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  • Cassidy: Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Rhetoric Concerning to Some Voters

    03/17/2024 9:07:03 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/17/2024 | Pam Key
    Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comments were concerning for some voters. Saturday, at a rally in Dayton, OH, Trump said, “If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars as now we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that...
  • One dead after Mexican cartel opens fire on illegal immigrants taking Uber across US border without their permission

    03/15/2024 9:21:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | Mar 10, 2024 | Hayden Cunningham
    The altercation was likely due to the illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border without cartel permission. . Members of a Mexican cartel opened fire on illegal immigrants who were utilizing Uber rides to cross the into the US across southern border unlawfully... The incident occurred in Caborca, an area heavily under the control of Mexican cartels. The victims, all from Ecuador, were traveling in three separate Uber vehicles when they came under attack from the cartel. Tragically, one woman lost her life in the shooting, while four others sustained injuries. According to an internal Border patrol memo leaked to...
  • Drug trafficker had 'fortified compound' at Bellingham homeless encampment, feds say

    03/13/2024 7:05:56 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 16 replies
    KOMO News ^ | 3/13/24 | Jeremy Harris
    BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A Mexican drug trafficker faces the potential of decades in federal prison after the Drug Enforcement Agency arrested him for peddling fentanyl from a homeless encampment in Bellingham. Prosecutors say Rigoberto Vasquez-Martinez, 32, had a "fortified compound" inside the encampment, which included armed security around the structure where he stayed. The city of Bellingham is in the process of trying to clear the encampment behind the Walmart on Stuart Road after years of shootings, explosions, overdoses, and drug crimes. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle, Vasquez-Martinez was a significant supplier of drugs in Bellingham and...
  • Mexican Military Incursions On US Soil Worry Border Agents

    03/13/2024 5:47:58 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/13/2024 | Brad Jones
    As daylight begins to fade at an abandoned illegal immigrant camp at the border wall near Jacumba, in California’s San Diego County, a couple of Mexican soldiers armed with assault rifles patrol the rocky terrain in the hills above.(The Epoch Times)Below them, white tents along the Mexican side of the border wall signal the army presence as Mexican national guard (Guardia Nacional) troops pull up in a truck. They set up camp here in early February.On Feb. 29, a Mexican soldier hides behind a rock as he realizes reporters have seen him on the U.S. side of the border. Several...
  • FBI director warns of ‘very dangerous threats’ at border, smuggling network with 'ISIS ties'

    03/11/2024 9:41:45 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 11, 2024 | Adam Shaw
    FBI Director Christopher Wray 'very concerned' about smuggling network tied to ISIS .. FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday warned of a "wide array" of dangerous threats coming from the U.S. border, including drug trafficking, violent gangs and smugglers with ties to ISIS. Wray was asked by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the threats at the border, including the Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela. Wray said he couldn’t speak to a specific gang, but said that there were dangerous individuals entering via the southern border. "From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a...
  • White House Says Biden ‘Absolutely Did Not Apologize’ for Calling Laken Riley’s Alleged Killer an ‘Illegal’

    03/11/2024 3:51:59 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Mon, March 11, 2024 | MICHELLE STODDART
    President Joe Biden "absolutely did not apologize" for his use of the term "an illegal" during last week's State of the Union address, principal deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton told reporters Monday. "I want to be really clear about something: the president absolutely did not apologize. There was no apology anywhere in that conversation," Dalton said. "He did not apologize. He used a different word." Biden made the "illegal" comment during an ad-libbed exchange with GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after being heckled by her and other Republicans to say the name of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student police...
  • Canada reimposes visa requirements for Mexicans as asylum claims surge

    03/11/2024 4:35:31 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 02 29 2024 | Staff
    A surge of Mexican nationals seeking asylum has led Canada to bring back visa requirements that were lifted nearly eight years ago. Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Thursday that more than half of the asylum applications to the country are either abandoned or rejected. Ottawa removed the requirements in 2016 to improve relations with Mexico. Since then, an influx of immigrants has put strain on the government of Quebec and pushed it to a "breaking point".Asylum claims from Mexican nationals to Canada rose from 260 to 23,995 between 2016 and 2023, an increase of more than 9,000%, according to...
  • Laken Riley’s life was worth no less than George Floyd’s

