Illegal aliens are hurrying to cross the southern border into the United States in fear that if former President Donald Trump is reelected, it will be more difficult.
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On Wednesdayβs broadcast of the Fox News Channelβs βAmericaβs Newsroom,β Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) said that the responsibility for the border begins with President Joe Biden and that while heβs starting to act, βItβs too slow.β Ryan began by saying
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Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) says President Joe Biden does not need to pass legislation through Congress to end the "historic invasion" at the United States-Mexico border.
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Most Americans likely to vote in this year's presidential election say they prefer deporting all illegal aliens from the United States rather than giving them amnesty, a new poll reveals.
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More than 500 political candidates have been placed under federal protection as a way to ensure the safety of the upcoming elections, said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The assertions follow the murders of more than 30 candidates during the current electoral cycle.
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On Tuesdayβs broadcast of the Fox News Channelβs βYour World,β Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that the Biden administration βtook actionβ to help secure the border βa long time agoβ and has βbeen enforcing the law from day one,β
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Breitbart Texas traveled west to what has become the busiest border crossing spot along the United States-Mexico border. The San Diego sector recently became the busiest Border Patrol sector for migrant crossings and the release of many migrants hoping to receive asylum and remain in the country.
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President Joe Biden is lobbying House and Senate lawmakers to increase immigration to the U.S. months before the 2024 presidential election.
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Once the busiest crossing point on the southwest border, migrant crossings in Lukeville have slowed significantly since an election-year deal was struck with Mexico in December. A once constantly busy transportation rally point used by the Border Patrol to stage migrants in the Organ Pipe National Monument now sits empty on most days. Where thousands of migrants once crossed each day, now, a few hundred migrants cross and are swiftly transported away from the border wall area.
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On Mondayβs broadcast of Fox 5βs βGood Day New York,β Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) claimed that President Joe Biden canβt reverse his reversal of former President Donald Trumpβs immigration policies because βThe law on asylum is really clear. If you
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A group of gunmen abducted, killed, and then dismembered a political candidate and his wife. The gunmen left their remains in the bed of a pickup on a busy street in the popular beach resort town of Acapulco, Guerrero.Β Mexico has experienced one of the bloodiest-ever political seasons, with more than 30 politicians being murdered so far.
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Gulf Cartel gunmen ambushed a squad of police officers, killing two, in a Mexican border city that Tamaulipas government officials claim is safe. The killing comes after a full day of cartel blockades and shootouts that spread terror among locals.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a pardon to U.S. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry, citing the state's Stand Your Ground laws and the right of self-defense. Perry was convicted by a Travis County court in April 2023 for shooting and killing Garret Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest.
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The House Homeland Security subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability will hold a hearing on the surge in illegal immigrants from China on Thursday, May 16.
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Authorities in Mexico City raided a high-end brothel and casino allegedly run by the Chinese Mafia in the cityβs historic downtown area.
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In a packed courtroom on Tuesday, a judge dismissed charges filed against 71 protesters arrested in late April at the Arizona State University Campus. The judge dismissed the cases without prejudice at the University Lakes Justice Court in Chandler, Arizona.
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On Wednesdayβs broadcast of the Fox News Channelβs βSpecial Report,β Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) stated that President Joe Biden needs βa major course correction, acknowledgment of inflation, the immigration crisis, and real attention to addressing both of those issues,β and
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A detention center in California used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is only housing five people, despite being able to hold thousands.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is introducing legislation to halt President Joe Biden from issuing photo ID cards to immigrants.
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Two foreign nationals reportedly pretended to be Amazon workers in an attempt to breach the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, located 36 miles outside of Washington, DC.
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Organizations that receive federal grants will be barred from aiding illegal immigration, according to a proposal from Rep.Β Virginia Foxx.
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An agency of the District of Columbia held a training session last month to teach illegal immigrants and other noncitizens how to vote, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.Β
News of the training session held by the local government in the nationβs capital comes as House Republicans push a billβwith the backing of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.βto require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
The D.C. Board of Elections conducted the April 10 event, called βNon-Citizen Voting Education Virtual Training.βΒ
Judicial Watch obtained 13 pages of the training sessionβs PowerPoint presentation through a request under the Freedom of Information Act. On one slide, the presentation says:
Non-U.S. citizen residents can vote in District elections for the offices of Mayor, Attorney General, Chairman or member(s) of the D.C. Council, member(s) of the State Board of Education, or Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner(s) Non-U.S. citizen residents cannot vote for Federal Offices.
The Heritage Foundationβs Oversight Project previously raised concerns about noncitizen voting in the District of Columbia. (Heritage established The Daily Signal in 2014.)
The District of Columbia is joined by local governments in California, Maryland, and Vermont in allowing foreign citizens to vote in local elections. Federal law allows only U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections.Β
State courts blocked New York City from allowing noncitizen voting there.Β
βIllegal aliens and noncitizens should not vote in any elections,β Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. βThat Congress allows the votes of citizens to be legally stolen by illegal aliens in our nationβs capital is inexcusable.β
The District of Columbia amended its election code last year to allow noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, to vote for local D.C. offices.Β
As noted in my book βThe Myth of Voter Suppression,β Democrats long have sought to change election laws to gain a political advantage. These noncitizen voting laws mimic a tactic used by New York Cityβs legendary Tammany Hall and other political machines that controlled big city politics.Β
The Districtβs presentation explains the qualifications for registering to vote when someone isnβt a U.S. citizen.Β
βTo register to vote in the District of Columbia as a non-citizen, you must: Be at least 17 years old and 18 years old by the next General Election; Maintain residency in the District of Columbia for at least 30 days prior to the election in which you intend to vote; Not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any state, territory, or country; Not been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote,β the presentation says.
Neither the D.C. Board of Elections nor the office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, responded to The Daily Signalβs request for comment on this report.Β
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President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security released an illegal alien convicted killer from Colombia into the U.S.
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The Biden administration claims that the Texas border island that was utilized by Mexican drug cartels for drug and human smuggling operations is owned by the federal government. The State of Texas recently secured the island from the Mexican drug cartels and cleared it of underbrush.
