingstone Trio, Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole

1960 – Chubby Checker – The Twist – Classic Rock, British Invasion. Surf Music

The Beatles – Hey Jude, I Want to Hold Your Hand

Vietnam Brought Change

Yes, the 30s also had Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger singing about labor struggles, but no decade matched the 60s for the number of songs calling for action and change.

The Chicago Seven and Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground were the communist activists in the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) using the Vietnam War to advance communism through violent revolution.

The 60s became a decade of death starting with the assassination of Medger Evers in June 1963.  Bob Dylan’s, “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” was released in 1964, with lyrics about Evers’ murder.

Arlo Guthrie, filling the footsteps of his dad with “Alice’s Restaurant.” Then, we saw the changes because of the Nam War, so it seemed. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s murder opened eyes and the distrust got rolling.

Here are the top ten culture changing songs of the 1960s, but the songs that stand out are those written after the assassination of JFK.

Sam Cooke’s, “A Change Gonna Come” in 1964, Barry McQuire’s “Eve of Destruction” in 1965, and Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son.”  The decade of war was also the decade of the march for civil rights and full freedom for black Americans.

Pete Seeger’s “Bring ‘em Home” was released in 1966.

In 1968, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated.

“War,” produced and co-written, by Norman Jesse Whitfield in 1970 was first sung by the Temptations.  Whitfield was a producer and songwriter who worked with The Temptations from 1966 to 1974, producing nearly all their great music.

And in 1971, “American Pie” by Don McLean.

Listen to the Music

America has never been in a more destructive and dissolute arena as we are today.  Was it forecast?  Of course.  Through movies, television and music, we have been forewarned of what is coming, not just through the Lord’s Word, like John Rich’s latest, number, “Revelation,” but by current events shaping our future.

In 2003, Les and Loretta Fradkin wrote lyrics far more prescient of our future than many other artists.  Les put those lyrics to fabulous music that warned of despair and drudgery, obsolescence, loss and a system crash.

The music is dynamite, the lyrics foretelling a frightening future.

Everything is Wrong, alludes to society and cultural decay, nothing is right, and everything is wrong.  The people know, but they don’t react.

Promoting rot, a gordian knot,

Lawyers and accountants, and God knows what!

The Gordian Knot is a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem which can only be solved by brute force.  Collapse is coming, will anyone react before the whole thing blows?

Kamala/Walz or Trump/Vance?  Communist slavery or Freedom and liberty?

Obsolete is an unemployment anthem.  What used to be a living wage for a job well done has now been replaced by automation.  The job is gone.  With AI, more will disappear.  What can you do?  They lie to you and tell those coal miners they’ll find work in computers.  Right…starvation and devastation are the end result.

Obsolete, their life felt so complete

And now they can’t compete, Obsolete

Like Climate Change and the Green New Deal?  No more ranchers, no more farmers, all must be made obsolete to save the planet.  Insects are plentiful, now they’re being raised for your latest palate delicacies.

“Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch is Colorado’s first and only edible insect farm. We raise crickets and mealworms to sell to restaurants and food manufacturers.”

I feed dried mealworms to my Bluebirds!  We don’t put them on our dinner plates!

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has said that the world’s demand for protein from beef and even chicken is unsustainable. Protein from bugs is one possible solution.

Really?  Six thousand years of animals and now all of a sudden, they’re unsustainable.

Rehearsals for Retirement is all about what we’re suffering through today with the overwhelming inflation, the open border, the illegal aliens flooding our country, rampant crime, and the inability to make the money stretch like it used to.  Retirement?  Are you kidding?  The future is uncertain and if the Stalinists retain power, we’ll be lucky to even have a job, much less think about those “golden years.”

Wall Street swallowed my dreams,

That dot com stock was not what it seems 

I’m in a sandwich generation where a buck is not a buck

All we’re eating is inflation, and my family’s out of luck

System Crash is not about the stock market alone, but about the entire country.  We are 35 trillion in debt and adding another trillion every three months.  It can’t last forever and there are no spending cuts from the House.  Control is nonexistent. The U.S. Department of Treasury oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.  Flooding our country with worthless paper that has no backing is reminiscent of the Weimer Republic where people on fixed incomes or pensioners found their incomes could not keep up with the massive inflation.

System Crash, they stole all our hope now we got no cash 

System failed; large dreams died they were bought wholesale

Lost control, beat us to the punch found an old loophole

Someday if it’s not too late, gotta find a way to a system update

Harris just gave 157 million to Lebanon.  Since 2022, we have given 175 billion to Ukraine, a war that was unnecessary and was avoidable.  An agreement had been made between Putin and Zelensky to avoid war, but Biden sent Boris Johnson to Zelensky to back out of the agreement.

Last March, Biden freed up Iran’s access to $10 billion from their previously inaccessible bank accounts, right after they murdered three U.S. soldiers. President Obama chose appeasement and cash payoffs with Iran instead of strength and accountability.

On November 1, 2020, President Trump was clear when he said, “Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013 and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. … Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq. The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration.”

A former senior intelligence official who said that much of the $1.8 billion cash payoff from the Obama administration was used explicitly to fund terrorism as an additional “screw you” from the leaders of Iran — including Soleimani —  to the United States. The rest of the money, he believes, ended up in the bank accounts of corrupt Iranian leaders and terrorists.

Now, Israel is fighting for the entire free world, and the American government is funding their terrorist enemies.

How is it that American tax dollars can be given away without the oversight of the House of Representatives?  No one ever answers that question.

We’re spending billions upon billions, housing, feeding and educating upwards of 22 million illegal aliens who have broken the law and entered our country.

Conclusion

Are you listening to the music?  A crash is imminent. General Michael T. Flynn has warned us as well. We cannot sustain the spending, the invasion, the inflation, the crime, and the diseases entering our country.

Movies, television and music.  They tell us about the times we’re living through.

Twenty-two years ago, Les and Loretta Fradkin wrote the lyrics to the music, System Crash.  That crash is on the horizon.

Obama has been in control for the last four years with a senile and debilitated Joe Biden.  He will easily be in control for another four years, should Harris be selected via illegal alien and mail-in ballots.

