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Dozens of House Democrats are now adopting “illegal alien gang members rights” as their latest “racial justice” cause. According to Fox News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , led a group of her House Democratic colleagues in a letter to federal immigration officials demanding an overhaul of immigration policies and objecting to gang members in the country illegally being targeted for deportation. Ocasio-Cortez and 34 of her Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tae Johnson, calling on them to change immigration policies that rely on the US’s...

Dems divided as anti-Israel flank grows more vocal Democratic leaders convinced their colleagues on Tuesday to drop an effort championed by the party’s left flank that would have delayed U.S. military assistance to Israel as the country battles Iranian-backed terrorist groups. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D., Md.), the House’s second-highest-ranking Democrat, told reporters that after pressure from leadership, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), abandoned efforts to delay over $735 million in arms sales to Israel. The Jewish state has used such weaponry during the past two weeks to battle Hamas terrorists as they...

House Democrats overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday afternoon against applying sanctions on Hamas, the Iranian-backed terror group that has fired thousands of missiles at Israel during the past two weeks amid a deepening regional conflict. In a 217-209 vote, Democrats rejected a bid by House Republicans to hold a vote on Hamas sanctions legislation authored by Rep. Brian Mast (R., Fla.). The bill was supported by every House Democrat in the last Congress, but stalled this time around when Democratic members refused to allow the bill to be considered by the legislative body. Republicans wanted to pass the legislation to further...

President Biden on Tuesday praised as a “fighter” Israel critic Rep. Rashida Tlaib — a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement who once tweeted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — following his call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden and the Palestinian-American congresswoman engaged in what appeared at times to be a tense eight-minute chat on the tarmac of Detroit’s airport before he praised her at a nearby Ford facility, which he toured wearing an anti-COVID-19 mask pursuant to company policy, a White House official said. Biden three times referred to “Rashid” Tlaib...

President Joe Biden praised Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Tuesday, despite her repeated criticism of the president failing to criticize Israel. “I tell you what, Rashida — and I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people,” Biden said about Tlaib during a speech at a Ford motor company manufacturing facility. The congresswoman is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants and still has family members who live on the West Bank. “From my heart, I pray that your grandmom and family are well,” Biden said...

Dillon Hosier (@DillonHosier) Tweeted: Moments ago: A group of "pro-Palestine" attacked a table of Persian Jews at Sushi Fumi in Los Angeles, just outside of #weho city. #westhollywood / #LA #Antisemitism masked as #FreePalestine https://t.co/jjdWNqESLO https://twitter.com/DillonHosier/status/1394911594698608642?s=20 Yuna Leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) Tweeted: Shocking pictures from Los Angeles: A group of Arabs stop near a restaurant, ask who is inside a Jew and start beating a man vigorously before fleeing. https://twitter.com/YunaLeibzon/status/1394998791707766785?s=20 May 19, 2021

- Thousands of Palestinians fled their homes so as not to serve as human shields for terrorist operatives In one case Palestinian children were killed and Hamas claimed it was an attack by the Air Force while the defense establishment claimed that a human rights organization report saud it was a rocket fall...

As Israelis hide in bomb shelters for the crime of being Jews, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib find new yet familiar ways to blame the victims.While Hamas, the openly genocidal terror organization ruling the Gaza Strip, launches missiles at Israeli civilians in hospitals, schools, and homes, even closing its airport, the members of “The Squad” are hard at work pointing fingers at the “real” culprit: the Jews. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced what “precipitated this cycle of violence” was “the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al Aqsa.” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., castigated the White House for failing to refer to...

Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer appear to be at odds with a vocal segment of the Democratic Party that has criticized Israel's actions toward the Palestinians amid the region's escalating conflict. According to the Associated Press, more than 120 Palestinians have been killed—including 31 children and 20 women. An additional 900 have been injured. "My expectation and hope is this will be closing down sooner than later," Biden said . "Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory." Pelosi issued a similar statement on Tuesday. "I condemn the escalating...

Rashida Tlaib, the despicable US Congresswoman, has made it clear throughout her political career that she sympathizes with terrorists and the terrorist states that support them. When she learned she won her election in 2016, after all, she wrapped herself in a Palestinian flag in celebration. Tlaib wore a traditional Palestinian dress and asked to be sworn in on a Quran on the day she was sworn into office as a United States Congresswoman. A map with a sticky note that read “Palestine” and an arrow pointing to a region that the US does not recognize as a nation was...

