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Back when Donald Trump was running for president — and Republicans were still capable of feeling politically ashamed — a conservative friend made what was, to my mind, the decisive case against voting for him. No, a ballot for Trump did not automatically mean that his voters shared his bigotries. Nor did it necessarily mean that they weren’t embarrassed by them. It just meant that those bigotries weren’t deal-breakers. If their candidate was a birther, they could live with it. If he thought celebrity was a license for sexual predation, they could live with it. If he wanted to impose...

Sicilian prosecutors are investigating Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over his refusal to allow migrants off a coastguard vessel. The Dicott docked in the Sicilian port of Catania on Monday. The Italian government is refusing to most of the migrants disembark until a solution is reached regarding their relocation with other European states. Prosecutors have now opened an inquiry into possible illegal confinement illegal arrest, and abuse of power. Mr. Salvini responded to the news by shrugging off the threat, saying those still on board would be allowed off "in the coming hours"....

The Department of Homeland Security referred to the three shootings in Harrisburg on Friday as "a terror attack." Tyler Q. Houlton, acting press secretary for agency, tweeted a statement Saturday about the incidents. Houlton said that Ahmed El-Mofty was a naturalized U.S. citizen who was admitted to the country from Egypt on a family-based immigration visa. "The long chain of migration that led to the suspect's admission into the United States was initiated years ago by a distant relative of the suspect," Houlton said in a release. "One of the most recent links in that chain was an extended family...

Hungary’s prime minister has called for the EU to “round up” illegal immigrants and deport them to guarded camps “on an island or North Africa.” The comments are likely to further inflame tensions with other EU governments who say Budapest’s ultra-hard line on migration flouts both international law and fundamental European values. Viktor Orban made the comments as he lashed out at Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, saying it was unfair for Berlin to try to distribute migrants across EU member states. This could be an island, it could be a coastal area in North Africa, but the security and supplies...

Regarding immigration, the selling out of the American public now has a first-person account attached to it. In a scathing column, a pseudonym-bearing “Displaced Disney Cast Member” describes the despicable efforts of a once-iconic company to replace American workers with foreigners willing to work for lower pay. The author of the column is hardly an anomaly. Americans are not only losing their jobs to foreign replacements, they are underwriting both legal and illegal immigrants accessing America’s safety net. “I used to have a dream career at one of America’s most iconic and admired companies,” the former employee writes. “Twenty years...

Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the PeopleÂ’s Will Americans are aware that their political class may not always act in their best interest. This belief is enshrined in the American character, its laws, and the very philosophy underpinning the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers crafted things so that the "knaves" will be forced to abide by the will of the people, but they warned that their "natural progress" is to find ways to remain in power and increase that power at the peopleÂ’s expense. They therefore also urged eternal vigilance, spiritedness, and the occasional revolt of the people. Thomas...

Napolitano: Terrorists Enter U.S. from Mexico ‘From Time to Time’ By Edwin Mora July 30, 2012 (CNSNews.com) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress last week that terrorists intending to harm the American people enter the U.S. from Mexico “from time to time." At a July 25 hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) asked Napolitano: “As you know, Madam Secretary, there have been anecdotal reports about material evidence of the presence of terrorists along our southern border. My question is, is there any credible evidence that these reports are accurate and that terrorists are,...

AUDIO HERE Reader's Digest Version: Allred is using an illegal alien housekeeper to try and score political points against Meg Wittmann with venom. The illegal alien used a false social security number, but Allred is suing so that her "client" can get "in and around milage expenses" for driving to the grocery store. In the process of pursuing this matter, Levin is accusing Allred of exploiting this woman and putting her in danger of a felony conviction.

SNIP: ...During the raid, a U.S. Forest Service K-9 team located Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, a DISPLACED FOREIGN TRAVELER from Michoacán Mexico...

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers. Most trucks enrolled in the program pause at the border for just 20 seconds before entering the United States. And nine out of 10 of them do so without anyone looking at their cargo. The government keeps the list of participants secret, citing national security and trade secrets. More than half of all U.S. imports now come from companies in the program, called the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.” He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,” Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming...

The Steve Malzberg Show Welcome all to the new STEVE MALZBERG SHOW on WOR 710 AM in NY! Congratulations to WOR and New York for nabbing the great Steve Malzberg! Join Steve and his freeper fans at the link below. Steve will be in every Monday through Friday, live from 9PM to 11 PM, and its about time! Listen to Steve now on 710 AM WOR NY You can also listen to missed shows on WOR’s on demand feature! And even if you listened to a show, no reason not to listen again! Steve’s show will also be in syndication...

In America today there are an estimated 7 million illegal immigrants. Many say that these immigrants drive down wages for hard working Americans. Others say that they introduce new problems into our education system and drain resources from our entitlement programs. Though the problems are [somewhat] clearly defined, the solution is not. While I do not generally support the idea of giving special privileges to certain groups of people, especially ones who purposely and knowingly break the law, in this situation there is no other logical or practical solution. America is like a baker that has left a window open...

...Since 2005, the backlog of legal U.S. immigrants whose applications for naturalization and other benefits are stuck on hold awaiting FBI name checks has doubled to 329,160, prompting a flood of lawsuits in federal courts... In his annual report to Congress last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ombudsman Prakash I. Khatri called the backlog of FBI name checks "unacceptable from the standpoint of national security and immigration benefits processing." Calling the delays the "most pervasive problem" in processing, Khatri concluded that they "may increase the risk to national security by prolonging the time a potential criminal or terrorist...

[ Listen carefully to the video and see who is saying it ] Trancredo ads a bit at the end ] Images of demonstrations Pass it on to all you know and have them pass it on. ==================================================== Evil men, bent on the destruction of America, are invading our nation by the hundreds every day. They arrive here under the auspices of various groups: The notoriously evil and barbaric MS-13 Gang al-Qaeda Hezbollah Hamas Other Islamic Terrorist groups Narco-Terrorist drug smugglers bring in literally tons of drugs every day Mexican bandits who prey on criminal border crossers, tourists , backpackers,...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Prenatal exams have become the newest addition to the abortion debate, now that Arkansas is making fetuses eligible for federally-funded health care benefits. Under recently adopted guidelines in the state, the unborn child of a pregnant illegal immigrant can be considered an American citizen even before birth, and thus qualifies the mother for government-paid prenatal care. Since Medicaid (search) doesn’t cover adults who are non-citizens, whether they’re in the U.S. legally or not, the unborn fetus will now have rights the mother doesn’t have, in addition to being considered an American citizen in the eyes of...