Who would you rather have in charge if that System Crash happens?  Businessman Donald J. Trump or Willie Brown’s former girlfriend?

Make the right choice!

©2024. Kelleigh Nelson. All rights reserved.

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New Poll Spells Major Trouble For Harris With Unlikely Demographic

By The Daily Caller

Former President Donald Trump is maintaining a small lead over Vice President Kamala Harris among an unlikely demographic as her campaign reportedly worries about her chances in key swing states, according to a new Arab News/YouGov poll obtained by Semafor.

In a new Arab News/YouGov poll, 45% of Arab American voters said they are more likely to vote for Trump, compared to 43% who said they will likely vote for Harris. More Arab Americans, 39%, think Trump will “successfully resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict,” compared to Harris who has 33% of the community’s support on this question, the poll shows. Two weeks before the election, the Harris campaign is worried about the vice president’s chances in the “blue wall,” such as Michigan, where the Muslim community is prominent, three sources with knowledge of the campaign’s strategy told NBC News.

“There has been a thought that maybe Michigan or Wisconsin will fall off,” a senior Harris campaign official told NBC News, emphasizing that there are real concerns over her path to victory if Michigan goes for Trump while Wisconsin and Pennsylvania stay blue.

Of likely Arab American voters, 4% of respondents said they would cast their vote for third-party candidate Jill Stein and 6% said they were still undecided, according to the poll. Arab News/YouGov surveyed 500 Arab Americans nationally between Sept. 26 and Oct. 1 2024 and the poll has a margin of error of 5.93%.

🧵 President Trump took to Truth Social to voice concerns that Arab-Americans are disaffected with Kamala Harris.

The Daily Caller recently did a deep dive on dissatisfaction with Harris in Muslim communities in Michigan that touched on some of the same concerns. pic.twitter.com/QQS0X3zGwt

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 21, 2024

Muslim Americans in Michigan are making an effort to flip the state for Trump in protest of the Biden-Harris administration’s Middle East policy. One activist organization, Drive for 75, has calculated that if 75% of its community can turn out to the polls then the vice president has a 99.9% chance of losing, Rex Nazarko, who is heading up the effort, previously told the Daily Caller.

“What was a guarantee for [a Harris loss] to happen? We tried with different percentages and different turnouts, and with the 75% number, again, accounting only for the Muslim community, not other communities, not other allies, not other progressives. It essentially guaranteed a 99.9% likelihood of the vice president losing the election in Michigan, if 75% of [the community turned out],” Nazarko told the Caller, explaining that they ran numerous mathematical simulations to inform their strategy.

“We ran that simulation 10,000 times, and almost every time that was the case. So that’s how we got the Drive for 75 call to action and idea,” he explained.

As a part of the effort to flip the state, Muslim activist organizations are pushing their community to vote for Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, or even Trump, they told the Daily Caller. Abandon Harris, one of those groups trying to spoil Harris’ election chances, threw its support behind Stein, who also has the backing of some socialist groups in the U.S. due to her anti-capitalist economic positioning.

“We need to be clear about what our goals are, we are not in a position to win the White House. But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan,” Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council Member and self-described socialist, said to cheers at a recent rally for Stein.

A Harris campaign spokesperson denied NBC News’ report that there were concerns over their ability to win Michigan.

“We absolutely are competing to win Michigan,” Harris campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt told NBC News, pointing to the vice president’s recent stops in the state. “We think we will win Michigan.”

The vice president has recently campaigned across key swing states including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin alongside former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.

Alongside Cheney, her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney previously endorsed Harris, though the endorsement might not have the positive effect the campaign is hoping to have, one Michigander told the Caller.

“Here’s the new thing going around, people are saying that, ‘hello, she’s been endorsed by Dick Cheney.’ That tells you everything you need to know about this woman: that her intentions are war,” Vice chair of the 12th Congressional District Republican Committee Stephanie Butler, who is married to a Muslim, told the Caller.

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— Alex Pfeiffer (@__Pfeiffer) October 21, 2024

Trump took to TruthSocial Monday to give a message to Arab and Muslim American voters ahead of the election on Harris’ Middle East policy.

“Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with ‘dumb as a rock’ War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like her father, the man that pushed Bush to ridiculously go to War in the Middle East, also wants to go to War with every Muslim Country known to mankind,” Trump wrote.

“If Kamala gets four more years, the Middle East will spend the next four decades going up in flames, and your kids will be going off to war, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our country’s sake, and for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!” the former president wrote.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

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Biden-Harris Protecting Non-Citizen Votes—DHS Breaks Federal Law!

By ACT For America!

Florida sues Biden admin over alleged refusal to help state purge noncitizens from voter rolls

Adam Shaw | Fox | 10-17-24

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over what it claims is a refusal to verify immigration records so that the Sunshine State can ensure the integrity of its voter rolls and prevent noncitizens from voting.

In a lawsuit, obtained first by Fox News Digital, the state argues that DHS is mandated to respond to an inquiry from state or local governments seeking to verify the immigration status of anyone in their jurisdiction for a purpose authorized by law.

“Because the federal government is refusing to comply with these obligations and frustrating Florida’s ability to maintain the integrity of its elections, Florida files this suit,” the lawsuit says.

Florida says it “has an obligation to maintain accurate and current voter registration records” and also notes the impact of the crisis at the southern border, which brought millions of noncitizens into the U.S.

It argues that it cannot track and maintain immigration information on its own. States can verify status through a DHS program called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. According to the lawsuit, DHS and Florida have an agreement to allow the state to use SAVE to verify immigration and citizenship status for people on the voter registration rolls.

The lawsuit claims that Florida’s Department of State identified a number of individuals for whom it had evidence that they were not citizens, but couldn’t run a search via SAVE as it doesn’t have unique identifiers.

The state says it reached out to DHS’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requesting the verification of those people, but was denied.

“Thus, Florida has identified a subset of individuals for whom it cannot verify citizenship or immigration status through SAVE and for whom DHS refuses to verify citizenship or immigration status through other means,” the state says. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The state is seeking an order saying the refusal to provide Florida with a response is unlawful, a declaration that they are entitled to a response and an order requiring DHS to respond to the inquiry.

