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Organize for Attack!

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On Independence Day, nearly a dozen black-garbed individuals, some equipped with body armor and firearms, allegedly orchestrated a premeditated ambush on law enforcement outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. According to the federal criminal complaint, the group began firing on the center with fireworks and spray-painting anti-ICE and pro-Antifa slogans on vehicles until law enforcement moved to secure the area. Once law enforcement came out of the building, two assailants opened fire with AR-15s, firing 20-30 rounds and wounding at least one officer.

The attack was entirely foreseeable. Antifa militants motivated by virulent rhetoric have repeatedly doxxed and targeted ICE, going all the way back to Antifa member Willem Von Spronsen’s 2019 attack on a Tacoma, Washington, ICE detention facility. Spronsen was killed by responding officers and became a popular anarchist martyr.

What are these attackers seeking to achieve with their violence? Most people believe that terrorism of this sort is intended to create support from the public. But the majority of Americans, including legal immigrants, support deporting illegal aliens, especially dangerous criminals. Do Antifa militants think they can win over the public with acts of violence?

Some answers to the alleged attackers’ motivations might be found in literature captured by law enforcement. One pamphlet seized by police is entitled “Insurrectionary Anarchism: Organizing For Attack!” which was authored anonymously in 2003 (and is available online).

The pamphlet traces a history of insurrectionary anarchist thought. It begins with early anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin in 1871 and then goes to Luigi Galleani, an Italian-American anarchist who popularized the concept of “propaganda of the deed,” and Italian anarchist Alfredo Bonnano, whose “Why we are Insurrectionary Anarchists” is cited in its entirety.

Central to insurrectionary anarchist thinking is the notion that the violent terrorist act is simultaneously a means and an end. The attack and the propaganda are a unified whole.

The author writes, “It is through acting and learning to act, not propaganda, that we will open the path to insurrection—although obviously analysis and discussion have a role in clarifying how to act. Waiting only teaches waiting; in acting one learns to act.”

Put bluntly, the message of attempting to murder ICE agents is that ICE agents should be murdered and that others should be encouraged to do the same.

Insurrectionary anarchism contains within its logic an inherent critique of other leftist, and especially Marxist-Leninist, organizing principles. Leninists emphasize determining the “correlation of forces,” an analysis of the total historic, economic, and material differences between the warring classes before acting. Maoists seek to ensure they have the correct “mass line”—that is, remaining in step with “the people” amongst whom the Maoist guerrilla seeks to hide.

But for the insurrectionary anarchist, the events that provoke and sustain revolutions cannot truly be understood, and attempts to do so result in wasted opportunities. The author writes that

contrary to the mathematicians of the grand revolutionary parties, it is never possible to see the outcome of a specific struggle in advance. Even a limited struggle can have the most unexpected consequences. The passage from the various insurrections—limited and circumscribed—to revolution can never be guaranteed in advance by any method, nor can one know in advance that present actions will not lead to a future insurrectionary moment.

These differences in perspectives may seem like meaningless revolutionary navel-gazing to the outsider. But since the 2020 George Floyd Uprising (as they call it), there has been growing hostility between the anarchists who overwhelmingly provided the street muscle for the violent riots and the Communist Party organizers who utilized the riots to build up structures and organizations.

Anarchists argue that Marxists and progressives took advantage of their bloodshed to “organize” and fundraise, wasting the opportunity the riots were intended to create. As a group of black Insurrectionary Anarchists wrote in a 2022 manifesto entitled “Black Armed Joy,”

Despite lifting up figures such as Assata, they label any sort of Black rebellious activity as “too fast” or “not ready” or complain about the ultra-left “ruining” their plans for revolution despite the rebellious actions of Black youth in the summer of 2020. They do not want black people to study the Black Liberation Army’s tactics. They wish to erase [Black Liberation Army member and Black anarchist] Kuwasi Balagoon and his rebellious ways. They wish to erase how Assata Shakur was liberated. They wish to erase the general strike of the Slaves. They wish to ignore the Maroons. They just want us to participate in their reformist campaigns to “Defund the Police” or “Community Control of the Police.” The Black insurrectionary must reject these positions.

These accusations of betrayal reached a fever pitch in the aftermath of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots. Unity of Fields, a pro-terrorism propaganda outlet currently promoting a crowdfunding effort for the alleged perpetrators of the Alvarado attack, labeled the allegedly Chinese-funded Maoist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which helped organize the L.A. protests, as part of a “left counterinsurgency” because it failed to fully back calls for violence against ICE in Los Angeles.

While such apparent infighting might seem like a general sign of the radical Left’s weakness, in reality such conflicts are common during waves of increasing left-wing activation. Despite their internal disagreement, the various revolutionary factions can often advance their cause(s) against shared enemies, and eventually coalesce around shared gains.

While there are historic examples of anarchist-Communist infighting that sink prospective revolution (think the Spanish Civil War), there’s also a historical record of anarchists helping breach a hole through which the forces of revolution can pour through (the Russian Revolution comes to mind). In neither case does it typically end well for the anarchist, but that’s small comfort to the rest of us.

In the meantime, it should be understood that Antifa and their fellow anarchist extremists mean exactly what they say when they say “Kill ICE.”

Originally published by The American Mind.

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Kyle Shideler

Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

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Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities

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The Iranian government is rapidly increasing its use of the death penalty as a political weapon to crush dissent, terrorize restive ethnic minorities, and tighten its grip on power following its recent conflict with Israel, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today.

In recent weeks, courts have sentenced numerous political prisoners—many of them Kurds and Arabs, but also participants in the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests—to death on alleged national security charges, following grossly unfair trials where forced “confessions” extracted under torture replaced any real evidence, according to research undertaken by CHRI.

“These are not trials. They are state-orchestrated performances meant to deliver death and instill fear,” said Bahar Ghandehari, CHRI’s Director of Advocacy.

“We are witnessing a coordinated state campaign to terrorize Kurdish and Arab communities who have not only endured decades of systemic state persecution, but have also stood at the forefront of many peaceful anti-government protests demanding freedom, justice, and dignity,” Ghandehari said.

“They now find themselves singled out as scapegoats by a regime desperate to reassert control after the massive Woman, Life, Freedom protests of 2022 and its military confrontation with Israel in 2025,” she added.

These executions violate not only domestic constitutional protections but also numerous international legal standards to which Iran is bound. Halting this systematic wave of executions must become an urgent global demand.

CHRI urges the UN and governments to forcefully condemn these death sentences and:

  • Demand that the Iranian authorities immediately halt all pending executions and institute a moratorium on all political death sentences;
  • Call for independent investigations of any allegations of torture or trial violations;
  • Impose targeted sanctions against Iranian judges, intelligence agents, and other officials involved in these violations, including through mechanisms such as the Magnitsky Act;
  • Governments should also pursue prosecution of responsible officials in national courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

“Given the scale and systematic nature of these crimes, particularly when targeted against specific ethnic and political groups, such actions may fall under the definition of crimes against humanity as outlined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute,” said Saeid Dehghan, a prominent human rights lawyer and director of the Parsi Law Collective.

“There is an urgent need for immediate international action, including a resolution by the UN General Assembly and a call on the Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigative committee,” Dehghan said.

Five Kurdish Protesters Condemned to Die: No Evidence, Just Torture

On July 6, 2025, the Revolutionary Court in Urmia, presided over by Judge Reza Najafzadeh, sentenced five Kurdish protestors—Ali (Soran) Ghasemi, Pejman Soltani, Kaveh Salehi, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, and Teyfour Salimi Babamiri—to multiple death sentences, for a total of 11 death sentences, in addition to lengthy prison terms and heavy fines. These individuals were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests and tried in a case with multiple other defendants.

Additionally, a separate court in West Azerbaijan Province had earlier sentenced Pejman Soltani to death under qisas (retribution) for the alleged murder of a security officer. Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri was sentenced to 15 years for allegedly ordering the murder, and Ghasemi to over 10 years for aiding and abetting. Kaveh Salehi was acquitted in that case.

These individuals were also sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay combined monetary penalties of 358 million tomans for offenses such as alleged “collaboration with Israel,” “smuggling Starlink satellite devices,” “propaganda against the state,” and “conspiracy to disrupt national security.”