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Kinney County, Texas, one of several American border communities, has seen criminal prosecutions explode as illegal immigration has hit record levels on President Joe Biden's watch.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNALβA foreign national named Paul registered to vote at a local office of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and records show that he voted, although he says his American wife voted after being accidentally checked in under his name.Β
Another noncitizen, Najib, also was registered to vote at a motor vehicles office, and his name was discovered on the voter rolls after a year, but he hadnβt voted in that time.Β
In these and other cases, the city of Boston flagged the noncitizens and removed them from voter registration lists.Β
In fact, the largest city in New Englandβalthough commonly viewed as a liberal bastionβcould serve as a national model on this aspect of election integrity, according to new findings by Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative watchdog group.
βIn Boston, voter registration records disclosed to PILF demonstrate that Boston and other Massachusetts municipal systemsβalthough not perfectβare a good example for how other states could tackle the noncitizen voting question,β says the report, first provided to The Daily Signal.
Public Interest Legal Foundationβs findings come as Congress considers requiring proof of citizenship for voting in federal elections and another bill to restore a citizenship question to the U.S. census form.Β
βWe are not looking at this through an ideological lens so much as a data lens,β J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told The Daily Signal. βThis illustrates how this population data can be used by states to help in election administration.β
Adams noted that Massachusetts is among a few states that conduct their own census, or population tally, outside the census conducted by the U.S. government every 10 years.Β
The proof-of-citizenship legislation is not likely to pass the Democrat-led Senate, but at least in this narrow area, Massachusetts provides an example for other states on the issue of foreign citizens listed on U.S. voter registration rolls, Adams said.Β
βRather than reimagining the future, states should take this data tool that Massachusetts uses and apply it,β he said.Β
Although every Democrat in the House recently voted against restoring a citizenship question to the census, Massachusetts law requires an annual census, or βannual resident listing,β that includes questions about citizenship status and voter registration and is used by local governments.
βAny registered voter who fails to complete the annual survey is warned that their voting status will be changed to INACTIVE until they comply,β says the report by Public Interest Legal Foundation, which is narrowly focused on tracking citizenship.
Overall, The Heritage Foundationβs Election Integrity Scorecard ranks Massachusetts as 45th out of 50 states. (The Heritage Foundation launched The Daily Signal in 2014.)
The study by Public Interest Legal Foundation concludes that Bostonβs voter registration system manages to βcatch and cancel foreign nationals listed throughout the roll on a roughly two-year churn.β
βUnfortunately, a significant percentage of these disclosed records show that votes are still cast and counted within those years before discovery,β the report says.Β
The Boston city government this year provided information to Public Interest Legal Foundation that showed the city canceled voter registrations of 70 noncitizens. Most canceled registrations occurred in 2016 and 2017, with 13 in each year.Β
On average, foreign citizens were registered to vote for two years before being discovered and dropped from the rolls. But the longest known period was 24 years, and the earliest known year it occurred was 1995.Β
βRoughly 18% of Boston registrants were mailed confirmation notices prior to a reclassification to inactive status during the period,β the foundationβs report says. βAlso, during this time, about 13% of Boston registrants were shed from the voter roll for reasons such as relocation, inactivity, and death.βΒ
The report also points to other specific examples, such as a noncitizen named Hai who was registered to vote for a year and a half before Boston removed him, and Fred, who was registered for two years before being removed. Neither voted and both were registered at a local motor vehicles office.Β
A pattern of ineligible voters being registered at motor vehicle offices is a national problem that can be traced back to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, popularly known as the βmotor voter law,β which allows someone to register to vote while getting a driverβs license.
βForeign nationals are reflexively offered applications to vote and they unwittingly accept,β Public Interest Legal Foundationβs report says, adding:Β
The 24 states plus D.C. that have automatic motor voter [registration], meaning they are not giving the immigrant a chance to decline registration, exacerbate the problem. States giving driverβs licenses to illegal immigrants increase traffic to DMVs. States with higher amounts of legal immigration mean even more driverβs licenses or state IDs are needed for daily life (and increases the risk of screening immigrants for voter registration).Β
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Mexicoβs government provided buses and trucks to several hundred migrants who have been trekking through Mexico for over a month. The migrant caravan's destination is Mexico's northern border.
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Onlookers at Ocean Beach in San Diego, California, stood by and watched as a boat sped onto the beach and unloaded what appeared to be a load of migrants being smuggled into the U.S. Events like this are becoming commonplace on Southern California beaches.
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A suspected human smuggler led Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a wild chase that ended as the driver crashed into a tree. Video shows at least six migrants climbing out of the stolen pickup truck following the crash.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent will spend a year and a half in prison for trying to smuggle a female migrant from El Salvador into Texas.
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A convoy of Mexican National Guard soldiers shot at two female political candidates in the state of Jalisco, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed.
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CNN host Fareed Zakaria said Friday on PBS's "Firing Line" that President Joe Biden should implement former President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
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Why does the Biden administration want open borders so badly? For three very big reasons. One is ideology, which I covered in last weekβs BorderLine column. Another is extortion, which I will cover in next weekβs column. But this week, I look at how the Left uses illegal immigration to give itself an unfair electoral advantage. Β
First, illegal immigration affects congressional representation because the apportionment of members of Congress by state is based on U.S. census data.
As Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Center Director Lora Ries writes, the census currently counts all noncitizensβfrom green card holders to illegal aliensβin addition to U.S. citizens for the purposes of apportioning congressional districts among the states.
The more citizens in a state, the more congressional districtsβi.e., seats in Congressβa state gets. In turn, the number of congressional districts in a state determines how many Electoral College votes that state receives. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)
While president, Donald Trump tried to restore the U.S. citizenship question on the 2020 census and exclude all noncitizens from apportionment calculations. Yet court challenges prevented him from doing so prior to the deadline for getting a new census form printed and distributed. Joe Biden then immediately terminated the effort when he took office. That should tell you which states and party benefit most from the population overcount.
The second way mass illegal immigration undermines U.S. elections is through negligence and fraud. Only American citizens can legally vote; it is a crime for a noncitizen to vote. Yet, in many states, noncitizens can easily register and vote with little chance of detection.
The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, known as βMotor Voter,β was intended to make it easier for U.S. citizens to register to vote when they applied for or renewed a driverβs license. However, Motor Voter also made it easier for noncitizens to accidentally or purposefully get on voter rolls.