“Voting is a right granted to American citizens—not illegal immigrants or other noncitizens. The Biden-Harris administration has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country, and we must ensure that only citizens are on our voter rolls,” Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. “I am taking legal action against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Mayorkas to ensure Florida is able to maintain the integrity of our state’s voter rolls.”

“The Florida Constitution is clear that only citizens can vote in our elections.  Florida is calling on the federal government to dismantle the barriers blocking the states from obtaining critical information needed to prevent non-citizens from voting in our elections,” said Florida Secretary of State, Cord Byrd.  “We are going to prevail in our effort to uphold the law and uphold the Constitution’s guarantee of one citizen, one vote.”

A similar lawsuit was filed by the state of Ohio, requesting access to multiple DHS databases.

It marks the latest in a continued back and forth between GOP-led states and the Biden administration over concerns about noncitizen voting. A number of states have made efforts to remove noncitizen voters from the rolls, but some have fallen foul of the administration.

The Department of Justice has sued both Alabama and Virginia over those states’ efforts to remove noncitizens, arguing that they have violated the Quiet Period Provision, which says that states must complete maintenance no later than 90 days before the election.

In a statement responding to the lawsuit against his state, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin called the lawsuit “politically motivated.”

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Crimes against American Schoolchildren Rise as Illegal Immigration Increases

By Family Research Council

Those who knew and loved Joshua Wilkerson described the 18-year-old as friendly, “solid in his faith,” and eager to help other students in his Houston-area high school. “Joshua had never been in a fight in his life,” said his mother.

That all changed on November 16, 2010.

A fellow student and acquaintance named Hermilo Moralez asked him for a ride home. Police say after they arrived, the 19-year-old illegal immigrant from Belize launched an unprovoked attack on Wilkerson, who had driven Moralez home numerous times in the past. Moralez, a skilled martial artist, punched Wilkerson in the face and “kicked so hard in the stomach that it sent his spleen into his spine, and sliced it in two,” his mother testified to Congress. Moralez beat him with a wooden rod and injured his classmate so extensively that police categorized the injuries as torture. Even Moralez called his assault “very violent,” court records show.

Moralez then tied Wilkerson’s body, drove Wilkerson’s truck to a remote location, and set him on fire. “At one point, Hermilo stated that Joshua kind of ‘melted’ into the ground,” say court documents.

While propounding numerous alibis, the killer tried to blame the victim. “The suspect claims Josh began to come on to him in a sexual manner and that’s how the fight started, but we don’t believe that information is very credible,” said Lt. Onesimo Lopez, a local police officer.

“This was our family’s 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader,” his mother, Laura Wilkerson, testified to the U.S. Senate in 2015.

While her son’s killer has been convicted, sentenced, and will spend decades in U.S. prison, he is far from alone. A growing number of illegal immigrants has committed crimes against U.S. citizens or tried to turn America’s taxpayer-funded public schools into recruiting grounds for transnational criminal organizations such as Tren de Aragua.

A recent example took place in a familiar location: the Loudoun County public schools in Virginia. The school board became infamous after a male student wearing a skirt raped and attempted to sodomize a 15-year-old girl inside a restroom at Stone Bridge High School on May 28, 2021. When her father complained, school board officials had him arrested. They had transferred the teenage perpetrator to another school, where they say he victimized another female student.

The Loudoun County School Board built on his reputation for silencing parents’ concerns at its October 8 meeting, when parents complained about the district allowed a young man with a troubling history to return to school. Last year, police arrested the teenager — reportedly an illegal immigrant with ties to the violent criminal gang MS-13 — for bringing a gun to Blue Ridge Middle School and threatening to kill another student. Once again, when concerned parents spoke out, the board cut their microphones and ruled them out of order, citing the safety and privacy of the illegal immigrant.

“Where’s the protection and the safety for our children who are in school with other children who have [made] known threats, who have been arrested and who are back in the school?” asked a parent, Abbie Platt, at the school board meeting.

Even The Washington Post admits such parental fears are not misplaced. Members of MS-13 have murdered and assaulted numerous students in the nation’s high schools. During his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump said the names of two MS-13 victims: Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, killed by MS-13 in September 2016.

“She used to tell me, ‘Ma, they are taking over the school. It’s like they’re everywhere,’” said Cuevas’ mother, Evelyn Rodriguez.

“From New York to Virginia to Texas, schools in areas racked by MS-13 violence are now struggling with a sobering question. What to do when the gang isn’t just in your community, but in your classrooms?” asked the newspaper.

In addition to crimes, gangs use schools as recruiting grounds for minors, who cannot be tried as adults. “Definitely gang involvement is a real thing in some communities,” testified Sheena Rodriguez of the president of the Alliance for a Safe Texas at a June 4 hearing of the House Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee. “Many,” she said, “have criminal histories, affiliation with gangs, or are actually adults who are potentially infiltrating our communities and schools.”

The problem is only growing, as illegal immigrants have brought between 500,000 and one million students into the U.S. public school system. The surge of unexpected enrollments has depleted local tax bases, overwhelmed school officials, and too often deprived American students of a quality education. Yet America’s uncontrolled border is also claiming innocent American lives.

Sometimes the crimes involve adults who target teenagers. Last December, 23-year-old Rafael Govea Romero, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, stabbed 16-year-old high school cheerleader Lizbeth Medina to death in Edna, Texas. Authorities believe Romero, who was on probation for burglary at the time of his arrest for capital murder, broke into Medina’s apartment for robbery and, when he found the teenager at home, stabbed her in the abdomen. Medina’s mother was unaware of the crime until her daughter did not participate in the Christmas parade with the rest of her squad that afternoon and returned home to find her child’s lacerated body in her bathtub.

“This government continues to fail or even recognize that we have an issue. Americans are dying daily at the hands of criminals that we don’t even know are here,” Wilkerson boldly told U.S. senators. “You’re elected by Americans, not any other country. You should be for Americans.”

No one is certain how often illegal immigrants assault or kill American students. But “one is too many, and it was entirely preventable if the government had been doing its job and enforcing our laws,” Ira Mehlman, media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told The Washington Stand.

