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I bet you didn’t have this next development on your 2023 bingo card. It’s so remarkable that I’m going to show you three of yesterday’s headlines. First, the New York Times:




... So. Trump’s useless border wall is, apparently, back, and is more useful than ever. The story started on Wednesday, when multiple outlets reported that the Biden administration issued an emergency notice waiving 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction to immediately resume in South Texas. DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated in the notice, “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas.”

You don’t say.

I’ll note without further comment that the bizarre, controversial DHS border action came less than a week after Elon Musk tweeted his own trip to the border. The announcement also proved that we’re fully into election season now which, while good news for America’s border, is horrible news for Ukraine’s border problem.

It also came after the Biden administration’s January 20th, 2021, proclamation to terminate Trump’s border wall project, which then stated, “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.” Then President Peters seriously ordered $300 million in border construction supplies to be auctioned off at pennies on the dollar.

In response to the news, pro-immigrant leftists predictably went berserk. They must have known that was coming. I’m guessing Team Biden believed that his support is down to the maniacal 35% of democrats who’d vote for him no matter what, and now it’s time to “pivot” to the center.

Or, Biden won’t be running and they might as well take the hit now. But it wasn’t well-planned. Super-diverse Biden press secretary Karine something-or-other was hardest hit, stumbling to explain the latest move. ...

The move raises the intriguing question, what next? Will Biden make Mexico pay for the wall?

Over here in the U.S., the barbaric destruction unleashed at Israel’s failed border is raising some awkward questions about our own American border. The unrest is currently welling out of the GOP’s right wing, but I’m betting the notion will quickly spread toward the political middle, since there is really no effective rebuttal.

Here’s Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) comments from Saturday:




Former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake asked an obvious question yesterday: where are all the women?




There’s a lot I could say about this disastrous border issue, and I probably will say a lot more in coming days. But one thing the Israel attacks have proven beyond argument is that citizen fears about uncontrolled illegal immigration in the U.S. are not hypothetical, exaggerated, or fantastical, these undocumented people are legitimately a clear and present danger.

Republican governors should immediately consider two things. First, if it’s not already done, declare a state of emergency and do everything possible to thwart the federal relocation of illegal migrants into red states. Second, immediately start organizing civilian militias and training citizens how to fight back against a sudden sneak attack like Israel just endured.

There’s no time to waste.

It’s a unique political moment, and Governor DeSantis could seize it. Organize community militias in every Florida city and county and start training them. I intend to draft an open letter to the Governor today. Keep an eye on my Twitter feed.

Massachusetts is reaching the breaking point with its feel-good sanctuary laws. The Boston Herald ran a story last week headlined, “Maura Healey ‘distressed’ by migrants displacing veterans for Army-Navy game, but won’t provide specifics on migrant housing plan.”

Governor Healey is not the only one who’s distressed.

Massachusetts is running out of hotel rooms for regular citizens. Last week, veterans with long outstanding hotel reservations were shocked to discover their reservations canceled right before the Army-Navy game, since hotels had dumped them to grab the much more lucrative government largesse that is funding sleeping quarters, room service, and housekeeping for all the military-aged foreign men lacking any documentation.




It’s getting so bad that, in a clip making the rounds this week, Massachusetts officials called for volunteers to move illegal migrants into their homes: “If you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Become a sponsor family. If you’re a landlord or property owner, we can work with you to transition families into permanent housing.”

If some of the aliens are terrorists, and Massachusetts homeowners are “sponsoring” them, does that make them “sponsors of terrorism?” Just asking.

I will bet you my next paycheck that the woke, virtue-signaling “we welcome everyone” signs in Boston’s front yards will be vanishing faster than RoundUp-sprayed weeds. Rubber, meet the road.

Yesterday I drafted and sent my letter to Governor DeSantis calling for an organized response to our border problem. It was simple, straightforward, and got right to the point, hopefully increasing the odds our hyper-busy governor will read it. Today, whether or not you’re a Florida resident, if you agree, please email a copy of the letter to GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com.

So whoever reviews the Governor’s public email inbox gets the idea, use the subject line of “Letter re: Response to Attacks on Israel.” Add whatever additional thoughts you like. Hopefully, once they see how many of us are concerned about this issue, they’ll escalate the priority.

Of course! Israel can have its aid, as long as Ukraine gets some green, too. You can’t blame them. They have their priorities. Both conflicts are very similar, after all. Both aid packages are — facially — intended to help both countries secure both of their borders.

It’s a good thing there aren’t any other countries with insecure borders around here, or we could be in a real pickle.

Of course! Israel can have its aid, as long as Ukraine gets some green, too.

A recent report from the Texas Department of Public Safety revealed that 297,000 non-citizens had been “booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2019.” So these are non-citizens who allegedly committed local crimes, not immigration violations.

The report noted that a little more than two-thirds (202,000) of those booked in Texas jails were later confirmed as illegal immigrants by the federal government.

According to the Texas report, over the course of their criminal careers those illegal immigrants were charged with committing 494,000 criminal offenses.

Some of these cases are still being prosecuted, but the report states that there have already been over 225,000 convictions. Those convictions represent: 500 homicides; 23,954 assaults; 8,070 burglaries; 297 kidnappings; 14,178 thefts; 2,026 robberies; 3,122 sexual assaults; 3,840 sexual offenses; 3,158 weapon charges and tens of thousands of drug and obstruction charges

These statistics reveal the very real danger created by sanctuary policies. In nine self-declared sanctuary states and numerous sanctuary cities and counties, officials refuse to hand over criminals who are known to be in this country illegally after they have served their state or local sentences.

