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Afghan National in U.S. Plotted ISIS Terror Attack on Election Day

October 12, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Immigration, Iranian influence, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted an Afghan national living in Oklahoma City “for conspiring to conduct an Election Day terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).” Along with his wife’s juvenile brother, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi plotted to attack “large gatherings of people” and “die as martyrs.”

The FBI foiled the plot with a months-long sting operation, according to Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.). They arrested Tawhedi and his co-conspirator after they purchased two AK-47 rifles, magazines, and ammunition from a “confidential human source” and “other FBI assets.”

The good news is that U.S. law enforcement foiled a potentially deadly and disruptive terrorist plot. The bad news is that the episode shows “just how vulnerable we are for attack,” said Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) on Wednesday’s “Washington Watch.”

Election Vulnerability

A terrorist attack on Election Day would harm America far beyond any lives taken in the attack. It would infect our civic institutions with fear, further eroding social trust and public confidence in our elections.

As necessary as ballot security is for free and fair elections, voter security is even more fundamental. Voters who feel unsafe or intimidated at polling places may refrain from voting or change their votes, undermining the ability of elections to accurately record the will of the people. This is the reason behind laws requiring secret ballots or laws prohibiting certain campaign activities too close to a polling location.

If Islamist terrorists start attacking polling locations on Election Day, how many American voters will become more nervous about waiting in line to vote — as sitting targets? “‘Vulnerable’ is a key word,” agreed Family Research Council Action President Jody Hice. “Underline that, highlight it, and circle it.”

The ugly truth is that the U.S. government possibly could have prevented Tawhedi from forming this would-be terrorist plot in the first place. Tawhedi reportedly “entered the United States in 2021 under a special visa,” observed Hice, “which again underscores the Biden-Harris administration’s repeated failures to manage the entire immigration vetting process.”

Botched Withdrawal

In 2021, the Biden-Harris administration determined that, come hell or high water, they would remove all American troops from Afghanistan by an arbitrary and unfeasible date. This decision, made against the advice of senior military officials, effectively abandoned the country’s fledgling democratic government — not to mention the nation’s women — to the cruel mercy of the Taliban, a band of Islamist extremists who had previously sheltered al-Qaeda training camps.

America’s chaotic withdrawal left pro-American Afghans hanging in the wind. The Taliban would surely hunt down and kill men who served as guides for U.S. troops, for instance, or Christians. So some Afghans legitimately qualified for political asylum in America.

But, to meet the previously determined, arbitrary deadline for the evacuation of U.S. troops, the U.S. State Department had neither time nor manpower to either vet or evacuate Afghans in need of U.S. asylum. Several anecdotes suggest that the State Department provided “little to no help of any consequence” to congressmen and private citizens striving to evacuate Afghans, as Hice, then a congressman, recalled his own experience.

The U.S. State Department did grant special visas to a number of people flown out of Afghanistan. But these flights were loaded hastily and without adequate vetting. In fact, “because of the debacle of the way that this country withdrew and then the lack of vetting that took place,” the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General said the “process [was] ripe for people to fall through the cracks,” explained Brecheen. “So you’ve had heightened numbers of people with this special visa,” but some of them may have come to the U.S. with bad intentions.

Some people who should have been evacuated were left behind or stranded in refugee camps in other countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Meanwhile, some people received visas and boarded flights who had no basis to claim asylum in the U.S. By the end of the evacuation process, the Taliban controlled the airport where refugee flights boarded, which means they controlled who could or couldn’t board the flights. Tawhedi’s is an obvious case in which the system failed; Brecheen’s office is chasing down how he got a visa and what kind, but they have not yet received an answer.

Border Vulnerability

Boarding special evacuation flights from Afghanistan is not the only way that would-be terrorists with harmful intentions can make their way into America. “What happened with Afghanistan has shown the American people — in addition to what’s coming across the southern border — just how vulnerable we are for attack,” said Brecheen.

According to data released late last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has on its docket more than 660,000 illegal immigrants with a criminal history. This includes more than 400,000 convicted criminals and more than 200,000 with pending criminal charges who are no longer in ICE custody. These numbers include not only Central Americans fleeing crime and poverty in their home countries, but people from all over the world. Just last week, law enforcement agents apprehended 40 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and India at the southern border. Earlier this year, DHS discovered that over 400 illegal immigrants had been smuggled into the country through an ISIS-affiliated network, and the whereabouts of 50 remain unknown.

Proponents of illegal immigration — words that shouldn’t even belong together — like to claim that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. Setting aside the fact that illegally entering the country is itself a crime, this claim misses two key points. First, every crime committed by an illegal immigrant in the U.S. is one the government could have prevented by barring that individual from entering the country — something that should at the very least be done for individuals with a violent criminal history.

Second, it only takes one bad actor, with the right plan, resources, and execution, to inflict devastation. It took years for the FBI to detect Tawhedi’s plot and then more months to catch him. How many other would-be terrorists are on the loose in America? And how many of them are law enforcement agencies able to track and capture?

In some nations around the world, violence and intimidation in elections are common, even expected — especially those with minimal history of fair and free elections. When America extends an unconditional invitation to residents of those countries to enter our country, we run the risk of elections in our country resembling the elections in theirs (it doesn’t take a voter registration card to intimidate poll-goers). This is obviously not in the best interest of America.

This is not to say that all immigrants are bad for America and our tradition of popular election, nor that everyone in foreign nations opposes free and fair elections. Rather, it suggests that America should discriminate between immigrants — not based upon any unreasonable categories, but based upon their goodwill toward our country and their willingness to abide by our laws. If an immigrant is glad to join American society, then America should be glad to have him. But if an immigrant hates America and contemplates violence against our people or our institutions, we shouldn’t let him into our country.

This should be common sense. And it is roughly what our current immigration law tries to achieve. Alas, the Biden-Harris administration has ignored that law and unwisely pursued a policy of allowing the maximum number of immigrants into our country, regardless of their intentions. This policy will not end well, and an ISIS terror plot in Oklahoma City on Election Day — though foiled, fortunately — is only the beginning.

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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

October 10, 2024/in Communism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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

Biden-Harris Violate Border Law: DHS Defies Federal DNA Fingerprint Act!

October 10, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Election Fraud, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism/by ACT For America!

Whistleblowers Reveal Biden-Harris DHS’s Alarming Refusal to Collect DNA from Millions of Migrants

In a shocking revelation, whistleblowers have accused the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of refusing to collect DNA from millions of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, directly violating federal law. The allegations, brought to light through a letter signed by more than two dozen Republicans in Congress, point to a blatant disregard of the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005, which mandates federal agencies to collect DNA samples from foreign nationals detained by the government.

