Posted on 06/23/2021 9:55:13 AM PDT by weston
This is a long read but worth the time.
Bannon just announced Darren Beattie would be on to talk about it.
Darren J. Beattie
@DarrenJBeattie
Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (“1/6”) with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence’s relationship with Stewart Rhodes?
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1410221236924432385
Thanks, Gran.
LOVE Darren Beattie.
Appreciate the ping and the link!
Oh, I do, trust me.
But I’m still allowed to state my opinion.
I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe
By Donald J. Trump - - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
FTA
When I was president, I delivered on my promise to build a border wall to protect our country. All Joe Biden had to do was paint it.
Instead, Biden has enacted the most radical open borders agenda imaginable. This is perhaps the first time in world history a nation has purposely and systematically dismantled its own defenses to invite millions of foreign migrants to enter its territory and break its laws.
No one knows who they are, presenting a dangerous threat to Americans. To say that Biden has provoked a national security disaster does not even begin to do justice to the calamity.
In May, illegal border crossings were nearly 700% higher than when I was president during the same period last year. For each of the last three months, more unaccompanied minors have arrived than in any prior month in recorded history. Seizures of ultra-lethal fentanyl are up 265% from last year — more of the drug has already been intercepted than in the entirety of 2020.
Joe Biden has restored catch-and-release, torn up our hard-earned asylum agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and announced that anyone on the planet who lives in a crime-afflicted area now qualifies for asylum in the United States. Meanwhile, ICE is effectively shut down, senior border security officials have been fired, and criminals are being released in record numbers.
To top it all off, the Biden administration has announced a new program whereby the U.S. government will literally pay to fly illegal aliens’ relatives from other countries to join them in the United States.
These policies are utterly depraved — the actions of someone who by all indications wants to completely abolish America’s southern border.
Yet of all the vindictive, shocking, and self-defeating border security actions Joe Biden has taken, none surpasses his decision to stop the final completion of the wall.
Nearly 740 miles of border wall had been fully funded and more than 660 miles were already built or undergoing construction, Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Jan. 15, five days before I left office. After more than two years of litigation and Democrat obstruction, the wall was going up at an average rate of two miles per day. We had already more than doubled the length of the physical barrier protecting our southern border. We had also replaced much of the previously existing dilapidated fencing with new impenetrable metal beams, focusing on the highest traffic areas that border patrol agents themselves had identified.
The wall was planned, approved, paid for, and virtually done. Only a few key areas remained to be completed. All Joe Biden had to do was let the contractors finish their work. The border agents wanted it, and it would make the whole country safer.
Instead, Biden sabotaged the completion of the wall, ordered an immediate halt to construction on his first day in office, impounded the funds Congress had appropriated and took steps to terminate the National Emergency declaration that had facilitated it.
By stopping construction, Joe Biden purposely and deliberately left gaps in the wall, creating unsealed channels right in the middle of the border to be exploited by human traffickers and drug smugglers. I built a wall — Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe.
This decision has also done egregious harm to our sovereignty. As my administration clearly demonstrated, walls work. After my border wall was constructed, illegal border crossings dropped by 90 percent in the Yuma area and 80 percent in the Rio Grande Valley, and parts of El Paso. Illegal drug trafficking and human smuggling also drastically decreased in those areas. Building just 12 miles of border wall in San Diego alone reduced necessary border patrol manpower by 150 agents a day, saving millions of taxpayer dollars, and freeing up those agents to provide additional border security elsewhere.
As a result of Biden’s abdication of his sworn duties, Texas now says they will “build the wall.” This should not be necessary and is at best a band-aid over the gaping wound Biden created.
Border security is a core responsibility of the federal government — and my administration had already done everything required to complete the project. We secured the necessary legal authorities, acquired the land, designed, engineered, and tested the wall. With little help from Congress, my administration obtained the money, executed the contracts, and hired the personnel. For Texas to be unnecessarily forced to repeat these complicated steps will take months or years if it is even possible for them to do it at all.
Governors and state legislatures should certainly do what they can — but there is no substitute for federal action.
We handed Biden the most secure border in history. We ended asylum fraud, terminated catch and release, negotiated historic migration agreements with Mexico and other countries, and virtually stopped illegal immigration. Precisely because of these policies, we achieved an incredible 90% reduction in illegal crossings.
Our nation is being destroyed by Biden’s border crisis. The United States must immediately restore the entire set of border security and immigration enforcement measures we put into place — and critically, we must finish the wall.
A nation without borders is not a nation at all. For the sake of our country, Joe Biden must finish sealing the border immediately, or the American People must elect a Congress that will.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/30/donald-trump-i-built-the-wall-biden-built-a-humani/
Amazing street art. What a great talent.
Speaking of borders....
LIVE: President Trump Visits the Border in Weslaco, TX for Border Security Briefing 6/30/21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iR1AhlPUf0
RSBN shows they’ll start the livestream at Noon local time (Central). That will be:
1 p.m. Eastern
12 p.m. Central
11 a.m. Mountain
10 a.m. Pacific
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Don’t want to miss this.
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Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN - Federal law enforcement agencies conduct clandestine surveillance of thousands of US citizens with the help of Microsoft, according to congressional testimony being given Wednesday by a senior executive at the technology company.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1410251943960842244
There might be other outlets (OANN, etc.) carrying it but I didn’t dig around. This just popped up in my YouTube feed otherwise I would have given more warning.
Thank you for the lilnk
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The entire GOP establishment is on a collision course with its own voters & everybody knows it.
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1410223865393995781
Ronny Jackson
@RonnyJacksonTX
I’m joining President Trump on a REAL visit to our southern border today! We need to get TOUGH and fix Biden’s Border Crisis! FINISH THE WALL!
I just read that, thanks.
Greg Abbott Executes a Hilarious but Completely Necessary Troll Using Biden’s ‘Stimulus’ Money
With the Biden administration abdicating its duty to enforce border laws, causing a massive surge in illegal immigration, Texas is taking matters into its own hands. But it’s where Abbott is getting the funding that is going to turn heads.
Varad Mehta
@varadmehta
“Since Texas will receive a $15.8 billion windfall under the huge COVID-19 relief package signed by President Joe Biden in March, hardly any strings attached, in effect the U.S. Treasury will cover the costs — even though Biden halted wall construction when he took office.”
LOL.
The money in Biden’s plan was purposely void of strings attached because the game was to shower blue states with money, allowing them to bail out their mismanaged budgets and perpetuate left-wing priorities. Abbott has turned that on its head, instead, using a significant portion of the money given to Texas to help build a border wall in his state.
Here’s more from The Dallas Morning News.
Congress didn’t intend for states to use the pandemic bailout for wall construction. Democrats find it maddening that Abbott found a workaround.
“We have a wall in my district and we still have a surge. What he ought to do is use $250 million to fix our electrical grid,” said Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, adding that Congress gave states plenty of flexibility, but “it certainly wasn’t intended to build the wall.”
I’m sure it wasn’t intended for that when Pelosi and her cohorts drafted the bill, but this is a good lesson in unintended consequences. There was no reason to send all this money to the states, but now that it’s done, you can expect them to use it the way they see fit.
Thanks.
Bill Cosby to be released from prison after court overturns conviction https://t.co/N0ROcHTa6D via @nypost— Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) June 30, 2021
Good for Abbott
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