    03/11/2024 5:02:19 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 11, 2024 | Social Links forBetsy McCaughey
    Floyd’s death during a police chokehold on May 25, 2020, ignited nationwide protests to reform police procedures. “It doesn’t get any worse than that,” President Donald Trump said of Floyd’s death. Within three weeks, he signed an executive order establishing an abuse-of-force database and called for improved police practices. Fast forward to Feb. 22, 2024, when Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was bludgeoned to death, allegedly at the hands of an illegal migrant, Jose Ibarra, who is a member of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
  • Top red state official demands answers on Biden executive order 'attempting to register' illegals to vote [MS]

    03/11/2024 3:06:56 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 11, 2024 4:00am EDT | Andrew Mark Miller
    Mississippi’s Secretary of State (Michael Watson) has sent a letter to President Biden’s Department of Justice asking it to stop enforcing a Biden executive order that he warns is being used to attempt to register ineligible convicts and illegal immigrants to vote. …
  • Video: Biden apologizes for calling Laken Riley's kiIIer an "illegal" -“They built this country."

    03/09/2024 2:16:52 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 63 replies
    BREAKING: Biden apologizes for calling Laken Riley's kiIIer an "illegal" "I'm not gonna treat any of these people with disrespect. They built this country."
  • 2 soldiers, Border Patrol agent dead in helicopter crash near Texas-Mexico border

    03/09/2024 4:11:16 AM PST · by McGruff · 27 replies
    NBC News ^ | March 9, 2024 | Rebecca Cohen and Mosheh Gains
    Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said. The UH-72 Lakota helicopter crashed around 2:50 p.m. local time while it was "conducting aviation operations" in the area, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force North. The helicopter had been assigned to a support mission at the Southwest border of the U.S., the statement said.
  • Federal Court: Biden Must Spend Border Wall Construction Funds On Border Wall Construction

    03/08/2024 5:28:45 PM PST · by george76 · 21 replies
    Legal Insurrection Foundation, ^ | March 8, 2024 | William A. Jacobson
    Biden, via proclamation, paused obligation of these funds the day he was inaugurated….” Court rules this was illegal, but I think Biden will find a way not to actually build the wall.. The timing of this is worth noting. Last night, in his vitriolic State of the Union address, Joe Biden blamed everyone but himself — but particularly Republicans — for his border crisis. But everyone knows, on day one of his presidency Biden by executive order removed numerous border protetions, including construction of a border wall. ... Sen. Marsha Blackburn... on his first day in office, Biden: — Paused...
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Tears Into Biden Over Fencing Installed 'in Dead of Night' Around Capitol for SOTU

    03/08/2024 4:54:37 AM PST · by george76 · 24 replies
    Red State. ^ | March 07, 2024 | Sister Toldjah
    the worsening border crisis, especially in the aftermath of the tragic death of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, at the hands of 26-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra. Riley's murder has sparked a national outcry and fresh debate over the Biden border crisis, with his critics pointing to her case as just one of all too many examples where illegal immigrants take advantage of Biden's lax policies as well as those in Democrat-run sanctuary cities, and end up victimizing people in the process. ... Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who posted a video on Twitter showing how the Biden...
  • JUST IN: Federal Appeals Court Reverses Judge’s Ruling, Allows Texas Immigration Law That Allows Police to Arrest Illegals to Take Effect

    03/04/2024 11:24:45 AM PST · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Mar. 4, 2024 1:00 pm | By Cristina Laila
    More good new out of the courts! The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary stay of a federal judge’s decision to put a Texas law allowing police to arrest illegals on hold for a week. The appeals court ruling will stay in place unless the Supreme Court intervenes by March 9. US District Judge David Ezra, a Reagan appointee last Thursday issued a temporary injunction that blocked a Texas law that gave local police power to arrest illegal aliens. “The preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge David Ezra pauses a law that was set to take effect...
  • Texas tells Trump of 99% decline in illegal immigration in ‘DJT Brief’ at border after National Guard soldiers ratcheted up barricades and installed concertina wires