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This law was reinforced under the Trump administration in 2020, but according to whistleblowers, the current administration has lawlessly suspended federal enforcement in the Harris “decriminalization” effort, creating a public safety nightmare!

Refusal to Collect DNA: only 16% of the 1.9 million migrants encountered in 2021 had their DNA collected and by 2022, this figure rose only slightly to 37%. As of 2023, the numbers remain equally dismal, with DNA collected from just 36% of 2.3 million individuals despite ballooning numbers of migrants entering the U.S.

Refusal to Collect Fingerprints: In addition to the failure in DNA collection, whistleblowers have raised concerns about the lack of comprehensive fingerprinting among migrants detained at the border. According to federal guidelines, the U.S. government must collect biometric data, including fingerprints, from non-citizens during the border enforcement process. Fingerprinting is crucial in identifying individuals with criminal records or prior deportation orders, enabling law enforcement to track repeat offenders or criminals more effectively. However, whistleblowers report that, under the Biden-Harris administration, the collection of fingerprints has been inconsistently applied or delayed, further weakening the security protocols at the border. Without proper enforcement of fingerprinting procedures, individuals who could pose significant risks may continue to slip through the cracks of the system unnoticed.

The ramifications of this refusal are not merely bureaucratic—they are tragically fatal.Among the most horrifying cases linked to this failure is the story of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran gang member who allegedly raped and murdered Rachel Morin, an American citizen, and committed other violent crimes. Martinez-Hernandez had been apprehended by border patrol agents three separate times in early 2023, but DNA was never collected during those encounters. He evaded detection entirely on his fourth illegal crossing, ultimately leading to devastating consequences.

Had the DHS followed federal law, whistleblowers argue, Martinez-Hernandez’s DNA would have been logged in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), potentially preventing these heinous acts.Whistleblower accounts suggest that DHS’s refusal to comply with DNA collection requirements is tied to the administration’s broader failure to address the border crisis effectively. Over 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants have been recorded in just three and a half years, with another 2 million having crossed the border undetected.

Perhaps even more troubling is the retaliation faced by whistleblowers who exposed these violations. According to the letter sent by Republican lawmakers, whistleblowers such as Mr. Jones, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Wynn have faced severe consequences for speaking out, including the loss of retirement benefits after 30 years of service. Some whistleblowers have even alleged that DHS officials within the Biden-Harris administration have made violent threats against them, aiming to “bankrupt [them], make [them] quit, die, or kill [themselves].”

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

October 6, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Election Fraud, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

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

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

By Chris Matthews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[ … ]

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

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

State Unauthorized migrant population Percent increase since 2021 Rank

Georgia 45,747 401% 7

North Carolina 32,681 446% 9

Pennsylvania 25,721 241% 11

Arizona 24,563 734% 13

Nevada 15,931 562% 22

Michigan 13,162 775% 26

Wisconsin 10,768 467% 28

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Pamela Geller

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

October 4, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Judicial Watch

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

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

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

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

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ROOKE: Four Horsemen Of Harris’s Campaign Apocalypse Have Arrived

October 2, 2024/in Chinese influence, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

Vice President Kamala Harris is experiencing what could be the end of her campaign as four major issues converge simultaneously.

It’s not hyperbole that Harris needs an easy October politically if she wants to win the White House. The race between her and former President Donald Trump is so close that any disruption could result in a last-minute vote surge. Unfortunately for Harris, she is staring down four issues that will be a disaster for her campaign as Nov. 5 approaches.

The least discussed but most important problem facing Harris (and the rest of the country) is the longshoreman port strike that started Oct. 1. It’s likely Americans are just realizing that negotiations that have been going on for months between United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are at an impasse. The promised strike started Tuesday, and workers have vowed to hold out until their wage and automation protection demands are met.

In just a few days, a strike at our ports can impact supply chains & consumer prices. Where is our President. We have urged him to intervene to prevent this looming disaster. pic.twitter.com/8pyQeXLwRk

— Office of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (@RepMalliotakis) September 27, 2024

Already, parking lots at major retailers are filled with cars as Americans prepare for massive disruptions to supply chains and a rapid increase in inflationary prices. While Harris can count on the media to demonize these workers as selfish, greedy people looking for a payout, what they aren’t willing to tell the American people is that none of this would be an issue if the Biden-Harris administration had protected American manufacturing so that we didn’t have to rely on foreign countries (who control our docks) to make the products we use every day and longshoremen to unload these products from the docks.

Harris is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. If the Biden-Harris administration does not weigh in on the strike, she might win political points with union workers, but she will have lost the vote of the American family. Should the Biden-Harris administration force port workers back to work as they did with the rail strike, it may negate some economic damage. The harm will still be done, however: Americans should still brace for a pretty hefty economic impact, and Harris should expect blue-collar workers not to show up to vote for her in November.

Note to voters: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got the PRO (Union) Act stripped from Build Back Better. They also broke a Rail Strike by OUTLAWING it! They are blatantly anti worker. https://t.co/fcquOKQ36s

— Robert (Durden) (@realrobdurden) August 5, 2024

Either way, the American taxpayer will bear the cost of this fight after four years of Democrat policies causing almost unrelenting inflation that erased the purchasing power of our dollar.

Harris also faces a humanitarian tragedy in the Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee and parts of Georgia as the effects of Hurricane Helene continue to unfold. The optics here are terrible. President Joe Biden told Americans that the federal government and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had no more support to give the affected areas because they pre-planned a package. Biden and Harris, however, were slow to acknowledge the damage being done by Helene, and neither of them have visited the areas to appear at least a little bit concerned.

This woman has family trapped in Spruce Pine, North Carolina for 4 days… She just called out Biden and Harris live on NBC: pic.twitter.com/FFT11nuOPM

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 1, 2024

Staged photo ops of Harris sitting at command centers in DC aren’t going to be enough. The people on the ground are complaining about the lack of state and federal support. Thousands of people are stuck in their homes with no running water, food, medicine or way out of the disaster — that’s if the flooding and mudslides didn’t annihilate their homes. The death toll will continue to rise, and it seems like this disaster didn’t become an issue for Harris until Trump mentioned it in his campaign speech. Whether this is true or not doesn’t really matter. What matters is that people on the ground feel this way, and Trump is the only candidate to fly to Georgia with supplies and meet with emergency crews for an update on the devastation.

NC resident has a message: the government is not coming to save you, it’s up to all of us to help save each other.