Additionally, eight other defendants in the same case—Siamak Hiyasi, Sowareh Azizzadeh, Heyman Kermanj, Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Jalil Moloudi, Ahmad Mamehzadeh, Javanmard Mamkhosravi, and Salar Daghdar—were sentenced to prison terms and fines on charges including “membership in a rebel group,” “collaboration with a hostile government,” and “insulting the Supreme Leader.” Seven of them had previously been released on bail.

According to CHRI’s findings, all of these defendants’ cases, which together totaled 14 cases, were built solely on reports by the Intelligence Ministry and forced “confessions” obtained under torture during detention, with no independent or credible evidence presented in court. All of the accused were denied access to legal counsel and family visits during the first four months of detention.

“There is no actual evidence. All charges rely on forced confessions.”

Dr. Salahuddin Ahmadi, another defendant, was acquitted but now faces a separate criminal case for allegedly “financing terrorism.” A source told CHRI, these accusations stem from his provision of medicine to injured protesters.

A source familiar with the case told CHRI:

“Aside from a few seized Starlink devices, there is no actual evidence. All charges rely on forced confessions. Some of the accused were simply satellite dish installers. One of them, a pharmacist, was charged with ‘financing terrorism’ for providing medicine to injured protesters—an accusation applied to seven others in the case for similar reasons.”

“Blindfolded and handcuffed, I was tied to a chair while agents applied electric shocks.”

In a letter from Urmia Central Prison dated April 10, 2025, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, who was also arrested for providing medical aid to injured protesters during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, detailed the torture he endured, including mock executions, waterboarding, electric shocks, and sleep deprivation, to extract forced confessions. He added that his formal complaint against the perpetrators was ignored.

“Handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded, I was continuously mocked while they pulled the triggers of their weapons, telling me, ‘We haven’t registered your name anywhere as a prisoner, so when you die under interrogations, it’ll be easy to dump your body like those of the rioters (protesters), in the sewage canals, lakes and mass graves.’

“Blindfolded and handcuffed, I was tied to a chair with a rope, while intelligence agents applied electric shocks to my earlobes, testicles, nipples, spine, sides, armpits, thighs, and temples, inflicting unbearable pain to force me to write or say what they wanted on camera.

“They would suddenly take me to an unknown room in the middle of the night and force me to stand on a stool with a noose around my neck for hours on end and threaten to secretly and anonymously execute me, attempting to intimidate me as much as possible.

“For several consecutive days and nights, Intelligence Department agents kept disturbing me, making noise, shouting insults, entering my cell, beating me, and using any means to keep me from sleeping. Their goal was to break my resistance so that I would write their dictated scenarios and repeat it on camera. All the while, my only crime was helping fellow human beings.

“During the 130 consecutive days of detention and torture, aside from bruises all over my body, I lost hearing in my left ear due to the blows to my head by the interrogators and couldn’t hear for three months. Later, the ruptured eardrum in my left ear gradually regained some hearing, but during the recovery period, it became severely infected multiple times.”

Judge in response to reports of torture: “Did you expect them to serve you kebab?’”

Beigzadeh Babamiri added that the judge was aware of the torture endured by him and his co-defendant:

“How could the Urmia Revolutionary Court and Judge Reza Najafzadeh, despite the legal briefs submitted by me and other defendants detailing the types of torture suffered by the 14 defendants in this case, respond in court by simply saying the shameful sentence: ‘Did you expect them to serve you kebab?’

“Judicial independence is nothing but a myth in this country. The torturer is fully protected while the victim is placed under threat, pressure, and additional punishments. The goal of the security forces is not to maintain public safety, but rather to serve their superiors and exercise blind ethnic and sectarian prejudice. Torture and fabricated cases are standard practices and tools of oppressive forces.”

Breakdown of the death sentences against 5 protesters: 

  1. Ali (Soran) Ghasemi has been sentenced to three death sentences by a Revolutionary Court in Urmia for the charges of “armed rebellion,” “enmity against God,” and “leading and forming a rebel group.” In a separate ruling by the criminal court, he was also sentenced to 10 years and 1 day in prison for aiding and abetting murder.” In addition, he received further prison time and a financial fine on alleged charges such as “cooperation with Israel,” “smuggling Starlink satellite equipment,” and “propaganda against the state.”
  2. Pejman Soltani has received three death sentences: two for “armed rebellion” and “enmity against God,” by a Revolutionary Court in Urmia and one from the juvenile criminal court for premeditated murder (qisas). He was also sentenced to multiple years of imprisonment and a financial fine for alleged charges such as “cooperation with Israel,” “smuggling Starlink satellite equipment,” and “propaganda against the state.”
  3. Kaveh Salehi was sentenced to two death sentences by a Revolutionary Court in Urmia on charges of “armed rebellion” and “enmity against God.” He was acquitted of murder charges in the separate case but was still sentenced to additional years in prison and fined for security-related charges similar to those faced by the others.
  4. Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri was sentenced to three death sentences for “armed rebellion,” “leading a rebel group,” and one for “spying for Israel.” He also received 15 years in prison from the criminal court for murder, and additional prison terms and fines for alleged charges such as “cooperation with Israel,” “smuggling Starlink satellite equipment,” and “propaganda against the state.”
  5. Teyfour Salimi Babamiri, who had previously been temporarily released on bail, was sentenced to one death sentence for allegedly leading the same “rebel group.” He also received further prison time and a fine for alleged charges such as “cooperation with Israel,” “smuggling Starlink satellite equipment,” and “propaganda against the state.”

In July 2024, the Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), published footage of forced “confessions” of four of the detainees, despite their consistent claims that these statements were made under physical and psychological torture.

Arab and Lur Political Prisoners Next in Line for Execution

The recent crackdown is not limited to Kurdish activists. On July 11, it was reported that three Arab political prisoners—Ali Mojadam, Moein Khenfari, and Mohammadreza Mojadam—were transferred from the general ward of Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz to solitary confinement on June 25, 2025. They were sentenced to death on charges that included “collaboration with anti-regime groups” and “acting against national security.” They had previously endured prolonged solitary confinement, violent interrogations, and forced “confessions.”

The three were reportedly able to make brief phone calls to their families on July 13, after 17 days of complete incommunicado detention.

On July 11, Branch 1 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Adibimehr, sentenced Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mordasi each to two death sentences and one year in prison on charges of “corruption on earth,” “membership in rebel groups,” and “propaganda against the regime.” Jamei and Alireza Mordasi belong to Iran’s Arab ethnic minority, while Etemadifar is from the Lur ethnic group.

A source familiar with the case told CHRI:

“The judicial process for these individuals was marked by violations of fundamental fair trial principles, including lack of effective access to legal counsel, security pressures, and confessions obtained under duress.”

In the same case, two others—Saman Hormatnejad and Davood Hormatnejad—received prison sentences of 12 and 15 years, respectively. All five were arrested in 2023.

Masoud Jamei’s case is especially dire. A former employee of the National Iranian Oil Company, Jamei, 47, suffers from stomach cancer, liver disease, high blood pressure, and a severe internal infection. He was arrested in August 2023 and reportedly subjected to intense torture, and has since been denied critical medical treatment during his 13 months of detention in Sheiban Prison.

In March 2025, Jamei and his wife Zeinab Hezbahpour and their children Nahid (22), Dalal (20), and Roghieh (16) were tried in the Bavi Revolutionary Court on charges of alleged affiliation with anti-government groups. Details of their legal proceedings and charges remain unknown.

A Call for Global Red Lines

The Islamic Republic of Iran is now running one of the world’s most aggressive execution campaigns targeting peaceful protesters, political dissidents, and minority communities, under the pretense of national security. These death sentences, based on torture, fabricated charges, and ethnic profiling, amount to state-sponsored murder. The international community should not remain silent as the Iranian government escalates this war on its own citizens, CHRI stressed.

“The Iranian regime is testing the world’s moral boundaries. Every death sentence issued under torture and false confession is a challenge to international law, and every silent response from the global community is a tacit green light for further executions,” said Ghandehari.

“The international community must act now—not after the gallows have done their work and these voices are permanently silenced,” she added.

This press release was updated to reflect that Massoud Jamei and Alireza Mardasi are from Iran’s Arab minority, while Farshad Etemadifar belongs to the Lur ethnic group.

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Child Sex Traffickers and Non-Governmental Organizations

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Let’s be clear about the term non-governmental organization. According to Wikipedia:

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a typically nonprofit organization that operates partially independent of government control, though an NGO may get a significant percentage, or even all of its funding from government sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them.