“There is also culpability at the local level, because” liberal states and cities advertise themselves as “proud sanctuary jurisdictions and bend over backwards to accommodate illegal aliens rather than cooperate with federal law enforcement on those rare instances when they actually want to remove somebody,” Mehlman told TWS. “Especially under this administration, Mayorkas has essentially said once you are here, unless you’re a truly violent criminal, they are not coming for you. So when ICE issues a detainer request, that ought to be a serious indication to a sanctuary jurisdiction that this poses a serious danger. And yet very often they ignore it.”

Not only do federal officials ignore the problem, critics say, they facilitate it. Wilkerson testified that under policies favored by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, her son’s classmate fit a preferred demographic in American society. “Hermilo Moralez was brought here illegally by his illegal parents when he was 10 years old, so he fit the ‘DREAM’ kid description,” she said. The 2024 Democratic Party platform and Kamala Harris have promised amnesty for DREAMers, as well as “a pathway to citizenship” for the rest of the nation’s illegal immigrant population.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives subsequently impeached the Biden-Harris administration’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, for his failure to control the southern border. But the Democrat-controlled Senate dismissed the charges without a vote.

Liberal schools sometimes respond by punishing American students for speaking out, even in a joking way. School officials gave Christian McGhee — a 16-year-old student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina — a three-day suspension for using the term “illegal alien.” His English teacher had given an assignment to write about an alien, to which he asked, “Like space aliens or illegal aliens without green cards?” When some of his Hispanic fellow students took offense, his teacher allegedly accused him of “racism,” although McGhee did not mention any ethnicity.

On behalf of those targeted by illegal immigrant crime, Wilkerson wants not merely America’s grief but its protection. “I know you will sympathize with our story, but I want more than that. I want you to be angry that America’s borders are wide open. America does not know who is in this country. It is time to put Americans first. Close the borders, figure out who is really here. Keep statistics. Realize that we are at war right here in this country,” Wilkerson testified.

Mehlman said the federal government has robust resources at its disposal, if it wished to use them.

An incoming president should “repeal those policy memos that Mayorkas put out in 2021 essentially making all illegal aliens untouchable by ICE. He basically said unless you meet certain very narrow criteria, you are going to be allowed to stay here,” Mehlman told TWS. “The other thing is, they can go after sanctuary jurisdictions. Under a law passed in 1996 sanctuary jurisdictions are actually outlawed, but nobody ever enforces that law against those jurisdictions that shields illegal aliens and violent criminals.”

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 encoded into federal law (8 U.S. Code §1373) that “a [f]ederal, [s]tate, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.”

“These sanctuary jurisdictions are always looking for federal grant money,” noted Mehlman. “That’s how you enforce it.”

The victims agree that action is overdue. “Sanctuary city policies scream to the criminal element of illegals in this country: ‘Come to our town USA, we’ll protect you from our terrible policemen. We’ll protect you from these tough American laws,’” said Wilkerson.

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” if elected.

“I will outlaw sanctuary cities. They will be over,” the 45th president told a responsive crowd in Greenville, North Carolina, early Monday evening. He pledged to end all migrant flights, which have imported illegal immigrants into 45 U.S. cities, approximately two-thirds of them in Republican-leaning or swing states — including an estimated 326,000 to Florida. “And I will ban all welfare and federal benefits for illegals. I will restore every Trump border policy and immediately expel all illegals who violate our border.”

Experts like Mehlman say these policies will add new layers of protections to help safeguard U.S. citizens, especially young people, from illegal immigrant crime. But those already affected will never be the same.

“Our family is shattered,” Wilkerson testified. “My surviving kids have changed. Everything about us has changed. It’s by the grace of God that in our broken hearts we have a stream of memories of the loving relationship that we had with Joshua.”

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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

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The Government Has Become the ‘FedEx of Children from the Border to Traffickers’: Expert

By Family Research Council

Experts are sounding the alarm on the fact that the sex trafficking of minors has more than tripled under the Biden-Harris administration. “Biden’s border policies have led to an explosion in the forced prostitution of migrants in the U.S.,” wrote The Free Press’s investigative reporter Madeleine Rowley. In fact, added an informant from the nonprofit Shepherd’s Watch, “Nearly all … sex-trafficking rings now are migrant girls,” with a notable explosion of online sex-trafficking ads of women “within the first three months of the border being open.”

During “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” last week, Rowley explained how there’s no doubt the rise in sex trafficking “is directly tied to Biden opening the border.” Criminals are smuggling women and girls “across the border promising them a better life, promising them jobs, only to trick them and force them into prostitution after they have crossed the border.” As Family Research Council President Tony Perkins highlighted, unaccompanied “minors … are entrapped in this” by being handed off by the federal government directly “into the custody of people who are going to abuse them and exploit them.”

According to Rowley’s research, there were roughly 137,000 unaccompanied minors that crossed the border in 2023 alone. “[T]he government is tasked with vetting the sponsors that these children are released to,” she said. While “a lot of the times they’re released to … people that they know,” they’re often “released to what they call ‘category ‘three sponsors’ or ‘unrelated sponsors,’” many of whom are unvetted or the ones doing the trafficking.

It’s “just absolutely shocking and heartbreaking that our government is facilitating the exploitation of women and children,” Perkins sighed. But as guest host Jody Hice explained on Friday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” “This story certainly has been going on for years,” which only makes it that much more shocking as “new details continue to emerge that paint an absolutely heartbreaking picture of the abuse that is taking place.”

“Within the last week,” Breitbart reported, “158 unaccompanied migrant children have been sent across the Rio Grande into the small town of Eagle Pass.” These children range between the ages of five and 17 years old. According to Tara Rodas, a whistleblower who formerly worked for the Department of Health and Human Services, this crisis is not merely being allowed by the government but is being fueled by the government. “[W]hat we now know,” said Rodas, is that this “is government sponsored, taxpayer-funded child trafficking.”

“I can assure you,” she stated, “I never thought I’d be saying that.” Hice agreed, “It’s just absolutely unthinkable.” He went on to note how if it were not for whistleblowers, such as Rodas, exposing these realities, “[W]e would not even be aware of what’s been going on.” Providing further details, Rodas explained how “at the beginning of 2021, the Biden-Harris administration made a call to all federal employees,” asking them to help with the crisis of unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Rodas volunteered to offer a hand.