    03/02/2024 8:44:16 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Washington Examiner via the Gazette ^ | 03/01/2024 | Anna Giaritelli
    EAGLE PASS, Texas — When former President Donald Trump visited ground zero of the monumental scuffle between Texas and the Biden administration, state officials revealed illegal crossings in the area shrunk by a seismic 99% virtually overnight. The Washington Examiner obtained Friday a copy of the 11-page report titled "DJT Brief" that relayed to Trump the major achievement during his visit to Eagle Pass on Thursday afternoon. The briefing document. which was presented as PowerPoint slides to Trump, shows that during the height of the surge of illegal immigrants in Eagle Pass in December 2023, upward of 4,000 people illegally...
  • Biden and Trump Make Competing Trips to US-Mexico Border

    02/29/2024 5:22:55 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    BBC ^ | 2/29 | Sarah Smith, Tom Bateman and Angelica Casas in Texas & Mike Wendling in Chicago, Illinois
    President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made competing visits to the US border in Texas, each seeking to stress they can tackle illegal immigration.The issue is one of the most polarising in US politics, and will be central to this year's presidential election. November's contest looks likely to be another showdown between the two men. Mr Biden accused his Republican rival - who spoke of the "very dangerous" situation at the border - of hindering his efforts to crackdown on crossings.
  • Trump's claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data (sanctuary cities getting safer)

    02/29/2024 10:36:56 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 54 replies
    An NBC News review of available 2024 crime data from the cities targeted by Texas’ “Operation Lone Star,” which buses or flies migrants from the border to major cities in the interior — shows overall crime levels dropping in those cities that have received the most migrants. Overall crime is down year over year in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, New York and Los Angeles. Crime has risen in Washington, D.C., but local officials do not attribute the spike to migrants.
  • Dr. Phil tells ‘View’ hosts that children crossing the border being sent into ‘prostitution and sweatshops’

    02/28/2024 8:43:47 AM PST · by george76 · 34 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 27, 2024, | Hanna Panreck
    Dr. Phil told “The View” on Monday that some children arriving at the border were being sent into “prostitution and sweatshops,” citing a conversation he had with the head of the border patrol union. ... Is it possible that we’re sending them into known prostitution rings or sweatshops? He said, ‘It’s not possible, it is absolute.’ We are using American tax dollars to ship children into known prostitution and sweatshops,” he said. Co-host Ana Navarro asked him what kind of checking they do at the border and Dr. Phil explained that they call the numbers and ask about the children....
  • In Mexico, Two Mayoral Candidates Shot Dead

    02/28/2024 5:12:10 AM PST · by george76 · 29 replies
    Newser ^ | Feb 27, 2024
    Murders in Maravatio raise concerns about drug gangs trying to sway local races.. Two candidates for mayor in the Mexican city of Maravatio have been gunned down within hours of each other, raising worries that drug gangs are trying to influence the June 2 election. Campaigning doesn't formally begin until Friday. State prosecutors said Tuesday that Armando Pérez was found shot to death in his car just before midnight, per the AP. He was the candidate for the conservative National Action Party. Hours earlier, officials with the ruling Morena party confirmed their candidate, Miguel Ángel Zavala, was found shot to...
  • ICE confirms Georgia student murder suspect entered US illegally, was previously arrested in NYC

    02/25/2024 2:12:03 PM PST · by devane617 · 26 replies
    Foxnnews ^ | 02/25/2024
    Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan argues the death of a Georgia student is a result of the Biden administration’s immigration policy failures. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday confirmed that the Venezuelan national charged in connection with the murder of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and had previously been arrested in New York City. Fox News had previously reported that 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, charged with the murder of Riley on the University of Georgia campus, had crossed into the U.S. illegally near El Paso in September 2022 and was paroled...