I find this to be devastating because the amount of money our government God knows where for God knows what reason is obscene. But when it comes down to helping… pic.twitter.com/aNsJ5nzYgG

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) October 1, 2024

For these voters, the question will be: Where was Harris when we needed her? The answer is that Harris was at a California fundraiser securing cash for her campaign. Harris can only hope the media will help Americans memory-hole her lack of action. Without this safety net, the appearance of callous indifference will turn voters off.

Additionally, immigration continues to be a thorn in Harris’s side. It’s a product of her own making, so she shouldn’t be shocked that it’s looming over her campaign. Still, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) letter sent to Republican Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales in late September states that as of July 21, 662,566 illegal immigrants with criminal histories were on ICE’s national docket, with 425,431 convicted criminals not detained. This list includes 13,099 criminally convicted murderers, 2,521 kidnappers, 9,461 sex offenders (not involving assault or commercialized sex), 15,811 sexual assault offenders and 2,200 sex traffickers.

As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket—13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS!

Americans deserve to be SAFE in our own communities. pic.twitter.com/fIoCAduJ9M

— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) September 27, 2024

The ICE letter is merely a glimpse of the people who come across the southern border and makes Trump’s campaign statements about foreign countries opening their prisons and mental institutions and sending these people to America ring true. Harris can’t escape from the fact that Biden put her in charge of the “root causes of migration” or that she was dubbed the “Border Czar.” She is now synonymous with open border policies that are wreaking havoc in our country.

“It’s a jaw dropper to say the least” — Fox’s @BillMelugin_ on new ICE data showing huge number of border migrants with convictions pic.twitter.com/mxe2ZG2p4t

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) September 27, 2024

And all of this is coming at the worst time for her. Not only does she have just over a month until the Nov. 5 election, but her vice presidential pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is set to debate Trump’s pick, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Tuesday night. Walz will have to answer for all of these issues. I expect Vance to bring up the longshoremen strike, the Biden-Harris disastrous response to Hurricane Helene and Harris’s open border policies.

.@Tim_Walz, you ready for tomorrow pal? pic.twitter.com/3Vt8yJ1Iws

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 30, 2024

While the VP debate has done little to move the needle for presidential campaigns in the past, this year could be different. The two assassination attempts on Trump’s life give new meaning to the duties of the vice president should something happen to the president. Vance and Walz are not just interviewing with the American people for the supporting role. They are trying to prove that should anything happen to Trump or Harris, they are more than capable of taking charge of the country.

Harris can’t afford for this debate to go badly for Walz; in the same way, it would be a disaster should the longshoremen strike implode, the victims of Hurricane Helene speak out against her and the effects of illegal immigration continue to be a problem. Her campaign needs an easy October, but it’s looking like she’s riding into Revelation.

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

October 1, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Taxes, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

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

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

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

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

Screenshot from USA Spending.gov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ICE Report: Border Czar Kamala Let 663,000 Illegals Who Are Convicted Criminals Into US, 13,000 Illegals Convicted of Murder, 16,000 Convicted for Rape

September 28, 2024/in Communism, Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Election Fraud, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Remember Kamala’s slogan, ”the border is secure.”

Who in their right mind would vote for these treasonous savages?

Arm yourselves.

Trump was right, hostile nations are emptying their prisons and dumping them here.

647,431 Total Illegal Aliens Wanted by ICE:

425,431 Illegal Aliens Guilty of Homicide, Violent Crimes, Sexual Assaults Against Women and Minors Roaming Free!
- 13,099 Convicted for Homicide
- 15,811 Convicted of Sexual Assault
222,000 Illegal Aliens Pending Criminal Charges Roaming Free!
- 1,900 Pending Homicide Charges
- 4,259 Pending Sexual Assault Charges

Harris-Biden are flying them in.

WATCH: TRUMP: “There’s no greater act of disloyalty than to extinguish the sovereignty of your own nation”

No matter your politics, these new numbers are shocking. Of the 7 million migrants that ICE released while their cases are being processed, 663,000 have criminal histories, 13,000 were convicted of homicide, 16,000 of sexual assault, and 1,845 face homicide charges.

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Christopher Tomlinson: ‘Trump Is Right. Mass Migration HAS Destroyed Paris and London’

September 28, 2024/in Communism, Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

Many other cities all over Europe are not far behind. The objective on the part of the European elites is to sow chaos they can exploit to justify the imposition of authoritarian regimes, which will, of course, be favorable toward Sharia.

Trump Is Right. Mass Migration HAS Destroyed Paris and London

by Christopher Tomlinson, National Pulse, September 24, 2024:

President Donald J. Trump recently stated that migrants had destroyed the cities of London and Paris. He’s right.

“Look what’s happened in London, look what’s happening in Paris,” Trump said to the crowd while endorsing a plan that could see large-scale deportations of illegals that have come into the United States under the Biden-Harris regime.

Trump correctly asserts that mass migration, particularly illegal migration, has radically transformed both of these once-gleaming international destinations.

TOUR DE FARCE.

Paris has become a hub for illegals, and tent encampments are not uncommon, full of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of illegals and asylum seekers. Of those, some are underage Moroccans who engage in petty theft and drug-related crime. In 2018, Paris police arrested 1552 Moroccan migrant minors but only managed to deport six of them.

Underage Africans have also been forced to work as “soldiers” for drug gangs in Paris and elsewhere in Europe.

Migrants are vastly overrepresented in crime in Paris. In 2023, 30 out of 97 rapes on the streets of the capital were actually solved. Among those arrested, 77 percent were foreigners. Even President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that around half of the crime in Paris is committed by foreigners….

LONDON FALLING.

The effect of mass migration on London is even more stark than in Paris. Census data shows that native white British people now make up just 36.8 percent of the city’s population; by contrast, white British made up just over 97 percent of the city’s population in 1961….

Mass migration has also brought crimes not seen previously in the British capital, like acid attacks, with 107 such incidents seen in 2022. Machete assaults have also become more common, though they are included in statistics on overall knife crime….

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Critically Thinking about Immigration

September 27, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues, Social Media, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by John Droz, Jr.

I’ve avoided writing about the U.S. immigration crisis for two reasons:

fully explaining what is going on would take a very long article, and
the whole topic is extremely depressing.

That said, I’ll attempt an abbreviated version, and bite the bullet for the country.

Immigration Observation #1 —

Let’s start by focusing on just one key aspect of immigration, the supposed justification that we are allowing mass immigration to help disadvantaged people…

I’ll let someone else do the talking:

It amazing to see how separating the wheat from the chaff, and critically thinking about some of our most problematic societal issues, can expose bogus claims.

Immigration Observation #2 —

Let’s try to put US immigration during the Biden-Harris regime into perspective (Note: the data below comes from multiple sources, like here.):

NO ONE KNOWS how many immigrants entered the US in the last four years.