“I thought I was going to be coloring and doing puzzles with children,” she said. “I’m a Spanish speaker, and I thought I could be that person who would be there to greet the children and, … find out what are their plans about coming to America and living the American dream.” However, “it didn’t take very long for those illusions to evaporate,” Rodas explained, because the “children began to tell us the truth.” What those kids revealed is that many of them did not know who they were being sent to. It became clear, as Rodas described, that they were “lured here under the promise that they’re going to” get rich, only to get thrown into “modern day slavery.”

Through her first-hand experience with these children, Rodas detailed how they had “reported being sexually abused [and] being pimped out by their sponsors” — some of which “are actually gang members” from “violent criminal organizations.” It’s nothing short of “horrific,” she sighed, especially considering that taxpayer dollars are going into “vulnerable children … being shipped to known bad actors.” It’s as if we’ve become “the FedEx of children from the border to traffickers,” she lamented.

“[I]t’s a shocking story,” Rodas contended, and “people need to know about” it. “This is not humanitarian. This isn’t helping the children. They’re in slavery.” And this is why it’s appropriate to call it “government sponsored, taxpayer funded child trafficking,” Hice added, arguing how it explains how “such a horrifying thing has now become a partisan issue.” Rodas agreed, noting that “everybody should want to protect and defend children.”

Ultimately, Rodas argued, “[I]f you’re not in the box of protect and defend children … that puts you outside of all political realms.” This crisis is not a matter of red and blue, she insisted, but “we’re talking about good versus evil.” The problem is that “failed policies and policy makers” are at the heart of this “crisis because they rolled back the ability for people to come across the border,” she described. “They made it simple so that vetting is not being done. And then they opened the floodgates for these children to come across” and be taken to criminals.

It’s “unbelievable,” Hice groaned. In order to stop this crisis from getting worse, Rodas urged, “We need people who are going to put sane policies in place. We need to rescue children, and we need to seriously prosecute criminals.” And we also need people, Hice concluded, who are willing to continue putting a “spotlight on this and … deal with it courageously.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Border Patrol Agents Vow to Quit If Harris Wins

By The Daily Signal

The illegal immigration crisis facing the U.S. has drastically worsened ever since Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed the incumbent administration’s “border czar” in 2021.

Terrorist threats are on the rise, violent migrant gangs are roaming the streets, small towns are being decimated by state-sanctioned immigrant dumpings, American children are being slain by migrants, and migrant children are being sex trafficked by gangs and cartels.

But according to reports, the crisis could deepen further if Harris were to win November’s election.

According to The New York Post, U.S. Border Patrol agents are “threatening” to resign in droves if Harris is elected president. “I’m not doing this sh** again … four years of hell,” one agent said. The Post noted that he is “nowhere near retirement,” but is “absolutely sure” that he would quit if Harris were to win in November. Another agent warned, “Lots of guys who can retire will go. If Trump wins, they’ll stay.”

One agent anticipated that his colleagues with five to 10 years of Border Patrol experience will try to find other jobs, while those who have served at least 20 years will simply walk away. “We will have another exodus just because we will have a bunch of 20-year agents saying ‘peace out,’” he said.

Another agent said that no one wants to work Border Patrol under the Biden-Harris administration because the administration undermines the job. “Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible. They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released, it sucks,” he commented.

Border Patrol has been steadily hemorrhaging agents ever since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Over a quarter of agents, totaling more than 4,000, have quit, leaving the crucial agency with roughly 19,000 employees. On average, more than 1,200 Border Patrol agents have resigned per year under the policies of Biden and his “border czar,” Harris.

The National Border Patrol Council, the largest union representing Border Patrol agents, has been openly critical of Harris’ failure to address the surging border crisis and has warned that, as president, she would continue to do damage.

Late last month, when Harris visited Douglas, Arizona, for a campaign event, she made numerous claims regarding the nation’s southern border and its security, including taking credit for increasing overtime pay for Border Patrol agents. “This couldn’t be further from the truth. As with all things border-related, she was nowhere to be found when we needed her,” the National Border Patrol Council quickly responded.

The council continued, “Vice President Harris has ignored the border problem she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photo op and decides to repeat some of the things the [National Border Patrol Council] has said before. But again, where has she been the last 3-1/2 years?”

When Trump himself visited Arizona on Sunday, the council formally endorsed him. Its president, Brandon Judd, said that Biden and Harris treat the U.S. border as “nothing more than an imaginary line in which crossing it illegally carries no penalty,” adding that the policies of Biden or Harris will make America into a nation “where lawlessness will reign, and where enforcement of laws will become a pastime.”

Trump, however, is “the polar opposite,” Judd said. “He has worked tirelessly and against great opposition to make this country safe, to make our neighborhoods safe, and most importantly, make our children safe,” he continued. Biden and Harris offer only “rhetoric,” the border patrol group president quipped, but “President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has accomplishments.”

Originally published at WashingtonStand.com

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy is a news writer at The Washington Stand. S.A. on X: @pipesmoknpapist.

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Government Accountability Institute Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity

By The Geller Report

It will take an act of God for a free and fair election.

We are under siege by a treasonous regime.

Peter Schweizer: GAI Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity

It’s election season in America, and that means early voting, absentee ballots, and making sure your voter registration is current.

It’s also a test of how well each state maintains its voter rolls, its election systems, and the ways each state assures its elections are conducted and counted fairly.

A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) counts at least fifty threats to election integrity. The report, just out this week, categorizes fifty different threats to election integrity according to whether they concern the influence of “dark money,” lawfare operations, voter fraud, or election fraud. ​The report documents examples of each and offers potential solutions.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers tackle the many ways elections can be rigged and, more importantly, how to make sure that it doesn’t happen.

Many states have been conscientious about cleaning their voter rolls — removing deceased voters, voters who have left the state, voters who are not U.S. citizens but who were registered through their driver’s license applications, and so forth.