Victims of Illegal Aliens Memorial

@BillMelugin_
NEW: Internal CBP data provided & confirmed by CBP sources reveals thousands of “special interest aliens” from mostly Middle Eastern countries have been apprehended by Border Patrol while crossing into U.S. illegally over last 2 years.

Syria: 538
Yemen: 139
Iran: 659
Iraq: 123
Afghanistan: 6,386
Lebanon: 164
Egypt: 3,153
Pakistan: 1,613
Mauritania: 15,594
Uzbekistan: 13,624
Turkey: 30,830

Date range 10/1/2021 - 10/4/2023

These are Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry only, this data does not include CBP encounters at ports of entry.

Border Patrol sources tell me they have extreme concerns about who is coming into the country because they have little to no way of vetting people from these special interest countries. I’m told unless they have committed a crime previously in the US, or they are on some sort of federal watchlist, there’s no way to know who they are because most of their home countries don’t share data/records with the US so there is nothing to match a name to when BP agents run fingerprints.

A special interest alien is a term used by the U.S. government to refer to people coming from countries that have conditions that favor or harbor terrorism, or pose a potential national security to the U.S.

Oct 10, 2023
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@BenMFreeman
Reports suggest Palestinians permitted to work in Israel were among those who perpetrated the massacre.

The survivors recognised some of whom had worked on the Kibbutz.

They were the ones leading the Pogrom.
5:45 AM · Oct 11, 2023

Tucker Carlson 🚨🚨🚨

"I've spent 35 years living in Washington; I don't even recognize these people and what they're doing"

"Letting in 7 million people from the poorest countries in the world illegally and immediately putting them all on public benefits"

"That right there will destroy the country, and they did it on purpose"

@TuckerCarlson

Ep. 30 What's happening at the southern border isn’t just an invasion, but a crime. The politicians and NGOs responsible for it are criminals, who should be punished accordingly.

Time Code:

(3:00) Todd Bensman at the Border
(5:40) Guaranteed Entry into America
(13:20) Dominik Tarczynski
(18:50) "Not one illegal immigrant in Poland. Ever

We saw that Israel’s civilian population, well aware of the risks, was still largely unprepared to fight back, with horrifying consequences. In light of what happened last weekend in Israel, it seems entirely uncontroversial that we urgently need to get our own citizens ready to fight back if there’s a sneak attack here on soft targets with power knocked out and with local police somehow having been neutralized. If the power goes out, that should be a red alert for citizens to prepare for the worst.

Now that we’ve been warned by what happened in Israel, this kind of thing should not take us by surprise. Since the federal government will never do it, if for no other reason than that it makes their wide-open border policy look bad, the States must start preparing their citizens.

Twice-Deported Illegal Border Crosser Charged with Murder after 2 Bodies Found in Nashville

Biden Admin Orders Banks Not to Reject Illegal Immigrants' Loan Applications

Two federal agencies have warned financial institutions not to reject illegal immigrants' credit applications based solely or mostly on citizenship status.

By Tom Ozimek
10/14/2023

The Biden administration has warned U.S. banks and other financial institutions that they can't reject illegal immigrants' credit applications based solely or predominantly on their immigration status.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in a recent statement that rejecting illegal immigrants for credit cards and various types of loans just because they are noncitizens is unlawful.

The two agencies stated that they were issuing the warning "because consumers have reported being rejected for credit cards as well as for auto, student, personal and equipment loans because of their immigration status, even when they have strong credit histories and ties to the United States and are otherwise qualified to receive the loans." ...

"DOJ and CFPB tell banks it might be illegal to refuse to loan money to people [who] broke federal law to reach the bank. You gotta be kidding me. The invasion of illegal immigrants is intentional and must be stopped," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there were roughly 11.35 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States as of January 2022.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday calling for the deportation of foreign nationals who support Hamas.

In the letter addressed to the agency’s secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, the GOP senator urged the department to deport any foreign nationals who have expressed support for Hamas’s attacks on Israel, including international students studying in the U.S.

“I write to urge you to immediately deport any foreign national—including and especially any alien on a student visa — that has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on Israel,” Cotton wrote. “These fifth-columnists have no place in the United States.”

The letter, obtained by The Hill, comes as activists and college students across the U.S. have faced pushback after organizations at multiple colleges put out statements that have been characterized as defending the killings in Israel.

Cotton suggested that the DHS starts with deporting international students who signed or approved the letter from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee.

“Swiftly removing and permanently barring from future reentry any foreign student who signed onto or shared approvingly the anti-Semitic letter from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee on October 7 would be a good place to start,” Cotton wrote.

At Harvard, a group of more than 30 student-led groups signed a controversial letter saying that Israel was “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” happening in the region. The statement has since removed the names of the signing groups. Similar efforts took place at the University of Virginia and New York University.

Other pro-Palestinian student organizations distanced themselves from Hamas.

“We just stand for peace, it’s an emotional conflict,” one member of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee at Indiana University told the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.

Cotton said that despite Americans having the First Amendment right to speak freely, that same privilege does not apply to foreign nationals in the U.S.

“The appalling explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States over the past few weeks should disturb anyone who shares American values,” Cotton wrote. “While American citizens may have a First Amendment right to speak disgusting vitriol if they so choose, no foreign national has a right to advocate for terrorism in the United States.”

New York City offers one-way plane tickets to illegal immigrants to get them out

New York City officials are offering illegal immigrants a one-way ticket to anywhere in the world as part of its latest drive to get them off the streets ahead of the winter.

The city, which is seeing an influx of 4,000 new immigrants each week, has asked the Biden administration and the state of New York to help with the crisis, but it continues to face a worsening problem as the city runs out of room to house them.