Experts estimate between 10 and 20 million people.

NO ONE KNOWS how many of these immigrants were NOT real hardship cases.

Experts estimate between 25% to 30% people — 3 to 7 million people.

NO ONE KNOWS what happened to many of the migrant children.

Experts estimate 325,000± children are lost (e.g., being sex trafficked)

NO ONE KNOWS how many of these immigrants are hardened criminals.

Experts estimate 100,000± people.

NO ONE KNOWS how many of these immigrants are drug dealers.

Experts estimate 50,000± people.

NO ONE KNOWS how many of these immigrants are terrorists.

Experts estimate 10,000± people.

NO ONE KNOWS how many of these immigrants are spies.

Experts estimate 5,000± people.

NO ONE KNOWS where most of these immigrants are now — esp. the bad actors.

NO ONE KNOWS the cost of allowing all these unscreened, undocumented foreign nationals into the country — but it will easily be many Billions of taxpayer dollars.

Immigration Observation #3 —

Why is it that no one knows any of this vital information? Two primary reasons:

1 – There are a huge unknown number of “getaways” — i.e., foreign nationals who successfully evade any processing. A high percentage of these are bad guys (terrorists, spies, drug dealers, hardened criminals, etc.) who (for obvious reasons) want to avoid any processing. This is the intention of the border wall: to increase the likelihood that incoming people at least have minimum processing.

2 – In the last four years, very few foreign nationals at our Southern border have been properly processed — which takes time. Legitimately checking out thousands of people a day from dozens of foreign countries takes time. Adding 10,000 new border agents would be some help but it would not solve the problem. For example, getting and verifying adequate information from dozens of foreign countries would still take weeks — and where would these thousands of people be held during that time? The end result is that most foreign nationals are allowed in the country with the most minimal of background checks.

Let’s make the extremely optimistic — and unwarranted — assumption that 99% of these foreign nationals are good, hard-working people. Two very obvious observations:

Taking the minimum estimate of Biden-Harris immigrants, the 1% who are bad guys amounts to 100,000 people! In other words, we are allowing some 100,000± criminals, terrorists and spies into our country, and have almost zero information as to where they are or what they are doing. The only way that makes any sense is if the political objective of this policy is to bring America down.
What about the other group, the 99%? Almost none of those people have any money, have a place to stay, have a job, speak English, etc. Again, the only way that dumping 10± MILLION of these people into our society makes any sense, is if the political objective of this policy is to bring America down.

Immigration Observation #4 —

If the real objective is to help disadvantaged people (as has been the claim), why aren’t we first effectively addressing all disadvantaged US citizens (the poor, the homeless, the uneducated, the unhealthy, etc.)?

The fact that we are NOT doing that is clear evidence that — despite repeated assurances to the contrary — this is NOT the real objective of Biden/Harris immigration policies.

Immigration Observation #5 —

Here are some other insights regarding additional negative consequences of having open border policies.

The Bottom Line

The evidence indicates that the Biden-Harris immigration policies will likely result in the most far-reaching, negative consequence to America, of any policy in our history.

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Border Betrayal: More Than It Appears

September 26, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by ACT For America!

The Dirty Secret Hidden in Plain Sight

The ongoing crisis of rape, murder, and pillaging stemming from illegals flooding our U.S. border continues to rise as a direct result of open-border policies and the UN Agenda 2030 program championed by the Biden-Harris administration.

The White House, along with the DOJ and DHS, have repeatedly pushed the misleading narrative that “illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than natural citizens,” even while the House Homeland Security Committee reported its findings back in March confirming that open borders have created, “a new crime wave sweeping the nation.” Americans can see and feel the truth regardless of efforts by the government to deceive us!

The Dirty Secret Hidden in Plain Sight

The Biden-Harris administration betrayed Americans by signing onto the UN Agenda 2030 open border initiative early in their tenure, prioritizing global migration objectives over economic security, national sovereignty, and protecting U.S. borders. This action reflects a blatant disregard for the constitutional mandate to “repel invasion,” exploiting a narrow interpretation of the law that defines invasion solely as an organized military force, not the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration from over 160 nations.

Never in U.S. history has the country witnessed such an influx of illegal migration until the Biden-Harris administration, exposing a coordinated global effort facilitated by the UN with full cooperation from the White House. The UN Agenda 2030 aligns seamlessly with the goals of the World Economic Forum, as both entities are driven by the same architects, pushing policies that favor open borders and dilute national sovereignty in the name of globalism.

If a U.S. citizen were to organize an invasion of the U.S. border, they could be charged with several serious federal crimes, including Treason, Sedition or Rebellion, Providing Material Support to Terrorism, Smuggling and Human Trafficking, and Conspiracy to Commit Offenses Against the United States.

The Assault on US Sovereignty: The Truth Behind Biden and Harris’s Open Border Policy

The UN Agenda 2030 is a comprehensive global framework that organizes human migration. It is viewed as a key factor for achieving many of these goals, including ‘Orderly, Safe, Regular, and Responsible Migration’ and the mobility of people through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies. It emphasizes the importance of developing comprehensive migration policies that protect migrants’ rights, reduce inequality, and ensure their integration into host societies.

The Shocking truth is that the UN Agenda 2030 prioritizes planning for those within the bottom 40% of the global income bracket! The explicit goal is to raise the wages of the poorest populations worldwide and the bulk of this planned migration is being absorbed by the United States.

Worse, the United States is the number one funder of the UN, with 22% of its budget paid by Taxpayers, and supposedly, the UN claims the US owes it $1.1B! Under Trump, the UN, UNRWA, and WHO were defunded.

The Biden-Harris open border policy sacrifices America’s most vulnerable citizens on the altar of globalism. Flooding the labor market with cheap, unskilled labor from around the world will drive down wages and increase competition for the very jobs Americans in lower-income brackets depend on.

They are siphoning wealth from hardworking Americans to support this globalist agenda!

The UN Agenda 2030 immigration scheme undermines America’s Judeo-Christian foundation. Resistance has slowed their progress, so their solution is mass immigration to dilute the influence of those defending America’s founding principles. By transforming the population, they seek to weaken the cultural and political structures that protect American freedom, paving the way for Democratic Socialism and further aligning with globalist agendas. This is a calculated assault on America’s identity and sovereignty.

We are witnessing a cultural and criminal invasion. When large groups of migrants from specific regions enter a country, they carry the cultural norms, criminal networks, and trafficking pipelines from their home countries.