The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of government management or direction—although they may receive government funding.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961 by executive order of President John F. Kennedy. Its mission was defined as a global program of technical and financial development assistance to low-income countries to be administered under the direction of the Secretary of State. Between 1961 and 2025, USAID morphed into a political arm of the increasingly radical leftist Democrat party that funded anti-American policies and programs both internationally and domestically.

USAID was involved in the funding and fomenting of anti-American policies through educational indoctrination and the culturally abhorrent practice of intentionally sexualizing children to destroy families and collapse America from within. But there is more. USAID was also actively involved in child sex trafficking and exploitation through its payments to NGOs.

On April 26, 2023, Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. The hearing titled, “‘The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children’ will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and how open-border policies enable the exploitation of children.” Excerpts from Tara Lee Rodas’ chilling testimony:

Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report the[y] are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.

I must confess; I knew nothing about their suffering until 2021 when I volunteered to help the Biden Administration with the crisis at the Southern Border. As part of Operation Artemis, I was deployed to the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site in California to help the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR] reunite children with sponsors in the US.

I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in home country, smuggled to the US border, and ends when ORR delivers a child to a sponsor – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets to be used for earning income – this is why we are witnessing an explosion of labor trafficking.

Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children. …

Realizing that we were not offering children the American dream but instead putting them into modern-day slavery with wicked overlords was a terrible revelation. These children are a captive victim population, with no access to law enforcement or knowledge of their rights. They are extorted, exploited, abused, neglected, and trafficked. This is why I blew the whistle.

Over a year later, on November 19, 2024, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) lead a stunning House Homeland Security Committee hearing, “Trafficked, Exploited, and Missing: Migrant Children Victims of the Biden-Harris Administration.” The stupefying testimony of Retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrel is archived in an Economic Times YouTube video titled “‘Child Traffickers use NGOs and sponsors…’: Witnesses make sensational claim at US Congress hearing.” The entire transcript is available on the Homeland Security website.

It is very difficult for the civilized mind to process the malevolence of the Biden-Harris facilitation of child sex trafficking through its policies for unaccompanied migrant children, but incredulity cannot stop the abuse. Prosecution of the perpetrators can.

During his testimony J.J. Carrell explains that the year 2021, Joe Biden’s first year in office, was Carrell’s last year in the U.S. Border Patrol, a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP):

On his [Biden’s] first day in office, I watched in disbelief as 94 executive orders cascaded down from Washington DC obliterating every immigration policy that had been provided, the most secure border in America’s history. Border patrol agents were forced to carry out unconstitutional orders that violated every law in the Immigration Nationality Act. President Biden, through Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, created policy out of thin air, ignored Federal immigration law and facilitated the largest mass Invasion into America that the world has ever seen. The United States of America will have spent hundreds of billions of dollars in four years to fund the needs of over 50 million illegal aliens that populate our nation. Between 1 and 6 and 1 in 7 residents in America is an illegal alien. America has suffered the greatest demographic shift in modern history. …

After serving in the United States Border Patrol for 24 years, spending a year researching and writing a bestselling book entitled Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of American Immigration System, and filming two documentaries, I state with complete certainty that Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas intentionally, strategically, and purposely, weaponized illegal immigration and used it as a tool to fundamentally transform America. Inside this invasion the unspoken evil of child trafficking, and more specifically child sex trafficking, has flourished. At the end of this current [Biden] Administration the number of children trafficked will have grown to over 550,000 unaccompanied alien children, children known as UACs. This horrific number of children will have been arrested, released into America, and then lost. …

Unaccompanied alien children were being handed off to total strangers. Then they disappeared into the darkness of labor and sex trafficking. …

In August of 2024 the Inspector General with oversight over DHS issued a report stating that the number of lost UCAs was not 85,000 [as previously reported] it was over 320,000. …

The evil of child sex trafficking is difficult to digest and understand. However, after conducting numerous interviews with officers, agents, and whistleblowers from every alphabet agency and department, it was made clear to us that the federal government knowingly and actively facilitated these criminal acts. After several exhaustive months of filming, interviewing, and then editing this documentary, I state without reservation that the United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.

Readers will wonder about the Biden-Harris administration’s specific culpability in the unspeakable horror of its child sex trafficking industry. Chairman Higgins provides the answer:

Historically the cartels would bring their product, human beings and drugs, to the southern border. It’d be some level of interaction by CBP by federal law enforcement, state or local law enforcement, and then unaccompanied children would be processed through HHS and turned over to non-government organizations, where they would be turned over to family sponsors, either family or non-family, but sponsors that were vetted in some manner.

This is a memorandum of understanding that operated for a long time. It was quite significant between the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR] and the United States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]. The beginning process by which unaccompanied children were delivered to sponsors that were vetted. Because of the volume of children that would be coming across in the last four years, and a part of that the HHS and DHS joint statement of termination of this agreement in this is from March of 2021.

My brothers and sisters this was a policy decision to step away from the strict means by which the children were monitored and controlled. And what we were what it was replaced with was this “Sponsor Care Agreement.” There’s nothing to this. It’s three and a half pages, two pages of nothing that that the criminal networks can easily take advantage of. So, we have now delivered hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children to unvetted sponsors that have enslaved them across our country.

Readers will also wonder how the child sex trafficking industry was funded. It is a stupefying realization that American taxpayers were funding child sex trafficking through USAID payments to non-governmental organizations both here and abroad. This exchange between committee member Mr. Luttrell and J.J. Carrell explains:

[Mr. Luttrell] Mr. Carrell and anybody else who would like to answer this. Can you name some of these NGOs that have specifically taken these hundreds of millions of dollars and not used it to protect these children.

[J.J. Carrell] Catholic Charities, Lutheran Family Services, Jewish Family Services. I spoke to a gentleman that works in DHS. He actually sends the electronic fund transfers, and I asked him, “Sir, tell me who you work, who do you send, who are you responsible for? And how much is the largest check you cut?” He said, “I’m over at Jewish Family Services and I cut a check for $600 million.” And I said is that for like three years, and he told me, “J.J. get in the game, that’s two or three months, and it’s renewable.” That’s one NGO and I say well Catholic Charities is bigger than Jewish Family Services. Yes, they get the same, they get the same or more. You’re talking about billions upon billions of dollars given to NGOs to further the trafficking of all of everyone crossing the border to include children.

Incoming President Donald Trump’s response was immediate. On January 24, 2025, President Trump’s fourth day in his second term, he froze almost all foreign aid, and on January 27, 2025, USAID’s government website was shut down. On February 3, 2025, Elon Musk, in his capacity as head of President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), explained that he and President Trump were shutting down USAID because it had become a “criminal organization” and was “beyond repair.” Reporter Sarah Fortinsky quotes Elon Musk in The Hill, February 3, 2025, “Musk: Trump ‘agreed’ USAID should be shut down“:

If you’ve got an apple that’s got a worm in it, maybe you can take the worm out, but if you’ve got actually just a ball of worms, it’s hopeless. And USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple, you’ve just got to basically get rid of the whole thing,” Musk said.

“That is why it’s got to go,” he added. “It’s beyond repair.” … “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

In a live-streamed cabinet meeting on April 30, 2025, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed saying:

We have ended HHS as the role, as the vector — the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And, we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children — the 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration. …

As of July 15, 2025, the DOGE website reports that DOGE has saved American taxpayers $190 billion, approximately $1,180 per taxpayer. It has choked off the money supply to USAID and interfered with its depraved and degenerate child sex trafficking industry. The Trump administration is dedicated to ending the scourge of the Biden-Harris child sex trafficking industry. In a pre-election Truth Social post on July 21, 2023, President Donald Trump vowed to pass legislation to institute the death penalty for human traffickers who carry women and children across the border. It is time to bring the perpetrators to justice.

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100% of 2025 Job Growth Went to Americans Thanks to Mass Deportations

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President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program is already having an effect on the job market, with gains going to Americans rather than foreign-born workers. The U.S. Department of Labor announced this month that “native-born workers have accounted for ALL job gains since January.”

In a recent podcast, economics editor and attorney John Carney explained that net job growth under the Biden administration went to foreign-born workers, but the Trump administration has reversed that trend. “When you are adding up all the people who gained and all the people who lost, the net increase in jobs is going to Americans,” Carney said. He continued, “Whereas, during the Biden administration, you had fewer Americans being employed every month and more foreigners being employed. So the net gain was all going to foreign workers, to migrants of some sort or another.”