In December 2022, the Reno Gazette Journal reported that if applicants applying for a Nevada driverβs license check the online box saying they are eligible to vote, their information is sent to Nevadaβs secretary of state for registration. The Washoe County Registrarβs Office told the Gazette Journal that it is possible for a noncitizen to register by falsely claiming citizenship (though this is a felony).
Moreover, Nevada accepts alien work authorization cards as proof of identity. Millions of aliens the Biden administration has released into the country are eligible for such cards and could register to vote in Nevada and other states with similar registration processes with little risk of detection.
It would seem to be common sense for all states to want to close loopholes and maintain confidence in their electoral systems. Yet, one of the biggest canards in American politics today is to equate election integrity effortsβlike ensuring proper identification or limiting mail-in and early votingβwith voter suppression.
There was real and shameful voter suppression in our nationβs past. Efforts in the post-Civil War South to deter blacks from registering included discriminatory literacy tests and poll taxes; police intimidation at polling places; and at the extreme, cross-burnings, bombings, and even killings. But the civil rights movement, strong new laws, and voter-registration drives ended the βJim Crowβ era by the 1960s. Poll taxes and literacy tests were banned.
In 2022, 98.9% of voters in Georgia βfelt safe in their polling locationβ and β98.9% reported no issues casting a ballot,β according to a University of Georgia postelection poll. Nonetheless, legitimate efforts to ensure that voters are legally entitled to vote, that they do so in accordance with the law, and that their votes are properly counted are falsely labeled as voter suppression.
βAmericans need and deserve a system in which it is easy to vote and hard to cheat,β says The Heritage Foundation, which publishes a state-by-state Election Integrity Scorecard to encourage best practices from electoral officials and vigilance by voters.
As Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal, βEnsuring that only American citizens vote in American elections is a straightforward requirement for maintaining election security and public trust.β
And yet, progressive groups seem intent on fighting efforts to ensure that voter rolls contain only eligible voters. The logical inference is that they believe ineligible noncitizens would be more likely to vote for their candidates. As Raffensperger writes, these activists want states βto rely on a personβs wordβ when registering to vote and oppose all efforts to verify citizenship. Unfortunately, in the real world, people sometimes lieβespecially when there are no consequences.
A Heritage database currently records 1,500 cases of proven election fraud nationwideβand that is merely a sampling. When it comes to abusing absentee ballots, most of the perpetrators in the database are Americans. But on just the first page (of five) for one state (North Carolina) are cases of noncitizens from the Congo, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nigeria convicted of falsely claiming American citizenship to register to vote. They committed a fundamental offense against our democracy, and yet most of them got a one-year pretrial βdiversion program,β after completion of which, charges were dropped.
Some states are better than others regarding voter integrity. Virginia cross-references Motor Voter data with the Department of Homeland Securityβs Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, and βsince 2014, has removed 11,000 βdeclared non-citizen[s]ββ from the voter rolls, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation. Meanwhile, the foundation is suing Wisconsin and Minnesota for lack of transparency with their voter rolls.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, recently introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to require states to obtain proof of citizenshipβin personβwhen registering an individual to vote. Further, the bill requires states to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls. Β
Meanwhile, this week, the House passed the Equal Representation Act, a bill that would restore the U.S. citizenship question to the census and exclude noncitizens from congressional apportionment. The bill passed 206-202 by a completely party-line vote. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., forced a vote on a similar bill in the Senate in March, but it failed 51-45. All of the Democrats and one Republican voted against it.
Election integrity shouldnβt be a liberal versus conservative issue, and maintaining accurate voter rolls is a national, not a political, goal. Impartial legislation to ensure both integrity and accuracy ahead of our next election and census should receive bipartisan support. Β
The BorderLineΒ is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedentedΒ illegal immigrationΒ crisis at the border to immigrationβs impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more.
The Ideological Roots of the Open Borders Push
US Should Adopt UKβs βRwanda Planβ to Address Illegal Immigration
Bidenβs Precarious Parole Programs for Illegal Immigrants
My Look Inside Bidenβs Illegal Immigrant Catch-and-Release Craziness
What I Saw on My Latest Visit to the Border
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Crime is rising rapidly in New York City due to a wave of President Joe Biden's immigrants, and even NPR admits the trend.
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In a setback to the prosecution of migrants involved in a massive border breach in March, El Paso County Court at Law #7 Judge Ruben Morales dismissed 211 individual cases involving migrants charged with rioting at a border crossing. According to Morales, a procedural error transferring the cases from the local district court to his county court meant he lacked jurisdiction and was obligated to dismiss the charges.
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The escalation of migrant arrests in the Swanton Sector continues with back-to-back weekly records in April. The sector located along the U.S.-Canada border continues to experience record-shattering migrant apprehensions -- month after month.
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On Thursdayβs broadcast of NewsNationβs βCuomo,βΒ Democratic strategist James Carville stated that President Joe Biden βlistened to these idiot left-wingers when he got into officeβ on the border and fell behind on the issue, but he can still salvage the issue.
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President Joe Bidenβs Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly starting a pilot program to provide migrants, released into the United States and placed into deportation proceedings, with identification (ID) cards.
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Gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel dumped bodies, torched vehicles, and fought with authorities, spreading terror through the state of Zacatecas during the last four days. Government officials claim that the fierce violence is tied to the killing of a local cartel leader.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill.
Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chairβthe Houseβs terminology for removing its leader. The final vote was 359-43; seven voted present and 21 others didnβt cast a vote. (See how your representative voted.)
βHopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress,β Johnson said after Wednesdayβs vote. βItβs regrettable. Itβs not who we are as Americans and weβre better than this. We need to get beyond it.β
Donβt count on it.
Johnson may have survived the vote, but the anger toward him among some Republicans likely wonβt subside anytime soon.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who offered the motion to vacate, bemoaned the βunipartyβ that saved the speaker.
Petty squabbles and personal recriminations are nothing new for the House of Representatives. History offers many lessons. But todayβs divisionsβamong the majority party, nonethelessβseem irreparable.
The GOPβs narrow House majority after the November 2022 election emboldened rank-and-file conservatives to demand much-needed changes. After multiple rounds of voting in January 2023, then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy acquiesced to their requests and secured the votes needed to be speaker.
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With any member of the narrowly divided House able to initiate the process of removing the speaker, it was perhaps inventible that Johnson would eventually face the same scenario as McCarthy. And when Johnson opted to rely on Democrats to pass bills, thatβs precisely what happened.