States such as Michigan, however, have not been so fastidious, as the GAI report and the Drill Down hosts explain. “We always talk about this because this continues to be a problem in [battleground] states that are poised to matter,” says co-host Eric Eggers. “In Michigan, we’re seeing the number of counties with voter registration rates over 100 percent.”

Eggers wrote a book in 2018 called FRAUD that detailed many of the different types of election rigging and fixing that have taken place in U.S. history. That book, however, was published two years before the 2020 COVID pandemic, and rule changes made by some states that were ostensibly to make voting safer during the pandemic had the effect of making election security much harder to ensure.

GAI’s report covers how those rule changes, which many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election.

“We’re now seeing 53 counties in Michigan with more than 100% registration, which obviously means there are some names on there that don’t belong there,” Eggers says. He notes this isn’t always the fault of local or state election officials. Technically, it is the voter’s responsibility to call up their previous state’s registrar and ask to be removed from their voter rolls. “The book I wrote in 2018 came about because of a report [GAI] did that focused on duplication in voter rolls. We found more than two thousand instances of double voting in 2016 in Florida alone.” That report from 2017 is available on GAI’s website here.

GAI’s new report explains how those rule changes, which in many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. The report divides the risks to our elections into five categories:

  • “Dark money” such as “Zuckerbucks” that is used for public election administration.
  • Lawfare operations that use taxpayer resources to “weaponize the justice system against challengers to incumbents.
  • “Get Out the Vote” operations that use nonprofit status to target voters from a preferred political party.
  • Vote Fraud by people who double-vote, fraudulently vote someone else’s ballot, or vote without being eligible to vote.
  • Election Fraud that seeks to fix elections by illegal activities that take place during the counting or collection of ballots.

Continued reading.

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Pamela Geller 

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Federal, Local Governments Tacitly Aiding Illegal Criminal Gangs

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

The violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has found a new tactic for exploiting the U.S. legal system: recruiting and training minors to commit crimes for them. In New York, for instance, a 2018 “Raise the Age” law eliminates bail for juvenile crimes, leading to an explosion in foreign-gang-related crime committed by minors in New York City. “Never mistake this: that the cartels and gangs — they all understand how American law works. They are experts at this,” warned Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on “Washington Watch” Tuesday.

In recent days, New York City police have arrested 20 minors as young as 11 years old in connection with 50 crimes, but all the offenders are back on the streets — or, perhaps more accurately, in city-run homeless shelters. They “started off … doing some snatches in the parks and stuff, but then it escalated,” Biggs described. “They started doing some strong-arm robberies, and now they’re brandishing weapons. And they’re being so bold about it as to show videos on social media of what they are doing.”

Why so bold? “They understand that in New York … you have lenient prosecutor[s],” said Biggs. “The police officers are making the arrests, but the prosecutors are letting them out. They’re not making the charges.” On top of over-lenient laws, Soros-funded prosecutors simply refuse to prosecute some small crimes in the name of racial justice. In Manhattan, where most of these crimes have taken place, the local prosecutor’s office is overseen by District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).

The lack of prosecution “provides an additional incentive to go ahead and commit these crimes,” argued Biggs. “Let’s just face it: if the border was secure, they wouldn’t be here in the first place. But they are here, and those people … that should be charging them are failing.”

The law is a teacher. And the lesson these school-age foreigners are learning is that there are no consequences for breaking laws in the United States. So, their consciences grow more callous, and their misconduct grows more flagrant. And the only way to stop this vicious cycle is for local governments to effectively enforce laws that uphold civic order and justice — the whole purpose of government (Romans 13:3-4).

These delinquent youth are part of a subset of the Tren de Aragua gang calling itself “Los Diablos de la 42” (The Devils of 42nd Street). Forty-Second Street cuts straight across midtown Manhattan, running right by Times Square, Grand Central Station, the United Nations, the Chrysler Building, Madame Tussauds, the Port Authority offices, and the flagship branch of the New York City Library. This contrasts with the typical image of an urban gang operating in an inner-city slum, which maintains control because the police dare not visit that part of town. New York City has a gang of teen criminals committing increasingly violent crimes in important, highly visible tourist destinations, and it can’t or won’t do anything about it.

“These are migrant young people that have come to this country, that are here in city-funded shelters,” observed Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “They’re exploiting our lax judicial system, our criminal justice system.”

New York City is not the only American city where Tren de Aragua is terrorizing U.S. citizens. The “very dangerous gang” is doing “the same thing in Aurora, Colorado, El Paso, and Chicago,” said Biggs. “They understand very clearly that the prosecutors are not going to prosecute” in certain progressive jurisdictions, and this has allowed them to “emerge as a real criminal organization.”

When government officials refuse to prosecute crime, “local communities continue to pay the price,” Perkins lamented. In Aurora, Colo., Tren de Aragua has reportedly taken over whole apartment complexes, prompting some residents to leave. Recently released footage shows gang members beating one apartment complex employee. Biggs said immigration remains a top concern for Arizona voters, right next to the economy, “because we are providing all of these benefits to illegal aliens, but we’re leaving the American people to struggle.”

That remark broaches another layer of governmental failure, which is the federal government’s role in abetting these gangs of criminals, who aren’t even legally in the U.S. to begin with. Tren de Aragua and other foreign criminal organizations are “actually communicating with one another … on their government-funded cell phones that have been given to them as they come into the country,” Perkins explains. “Americans have to wake up and realize this is insanity. We’re funding people who come into this country illegally to terrorize American citizens.”

The Biden-Harris administration has effectively entered into “a tacit partnership” with the cartels, Biggs agreed. “They’re giving phones. They’re giving housing. They’re giving medical care.”

On top of that, “We transport them. We are the logistics arm of the cartels,” he continued. “Pre-Biden [administration], if a cartel had been contracted to bring somebody and smuggle them into the country, they actually had to get them to the location. That doesn’t happen anymore. They just have to get them to the border. Because if you get them to the border, this administration will grant them parole status … and we will transport them wherever they want to go.”

This border transportation pipeline is entirely separate from the CBP One app, which the Department of Homeland Security created without congressional authorization, Biggs observed. The app offers free air flights into the U.S. to residents of four troubled nations — without even the hassle of securing transport to the southern border. The four nations so favored by the Biden administration are Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. By the way, does anyone want to guess how a Venezuelan gang managed to slip into the United States?