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went after the "Squad" on Tuesday and she did not mince her words. Greene took to Twitter to refer to Democrats known as the “Squad” as the “Jihad Squad” and said they don’t belong in Congress due to their recent defense of Hamas. “The Jihad Squad, @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @AOC doesn’t think Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorists Hamas when they fire rockets into Israel. They also support terrorists Antifa/BLM who attack Americans. Members who support terrorism don’t belong in Congress,” Greene tweeted.

New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang expressed support for Israel amid its clashes with Palestinians in a tweet that drew cheers from top Republicans and jeers from the left – as he sparked the hashtag #YangSupportsGenocide. “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists,” Yang tweeted Monday night . “The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere,” he added. US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) cheered Yang’s message of support for the Jewish state, tweeting: “Bravo to Yang...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who last week called for the end of policing and incarceration, said Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial should mark the beginning of a “more fair, just, and equitable society” and vowed to “make all of this a reality” moving forward.

There should be consequences for this life-endangering, society-threatening irresponsibility House Democrats have produced two radical demagogues whose policies would endanger the lives of innocent Americans, lead to the breakdown of society, and undermine the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., have recently acted in ways that reflect unfavorably on the House of Representatives and betray their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Waters flew to Minnesota, where the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is in progress, and said, "We are looking for a guilty verdict." If Chauvin...

Top progressive pol Sen. Bernie Sanders is breaking with his left-wing protégés over their calls to defund the police in the wake of the killing of Daunte Wright. Speaking to CNN Wednesday, Sanders (I-Vt.) said he did not agree with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her call for “no more policing, incarceration, and militarization” after the killing of Wright, a black man who died at the hands of a white police officer. “No I don’t,” Sanders replied when asked if he concurred with his fellow progressive, who has been joined in her calls by fellow Squad members Reps. Ilhan Omar...

In the wake of the Daunte Wright shooting, progressive “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) is facing backlash for making the rash call for “no more policing.” “It wasn’t an accident. Policing in our country is inherently & intentionally racist. Daunte Wright was met with aggression & violence. I am done with those who condone government funded murder. No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can’t be reformed,” Tlaib wrote in a tweet Monday night. She didn’t get off scot-free with this one. Even some of her democratic colleagues distanced themselves from her radical point of view. “We definitely need...

Michael Gerson, George W. Bush’s speech writer, translated Dr. Sowell’s thought into the famous “soft bigotry of low expectations” line in his 2000 speech at the NAACP. Although it clearly identified a far more insidious type of bias it was dangerously threatening to the ever growing race hustling industry business model that depends on the exploitation of that liberal-built bias. And thus, step by step, we’ve descended into the world of liberal idiocracy exemplified, splendiferously, by the likes of the Squad and Rashida Tlaib in particular.Despite all the other contenders it would be hard to identify a more “mind-mind-numbingly stupid...

Reform of the police is no longer enough, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday, as she joined fellow 'squad' member Rashida Tlaib in calling for the police to be abolished. The New York congresswoman responded on Tuesday to the killing of another black man, Daunte Wright, 20, in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday. He was killed by a white policewoman, Kimberly Potter, who shot him in the chest at a traffic stop in what Brooklyn Center police chief said was an accident, when she meant to reach for her Taser. 'Daunte Wright's killing was not a random, disconnected 'accident' - it...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley just doesn’t want to make sure no murderers are executed, she’s also pushing the immediate release of all … fat prisoners. Yes, it’s right there, in what she proudly calls the “landmark Dismantle Mass Incarceration for Public Health Act” which she filed last year with fellow squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib and California Rep. Barbara Lee. It would “require States and units of local government to certify a commitment to release certain individuals from jails and prisons,” including those who are “diagnosed with obesity.” Would this have included the pleasingly plump Boston Mafia boss Carmen “the Cheeseman”...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.) is criticizing the COVID-19 relief measure which is providing $1,400 per resident of the United States with incomes under $75,000. The $1,400 payment begins phasing out for people whose incomes exceed $75,000. Instead, Tlaib wants the government to give people monthly payments of $2,000 “every month.” “One time survival checks don’t cut it when the bills haven’t stopped coming in every month,” Tlaib said in a tweet that she has pinned at the top of her Twitter page. “We need monthly, recurring, $2,000 survival checks,” Tlaib said. Under the American Rescue Plan Act, which President Joe...