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Tucker Carlson recently sat down with Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote. As you might expect, after 2020, True the Vote is paying very close attention to this year's presidential election. But what Engelbrecht says she found hidden in an obscure section of the U.S. code, could hold the key to a lot of what is going on, and the timing for it.
Engelbrecht told Carlson that she just happened upon it herself. Title 18, under the heading "Crimes and Criminal Procedure," states, "if the (illegal) alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States," that in Engelbrecht's words, "they are subject to no prosecution."
Wait, what?! So if someone comes into the country illegally, votes in the election, is caught, but then says they believed themselves to be U.S. citizens just because they came across the border and maybe checked in with the Border Patrol, they can now vote in the election? Engelbrecht went on to say that when she found this, she showed it to legislators, immigration attorneys, and even attorneys for True the Vote. The response was deer in the headlight stares. Engelbrecht added, "We've seen many many people coming across the border who are talking about their excitement about voting for Joe Biden, and claiming that they are citizens." //
In another part of the interview, Carlson asks if she believes that the majority of illegal immigrants would, or will, vote Democrat. Engelbrecht's answer is a sobering one. She stated, "I certainly see that the NGOs and the outfits that are bringing them across the country are grooming them for that purpose." //
Carlson then asks Engelbrecht incredulously, if the Biden administration is registering illegal immigrants to vote. In an even more sobering response, Engelbrecht states "They certainly are setting up all of the place settings to do it...It's not at all beyond the realm of possibilities, that is in fact, exactly what is happening." //
Funny, we thought Democrats were itching for another pandemic, but just maybe, illegal immigration is indeed the 2024 pandemic. //
COUltraMAGA
5 hours ago
In case anyone wanted to look at the "obscure" USC, since Redstate doesn't provide it, here it is:
18 U.S. Code § 611 (c)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611
The "CHNV" migration parole program stands for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Immigrants from these countries are eligible to participate in the parole program. The program permits them to fly into the U.S. directly under certain conditions, such as having a sponsor in the U.S. and being approved for travel.
Between January and August 2023, approximately 200,000 migrants flew into the U.S. via this program. Notably, 80 percent of these arrivals, totaling 161,562 individuals, landed in four cities in Florida: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, and Tampa.
anon-x8p1
an hour ago
Democrat voting teachers unions demand open borders. They need new cohorts of students every single year to fill their failing K-12 classrooms and keep their union memberships dues flowing into Democrat causes.
Nothing better than floods of high-birth rate illegals. Open borders is a teacher union cash cow. That is why no Democrat will ever close the borders.
Follow the money and ignore their cries of "racism" if you dare protest this reckless Democrat policy decision. Open borders: Ka-Ching for the teachers unions.
Cortez told me he has been waiting three and a half months to cross the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had yet to schedule his interview. There was a long line of migrants ahead of him, and, at this point, he was just hoping to get into the U.S. before November 2024.
When I pointed toward America and asked who they wanted to be president, Cortez answered quickly. “I want Biden to win,” he said.
Betancourt agreed. “If it’s Trump, it doesn’t matter how much I work or want to work,” he said. “They won’t let me in.” //
the number of illegal migrants soared, with roughly 2 million people entering the United States each year starting in 2021—the highest levels since the U.S. Border Patrol was created in 1924.
Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland stated that cartel members are taking advantage of modern technology, and have taken to social media to threaten Sheriffs including himself, and other officials. Cleveland went on to say that cartel members consistently check his Facebook account, as Cleveland said he posts about the Sheriff's Department's work along the border. It is because of that work, that he says he has been called vulgar and unpublishable names, and had. threats made against him. Perhaps the scariest part, members warned Cleveland that they were "watching him and his woman." //
But it is human trafficking that is turning drug cartel members into billionaires, and turning the entire southern border into a drug cartel war zone as the cartels fight each other for control of the smuggling routes. The cartels see to it that no one gets to the border for free. One cartel member admitted that human smuggling has become "more profitable than ever before."
"No one wants to work on anything else right now. Everyone wants to work with the migrants because you can make a lot of money from it these days and it is easy work. Right now it is more profitable to smuggle migrants than to traffic bricks of cocaine, and with less risk if you get caught." //
In just the Del Rio sector alone, just a 245-mile stretch of the border, cartels are bringing in a staggering $32 million a week, bringing illegal immigrants across the border. In 2021, cartels raked in roughly $13 billion. That amount has no doubt risen in subsequent years. With that kind of money involved, you would threaten anyone who wanted to cut off that cash flow, too.