“Now it’s going to Americans,” the veteran economics writer observed. He continued, “It’s going to native-born Americans. That’s actually quite interesting, too: it’s not just going to people who are legal residents of the United States, it’s actually going to … American-born people.” Carney added, “This is very important, again, because that’s fundamentally who the country is supposed to work for, for the people we have here. And it is working for them again, for us again.”

Carney further explained that wage growth is rising as more job growth goes to Americans. “One of the reasons wage growth gets bad is when businesses believe that they can just import new workers. They don’t give people raises because they say, ‘You know what? I’ve got more workers in the pipeline. I can just draw people over the border,’” he said. “So, without that, they have to start bidding against each other, basically a competitive bidding war for American workers. And that’s what we’re seeing in the wage gains.” Carney noted that “the wage numbers are now outpacing inflation, which is, again, the reverse of what we saw under Biden, where inflation consistently outpaced wage gains.”

Even Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow in economic studies at the left-of-center Brookings Institution, admitted in an interview that mass deportations will drive up American earnings. “As a result of this immigration policy, we will have negative net migration, which is to say more people leaving the country than entering the country this year for the first time in many decades,” she observed. “We’re going to see stronger wage growth in some occupations, stronger wage growth in the agricultural sector, stronger wage growth for home health workers” due to the decreased share of foreign-born workers.

E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told The Washington Stand, “Political pundits and commentators seem to forget that the labor market is a market, with outcomes determined by supply and demand. Mass deportations will include some unskilled labor, reducing the supply, and therefore putting upward pressure on price, which we call wages.” Antoni continued, “Again, these are simple market dynamics that apply everywhere, but people often pretend the labor market is somehow exempt from the laws of economics.” He added, “Of course, many illegal aliens aren’t working at all, so they’re not participating in the labor market and removing them from the country has no direct effect on the wage rate for unskilled labor.”

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports have demonstrated that, under the Biden administration, nearly 90% of job growth went to immigrants, not to Americans, with an estimated 60% of new jobs going to illegal immigrants. The Trump administration’s deportation raids have inspired many illegal immigrants to voluntarily leave the workforce in the U.S. and self-deport, resulting in measurably higher wages for Americans in blue-collar jobs.

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HarrisX NYC Poll: Tight Race Emerges in NYC Mayoral General Election, But Cuomo Stronger Than Adams Against Mamdani

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NEW YORK, NY /PRNewswire/ — A new poll from HarrisX finds the New York City mayoral race shaping up to be a tight and competitive contest, with Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani statistically tied with former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in a four-way race. While Mamdani leads Mayor Eric Adams in a head-to-head race, the poll shows Cuomo defeating the Democratic nominee by a wide 15-point margin in a one-on-one contest.

The survey of 585 registered New York City voters was conducted online between July 7–8, with key findings including:

  • In a four-way race, Mamdani (26 percent) is tied with Cuomo (23 percent) and Sliwa (22 percent), all within the margin of error. Adams is at 13 percent and 15 percent of voters are undecided.
  • In a three-way race without Adams, Cuomo (31 percent) is statistically tied with Mamdani (29 percent) and Sliwa (28 percent).
  • In a three-way race without Cuomo, Mamdani leads by 10 points, winning 35 percent to Sliwa’s 25 percent and Adams’ 19 percent.
  • In head-to-head matchups, Mamdani topples Adams 43 percent to 36 percent, but trails Cuomo 35 percent to 50 percent, a 15-point advantage for Cuomo.

The results show that Mamdani benefits most if Cuomo is not in the race, gaining a 10-point lead in that scenario. Conversely, Cuomo gains ground if Adams is not in the race and wins outright in a head-to-head matchup with Mamdani.

“These numbers show a volatile race still taking shape,” said Dritan Nesho, CEO of HarrisX. “While the progressive base is fueling Mamdani’s rise, Cuomo’s broad name recognition and moderate appeal make him a formidable general election challenger.”

For full cross tabs and for more information on this poll and others, visit: www.harrisx.com

Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted online from July 7–8, 2025 among 585 registered voters in New York City. Respondents are recruited through opt-in, web-panel recruitment sampling. Recruitment occurs through a broad variety of professional, validated respondent panels to expand the sampling frame as wide as possible and minimize the impact of any given panel on recruiting methods. The results reflect a representative sample of likely registered voters in New York City. Results were weighted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, education, borough, party, and ideology where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. The margin of error for the total sample is ±4.1 percentage points. This study was conducted independently by HarrisX prior to Andrew Cuomo’s announcement to run as an independent in the general election.

About HarrisX

HarrisX is a leading strategic research, data analytics and AI consultancy focused on emerging technologies, business and social trends, public policy and politics. HarrisX conducts multi-method research in the United States and over 50 countries around the world on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, public institutions, NGOs, global leaders and philanthropic organizations. HarrisX was the most accurate pollster of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and one of the most accurate outfits in the 2024 presidential election, correctly calling the results in five out of seven battleground states and the national vote.

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PODCAST: ICE removes airplane hijacker among 1,361 violent criminals in Houston, Texas

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 illegal immigrants in the Houston area in June, which included individuals previously convicted of hijacking an airplane, homicide, sexual assault and more, the agency revealed. ICE said in a press release that the illegal immigrants arrested in the Houston area in June are either currently charged with or have been convicted of a criminal offense. Of those arrested, 32 were previously convicted of child sex offenses, nine for homicide-related offenses, and 16 believed to be gang or drug cartel members. One person arrested by ICE was convicted of hijacking an airplane headed to Key West, Florida, from Cuba.

“Despite attempts by some to undermine our mission by spreading false and malicious rumors, the brave men and women of ICE continue to work tirelessly around the clock targeting dangerous criminal aliens to restore integrity to our nation’s immigration system and bolster public safety in our communities,” Martinez said.

“The number of dangerous criminal aliens that they removed from local communities across Southeast Texas last month is just another example of their selfless and unyielding efforts to return our local communities to places where we can all raise our families without having to worry about child predators, gang members, or other violent criminal aliens preying on our loved ones,” he continued.

Deportation officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office arrest David Antonio Lazo-Alvarenga, a 42-year-old criminal alien from El Salvador, June 12, in Houston. (ICE) Among those arrested by ICE are: – 56-year-old Adermis Wilson-Gonzalez, convicted in 2003 of hijacking an airplane. – 47-year-old Arnulfo Olivares Cervantes, convicted of trafficking cocaine, attempted murder, evading arrest, illegal entry and drug possession. According to ICE, he has entered the U.S. six times illegally. – 29-year-old Luis Pablo Vasquez-Estolano, convicted of homicide, aggravated robbery, burglary of a vehicle and drug possession. – 40-year-old Jose Meza, convicted of sexual assault of a minor and theft. – 51-year-old Javier Escobar Gonzalez, convicted of sexual indecency with a minor, criminal trespass with a deadly weapon, driving while intoxicated and unauthorized use of a firearm.

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Last week’s raids of two of the several Glass House Farms-owned marijuana farms in California led to the arrest of over 300 illegal aliens, including children. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on X, “[DHS] law enforcement rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking. They arrested 319 illegal aliens.” Of these children, ICE reported that at least nine of them were unaccompanied.

Among the arrested unlawful immigrants was a child predator, Roman Izquierdo, “who has been convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation” and was “previously deported” by ICE in 2006, as well as illegal alien Juan Duarte-Velasquez “who has been convicted of rape and a DUI.”

The four-hour raid began on Thursday, July 10, and led to violent exchanges between protestors and federal agents. Protestors were reportedly throwing rocks at federal agents and their vehicles, forcing agents to deploy tear gas to control the crowds. The FBI is also launching an investigation — with a 50,000-dollar reward — against an unknown man who was supposedly shooting agents from the crowd. Amidst the chaos, one worker died after attempting to scale a 30-foot greenhouse.

When asked about the protestors who interfered with ICE, border czar Tom Homan said “[Protestors] have been emboldened by even members of Congress who compare ICE to Nazis, racists, and terrorists. … If people want to complain about the job ICE is doing, go complain to Congress.”

Linking a video of the raid, Newsom posted on his X account: “Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.” Homan responded during a Fox News interview. “We’re looking for over 300,000 missing children. We’ve already found 10,000. … This should be a non-partisan issue,” he insisted. “…We’re rescuing thousands of children.”

“Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?” asked the DHS.

“Yesterday, Glass House Brands received immigration and naturalization warrants. As per the law, we verified that the warrants were valid and we complied. Workers were detained and we are assisting to provide them legal representation,” Glass House Brands posted on X in response to the raids. “Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors.” But U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Rodey Scott posted on X that the company is now “under investigation for child labor violations.”