All this misbehavior on the part of the Biden administration raises a question Biggs has been asking for years: “Where are they getting the money?” The answer Biggs encountered repeatedly was that the money was “coming from FEMA,” he said. “And so we’ve known about this for quite some time.”

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent more than $1 billion “to resettle migrants into this country,” said Perkins, “yet now they’re crying, ‘Congress has to come back because we’re out of money [for hurricane relief].’ … It’s not a lack of resources. It is [a lack of] competency.”

None of this federal malfeasance is what the American people want or what their elected representatives approved. In fact, the Biden-Harris administration is “violating the law every time they grant a parole status, because they’re doing it on a collective basis, and that law was meant to provide on a singular, case-by-case, unique basis,” Biggs argued.

For ideological, political, or strategic reasons, the Biden-Harris administration has pursued a policy of importing illegal immigrants as fast as possible, without legislative authority and without performing what should be commonsense vetting. “They’ve released these people into the country — literally millions of people,” said Biggs. “And, of those millions, hundreds of thousands of them are criminals.”

Is it really too much to ask the federal government to not help violent criminals enter the country, who will exploit America’s justice system and terrorize America’s citizens?

In a recent exchange with vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance (R), ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz tried to minimize the issue of violent crime committed by gangs of illegal immigrants, saying, “I know exactly what happened. I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.” Vance responded, “Only, Martha? Do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes were taken over by Venezuelan gangs …? Americans are so fed up with what’s going on, and they have every right to be.”

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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‘What Are You Talking About?’: Harris Confuses, Shouts Down Host during Fox News Interview

By Family Research Council

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to cram a stream of anti-Trump allegations into her Fox News interview with Bret Baier, frequently talking over him before concluding the interview in a litany of shouted claims about how former President Donald Trump presented an existential threat to democracy. Meanwhile, she dodged questions about taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prison inmates and illegal immigrants, amnesty for potentially tens of millions of illegal immigrants, how she would differ from Joe Biden, and whether her open borders policies contributed to the deaths of numerous young American women.

Harris attempted to brush off Baier’s efforts to receive an answer to his questions by implying that he secretly knew she was right, at one point leading the top-rated news anchor to reply, “What are you talking about?”

News consumers hoping to get a concrete idea of what a President Harris would do in office were sorely disappointed on issue after issue. “Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?” asked Baier at one point.

“I will follow the law,” she replied — an answer she gave to numerous policy questions, ignoring the fact that presidents pass, interpret, and enforce the law.

She later claimed the controversial policy of inflicting transgender procedures on federal prisoners is “a law that Donald Trump actually followed.” The Trump administration actually watered down the Obama-Biden administration’s interpretation of federal law which called transgender “transitions” for prisoners “necessary.” The first transgender surgery carried out in federal prisons took place in 2022, during the Biden-Harris administration.

“Kamala Harris has forcefully advocated for transgender inmates to be able to get transition surgeries, President Trump never has,” clarified Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.

In fact, candidate Harris bragged to a transgender pressure group that, as California attorney general, “I pushed for that policy” to assure inmates had “access to the medical care that they desired,” adding she may have been the “first in the country” to do so.

On Wednesday, the vice president brushed aside the Trump campaign’s attempts to distance itself from the prison procedures.

“Well, you know what? You got to take responsible [sic] for what happened in your administration,” declared Harris.

Observers predicted the line would come back to haunt the incumbent vice president, who has presided over 40-year-high inflation rates, long periods of wage deterioration, historically unprecedented numbers of illegal border crossings, the invasion of U.S. apartment buildings by transnational criminal gangs, and record-breaking numbers of American deaths from drug overdoses.

Harris’s eyes darted back-and-forth when asked, “When did you first notice Joe Biden’s mental faculties were diminished?”

“He has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done,” Harris replied.

“Joe Biden is not on the ballot,” she added. At one point, Harris responded, “Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency.” But she failed to specify a single policy she would change or to list any mistake of the hyphenated Biden-Harris administration.

The two also clashed over the open border policies enacted during Harris’s tenure in office, which kicked off with more than 90 executive actions undoing Trump administration border security policies. An unprecedented wave of more than 10 million illegal border crossings followed, in addition to new amnesty and “parole” programs, such as the one that placed tens of thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.

“Looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration?” asked Baier.

Harris referenced two pieces of legislation that bookend the Biden-Harris administration, without any mention of the years in between. In an answer that nearly mirrored a response she gave to Charlemagne Tha God earlier in the week, Harris noted that among her administration’s first actions was the introduction of a mass amnesty bill. The administration supported the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which would have granted amnesty to at least 11 million illegal immigrants over eight years. Despite Democratic control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, the bill never came up for a vote.

She also alleged that Donald Trump bears responsibility for the border situation for opposing a bill negotiated by Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), which would have allowed 1.8 million illegal immigrants into the country each year, among other proposals that border hawks disliked.

Baier repeatedly attempted to turn the interview back to Harris, her record, and her policies. He noted that among the six million or more illegal immigrants released into the U.S. homeland by the Biden-Harris administration were those who assaulted and killed U.S. citizens Jocelyn Gary, Rachel Moran, and Laken Riley. When Baier asked if Harris owed their families an apology, she replied she felt “sorry for their loss.”

During a Fox News town hall with Harris Faulkner, Trump laid down a radically different immigration plan. “We’re going to end all sanctuary cities in the United States, and we’re going to go back to normalcy, and we’re going to have law and order,” he said, to massive cheers. The former president has also promised a mass deportation of illegal immigrants, a policy supported by the majority of Americans.

Baier kept up the pressure, citing a recent poll which found that 79% of Americans believe the nation is on the wrong track, and “that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president,” said Baier. “If you’re turning the page, you’ve been in office for three and a half years.”

“And Trump has been running for office,” replied Harris, echoing her response that she had “never been to Europe” during her disastrous interview with NBC News host Lester Holt.

When Baier pushed Harris over her responsibility for her actions, she replied, “You and I both know what I’m talking about. You and I both know what I’m talking about.”