With 85% of Americans opposing open border policies, we must unite and elect someone whose past actions reflect a genuine commitment to both border control and immigration reform—someone who will deliver results, not rhetoric.

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Assassination, an Extreme Form of Censorship

September 25, 2024/in Censorship, Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Election Fraud, Elections, Facebook, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Kelleigh Nelson

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.” — Charles Krauthammer

“Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” — Potter Stewart

“Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a ‘death in the family.'” — Vincent Bugliosi

It’s plain as day, the Stalinist Deep State wants Donald J. Trump dead. How can any thinking person deny what we’ve seen?!

Jonathan T. Gilliam, 20-year US Navy SEAL, former FBI Special Agent, Federal Air Marshal, private security contractor, police officer, public speaker, and expert media commentator, was on Fox’s Stuart Varney show recently and was bumped off by Varney for telling the truth about the assassination attempts. Gilliam stated that the Democrat Party wants Trump dead.

Watch the two-minute video:

Gilliam responded on Facebook: “The Marxist game of rhetoric proves the wanting motivation of the democrat party, while the repeating fatal funnels created by the secret service repeatedly leave wide open avenues of approach for assassins. These actions are consistent with willful and intentional negligence for the purpose of creating an opening for attackers.

“Add to this the past actions of the DOJ in falsifying evidence against Trump, using the court system as a weapon against Trump, putting prosecutors and agency directors in place who repeatedly display hate for Trump, all add to the totality of circumstances that lead to the conclusion of my analysis.”

In another post, Gilliam commented, “Palm Beach County Sherriff Ric Bradshaw, a democrat, said today that the Secret Service was “limited” in protection it was able to offer Donald J. Trump since he is not the sitting president.

“This is a repulsive comment, and an excuse for the Palm Beach Sheriff’s office failure to secure the vulnerable perimeter themselves. The tree line and fence where the shooter was hiding is only about 20 feet from a road that had zero monitoring by law enforcement.”

Vitriolic Hatred of Trump

It’s fine to dislike someone’s policies and argue against them in civil discourse while discussing the merits and consequences of their proposals. But demonizing and diminishing the character of a candidate so that outliers receive the message of vitriolic hatred, intended or not, to physically harm a candidate, is unacceptable and dangerous political rhetoric. The Left is far too adept at this nefarious and vile oratory.

Dan Goldman (D-NY) recently stated, “Trump needs to be eliminated.”

Hillary Clinton has said many times that “Trump is a danger to our country.”

Every Democrat and mainstream media pundit have echoed the statement, “He’s a danger to our democracy.” They all must love democracies, which our founders hated. We are not a democracy, but a Representative Republic. We don’t pledge allegiance to the democracy for which we stand, we pledge allegiance to the Republic.” Their very utterances are lies. Repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it.

How many Stalinist Democrats have compared him to Nazi dictator Hitler because he wanted our border secured? To compare someone to Hitler or any other despot shows not only a lack of civics education but a total failure to understand the depths of depravity Hitler and his ilk possessed.

Former bartender, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez openly stated that Trump had “concentration camps” on the border for illegals, and there was no such thing. Yet, President Obama actually had cages.

Family Research Council reported that nearly a fifth of Americans wish former President Donald Trump had been slain by an assassin’s bullet. In a Rasmussen poll, 17% of surveyed voters answered “Yes” when asked if the U.S. would be “better off if Donald Trump had been killed…” Nearly 70% of voters responded “No” and 14% said that they were “not sure.”

Just the News reported that 28% of Democrats think America would be better off if Trump had been assassinated.

Demands for violence against Trump by Del. Stacey Plaskett, the Democrat non-voting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, said, “He needs to be shot … stopped.” You can listen to this moron here.

And if that’s not bad enough, check out this 2.20-minute video of the Left explicitly calling for political violence against Trump.

Biden has described Trump as the dangerous leader of an extremist movement as well as telling America to “put him in the bullseye” prior to the Crooks’ assassination attempt.

Harris tells us, “Trump is a danger to our troops, our security, and our democracy. The former president masterminded the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.”

What an unbelievably stupid statement. Up to 850,000 Americans lost their lives in that war.

Harris screams, “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”

There’s more. The Daily Signal reported 12 influencers who called for violence against Trump, from Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow to Robert DeNiro and Linda Ronstadt. Scarborough said last November that Trump “is running to end American democracy as we know it.” Good! Like our founders, we hate democracies.

Scarborough continued, “He will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read.”

Right Joe, this is exactly what the Left, your side Joe, has done to Trump.

Maddow compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini…

Will Stancil, then a candidate for MN House of Representatives said, “So is there any reason Biden couldn’t just drone strike Trump and end this?” He then deleted this post on social media.

“I’m hoping Trump’s right, that he IS treated worse than Lincoln,” Keith Olbermann said. “As I’ve said for 9 years: THAT HE’S CONVICTED, THEN DIES IN PRISON.”

Convicted of what? Trying to save America from cultural Marxism?

A Democrat caller was cut off on CSPAN after praising the attempted assassinations of President Trump.

Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals wins again. He told his followers, “Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.”

The constantly spewed hatred by the Left is called “psychological projection,” and it has found its target in the minds of deliberately dumbed down Marxist influenced Americans. All they want is to achieve and maintain power. They seek to gain control over the population, and that starts by controlling the message, the narrative.

Is It Any Wonder Trump is a Target?

Both attempted assassins were not in BlackRock commercials, but both Crooks and Routh made donations to the Leftist organization, ActBlue. It is a leftwing dark money fundraising operation. Donations to various front organizations are laundered through ActBlue and forwarded to Democrat candidates and causes, after ActBlue rakes off a nominal fee. It allows far left groups and Democratic politicians to fundraise without setting up an online donation infrastructure themselves.

Another ActBlue donor was arrested for allegedly threatening to torture and slaughter 6 Supreme Court justices.

The second assassination attempt occurred at Trump’s Florida Golf Course on September 15^th. The Secret Service admits the golf course wasn’t searched before the attempt. Acting SS head, Ronald Rowe, said the perimeter wasn’t searched because the golf outing wasn’t on Trump’s official calendar.

The DOJ just released a letter by Routh promising $150,000 to anyone who succeeds in assassinating President Trump.

Apparently, the SS isn’t to be held responsible if the protégé changes plans.

In a startling development, former Navy SEAL and Republican Congressman Eli Crane has issued a grave warning to former President Donald Trump, suggesting the presence of a mole within the Secret Service that could be jeopardizing his safety.

John Solomon of Just the News reported, “Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Thursday that a senior Homeland Security Department official approached him as a whistleblower shortly before the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life and alleged U.S. officials are aware that five different “assassination teams” are pursuing the former president.”