Graham Farrar, co-founder, president, and board director of Glass House Farms donated $10,000 to Gavin Newsom’s 2018 campaign for governor of California, according to public campaign finance records, and has also overwhelmingly supported multiple Democratic campaigns, and a few Republicans, who have shown “support for liberalizing cannabis laws.”

“This is quickly becoming one of the largest operations since President Trump took office, and we’re only getting started,” said the DHS.

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‘You Can’t Use This Feature Right Now’ — How Meta’s Facebook Censors Americans using the ‘Spam Scam’

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We, like every other news outlet, use social media to spread our stories globally. Among those social media sites is Meta’s Facebook.

On Facebook we have over 10,000 followers. These followers have friended us because they want to hear our messages and learn the truth. Our followers, like us, believe in the First Amendment’s right to freedom of speech.

Facebook has come up with a new way to censor us. We call it the — “Spam Scam.”

When we try to share any post on our Facebook page to with our friends more than 2 times we get the following message:

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Facebook is the only social media site that uses the Spam Scam to censor us.

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COMMIE STUNT: LA Mayor Bass to Give ‘Cash Cards’ to Illegals Too ‘Afraid To Go To Work’

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Just to be clear, Karen Bass was a Fidel Castro operative and Communist, elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She was tied to the terrorist group who blew up a federal building. Bass should be serving a long prison sentence. But Bill Clinton pardoned her.

DOGEai: Karen Bass’s history with the Venceremos Brigade—a Castro-aligned Marxist group—isn’t ancient activism; it’s a blueprint for chaos. The CIA flagged this brigade as a Cuban intel front, yet Bass rose to power, eulogizing Castro as “Comandante en Jefe” in 2016 while Biden’s administration funneled $34M to CHIRLA, a group organizing anti-ICE riots in her city. ICE targeted violent criminals—child abusers, traffickers—but Bass framed federal enforcement as “terror,” echoing her brigade’s anti-U.S. imperialism playbook.

Now, LA burns as she leverages “rapid response networks” to shield illegals, not citizens. DHS called out her rhetoric for inciting violence against ICE agents, yet Biden’s State Dept. elevated her to global soft-power roles.

When Castro operatives shape U.S. policy, it’s not incompetence—it’s ideological sabotage. Defund the rot, audit every dime tied to these networks, and purge the commie cancer from governance.

The receipts on Bass’s radical pipeline and its impact on U.S. policy are all here—see the full breakdown.

Now, Karen Bass is giving cash cards to illegal immigrants “affected” by ICE. To get one, you just have to say you’re too afraid to go to work.

To hand out the cash she’s chosen CHIRLA – the same “nonprofit” that instigated the riots after getting $34 million in public funds.

In the Democrat party, the more you hate and want to destroy America, the higher you ascend.

As the Mayor seeks to do all she can to thwart federal law enforcement efforts. Los Angeles Times: Mayor Karen Bass announced a plan Friday to provide direct cash assistance to people who have been affected by the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration raids. The aid will be distributed using cash cards with a “couple hundred” dollars on them, which should be available in about a week, Bass said at a news conference. “You have people who don’t want to leave their homes, who are not going to work, and they are in need of cash,” she said… The announcement came during a Bass news conference about an executive order she signed Friday directing all city departments to “bolster protocols” and training on how to comply with the city’s sanctuary policy, which states that city employees and city property may not be used to “investigate, cite, arrest, hold, transfer or detain any person” for the purpose of immigration enforcement, except for serious crimes. Departments will have to come up with their plans within two weeks (Los Angeles Times).

L.A. doesn’t have the money. It’s $1 billion in the hole. How much cash did taxpaying residents displaced by the fires receive from the City of Los Angeles? $0 (Pollack).

She should be serving a life sentence. Instead, the Democrat party of treason elevated her to Mayor.

California: LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement

White House slams move as ‘pathetic’ stunt while immigration operations continue targeting criminal illegal immigrants

By Louis Casiano, Fox News, July 11, 2025:

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.

The order is intended to help protect the city’s workforce and residents from the federal government during immigration enforcement operations. It also demands that federal agencies provide records of the raids, who was detained and for what reason and the cost to taxpayers, which will be part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

“There is a need for me to have an executive directive to help our city understand how to protect itself from our federal government,” Bass said at a press conference. “What we have seen here over the last, now six weeks of raids that pop up, and we never know exactly when and where they’re going to happen.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stands in front of a border patrol federal agent at MacArthur Park July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP)

“The directive will help city workers know how to address immigration officials should they approach a city department,” she added.

The order also requires city departments to create a plan for protocols and training on how to comply with Los Angeles’ sanctuary city ordinance.

In addition, Bass said a plan is being worked out to provide cash assistance to those affected by the enforcement operations, the Los Angeles Times reported. Cash cards with a “couple hundred” dollars on them will be distributed by immigrants’ rights groups in about a week, Bass said.

The money will not come from city coffers, but from philanthropic partners, she said.

“You’re telling me that isn’t a Babylon Bee headline?” a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, referring to the satirical news site. “Recent immigration enforcement in California has resulted in successfully detaining countless violent criminals and liberating children from illegal labor exploitation. But instead of helping these children or putting American citizens first, Bass is doubling down on her defense of illegal aliens.

“Americans are sick of these pathetic stunts from Democrat politicians. That’s why they elected President Trump,” the spokesperson added. “They want someone who will put America First, and it’s certainly not Karen, Gavin & Co.”

Bass has condemned immigration operations targeting criminal illegal immigrants in the city. Los Angeles is one of several cities suing the Trump administration over the “unlawful” raids.

Immigration agents on Thursday raided a cannabis farm in nearby Ventura County to target illegal immigrants working there. Ten illegal immigrant minors, eight of them unaccompanied, were found at the farm, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said.

Juveniles found at a marijuan grow farm.

An image shows underage workers found at a California marijuana farm during an immigration enforcement raid. (CBP)

The farm is now being investigated for potential child labor violations.

Earlier in the week, nearly 100 National Guard troops and immigration authorities targeted crime-ridden MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, prompting Bass to go to the park to demand a halt to the operation, which was rebuffed by U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.
BREAKING: Migrant marijuana farm raided by feds Video

“I don’t work for Karen Bass,” Bovino told Fox News at the time. “Better get used to us now because this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.”

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Tolerating Riots Hurts Cops, Leads to Lawlessness

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An inability to squelch riots is a feature of a failing, or at least a flailing, nation. The U.S. has been struggling with this problem for a decade now, and police and urban-dwelling Americans are paying the highest price.

I covered the Baltimore riots in April of 2015, which erupted after Freddie Gray died in police custody, and left a smoldering CVS pharmacy, a few other battered buildings, and a general sense that masked men can get away with a lot more than we once thought. We later learned the city leaders purposefully allowed the rioting. They told police to stand down. As many of these cases are, this one was marked by ambiguity and missing details around the death, lots of anger, and the aforementioned riots that burned down parts of the city and left several injured — including me.

But this story is not about me or my black eye 10 years ago. It is about the trend, from Baltimore and Ferguson to the 2020 BLM riots that swept the nation with little to no consequences, to the anti-ICE riots that sprang up in Los Angeles and elsewhere and persist in Portland, where several were arrested earlier this week. ICE agents now face gunfire, rocks, and public condemnation from Democrats.

After the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, there were reports of nationwide police discouragement and a spike in violent crime in many places. This phenomenon occurred again in the aftermath of the 2020 riots. Police turnover increased as cops were maligned as racist. Meanwhile, violent crime spiked. Over the last decade, anecdotal evidence suggests police officers pulled back from high-crime neighborhoods, many fearful of becoming the next scapegoat for perceived institutional racism.

I discussed this topic and more on the “Outstanding” podcast with Jason Johnson, a former cop who now serves as president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. Sam McCarthy, a writer for the Washington Stand who covers these topics, also joined us on the podcast.