To avoid a showdown, Johnson reportedly spent hours meeting with Greene this week, only to have her deliver a fiery floor speech that was met by a chorus of boos and jeers. When she wasnβt being interrupted, Greene accused the speaker of selling out his party and turning over House control to Democrats.
Sitting by her side, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., repeatedly came to Greeneβs aid.
Their grievances against Johnson include his decision to pass government spending bills with Democrat support, expel embattled New York Republican George Santos from the House, and advance a $95 billion foreign aid bill over the objections of conservatives.
Greene even managed to work in a defense of ousted Speaker McCarthy, whom both she and Massie considered an ally. Hours later, Massie doubled down on their defense of McCarthy by contrasting him as a favorable option to Johnson.
Sorry, Mr. Speaker, personality politics reign supreme.
In reality, Johnson will never know just how many Republicans want to see him gone beyond Greene, Massie, and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. Thatβs because before Greeneβs motion to vacate came to vote, the House opted to table it.
Of the 11 Republicans against motion to table, only a few explained their vote. But itβs safe to say not all were aligned with Greene, despite what Massie suggested.
At least three said not to interpret their opposition as an indication of their feelings toward Johnson.
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, opposed Greeneβs motion to vacate even though he joined her on the procedural vote. βOne should not be viewed as a proxy for the other,β he said.
Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., declared her opposition to Greenβs motion to vacate but opposed the effort to table it. βI fought a lot to change Pelosi rules and have more accountability on the speaker in Congress,β she explained.
And finally, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., put it bluntly when he said that βjoining Democrats in a motion to table was more than I could stomach.β
While Johnsonβs critics will continue to complain that Democrats helped save him, more Republicans had his back Wednesday.
So where does Johnson go from here?
He most certainly shouldnβt let Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., dictate the chamberβs agenda for the next six month. Across the halls of the Capitol, Senate Democrats are already plotting to change the narrative on border security, one of President Joe Bidenβs greatest vulnerabilities.
A sustained effort by the House to elevate the issue of illegal immigration is needed now more than ever. Republicans took an important step Wednesday to pass the Equal Representation Act, which prevents illegal aliens from influencing congressional representation and the Electoral College.
>>> House Passes Bill to Restore Citizenship Question to Census
Those same lawmakers must redouble their efforts on other fronts, including the strong measures already adopted in the Secure the Border Act (HR 2).
With only a few must-pass pieces of legislation remaining this Congress, thereβs precious little time to squander the opportunity.
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An international jewel thief, wanted by Interpol for theft in South Korea, was reportedly released into the United States late last year after arriving at the southern border near San Diego, California.
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Pointing to the combination of an open border and declining confidence in elections, congressional Republicans are backing legislation to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.Β
βDue to the wide-open border that the Biden administration has refused to close, practically engineered to open, we now have so many noncitizens in the country that if only one out of 100 voted, they would cast hundreds of thousands of votes,β House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday during a press conference in front of the Capitol.Β
βSince our elections are so razor thin these daysβjust a few precincts in a few states decide the makeup of Congress and who is elected to the White Houseβthis is a dangerously high number and it is a great concern to millions and millions of Americans. It could actually change the outcome of our elections,β Johnson said.Β
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, is sponsored in the House by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in the Senate.Β
The House speaker noted that about 16 million illegal aliens have entered the United States since Joe Biden took office as president.Β
Although itβs already illegal for these illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections, Johnson said, election officials have no mechanism to deter them from registering to vote.Β
βIf a nefarious actor wants to intervene in our elections, all they have to do is check a box on a form and sign their name. Thatβs it,β Johnson said.Β Β
The legislation would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, better known as the βmotor voter law,β to require that states obtain documentary proof of citizenship from someone before he or she may register to vote. It also would require states to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls.
βThe most fundamental thing you can do to destroy the rule of law and to destroy our republic is to undermine faith in elections and undermine integrity of elections by making it unclear as to who is voting and limiting our ability to know that only citizens are voting,β Roy told reporters, adding:Β Β
We are here for the proposition supported by the vast majority of the American people: that only citizens of the United States should vote, that we should have documentary proof, that we should have a system to guarantee that only citizens of the United States vote in federal elections where we have the clear authority under the Constitution of the United States, under our laws as Congress, to set the terms of those elections.Β
For his part, Lee argued that the one-citizen-one-vote measure should have lawmakersβ unanimous support.
βWhen federal law has been interpreted as precluding in many ways the voter registration officials in various states from even inquiring into someoneβs citizenship when addressing voter roll issues, we have a problem,β Lee said.Β
βItβs legislation that really ought to pass unanimously in both houses of Congress because the only reason to oppose thisβthat I can think ofβwould be if you are comfortable with or somehow want noncitizens to vote and noncitizens in some instances to influence the outcome of elections,β the Utah Republican continued.Β
However, there is opposition. Itβs βnot trueβ that noncitizens are voting, Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal advocacy group that opposes voter ID and other election security measures, posted on X.Β
Johnson announced the legislation last month while visiting former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The press conference featuring Johnson, Lee, and Roy came one day after House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., sent a letter demanding answers from the District of Columbia Board of Elections, which allows noncitizen voting in local races. Steilβs letter inquires how the District will ensure that noncitizens canβt vote in federal elections.
βNot only is D.C. allowing noncitizens to vote, but the board is actively encouraging it,β Steil writes. βIn addition to board staff hosting a virtual town hall focused on the ability of noncitizen D.C. residents to vote, the committee has received notice regarding a postcard mailed by the board to βresidential customersβ advocating for noncitizens to register to vote in D.C. elections.β
During his remarks Wednesday, Johnson also raised the issue of jurisdictions that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
βA growing number of localities are blurring the lines by allowing noncitizens to vote in municipal local elections,β the House speaker said. βIn cities and towns in California, Maryland, and Vermont, and even right here in D.C., you might not know this, but noncitizens are voting.β
But Jenny Beth Martin, honorary chairwoman of Tea Party Patriots Action, said at the Capitol press conference that just because itβs already illegal doesnβt mean it isnβt happening.Β
βItβs already illegal for noncitizens to vote, but just because something is illegal doesnβt mean it doesnβt happen. If youβre not a citizen, itβs illegal to enter our country without authorization. but that happens multiple millions of times every year,β Martin said. βWeβre trying to get ahead of the curve here.β
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Legislation adopted Wednesday by the House of Representatives would restore a question about U.S. citizenship to the 2030 census, potentially reshaping congressional representation and the Electoral College.