Gaetz said he believes three of the teams are foreign inspired and two are domestic based.

Ryan Wesley Routh had set up a sniper nest twelve hours prior to President Trump’s arrival. Routh dropped his rifle and took off in his SUV after SS spotted his rifle and took a shot at him. Routh has a criminal record.

“My father hates Trump,” said the son of the would-be assassin, “like every reasonable person does.”

Martin County Sheriff William Snyder gave a press briefing and asked how Routh knew he’d be at the golf course and did he act alone or is he part of a supportive conspiracy.

CNBC reported that Routh had stalked Trump for months. Routh also wrote a chilling letter, indicating he intended to kill Trump, months before the assassination attempt. He had urged Iran to kill Trump as stated in his book, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War.”

In an interview with Roger Stone, Jack Posobiec points out that the arrested shooter, had spent time in Ukraine as a mercenary and therefore there was a high likelihood that he had ties to the CIA and the national security apparatus. Stone also expressed doubt that the House Republican investigation authorized by Speaker Johnson was sufficiently aggressive or motivated to get at the truth about who tried to kill the former president.

In a 2023 interview, Routh decried hurdles to get foreign soldiers for Kyiv. In May 2022, Routh appeared in a propaganda video for Ukraine’s violent and notorious extremist-anti-Russian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, allegedly supported by the CIA. Zelensky put the Azov Battalion into the Ukrainian Army at the beginning of the war. That fact was cut from the first Fox interview with Zelensky.

Mike Crispi asked on X why members of the Biden-Harris Administration, like Chef Jose Andres, was posing for photos with the would-be Trump assassin? The chef was tapped by Biden to lead the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. He is also friends with Vladimir Zelensky and has cooked for Harris and Walz.

FBI Investigation

Jeffrey Veltri, special agent in charge, was ordered by superiors to scrub his social media accounts of anti-Trump vitriol before he was promoted last year to head the Miami field office, an FBI whistleblower reported to Congress.

Mr. Veltri is now leading the FBI’s investigation into Sunday’s second assassination attempt on President Trump in two months.

In the wake of a second assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) unveiled a new, 22-page whistleblower report detailing the failures of the United States Secret Service in connection with the July 13 attempted assassination of the former president.

The House Judiciary Committee, led by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), heard from a whistleblower who came forward about the extreme bias that Veltri had toward Trump.

The whistleblower alleged that FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate and Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore were involved in directing Veltri to clean up his social media prior to his promotion.

American Liberty News reported that the whistleblower said the bureau leaders weren’t concerned about Mr. Veltri’s “bias against Trump” but whether “information related to Veltri’s political bias can be removed from the public domain.”

He added that Mr. Veltri, who served as acting deputy assistant director of the Bureau’s Security Division until March, also oversaw efforts to suspend agents’ security clearances if they were right-wingers…i.e., they refused the Covid injections or voted for Trump, etc.

“The whistleblower’s allegations are serious and deserve further investigation,” said Chris Swecker, a lawyer and law enforcement professional who served as assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division during the George W. Bush administration.

The Leftist corruption in the FBI and Secret Service goes right back to President Obama and his minions, Jarrett, Brennan, Clapper and Holder. Over the eight years of Obama’s presidency, they weaponized not only the federal intelligence community, but the entire federal government. It was The Culmination of Marxist Infiltration. The full story of this treason can be found in J. Michael Waller’s book, Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains.

Jordan Schachtel asks seven questions about the second assassination attempt, one of which is, “Why can’t/won’t the federal government protect President Trump?”

The federal government spends trillions of dollars per year, and yet, the Republican candidate for president remains vulnerable.

Deliberate or negligence?

We know the answer.

Conclusion

Mike Waller tells us, “Diagramming today’s American intelligence community without labels might lead an old-school Sovietologist to guess it was an organizational chart of the old KGB, with every imaginable security and intelligence function permeating every corner of society.

“And then came the merger with Big Tech, quantum computing, billions of cameras and microphones, and the overwhelmingly ubiquitous Internet of Things. Warnings of abuses, censorship, and illegal spying brushed off as the apoplectic mania of the hateful and the paranoid, turned out to be true.

“A combination of these transformations, the centralization of safely dispersed agencies, domestic intelligence with police powers, the merger with the world’s most powerful tech and social media conglomerates, and the internal politicization of totalitarian mindsets among all professional personnel—created the most threatening machinery of human control outside Communist China.

“The great institutions designed to protect us against the threat of Soviet Communism, in the end, absorbed and re-weaponized the most subversive Soviet plot ever launched.”

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

September 24, 2024/in Communism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Video, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

Recently unearthed video captured Vice President Kamala Harris chanting for the total abolition of deportations during a 2018 Los Angeles parade.

“Up, up with education. Down, down with deportation,” the then-California senator chanted alongside a crowd during a January 2018 parade in Los Angeles, according to video first obtained by the Daily Mail. The footage further demonstrates how Harris, once a staunch opponent of basic immigration enforcement policies, has shifted her tone on the issue since becoming the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

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

The chant took place at the 33rd annual Kingdom Day Parade, which celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Video footage collected by parade organizers that year — which listed her as a “grand marshall” of the event — shows Harris in the same outfit she wore during the chant, confirming the time and date of the aforementioned clip.

Similar to the video of the crowd chant, convicted hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett could also be seen in background during her interview with a reporter.

Harris appeared to take a shot at then-President Donald Trump during the interview.

“It feels great to be in LA, to be in California, to celebrate Dr. King, his vision, his spirit — which is alive and well,” Harris said at the time. “And in the midst of time where there are supposed-leaders who are sowing hate and division, it is really important to remember we, as a country, are so much better than that.”

“And it’s not who we are,” she continued.

Harris’ participation in the 2018 parade chant coincided with her opposition to a number of immigration enforcement policies at that time in her political career. When vying for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Harris was among the majority of candidates who raised their hands when asked if they supported the decriminalization of illegal border crossings.

Harris had also gone on record calling Trump’s border wall a “un-American” and a “stupid waste of money.” In 2019, she pledged her support for taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries for illegal migrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment.

Immediately upon entering office in 2021, the Biden-Harris administration attempted to enforce a 100-day moratorium on most deportations, but that executive order was ultimately blocked in court.

Since President Joe Biden announced he would forgo his quest for re-election, paving the way for Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee, the vice president has pivoted to the right on a number of issues, particularly immigration. Her campaign has since launched advertisements announcing her support for more Border Patrol agents and depicting her as a hardline border-state prosecutor who cracked down on cartels and gangs.