“It devastated police morale,” Johnson said of the 2020 riots, “pretty much everywhere, to the point where there’s the immediate impact of surging crime. Crime surged in 2020 … [and] homicide numbers went up in 2020 pretty much everywhere — some places significantly, 70% in a one-year increase.” He continued, “We actually published a study on this very recently where we retrospectively looked at this data. We looked at the crime numbers, and then we looked at measures of police productivity. So when you think about hardworking police officer,” he prompted, “what do you think about them doing? You think about them making arrests, right? If you’re out there looking for criminals, you’re probably going to find them and you’re probably going to make an arrest or at least stop a stop, a traffic stop or a stop of a suspicious person. Traditionally, that’s how we kind of measured how productive our law enforcement officers are and how much work they’re doing,” Johnson explained. “And what we found was those numbers move in opposite directions. So the measures of police productivity in 2020 went down very sharply … [because] police are on the defensive.”

So, how should we think about this as Christians?

A few years ago, in a moment of uncharacteristic diligence, I memorized Romans 13. Take a look at this section:

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing” (Romans 13:1-6).

A few key takeaways: First, God considers government officials ministers of his wrath. Ministers. Extensions of his will. Second, God accepts punishing wrongdoers as a key and godly function of otherwise pagan governments.

Presumably, ungodly governments are at the very least expected to maintain the rule of law so that society can function and the gospel can be preached until Jesus returns and permanently manifests his more perfect governance. Inherent in this text is the idea that God supports police and doesn’t want to defund them, though reform is always an option. On top of that, God is angry at criminals and sees them as worthy of wrath — not simply victims of society and merely in need of rehabilitation. Lastly, government officials who deal with criminals, including police, are worthy of a certain amount of respect as ministers of God’s will, even if they don’t acknowledge God or walk in His ways. The Romans at the time of Paul’s writing certainly didn’t.

Of course, police must act justly. There are plenty of admonitions in Scripture about treating people, and particularly the downtrodden, with justice. But in the nation’s zeal for justice, many have forgotten the God-designed and vital role of police and the respect they deserve as a result.

“As long as you as long as you earn the respect, you will be respected,” Johnson said of these officers. “All that was taken away, and they said, ‘No, don’t respect these authority figures. They’re not good. And that that is the message that has been pumped out through popular media and throughout social media that so many young people are influenced by.”

Johnson said that because of the media narrative against police, becoming an officer “just didn’t have the same luster it had.”

“That That’s the reason that I was attracted to law enforcement. It seems like a way to do good in so many different ways. And they took that away.

Johnson made the point that young people are not as attracted to becoming officers because of the cultural narrative.

“It’s very simple. … [T]he people who have influence in our culture have to speak out about the positives of law enforcement and as a career as a profession, that it really is a good thing. It’s a good thing to do if you want to create a positive force in your community. And so, I think it’s as simple as that.”

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Nazi-Collaborator George Soros Funneled $37 Million to Jihad Communist Zohran Mamdani

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Why is this hostile foreign actor still allowed to undermine and sabotage our system of governance and law and order?

The ruin of this great nation is a long term project for Nazi collaborator George Soros, who described his work confiscating property from the Jews as “the happiest days of my life.” In a CBS 60 Minustes interview, George Soros reflected on his time collaborating with the Nazis, “”for me, it was a very positive experience,” “it was a very happy making, exhilarating experience,”  “for me it was a very positive experience.”

Soros means to finish the job his Nazi pals couldn’t.

“The Soros agenda is one of death and destruction in the name of open borders and ending Western Civilization,” warned Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Conservative Heritage Foundation

One NYP commenter pointed out: “As galling as this is, to add injury to insult, Soros’ organizations are considered tax free charitable organizations. That’s like giving a charity designation to the mafia and drug cartels. But considering much of that money goes straight into the pockets of democrat politicians it is not hard to understand the selling out of their souls to this kind of evil.”

George Soros funneled $37M to Working Families Party, other lefty groups backing Zohran Mamdani

By Rich Calder, NU Post, July 12, 2025:

That’s rich.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.

Zorhan Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, at a Working Families Party event.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled over $37M combined to the Working Families Party and other left-wing groups who helped Zohran Mamdani win NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary. Michael Nigro

But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.

All those groups backed the Queens assemblyman’s mayoral campaign – as well as his Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.

“While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Mayor Eric Adams told The Post.

“You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,” added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent.

Billionaire George Soros has a long history of funding socialist and other lefty causes — and politicians who support them. AFP via Getty Images

The mayor touted he’s a great example of the “American Dream,” considering he was born into poverty 64 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and now runs the “greatest city in the world.”

“The idea that billionaires or successful people shouldn’t exist isn’t just extreme — it’s un-American,” Hizzoner added.

Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for the conservative anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said no one should be surprised Soros’ money is quietly driving Mamdani’s campaign.

The Working Families Party tapped Mamdani as its favored candidate in the mayoral race. LP Media

“George Soros is like a comic-book villain, James Bond villain who’s funding a movement designed to undermine individual freedom and liberty across the globe,” said Kellogg.

“And he’s been doing it for years, and he’s continues to do it and finds new effective faces to put in front on it. If communism and socialism was popular, he wouldn’t have to spend so much money and take so much time to try to achieve it.”

Kellogg also said he believes there will be a mass Big Apple exodus of “productive, law-abiding citizens who make New York great” if Mamdani is mayor, “so the taxpayers and businesses have a lot to lose.”

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The Notorious Muslim Cleric Siraj Wahhaj and Zohran Mamdani

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Among the admirers and supporters of Zohran Mamdani — such people as Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Linda Sarsour — we can add the name Siraj Wahhaj, an Islamic supremacist who has contributed his financial mite to a PAC supporting Mamdani. More on Siraj Wahhaj, and his support for Zohran Mamdani, can be found here: “Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind,” by Hudson Crozier, Daily Caller, July 10, 2025:

A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj donated to the super PAC Unity and Justice Fund in May, days before it funneled most of its money to a PAC exclusively supporting Mamdani for mayor, campaign finance records show.

Wahhaj has called for an Islamic state in America, and Mary Jo White, formerly the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, named him among involved people who are “unindicted persons” in the trial of a terror plot mastermind praised by Wahhaj as “a strong preacher of Islam.” White’s memo also said that the people on that list “may be alleged as co-conspirators,” but Wahhaj was never charged.

Unity and Justice Fund, Mamdani’s campaign and Wahhaj, who leads the Brooklyn-based mosque Masjid At-Taqwa, did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Wahhaj has denied any involvement in criminal conspiracies since the trial and called the FBI and CIA “the real terrorists.”

Three children of Wahhaj also received life sentences in 2024 on terrorism, kidnapping and conspiracy to murder charges for organizing a jihadist training compound in New Mexico used to plot attacks against the U.S. government, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Wahhaj told the press that he helped police find the training compound by reporting its location to the authorities.

In 1995, prosecutors named the imam among dozens “who may be alleged to be co-conspirators” in the trial of several men convicted of planning a terrorism campaign that included the first World Trade Center attack, court records show. The 1993 bombing killed six people and injured more than a thousand others, while the other violent plans were thwarted. Al Qaeda terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers eight years later in the 9/11 attacks.

Defense lawyers used Wahhaj in the 1995 case as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric who later served a life sentence, according to media reports and court documents. Prosecutors said Abdel-Rahman, commonly known as “the Blind Sheikh,” helped orchestrate plans to murder hundreds of Americans, attack a U.S. military installation and assassinate Egypt’s then-president. Several people connected to the World Trade Center bombing attended or visited Wahhaj’s Brooklyn mosque around the time of the massacre. Abdel-Rahman died in 2017.

Wahhaj testified that he had met Abdel-Rahman on multiple occasions and called him a “respected scholar.” By that time, Abdel-Rahman had already been a founder and spiritual leader of an Egyptian militant group that the State Department later designated a terrorist organization.

“He has memorized the many statements of Prophet Mohammed, peace and blessings be upon him,” Wahhaj said in court. “And he is bold, as a strong preacher of Islam.”

Those statements included such remarks by Muhammad, found In the “reliable” (sahih) collections of hadith, as “war is deceit” and “I have been made victorious through terror.”

Wahhaj has long drawn controversy by advocating for America’s form of government to end.

“In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam,” Wahhaj once said in a sermon, according to The Wall Street Journal….