“I actually don’t. What are you talking about?” replied an inquisitive Baier.

He later asked Harris about the eight out of 10 Americans who believe Biden-Harris administration policies have sapped American strength. “Are they misguided? Are they stupid?” asked Baier.

“No, God, I would never say that,” replied Harris, apparently taking the Lord’s Name in vain.

Harris then accused Donald Trump of “suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.” Harris Faulkner asked Trump about that allegation earlier in the day. “I’m not threatening anybody,” he replied, noting that he has “been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. It’s called weaponization of government.”

As the interview came to a conclusion, Harris began yelling, waving her hands, and screaming at Baier while insisting it is Donald Trump who is “misguided,” “unstable,” and “mentally not stable.” Harris filibustered Baier, refusing to yield as he tried to redirect her to the original topic. “I have a lot more to say” about Donald Trump, Harris complained.

Baier expressed his regret that the interview lacked substance, to which Harris replied “I invite everyone to go” to her campaign website.

“I tried to redirect numerous times without interrupting too much,” said Baier after the interview. He also noted the Harris campaign tried to shorten the interview significantly.

“We were supposed to start at 5 p.m. This was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, ‘Well, maybe 20,’ so it was already getting whittled down. And then the vice president showed up about 5:15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6 o’clock” hour. “I had a lot of other questions,” Baier added.

Baier also revealed that Harris’s campaign aides pushed him hard to “wrap,” or end the interview early. “I’m talking, like four people, waving their hands like, ‘It’s gotta stop!’” he said.

The interview went so poorly that shortly after its conclusion Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance advised his “Democratic friends: maybe you should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden.” The Trump War Room retweeted the entire interview with the message, “Our newest ad just dropped.”

“Kamala’s not used to real interviews. It shows,” said Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). “She is melting under the spotlight,” said Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump and founder of America First Legal.

Democrats and members of the liberal media tried to defend Harris’s performance. Harris campaign senior adviser and former adviser to Barack Obama David Plouffe called the exchange “an ambush.” MSNBC hostess Mika Brzezinski posted on X that “@KamalaHarris did a great job” during “a rude and misleading interview.” Brzezinski also accused Baier of “performing for an audience of one,” implying Baier tailored his questions to please Trump — although MSNBC hosts have reported receiving texts from Democratic White House officials live on the air.

CNN’s Brian Stelter predicted, “A lot of viewers are going to come away saying, ‘Wow, she’s willing to do that. That’s a sign of toughness and strength.’” The host of “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer, agreed with Stelter that Harris’s performance was “impressive indeed.”

Media headlines repeatedly referred to the interview as “testy.”

“It was a little tense,” Baier told Sean Hannity, adding the video — which showed Harris pausing, stuttering, and looking around frantically at times — was unedited. “I think she had a mission,” said Baier. She wanted to have a viral moment … and I think she might have gotten that.”

Harris, who has attempted to pitch her candidacy to the relatively narrow slither of Never Trump Republicans who lined up behind former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the primaries, has also discussed interviewing on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

“Maybe she’ll come back,” said Baier. “I don’t know whether she will or not, but I hope she does.”

“I think I understand why they don’t want tough interviews, and this will probably be the last one,” replied Hannity.

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Ben Johnson

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

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78% of Americans Barely Surviving—We Won’t Survive Another Year

By ACT For America!

As Americans continue to feel the relentless grip of inflation, it’s hard to ignore its toll on everyday life. Inflation has surged another 2.1% since our June 2024 report, reaching 21.1%. Yet, the Biden-Harris administration seems to turn a blind eye to the very people it claims to support.

The fact is that 78% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck, struggling under the weight of rising prices.

Inflation under Trump was a mere 1.4%, but by the end of Biden’s first year in office, it had spiked to 7.1%, a four-decade high—and the trajectory hasn’t slowed since.

Two-thirds of all Americans have had to cut spending, leading to the recession; nearly half have been forced to dip into retirement savings to survive, and they are just one unplanned bill away from personal catastrophe.

The root causes of this economic pain are glaringly clear.

Housing affordability has plummeted, with 63% of Americans unable to buy a home or even afford rent due to skyrocketing prices and soaring interest rates. These inflated housing costs are fueled by a severe shortage of homes, driven entirely by the unmitigated influx of over 20+ million illegal immigrants, placing further strain on an already overwhelmed market. The prime rate has climbed from 3.25% in March 2020 to an astronomical 8.5% in 2024, making homeownership a distant dream for millions beyond the shortages.

To make matters worse, 87% of these undocumented individuals live entirely on government subsidies—at the expense of hardworking Americans who are struggling to pay their bills. Meanwhile, citizens are forced to drain their savings to cover the ever-increasing burden of Bidenflation.

The picture isn’t any better at the gas pump. Gas prices have surged from a national average of $3.14 in December 2020 to $5.26 in April 2024, now at around $4.57. This is a direct consequence of the administration’s policies, particularly its war on oil and gas, which reversed Trump’s historic achievement of energy independence and created artificial supply constraints.

The Harris campaign promotes its imaginary “opportunity economy,” advocating for raising taxes on the middle and upper classes to redistribute wealth to the bottom. These unaffordable policies have directly led to our economic decline under her current administration.

Who is gaining opportunities in the Biden-Harris economy now? Only the top 1% benefit because they have the economic flexibility to move their money around, while the rest of America either struggles or is hunkering down, waiting for opportunities to surface in a better environment.

The current economic environment feels eerily reminiscent of the Obama era, when Main Street, America, became a ghost town with small businesses boarded up. This was deemed “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”

Under similar conditions, Main Street faces a new wave of hardships as families and small businesses struggle to stay afloat.

Under Trump, all Americans benefited from policies that boosted growth and lifted wages. The stark contrast in economic outcomes under the current administration is undeniable.

Biden and Harris have consistently advocated for policies that hurt the very people they claim to champion, instead creating an economy where survival, not prosperity, is the new normal.

Only proven leadership can turn this ship around, and it’s up to Americans to ensure they vote for a future where the dream of prosperity is still alive for EVERY AMERICAN.

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