During an interview with CNN in August, Harris said she believed there should be “consequence[s]” for those that cross the border illegally. When asked by host Dana Bash to explain her apparent flip-flops on border enforcement and other issues, Harris said her “values had not changed.”

The Harris campaign did not respond to a Daily Caller News Foundation request for comment on the 2018 parade video.

AUTHOR

Jason Hopkins

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Trump Pledges to Visit Ohio Town Suffering from Immigration Crisis

September 24, 2024/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

“In the next two weeks, I’m going to Springfield and then to Aurora,” former President Donald Trump announced at a campaign rally in Long Island, New York, this week. “We’re going to take care of Ohio, and we’re going to take care of Colorado, and we’re going to take care of every single state in the union. They’re all under siege,” he continued. Trump joked, “You may never see me again, but that’s okay. I gotta do what I gotta do. ‘Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.’”

Over the past three years, the sleepy Ohio town of Springfield has seen an influx of approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants, who were granted a “Temporary Protected Status” by the Biden-Harris administration. The administration’s immigrant dump has been responsible for increased traffic accidents, skyrocketing rent and housing prices, overwhelmed and crippled social services, and, in at least one instance, the death of an 11-year-old American boy. Schools and health centers have been burdened, with both spending tens of thousands — and in some cases hundreds of thousands — of dollars annually on Haitian-Creole interpreters.

Trump addressed this point, saying, “So the mayor of Springfield … instead of saying, ‘We’re getting them all out! We’re getting them out!’ He says very simply, ‘We’re hiring teachers to teach them English.’ Could you believe it? ‘We are hiring interpreters so when they go to school and take the place of our children in school, we have an interpreter.’” The former president asked, “What the hell is wrong with our country?”

The crisis in Springfield has garnered national attention thanks to Trump and his native Ohioan running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R). During last week’s presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump mentioned reports of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating household pets. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” the 45th president declared. He continued, “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” While Harris and mainstream media pundits dismissed Trump’s claim that cats and dogs were being eaten — debate moderators from ABC News “fact-checked” Trump on this point during the debate — video evidence has been found of skinned cats being barbecued, and recordings have been released of multiple reports to police, complaining of immigrants eating pets or slaughtering ducks and geese in local parks.

Vance commented, “Housing shortages have caused rents to skyrocket, hospitals are overrun, schools are ill-equipped to teach students who don’t speak English, and the roads are unsafe as unlicensed drivers have caused a massive increase in roadway accidents.” He continued, “The American media didn’t give a damn about any of this until President Donald Trump mentioned Springfield at the debate. … I’m going to continue speaking up for my constituents and the disastrous effects that Kamala Harris’s open border policies are having on their lives.”

Trump also pledged to visit Aurora, Colorado, where Venezuelan gang members have been taking over entire apartment complexes and shutting down streets. Armed members of the Tren de Aragua gang were reported to have forced property managers out of buildings and gone door to door themselves collecting rent money from terrified residents.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman (R) faulted the Biden-Harris administration for the illegal immigrants’ rampage, noting that Aurora had refused “to participate in the migrant crisis; we were not going to provide taxpayer support, and we were not even going to be a conduit for federal dollars.” He added, “These people didn’t just go there on their own; somebody put them there. Who made this decision to put them there?” He speculated that the Denver suburb was being targeted by the “federal government, perhaps using some of our local nonprofit partners as a conduit.”

At his Long Island rally this week, Trump said, “We’re getting them of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country. We’re getting them out. They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came. I will protect our country. I will protect our country.” According to a recent survey, 54% of Americans (including Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters) support Trump’s mass deportation proposals. This is up from 51% earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Harris has refused to address the immigration crisis that she and President Joe Biden have facilitated. Asked what “struck” him about Harris’s response when Politico White House correspondent Eugene Daniels probed the vice president in an interview on how to handle the Springfield situation, Daniels said, “That she didn’t answer. I think that was probably the thing that struck me the most. Because I was trying to get at, there is an underlying concern that people who live in Springfield have that has nothing to do with race, right?” He continued, “So, I was trying to see if she believed that the federal government had a role in it. And, instead, she took the opportunity to talk about the racist conspiracy theories that have been spread by both former President Donald Trump and his running mate.” Daniels also quipped that Harris is “pretty good at dodging” questions.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

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The small Ohio municipality of Springfield has made national headlines over the past weeks, thanks to tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants being surreptitiously dumped into the city by the Biden-Harris administration over the past three years. But Springfield isn’t the only “heartland U.S.A.” town suffering after being inundated with immigrants. This week, the America 2100 non-profit organization launched its own on-the-ground investigation in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to expose how the rural town’s 2,000% increase in Haitian immigrants has impacted American residents.

Last week, America 2100 shared reports from locals and residents chronicling a steep increase in traffic accidents and a rise in violent crime, including Haitians attempting carjackings and mugging Americans outside liquor stores. The non-profit group noted, “It isn’t just Springfield. It’s happening everywhere. In Charleroi, Pennsylvania — a low-income town of just 4,000 — the immigrant population has increased by 2,000% over the past two years. And it’s almost all Haitians.”

In an interview with America 2100, Charleroi councilman Larry Celaschi said, “I wish I could come face to face for 60 seconds … with whoever was behind all this and bringing the immigrants into Charleroi…” He asked, “Where the hell’s the money that should be coming to Charleroi, okay? Why was it all dumped on us, and we’re not being funded with anything. Okay, and again, we can’t even make ends meet with our budget, and so now how — where are we gonna get this extra revenue to pay for them?” Celaschi concluded, “And so now we’ve got to do all these things to accommodate the immigrants. That’s bull****.”

On Monday, America 2100 visited Charleroi, saying, “The media won’t tell their story — so we will.” One resident who was “born and raised” in Charleroi told America 2100 Senior Adviser Nate Hochman that the 2,000 Haitian immigrants have clogged up the small town’s sewage system. “You can smell the raw sewage,” he said. “These 120-year-old pipes can’t handle all the sewage that’s getting pumped into them … from all the people that came in.”

Another resident also complained about the “absolutely disgusting” lack of hygiene among the immigrants and how it has impacted the town. “I feel bad for a lot of these people,” said Andrew, who does housing repairs. “And then some of these houses you go into … they live like they still live in a clay building in Port-au-Prince and they just want to keep it how it was,” he continued. Andrew explained that the houses the Haitian immigrants live in are “disgusting,” recounting that he once spent three days simply scrubbing a kitchen after Haitians vacated a house, before moving on to cleaning the rest of the house. He noted the massive increase in immigrants over the past two years, saying, “The agencies, they just keep bringing these people in and bringing people in and bringing people in.”