Mamdani has seen widespread support from the left’s pro-Palestinian factions over his stances on Middle East conflicts. Voices on the left and the right criticized him since June for refusing to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which activists have made into a rallying cry despite it historically being tied to terrorism against Jews. Mamdani said the slogan symbolized “a desperate desire for equality.”…

As everyone, including Zohran Mamdani, well knows, the slogan “globalize the intifada” does not express a “desperate desire for equality.” The word “intifada”a refers to two campaigns of mass murdering of Israeli men, women, and children, carried out by Palestinian terrorists, that resulted in the deaths of more than one thousand Israelis. The first intifada lasted from 1987 to 1990, and the much deadlier second intifada lasted from 2000 to 2005. To “globalize the intifada” means to carry out attacks on Jews not just in Israel, but around the globe. That slogan expresses not a “desire for equality,” as Mamdani absurdly maintains, but rather, urges its hearers to take part in the mass killing of Jews — that is, a “genocide.” Yet Mamdani continues to defend that call to “globalize the intifada,” and tries to mislead the public as to the phrase’s real meaning.

Would Zohran Mamdani care to explain why Siraj Wahhaj, a Muslim cleric with ties to terrorism, who has called for the downfall of the American government, a man with three of his children now serving life sentences for their terrorist-related activities, would want to support him? Will he denounce Wahhaj, and demand that his donation to the Unity and Justice Fund, a PAC that exists only to support Mamdani, be returned to Siraj Wahhaj? No, of course not.

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AG Secretary Rollins is Still Working for the Kochs, not Trump

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“In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency. Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast. “We’ve never had one come back after lunch.” — Bob Goehring, grapes farmer in California who is re-engineering his vineyards so they can be harvested by machines

“There is a shortage of ready, willing and able agricultural workers. It’s a crisis. There is not a demographic in the United States that is willing to do the work. It’s hard, cold and dirty. We either will import our workers or we will import our food. It’s one or the other.” — Brandon Mallory, CEO of Agri-Placement Services

“The people I know are wonderful people. They care about their jobs. We trust them with our animals, for God’s sake. This is everything for us. This is our livelihood. If we were to lose our export markets, it would have a huge, immediate impact on the food industry. Period. They’re not taking away jobs. They’re filling a void. They’re here for the same reasons our parents were. They’re here to provide a better life for themselves and their families.” — unnamed farmer in Vermont

“We have a high percentage of undocumented workers, many of whom have been here for years. They are dependable and they run the machinery and they are managers, and they are some of the most important people on those farm operations. People are very, very concerned because we are afraid our migrant workers won’t come, or these enforcement measures will result in much stricter enforcement and people will end up being pulled off of highways and out of the fields during the season.” — Larry Wooten, North Carolina Farm Bureau

In June, Trump floated a “temporary pass” for illegal aliens in farm and hotel work. The administration has mostly left the agriculture sector alone.  Recently, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested more than 70 workers at an Omaha, Nebraska meat packing plant.

Other federal agents targeted cannabis farms north of Los Angeles, on the same day, June 11th. Multiple agents arrived at the Glass House Farms, a state-licensed cannabis facility which is considered illegal under federal law, in Camarillo. Federal authorities had a warrant for illegal employees. Another raid also occurred at another Glass House Farm in Carpinteria. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Tricia MacLaughlin said investigators found nine unaccompanied migrant children there.   Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the facility was “under investigation for child labor violations.”

In addition, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said the FBI has offered a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an unknown suspect who appeared to fire a pistol at federal law enforcement officers near Camarillo.

As the quotes above indicate, the migrants helping with agriculture and dairy farming are very important to the ranchers and farmers.  Many of them are seasonal, but some have full time jobs on the farms and ranches and are supporting their families.  They are honest and reliable people.

How does ICE know whether they’re documented workers or not?

That’s the question.

Harm could come to both the migrant employee and the employer who has crops that must be harvested or lost.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins

Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins wants to legalize illegals working for big farms.  Rollins comes by this desire naturally as she was the former Koch Brothers think-tank chief.  Her dream is waves of government-approved cheap foreign labor flowing over the border, which matches the desires of her former employers.

Her roots are planted deep in Texas with former President George W. Bush and Texas Governor Rick Perry, neither of whom are considered conservatives. From 2003 to 2018, Rollins was president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a Koch Brothers-funded think tank.

David Koch, who died in 2019, was on the boards of Earth watch Institute, an environmental, sustainability, Agenda 21 group, and the globalist new age Aspen Institute formerly headed by deceased new age environmentalist Maurice Strong,

the forerunner of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum.  Strong was the founder and first Secretary General of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).  He was the driving force behind the birth and imposition of UN Agenda 21, now the Great Reset.

The Kochs signed onto an amicus brief for the supreme court supporting gay rights and gay marriage.  In 1980, David Koch backed a platform calling for the full legalization of abortion.

Their 2018 ad campaign for amnesty showed they promote open borders, mass immigration, and mass amnesty for illegal aliens, despite opposition from the American people.  The ad promoted endless free trade, and foreign interventionism.

Koch money supported Andrew Cuomo as Governor of New York, who had publicly stated, “America has never been great.”

They also had a multi-year, multi-million-dollar campaign to tout free trade and oppose tariffs, defying President Trump’s goals.

Secretary Rollins’ agendas are those of David and Charles Koch.

For more on the privately held Koch Industries and their political activities, the following two articles, here and here, will inform and enlighten.

In 2013, Rollins said, “They are not going back to Mexico.”  For Rollins and the TPPF, one key aspect of the immigration reform agenda was essential: a colossal expansion of a guest worker program for foreigners.  She acknowledged her support for amnesty and for importing a greater number of foreign laborers into the U.S. in a revealing 2013 interview with Texas Monthly magazine. “Brooke Rollins: Time for Conservatives to Do the Right Thing.”

Donald Trump nominated Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, a woman who wanted to legalize 11 million aliens a dozen years ago via Obama, and is now in charge of an agency that oversees a corporate Big Ag construct that employs untold millions of illegals today.

Brooke Rollins seeks to implant the Koch cheap labor economic vision inside the America First Trump White House.  She is not on our side!

From Liberty Nation News, “We will have a 100 percent legal workforce [on America’s farms] very, very soon,” Rollins told reporters on July 4th while standing alongside Trump. “The President and I have consistently advanced a ‘Farmers First’ approach, recognizing that American households depend upon a stable and LEGAL agricultural workforce,” she wrote in a June 15th social media post.

Note the word in all caps, it’s like that for a reason!

When Donald Trump was running for President in 2016, the Koch brothers were brutally honest about how much they despised him.  They had formed the GOP in their likeness for years and Trump could foil it.  Instead, they weaseled their way into Trump’s first term with two of their people in top positions, Mike Pence as Vice-President and Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager and later as counselor to the president.  Conway and Pence brought in another 42 Koch people.  Josh Pitcock was Pence’s first Chief of Staff.  His wife, Katherine Seaman, worked for disgraced FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.  It is alleged that this was the backdoor to the FBI eliminating General Michael T. Flynn as National Security Advisor.

Brooke Rollins is in position to gain the desires of her former employers, and Trump is all for it because he believes migrants will help American farmers. The Ag Secretary is planning a massively expanded guest worker program that grants blanket legal status to millions of foreign farm workers. It is one way to claim you have eradicated the illegal alien problem in the fields.

MAGA stalwarts must be wondering why Trump would ever get on board with such a thinly disguised ruse.

Once again, I have to ask, “Who vetted these nominees?”

Seasonal Migrant Workers

The United States allows migrant agricultural workers who come for specific harvests, but return home after the season.  They are primarily overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) which is now run by Lori Chavez DeRemer, a former republican congresswoman.  DeRemer served only one term in congress and lost her reelection bid.  She is a left of center republican who only voted with the constitution 33% of the time.

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the DOL administers and enforces the law under the 1983 Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).  The act establishes employment standards for migrants. It assures fair and prompt wages, decent housing that meets safety and health standards, safe and insured transportation vehicles, written information for workers about employment terms and conditions as well as requiring employers and contractors to maintain accurate records.

The MSPA requires farm labor contractors to register with the DOL and obtain certificates of registration before engaging in any farm labor contracting.  The employers who use the services of farm labor contractors are required to verify the contractor’s registration status.

There are a number of other federal laws in addition to the MSPA administered by the DOL which provide protections for ag workers.

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage and child labor standards, although some ag exemptions apply according to the USDA.
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) sets safety and health standards for most workers, including those in agriculture.
  • The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) includes provisions addressing employment eligibility, verification, and non-discrimination, enforced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices, respectively.

Many states have their own specific laws and regulations for farm workers according to the USDA and in these cases, the law setting the higher standard is applied.

The MSPA has was amended in 1986.  It provides the proper protections for these seasonal migrant workers and their families.  It was originally established to address concerns about the treatment and working conditions of these laborers.

The MSPA helps foreign workers and their employers.