Lawmakers voted, 206-202, to pass the Equal Representation Act, a bill championed by Reps. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio. (See how your representative voted.) Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., introduced the Senate version, which Republicans overwhelmingly supported in a March vote.
With millions of illegal aliens residing in the United Statesβa problem exacerbated by the Biden administrationβs border policiesβthe legislation aims to protect Americansβ electoral power and congressional representation by ensuring foreign citizens arenβt counted in the census.
βIf you are an illegal immigrant, you should not be represented in the U.S. Congress,β House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told The Daily Signal. βItβs a shame that House Democrats are allowing their open-borders agenda to get in the way of common sense.β
One of those Democrats openly acknowledged the benefits of counting illegal aliens. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., admitted, βWe have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants. β¦ I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes.β
After being in all but one census from 1820 to 2000, the citizenship question was abandoned in the 2010 questionnaire during the Obama administration. The Trump administration attempted to restore the citizenship question for the 2020 census, but a divided Supreme Court ruled against its approach, and the idea was abandoned.
The Equal Representation Act would require the citizenship question on the 2030 census and each decennial census that follows.
Heritage Action, an independent partner of The Heritage Foundation, advocated for passage of the Equal Representation Act. The organization scored Wednesdayβs vote on HR 7109. (The Heritage Foundation created The Daily Signal in 2014.)
Ryan Walker, Heritage Actionβs executive vice president, faulted the Obama administration for undoing nearly 200 years of precedent. Walker said the consequences of inaction are significant, given the ongoing border crisis.
βIllegal immigrants and other noncitizens cannot vote, and should not be given the power to sway our elections or congressional mapsβespecially in light of Joe Bidenβs border crisis that has brought more than 10 million people into our country,β Walker said. βThe Equal Representation Act puts electoral power back in the hands of those with the right to voteβAmerican citizensβsomething every member of Congress must protect.β
The House version amassed 114 co-sponsors and was approved by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in April on a 22-20 vote.
βMembers of Congress represent U.S. citizens, not foreigners,β said Davidson, the billβs co-sponsor. βUnder the Democratsβ open-border policies, sanctuary cities and states inflate their population with illegal aliens. Then theyβre rewarded with more congressional representation by a census that counts illegals. The inflated count is then used to draw congressional maps, undermining fair representation for our citizens.β
Edwards stressed only American citizens can legally vote, βso, only American citizens should be counted when determining federal representation.β
Hagerty forced a vote on the Equal Representation Act in March. It ultimately failed, 51-45, although only one Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted against it. Three other Republicans didnβt vote.
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A United States citizen and two suspected migrants are dead after the driver of a Nissan sports utility vehicle lost control and crashed on Tuesday evening. The unidentified driver of the vehicle was fleeing sheriff's office deputies from Dimmit County, Texas.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry managed to keep 11.2 pounds of fentanyl and 113 pounds of cocaine from hitting the United States illicit drug market in just one week's worth of seizures. The seizures involved several cases during the week preceding the Cinco de Mayo holiday. In all, the street value of the narcotics is estimated at $1.5 million.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote a letter to President Joe Biden opposing a Department of the Air Force proposal to transfer National Guard units from state control to federal without the governors' authorization. The proposal calls for certain National Guard units to be transferred out of the National Guard to the newly created Space Command.
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The nation's immigration court backlog, where judges decide whether migrants can remain in the United States or face deportation, now exceeds more than 3.5 million cases under President Joe Biden.
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Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 129,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border in April between ports of entry. This is down slightly from the more than 137,000 apprehended in March.
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Gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel torched several vehicles and blocked highways in the Mexican state of Zacatecas in response to a series of arrests by authorities.
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One of the largest anti-mass migration protests to date took place in Dublin on Monday as protesters decried the open borders agenda.
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An illegal alien who was recently released into the United States is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.
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A recent shooting at the Ciudad Juarez Airport that killed two men is directly connected to a turf war between human smuggling organizations. The organizations continue to fight for control of the arrival of migrants trying to make their way to the Texas border.
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A passenger at Miami International Airport was caught with some slithering stowaways in his pants, according to TSA.
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Authorities in Mexico are looking into the murder of three tourists on a remote beach in Baja California. The current theory points to a robbery gone wrong where the victims appear to have tried to resist.
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Despite a marked slowdown in migrant crossings into Texas in recent months, migrants released by the Biden administration can still be found sleeping and congregating in the heart of downtown El Paso.
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The Department of Justice announced the indictment of U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, Imelda, on charges of accepting bribes. Cuellar, the representative for Texas 28thΒ Congressional District, has been in office since 2005. The indictments come more than two years after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant on Cuellarβs Laredo home.
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The establishment media are trying to scare swing voters away from President Donald Trump's popular, normal, and beneficial promise to guard the nation's borders.
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An organization searching for mass graves throughout Mexico announced the discovery of a clandestine cartel crematorium in Mexico City. The find comes in an area often touted by the political elite as a shining example of effective police work.
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Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, thatβs the question I often get asked.
Here are the three reasons I think are behind President Joe Bidenβs deliberate border chaos: electoral politics, extortion, and, most insidiously, ideology. Iβll start with ideology and come back to the other two reasons in my next two weekly BorderLine columns.
The most dangerous driver behind Bidenβs open borders is ideological. Policy differences can be negotiated, but as weβre seeing on college campuses, people fanatically committed to an idea can prove intransigent, regardless of the facts.
When you see the word βabolitionβ used in connection with criminal justice and immigration, you might be confused. Americans rightly associate the term with ending slavery and abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison who were active before the Civil War.
Why are academics, politicians, and race professionals using it in 2024?
Those saying βabolitionistβ today have appropriated it for the positive historical connotation it possesses, but they mean something else entirely. To see the roots of their ideology, you have to go back to the dawn of the New Left, as described by Chris Rufo in his book βAmericaβs Cultural Revolution.β
Under their intellectual godfather, German academic Herbert Marcuse, Marxist-Leninists, Black Panthers, the Weather Underground terrorist group, and Students for a Democratic Society gathered.