“This is one of the most immediately obvious aspects of the immigration crisis in Charleroi,” Hochman noted. “The big businesses are buying up homes in town and packing them with as many as 15-20 Haitians per property. It’s essentially converting the entire town into a gigantic workers’ barracks.”

Local parents reported that schools are being overwhelmed and forced to divert funds to hire multiple interpreters. “They’re having a huge problem, I think, with trying to teach,” one mom said. “There were 45 Haitians that started kindergarten this year,” she added. Another parent explained, “A kindergarten class is probably no more than 60 at most, at most.” Hochman asked, “So like the majority of the kindergarten is Haitian now? In what? Two years?” The parents nodded and replied, “Yeah.” One of the parents noted, “One of the things … about the not speaking English … middle school grades where parents are having a problem because their kids can’t advance because the teachers are having to compensate for the kids who can’t speak English.”

Parents also observed that crimes against American students have increased. “There’s been some assaults with some kids on the bus,” a Charleroi mom said. She recounted, “One student attacked another American child on the bus. … And I guess he was like 20.” The girl who was attacked, the mom said, was about 14 years old. She continued, “He told the girl to move and she said, ‘No,’ and he grabbed her — and like really grabbed her — and like wouldn’t let her go. Like they just get on the bus and like go to school, you know, with like the elementary kids, just to get a ride to school.” The mom added, “The school does nothing about it. People complain all the time about things and they do nothing.”

Delivery driver Andy explained how the immigrant influx has destroyed Charleroi’s economy and job market. “That’s what these staffing agencies are doing. … They said, ‘We can’t find people to work.’ Well, that’s a half-truth. There’s people that would work if you paid them, you know … the going wage for the work,” Andy said. He continued, “But they want to pay less and so they ended up hiring these, getting involved with these agencies that bring in these workers.” He added:

“Those jobs that they [Haitian immigrants] have, they used to be American jobs. But they [employers] decided, ‘We don’t want to pay five bucks more an hour, we’ll pay three bucks more an hour and we’ll take that off the top and we’ll keep that, and we’ll bring in Haitians with them through this work program.’ It’s a lot of jobs that have been lost by Americans. So they bring in … people from third-world countries who will do that work for poverty wages. And they think it’s a great deal — and it probably is a good deal for them.”

“You get a lot of people saying they’re illegals and everyone wants to fight about that term, but it doesn’t really matter. What matters is what’s going on and how it’s affecting everybody,” Andy summarized.

Truck driver Ernie told America 2100 how the immigration has increased the cost of living in town, while decreasing the quality of actually living in Charleroi. “This used to be just a nice, blue-collar, middle-of-nowhere town. It was affordable to live in, wasn’t a terrible neighborhood, you could raise your family here and live your life and everybody would just pretty much leave you alone,” Ernie began. He continued, “But I don’t know if it’s going to come back from this, I don’t know if we’re going to come back from this. It’s at the point now, I think they’ve just destroyed the town and they bought all these properties.”

He said that while you “might be able to buy a house cheap,” Charleroi homeowners now have to worry about what kind of neighbors they’ll have. “Right now, I’m surrounded by the immigrants, never used to be that way. They don’t care about their property, they’ll destroy it, run through, steal your stuff, break your stuff. There’s no pride anymore. Nobody cares about anything,” he said, speaking from experience. The truck driver continued, “You’re bringing in people from one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, paying them nothing because they don’t know what a dollar is, then you got this company who’s buying the houses, renting off them. I mean, it’s full all-around corruption, extortion, somebody’s lining their pockets.”

“We’re over here struggling. I make a pretty decent wage and I’m picking up a second job to try to help cover the bills, my girlfriend’s working two jobs to try to cover the bills,” Ernie said. He added, “And it never used to be like that.” Addressing the number of longtime Charleroi residents leaving town due to the immigration issues, Ernie said, “It’s killing another small town in America. … There’s a lot of fighting people around here and it takes a lot for people to quit. It’s happening. Whenever you see the natives — from this area in particular — going somewhere else, it’s bad.”

Lifelong Charleroi resident Tom talked about the cultural conflicts arising from the mass importing of 2,000 Haitians. “They don’t have anything in common with our culture. … When people say ‘the culture,’ a lot of times they say they don’t know what it means. What culture means is the way we do things around here. Worldwide, that’s what culture is,” Tom said. He continued, “What I’ve seen … since the influx has started is they have no interest in our culture, this culture. They’ve brought their culture here.”

Tom also dismissed the claim that the immigration surge somehow enriches or betters the town. “I don’t believe that argument of ‘They had to bring that population here to save Charleroi’ has any validity. We weren’t prepared for it, we don’t have the tax base for it. This is a town of 4,000 people hanging on the best they can,” he said. He continued:

“So whoever is responsible for putting them here, that is an act of negligence. And when it’s found out who directly decided that this was a good place to do this, they should be held accountable fully, their feet should be held to the fire long-term. They should never be allowed to work in the industry again, whether it’s politics or business, because what they’ve done here is despicable — and they don’t know that because, again, nobody cares about Charleroi, Pennsylvania. The 4,000 people that lived here cared about it and were doing their level best to make it a place to live and want to be.”

Tom shared that, due to the problems caused by the mass migration, he has pulled his son out of school and is selling his house. “If you told me, after all of the other garbage that has been heaped on this community since the early 80s, that this would be the denouement, I would have mortgaged my house and bet you were wrong,” he said. “But here we are,” he concluded.

So who is responsible? Hochman explained, “Charleroi — like Springfield — is a story of Republican betrayal. The people we’ve met here are just trying to survive. They deserve better leaders.” According to America 2100, the state senator representing Charleroi, Camera Bartoletta (R-Washington County), has “put out a statement attacking Trump for talking about the Haitian immigration crisis in her town.” In a statement posted to Facebook, Bartoletta said, “For some of these people saying awful things about these Haitian immigrants, I’d ask them what it might have been like for their parents or grandparents or great grandparents who might have come from another country and spoken a different language.” She added, “Many of the Haitians in Charleroi have been here for two or three years already. They escaped horrific events in Haiti, many having to travel/hide in the jungles for months or years.”

While Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) has claimed to be “fighting for the 300+ jobs at a glass manufacturing plant in Charleroi,” the small town’s mayor and a councilman said otherwise. “He needs to get his hind end out here in person and stop wasting time and stop sending aides,” one of the men said. He continued, “We need to talk to the man who holds the title United States Senator and he needs to be here in the borough of Charleroi and he needs to stop what is going to take place that is going to totally decimate this town.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.