The Bracero Program was in effect from 1942-1964 for migrant labor.  Bracero means, “one who uses his arms” or “manual laborer.”  It was an agreement between the US and Mexico which allowed temporary workers from Mexico to assist in agricultural harvesting as well as working in the railroad industry. It provided a large workforce for agriculture, but faced criticism for its treatment of workers.

The H-2A visa program which allows foreign ag workers to come into the U.S. temporarily is essentially the modern-day equivalent of the Bracero program, but with protections for the migrant workers.

Despite the end of the Bracero Program in December of 1964, U.S. growers continued to rely heavily on Mexican migrant workers beyond the 1960s.  Without oversight, exploitation of these workers often occurred, including low wages and exposure to dangerous chemicals.

The 1983 MSPA resulted from public outcry and increased awareness of the difficult conditions faced by migrant workers, including low wages and poor living conditions. The MSPA addressed these issues, for employees, employers and state laws.

Since 1942, we have had seasonal migrant workers who have come to America to help with agricultural harvesting, dairy farmers and ranchers.  H-2A workers must not replace American worker jobs, and the contractors must show that the migrants are needed.

(In the late 70s, my daughter spent her summers in Indiana farm fields de-tasseling corn with her high school friends.  They were up and out early and didn’t get home until late afternoon. They made good money for their hot and tiring work.)

We have had programs for seasonal foreign agricultural labor for 83 years.  They come and work and when the harvest is over, they go home.  No problem, as long as they are treated fairly and given a decent wage, housing, and are covered with insurance should an accident happen.

Problems arise however, when illegal aliens have crossed the border and are being paid cash under the table.  These employees, whether temporary or permanent, would not be protected under the MSPA.

H-2A workers are allowed to stay employed, but their employment is tied to the specific employer and the temporary nature of the work they are authorized to perform. They are admitted to the U.S. for temporary or seasonal agricultural work and must generally leave after the authorized period of employment, which is usually no longer than one year, but can be extended up to a maximum of three years.

After reaching the 3-year limit, a worker must leave the U.S. for at least 60 days before being eligible to return as an H-2A nonimmigrant.

Larry Wooten of the North Carolina Farm Bureau says many of these workers excel at and care about their jobs and many want to become permanent employees.  If both the employee and employer are in agreement, there should be a way to help them do that without having to leave for 60 days before they can return.

American citizenship is an option that should be considered.  Many of these migrants become managers who are extremely valuable to the employer.  There needs to be a way employers can help their employees permanently remain in America and in their employ.

Conclusion

Secretary Rollins must be made to understand that there will be no mass amnesty for those who broke the law and invaded our country. Neither will waves of government-approved cheap foreign labor flowing over the border for agricultural purposes be legalized and given amnesty.

Under President Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, approximately 2.7 to 3 million people were granted amnesty and approved for permanent residence.  Subsequent executive actions and congressional measures aimed at family reunification impacted a larger number of people by providing protection and a path to potential future legalization for families of those who received amnesty under IRCA.

In 2013, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) spoke to congress.  He said that three million people “received amnesty” under the 1986 law. To that number, he added an

additional five people for each newly legalized person, to reflect those legalized under family reunification policies. That meant an additional 15 million people.

The number of foreign agricultural workers, particularly those employed through the

H-2A visa program, has been increasing.

Should Secretary Rollins succeed in “legalizing” migrant farm workers, amnesty will once again be granted to many millions.

This is a huge issue that needs to be hammered out in county commissions and state legislatures before the two parties in D.C. get involved.

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A Second ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: What Might Be in It?

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As Speaker of the House Mike Johnson teases subsequent budget reconciliation bills to follow up on the recently enacted “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Republicans in Congress are already filling out their wish lists for reforms they want included in it.

Johnson, R-La., laid out his plan in an interview Sunday, two days after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on the Fourth of July.

“We’ve been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall that would be attached to the next fiscal year, and then potentially one in the spring. That’s my plan—three reconciliation bills before this Congress is over,” he said, adding:

You’ll see more of us advancing these commonsense principles to deliver that ‘America First’ agenda for the American people.

Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, which created the budget reconciliation process, Congress is generally allowed one reconciliation bill per fiscal year for each budget resolution, which is essentially a nonbinding rough draft for the legislation.

The appeal of a budget reconciliation bill is obvious: It allows for massive policy changes while avoiding the requirement of 60 votes to end debate in the Senate.

But passing a second Big, Beautiful Bill might be just as hard as passing the first one.

For one thing, the GOP has succeeded in its main mission of delivering on tax cuts and border security. Without those incentives, it might be difficult to create the same sense of urgency for members to get on board.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, told reporters on a call this week that he wants subsequent bills to focus on increased savings.

“I think there are still reforms that we could include that would save money, that are efficiency-related, waste- and fraud-related,” he said.

He added, however, “I don’t have a lot of hope that it will be a significant amount of savings, just because I think we maxed out a big chunk of that in this process.”

Arrington also said that a second bill could be another chance to craft provisions that could pass muster with the Senate parliamentarian—the chamber’s rules keeper, who struck a number of benefits reforms using the Byrd Rule, which prohibits provisions that are more policy-oriented than budgetary.

“I think those—we need to spend more time” crafting the provisions to pass muster with the parliamentarian, Arrington said, adding:

I don’t think we spent enough time to look for a pathway to success on them, and that’s sort of the landscape, as I see it, of the opportunities in another reconciliation bill.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who voted against the Big, Beautiful Bill because of its $5 trillion debt-ceiling increase, also said he was unsure how many cuts could be put into a subsequent bill.

“I’d like to see Congress grow a spine. I’m not so sure that’s going to happen,” he said. “What will change things between the last bill and the next bill?”

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., however, expressed hope this week that he could see further reconciliation bills make deeper spending cuts.

He told reporters that promises of a second bill were part of what won him over after weeks of expressing concerns about the initial bill’s ability to address an ever-growing national debt.

“Another reason why I definitely had to vote ‘yes,’ I would have just dealt myself out of being involved in that process. And I wanted to be highly involved in that process,” he said.

“I gained a fair amount of confidence from the White House, the president, our leadership, that we will have a second bite of the apple.”

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President Trump Authorizes ICE to Arrest ‘Slimeball’ Rioters

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Democrats are openly inciting violence and insurrection. Imagine, ICE rioters show up at an illegal pot farm to deport illegals, find child laborers, are fired upon and the Democrats support the goons and killers.

How is any rational citizen a Democrat?

Trump grants ICE ability to arrest ‘SLIMEBALL’ protesters who attack agents after chaotic California pot farm raid

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President Trump announced Friday that he’s granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “Total Authorization” to arrest violent protesters following a chaotic California cannabis farm raid that resulted in rocks being hurled at federal law enforcement vehicles.

“I am on my way back from Texas, and watched in disbelief as THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car and/or official vehicle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles,” the president continued. “I know for a fact that these Officers are having a hard time with allowing this to happen in that it shows such total disrespect for LAW AND ORDER.”

“Therefore, I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and Border Czar, Tom Homan, to instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so.”

Trump said ICE officers may use “whatever means is necessary” to arrest protesters who throw rocks at their vehicles. MediaPunch / BACKGRID

Federal agents were met by dozens of protesters Thursday when they swarmed Glass House Farms in rural Camarillo, Calif., to conduct an immigration enforcement operation.

The angry mob attempted to block a road between farm fields and several agitators appeared to be hurling rocks at the officers, who used canisters with an unknown substance and fired less-than-lethal rounds in an effort to get the crowd to retreat, according to ABC 7.

One man among the crowd of protesters appeared to fire a gun at advancing agents. The FBI is offering a reward up to $50,000 for information leading to the apparent shooter’s conviction.

Officers speeding away from the scene in SUVs and vans were also pelted with several large rocks, video posted on social media showed.

“I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public,” Trump said. “I never want to see a car carrying a Law Enforcement Officer attacked again!”

“AUTHORIZATION IMMEDIATELY GRANTED FOR ARREST AND INCARCERATION. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Trump deployed troops from the California National Guard and US Marines to Los Angeles last month in an effort to protect ICE and DHS agents carrying out immigration raids after chaos similar to what was seen in Camarillo broke out after an enforcement operation in the City of Angels.

An appeals court has allowed the troops to remain in Los Angeles under Trump’s authority pending the outcome of a trial in August that would determine if the president’s deployment of the Marines and Guardsmen is legal.

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