This leftist alliance believedβas the Students for a Democratic Society magazine Prairie Fire explainedβthat the U.S. was founded on genocide, slavery, and racism. Its goal was to abolish the existing capitalist America and build a new society. One element of this was destroying the justice system. The Black Panthersβ manifesto thus called for the release of all black men who were incarcerated, no matter for what crime.
As Rufo writes, β[Communist Angela] Davis and her comrades began to call not for the release of individual criminals, but for the abolition of the entire system.β Davis said that βa society without racism β¦ has to be a society without prisons.β
The Black Lives Matter organization adopted the same agenda of βabolition.β The mobs that destroyed a police station and looted Minneapolis in 2020 shouted, βAbolish the police, then the prisons.β The βabolitionistβ activists in the Seattle CHAZ commune wanted to abolish the police, prisons, and courts.
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors was crystal clear in this Harvard Law Review essay from 2019: βAbolition means no borders. Abolition means no Border Patrol. Abolition means no Immigration and Customs Enforcement.β America is the source of world evil, in her view, and thus has no right to exist as a nation state nor keep anyone in the world from entering its borders.
Some Biden administration officials seem to share this core belief. Avideh Moussavian, a senior appointee at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, tweeted β#abolishICEβ in 2018 and βcut ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] fundingβ in 2019.
Another Biden appointee, Claire Trickler-McNulty, undermined ICE from within before leaving for a nongovernmental organization partly funded by the Vera Institute for Justice. The Vera Institute says, βThe U.S. immigration system is an arrest-to-deportation pipeline rooted in racism,β wants no detention of people in the U.S. illegally, and grants millions to nongovernmental organizations defending illegal immigrants.
βAbolitionβ ideology also has clear links with todayβs campus support of Hamas. Take a look at this course taught at Columbia University this Spring by professor Mohamed Abdou, titled βDecolonial-Queerness and Abolition in SWAN.β SWANA likely stands for South West Asian and North African people. A sentence from the course description sums it up:
Using intersectional/assemblage-based theories, what decolonial, gender-based readings and formulations of feminisms/queerness exist that evade the apparent tidiness of European feminist and narrow LGBTQIA categories that characterizes most (non)Euro-American political queer-feminist scholarship beyond the depiction of queer BIPOC as co-opted and duped, colonized pawns of βGay Empireβ towards elucidating critical discussions on identity, agency, subjectivity, and dissidence?
Parents are paying $90,000 a year for their kids to learn that kind of balderdash. But even if you canβt make any sense of that sentence, you can be sure of what Abdou means by βabolition.β
Columbia University now resembles Gaza as designed by outdoor equipment retailer Eastern Mountain Sports. Meanwhile at Princeton University, students briefly set up a camp last week βin solidarity with Gaza to protest Princetonβs role in funding the ongoing genocide,β according to organizers Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta was among faculty who signed a letter supporting the Princeton students and boycotting Columbia University. He is a βclassicsβ professor who calls his field βequal parts vampire and cannibalβ and the foundation of white supremacy, and argues that it should be abolished.
Peralta came from the Dominican Republic as a child, and his family overstayed their visas and became illegal immigrants. Leftist academics such as Peralta do not like nations or borders any more than they do classical antiquity. In his book βUndocumented,β Peralta wrote, βDemography is a b**ch. Holla at me if you want me to break it down for you.β By this, Peralta implies that without immigration enforcement, the βglobal majorityββdefined here as everyone but white Europeansβwill be able to dominate every country.
What weβre seeing at the southern border and on college campuses comes from the same ideological roots and ends the same way: anarchy.
The BorderLineΒ is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedentedΒ illegal immigrationΒ crisis at the border to immigrationβs impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more.
US Should Adopt UKβs βRwanda Planβ to Address Illegal Immigration
Bidenβs Precarious Parole Programs for Illegal Immigrants
My Look Inside Bidenβs Illegal Immigrant Catch-and-Release Craziness
What I Saw on My Latest Visit to the Border
You Canβt Fool All of the People All of the Time About Immigration
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President Joe Biden says, βI know how to make government work!β
Youβd think heβd know. Heβs worked in government for 51 years. Β
But the truth is, no one can make government work. Β
Biden hasnβt.
Look at the chaos at the border, our militaryβs botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable and record-high debt β¦
In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government can ever work well, because βeven the best person canβt implement change. β¦ The massive bureaucracy gets bigger and slower.β
I learned that as a consumer reporter watching bureaucrats regulate business. Their rules usually made life worse for consumers.
Yet politicians want government to do more!
Remember the unveiling of Obamacareβs website? Millions tried to sign up. The first day, only six got it to work.
As vice president then, Biden made excuses: βNeither [Barack Obama] and I are technology geeks.β
Stringham points out, βIf they canβt design a basic simple website, how are they going to manage half the economy?β
While bureaucrats struggled with the Obamacare site, the private sector successfully created Uber and Lyft, platforms like iCloud, apps like Waze, smartwatches, etc. Β
The private sector creates things that work because it has to. If businesses donβt serve customers well, they go out of business.
But government is a monopoly. It never goes out of business. With no competition, thereβs less pressure to improve. Β
Often good people join government. Some work as hard as those in the private sector.
But not for long. Because the bureaucracyβs incentives kill initiative.
If a government worker works hard, he might get a small raise. But he sits near others who earn the same pay and, thanks to archaic civil service rules, are unlikely to get fired even if theyβre late, lazy, or stupid.
Over time, thatβs demoralizing. Eventually government workers conclude, βWhy try?β
In the private sector, workers must strive to make things better. If they donβt, competitors will, and you might lose your job. Β
Governments never go out of business.
βCompanies can only stay in business if they always keep their customer happy,β Stringham points out. βCompetition pushes us to be better. Government has no competition.β
I push back.
βPoliticians say, βVoters can vote us out.ββ
βWith a free market,β Stringham replies, βThe consumer votes every single day with the dollar. Under politics, we have to wait four years.β
Itβs another reason why, over time, government never works as well as the private sector.
Year after year, the Pentagon fails audits.
If a private company repeatedly does that, they get shut down. But government never gets shut down.
A Pentagon spokeswoman makes excuses: βWeβre working on improving our process. We certainly are learning each time.β
They donβt learn much. They still fail audits.
βItβs like weβre living in βGroundhog Day,ββ Stringham jokes.
When COVID-19 hit, politicians handed out almost $2 trillion in βrescueβ funds. The Government Accountability Office says more than $100 billion were stolen.
βOne woman bought a Bentley,β laughs Stringham. βA father and son bought a luxury home.β
At least Biden noticed the fraud. He announced, βWeβre going to make you pay back what you stole!β
No. They will not. Bidenβs Fraud Enforcement Task Force has recovered only 1% of what was stolen.
Even without fraud, government makes money vanish. Iβve reported on my townβs $2 million toilet in a park. When I confronted the parks commissioner, he said, β$2 million was a bargain! Today it would cost $3 million.β
Thatβs government work.
More recently, Biden proudly announced that government would create β500,000 [electric vehicle] charging stations.β
After two years, theyβve built β¦ seven. Not 7,000. Just seven.
Over the same time, greedy, profit-seeking Amazon built 17,000.
βPrivatize!β says Stringham. βWhenever we think somethingβs important, question whether government should do it.β
In Britain, government-owned Jaguar lost money year after year. Only when Britain sold the company to private investors did Jaguar start turning a profit selling cars that people actually like.
When Sweden sold Absolut Vodka, the company increased its profits sixfold.
Itβs ridiculous for Biden to say, βI know how to make government work.β Β
No one does.
Next week, this column takes on Donald Trumpβs promise: βWeβll drain the Washington swamp!β
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Authorities are looking into the kidnapping of a high-ranking Catholic Church bishop in Mexico. The case has drawn widespread outrage since the cleric made headlines by trying to broker a peace of sorts between rival cartels who were fighting a fierce turf war in his community.
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California reported seeing the largest increase in its population since 2020 due to immigration, after years of experiencing a decline.
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An illegal alien wanted for murder in his native Mexico was able to successfully cross the United States-Mexico border as a so-called "got-away" on President Joe Biden's watch.
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For Rep. Chip Roy, itβs a frustrating conversation that happens all too often with fellow lawmakers on his side of the aisle.Β
ββChip, we have a razor-thin majority. We just have to win the White House; we just have to win the Senate,ββ the Texas Republican recalled in a speech Tuesday.Β
When he hears colleagues concerned about the narrow 217-212 House Republican majority, he notes the Democratsβ narrow Senate majorityβ51 senators in the Democratic caucus compared with 49 Republicans.Β
βWell, when do they ever look across there and say Chuck Schumer has a razor-thin majority?β Roy said of the Senate Democratic leader from New York. βWhen do they ever look and say, βYouβre actually in charge of the House of Representatives, which James Madison told you in [Federalist Paper 58] actually has the power of the purse. Do something with it. Stop making excuses.ββ
That prompted applause from the audience at The Heritage Foundation at an event, βDefunding the Left.β (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)Β
Roy had earlier quoted Madisonβfather of the Constitution and later the fourth president of the United Statesβwho wrote in Federalist 58:Β
The House of Representatives can not only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of government. β¦ This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any Constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.
Though the GOP mostly prevented nondefense spending hikes, and kept the political focus on border security, he said irresponsible spending is a bipartisan problem that βinfests the entire swampβ in both parties.Β
βThe fundamental problem is not just the weakening of the dollar and the strength of our financial system. Itβs actually the radical Left funding the tyranny, funding the government thatβs at war with your way of life.β
He noted the Republican-controlled House approved $62 billion in funding for the Department of Homeland Security amid rising crime and fentanyl deaths in the U.S. resulting from the border crisis.Β
The House majority also went along with $200 million to fund a new FBI headquarters and overall about $40 billion for the Justice Department, despite concerns about politicized lawfare. He noted $824 billion went to the Defense Department with no demands to scrap its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that are hurting armed forces recruitment.Β
The House majority allowed $80 billion for the Department of Education; $9 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency; and $117 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, while requiring no accountability for mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic by departmental subordinate agencies, such as National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Β
While his GOP colleagues often talk about the need to win the next election, Roy said, conservative control of both houses of Congress and the White House are not guaranteed to reverse the trend.Β
βLiterally, on Day One, they are going to say, βChip, we canβt do all you want to do because we donβt have 60 in the Senate. Youβve got to be reasonable.ββ Roy predicted. βI promise you thatβs coming. So, we have to win majorities. But we have to plan now for driving a steamroller over the weak-kneed individuals in Congress that will use 60 [as a premise] not to fight for you.β
In the Senate, 60 votes are required to end filibusters.Β
Roy noted there were some positive accomplishments, however. Since winning the majority, House Republicans have for the most part βkept the ball on our side of the field,β he said.Β Β
Nondefense spending was largely held flat, while increased defense spending in 2023 was initially paid for by taking money out of the Internal Revenue Service and unspent COVID-19 funding.Β
That occurred after then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., put caps in place, even though the caps were discarded in January. Further, Roy noted that House Republicans didnβt let Democrats redirect the border debate to one of amnesty for illegal immigrants.Β
βAmnesty was off the table. All we talked about this last year was border security. We didnβt achieve it, but we didnβt allow the Democrats to start moving the ball down the field and have a debate about amnesty,β Roy said.Β βIt matters where you set the goal post and how you set your mission.β
The Texas lawmaker criticized the recent $95 billion foreign aid package that passed without the support of most Republicans. He said that too often, members of Congress βdefault to fearβ on defense spending.Β
βI want the strongest military that we can possibly produce. I want it to be sparingly used,β Roy said, adding:
I donβt want to use it often, but if we do, I want it to destroy everything in its path.Β But we just default to fear, and we use the national security-defense complex to run over everything else.
βPeople literally come into [House Republicansβ] meetings and say, βWe just canβt risk defense.β Well, if thatβs what you do, youβre never going to change the town,β he continued, βbecause they are always going to use defense as the leverage to say, βWeβre not going to cut [the Justice Department]; weβre not going to cut education; weβre not going to make reforms.β
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Violence from people-smuggling gangs and illegal migrants along the French coastline is escalating, a British Border Force official warned.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a warning to migrants who might attempt to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico illegally -- βAlligators are in the Rio Grande. FYI there are warning signs posted in some sectors. Cross at your own risk.β
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An βoverwhelmingβ number of Americans want to build Trumpβs great, big, beautiful border wall and tightened immigration rules, according to the latest polling.
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The University of Texas at Austin suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a registered student group at the campus and a chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine. The move follows several campus protests last week that saw nearly 60 people arrested for criminal trespass. The arrests occurred on Wednesday after law enforcement orders to disperse and leave the central tower area of the campus were ignored.
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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) complained to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the seizure of state-legalized marijuana and the lack of Border Patrol agents in her state. The revelation surfaced from a secretly recorded phone conversation that took place on an airplane flight.
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The number of migrants arrested for illegally crossing the border between ports of entry in the Tucson Sector in Arizona is on the rise again following a short-lived decline. During the past week, Tucson Sector agents apprehended approximately 7,600 migrants.
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The Gulf Cartel instituted a tax against homeowners in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, for the right to have trees on their property. The government-protected criminal organization has a long history of being able to operate with complete impunity in that city.
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A Mexican Senator from the Morena Party drew widespread condemnation after he organized the ritualistic killing of a chicken as an "offering to a rain god." The incident took place in one of the courtyards of Mexicoβs federal senate building.
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The Republican establishment doesnβt know it yet, but last weekend was a watershed moment for their party.
On April 20, House Republican leadership facilitated passage of a foreign-aid package that sends roughly $60 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel and Gaza, $8 billion to Taiwan, and exactly zero dollars to the southern border. The bill has since passed the Democrat-led Senate and was signed by President Joe Biden.
The vote will be remembered for the choice Republican leadership made to brazenly reject its own voters in favor of the βunipartyβ in Washington, D.C.
In a move that can only be described as βMcConnell-esque,β House Republican leadership teamed up with Democrats to overrule the position of their own conference, their voters, and the will of the American people.
Democrats on the House Rules Committee made an unprecedented move by crossing the party line and overruling Republican opposition in committee, signaling an end to the typically Democrat versus Republican battle and the beginning of the conservative versus βunipartyβ war.
The disconnect between βthe Swampβ and small-town America could not be more profound. How can a political party be so tone-deaf to the plight of the everyday Americans suffering under inflation, crime, and societal rot?
How can a Republican-led House prioritize the borders of another country over our own border, even as American citizens are killed by illegal immigrants?
How can so-called fiscally responsible Republicans sign off on what is now $174 billion in direct Ukraine aid with a national debt of $34 trillionβmore than $250,000 for every American household?
And how can House Speaker Mike Johnson, who had pledged repeatedly that no foreign-aid legislation would advance without first securing the border, so quickly be steamrolled by the Establishment?
In their desire to send billions of dollars to a conflict that our commander-in-chief has still, to this day, offered no plan for winning, the GOPβs leadership not only spurned their partyβs own supporters but overlooked an opportunity to appeal to independent Americans frustrated by both political parties.
According to recent polling that The Heritage Foundation conducted with RMG Research, an overwhelming three out of four swing voters opposed sending any additional aid to Ukraine without also allocating funds for our own border. A majority (56%) of swing voters in key battleground states thought that the $113 billion the United States had already committed to Ukraine was too much.
The entire Heritage enterprise fought for over a year and a half on this issue. Heritage Action for America engaged our millions of grassroots members to voice their concerns to their representatives. Scholars at The Heritage Foundation presented a national security alternative package that included limited military aid to Ukraine but made border security the central focus. In an unprecedented move, we even issued a βkey voteβ on our legislative scorecard against Speaker Johnsonβs convoluted rule, which was a gimmick that lowered the threshold to a simple majority (not a supermajority under suspension) and provided political cover for members to vote against individual pieces without jeopardizing the package.
Powerful interests were aligned against us, however, and we lost on the day. Though we lost this battle, all signs indicate that we are winning the war for the soul of the GOP. A majority of Republicans (112) voted against Ukraine aid on April 20. Younger and newer members are particularly fed up with leadershipβs conciliatory approach and manipulative tactics that have led us to this point. The average age of the Senate Republicans who voted βnayβ is 59, while the average age of those who voted βyeaβ is 66. The average βnayβ vote has been in office since just 2016, while the average βyeaβ vote has been in Washington since 2010. The same dynamic was true with the recent $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill.
This generational shift can be ignored by the βuniparty,β but itβs not going away. Newer, younger representatives want a choice, not an echo; and increasingly, theyβre adopting a populist form of conservatism that champions βgovernment of the people, by the people, and for the peopleβ above all else.
In other words, they want a GOP that puts America first, something a government in any healthy republic would do. They want a GOP that acknowledges the reality that America is a nation in decline but is not yet too late to save.
As Ronald Reagan said in his 1980 address accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, βFor those who have abandoned hope, weβll restore hope and weβll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!β
And that brings us to the importance of this yearβs election.
In 2016, despite staunch opposition from the GOP leadership, Donald Trump rejected the Washington consensus and initiated a generational realignment in American politics. If the conservative movement leans into the politics and policies President Donald Trump made successful, the American people will again have the opportunity this fall to accelerate a new consensus in Washington, D.C. This is why I remain optimistic about the future of our great nation.
The GOP establishmentβs actions this past week portend the end of the GOP establishment, not its survival. Conservatives will win the soul of the GOP, and with it, the hearts of the American people.
Reprinted with permission from The Epoch Times.
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Seth Greenwald, who hopes to graduate in May from the University of Texas School of Law, is a fortunate survivor of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Greenwald described his experience in Israel during the horrific attack that claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 people in Israel. During a video interview, Greenwald told Breitbart Texas he was spat on twice and told to βgo back to Polandβ during a pro-Palestine demonstration on the universityβs campus earlier this week.
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The San Diego Sector took the lead in the number of migrants apprehended during the first 21 days of April. The turning point caps the westward movements of migrant border crossings from South Texas, to Arizona, and on to Southern California.
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Authorities in the border state of Chihuahua claimed the recent killing of eight men is tied to an organized crime turf war over human smuggling routes. Police found the bodies dumped on the side of a highway.
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Hundreds of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers cracked down on pro-Hamas protesters at the University of Texas campus on Wednesday. The protesters in the Texas capital city came out in solidarity with students at other major universities across the country.
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A spending package that will send billions more taxpayer dollars to Ukraine could have built an entire wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The French Navy is facing critism for escorting a small boat to UK waters even after five migrants fell off the vessel and drowned.
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An important Mexican diplomat in Oklahoma expressed opposition to an immigration bill allowing law enforcement officials to remove illegal aliens from the state.
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