The Border Patrol encountered 53,282 illegal aliens between ports of entry in the San Diego Sector in fiscal year 2020, the last full year of President Donald Trump’s presidency. In fiscal year 2021, encounters in the San Diego Sector nearly tripled, rising to 142,459.
Since Joe Biden became president, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 9 million illegal aliens on America’s borders and at ports of entry. That doesn’t include 1.7 million “known gotaways.”
Syzdek says he and the men he served alongside “never imagined in our wildest imagination that our country, that we all worked so hard to defend for those many years that we were in, would have open borders.”
Elon Musk
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Crazy that Texas has to do the job of the Biden administration, which filed aggressive legal action to stop the state!
If anyone still doesn’t believe that ushering in illegals is the goal of the Biden administration, this should convince them.
End Wokeness
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HUGE WIN.
The Supreme Court will now ALLOW the Texas National Guard to arrest & deport illegal aliens within the state of Texas.
A big blow to the Biden administration.
3:42 PM · Mar 19, 2024
U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled on March 8 that a federal law prohibiting illegal immigrants from owning guns is unconstitutional, arguing the law did not adhere to the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that stipulated gun control laws must fit historical tradition. //
But someone who broke the laws of the land and is illegally residing here is not entitled to the same rights that the Constitution secures for U.S. citizens. Foreign citizens instead must have their rights secured by their own governments.
The Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
The Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that “the people” refers to “all members of the political community.” Foreign citizens are by definition members of a different political community. Writing for the majority, the late Justice Antonin Scalia wrote. “the people” “refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community.” //
The topic was also argued more than a decade ago in a different case, with a panel of the Fourth Circuit ruling in U.S. v. Carpio-Leon that “illegal aliens are not law-abiding members of the political community and aliens who have entered the United States unlawfully have no more rights under the Second Amendment than do aliens outside of the United States seeking admittance.”
an illegal immigrant who was attempting to cross the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, inadvertently cut a tailor-made ad for the GOP on the topic, standing behind a barbed wire fence while wearing a Biden-Harris 2020 t-shirt.
When he was reminded by someone off-camera that Biden and Harris were the President and Vice President, the man wearing the t-shirt said he was wearing it in hopes that they would let him in:
The people complaining about this part of the president’s speech have not directed even an iota of rage against the fact that an American citizen was killed by a person who had no right to be in the country in the first place.
There is a reason for this, of course.
For those on the far left, the agenda is everything. It takes precedence even over the lives of innocent Americans. They will push their open borders beliefs even in the aftermath of a person being murdered by one of the folks Democrats want to let into the country.
Elon Musk
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This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants.
It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.
12:26 AM · Mar 5, 2024 //
X owner Elon Musk pointed out an issue that most people don't even know about - that not only is Biden leaving the door open for illegal aliens to come in, Biden was also flying people into this country from other countries so they don't even have to cross the border themselves. According to the report, Biden flew in 320,000 of them last year. //
Included in details of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit first reported by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden's CBP approved the latest secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.
The program was part of Biden's expansion of the CBP One app, which kicked off at the start of last year.
Migrants were able, under Biden's expansion, to apply for asylum using the app from their home countries.
But the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) notes that the transportation of these migrants directly to the U.S. is one of the lesser known uses of the app.
Aliens who cannot legally enter the U.S. use CBP One to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports.
Under this parole release, migrants are able to remain in the U.S. for two years without obtaining legal status and meanwhile are eligible for work authorization.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The massive flood of illegal immigration is due to 94 executive actions by the Biden administration.
Until those executive actions are revoked, claims by Biden that he wants to address illegal immigration are a bold-faced lie.
KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat
Reporter: “Why are you waiting to take executive action on the border?”
Biden: “Because we need more forces on the border, I don’t have the authority to do that.”
Biden took 94 executive actions in his first 100 days to decimate border security — and has all the authority he…
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3:25 PM · Mar 2, 2024
Moreover, if you wanted more forces to help out, you wouldn't be suing Texas to try to stop them from defending the border. You would be thanking them and welcoming their help.
But on reflection, one of the more striking things to emerge from this was something that happened on my morning and evening Uber rides between my Arlington hotel and the CPAC venue.
Why? Here's why, and I'm going to tell you:
Cameroon. Chad. Uganda. Nigeria. Ethiopia. Those were some of the locations my Uber drivers were from. They all have several things in common, and those things they have in common speak eloquently to what America has been, what it still is, and what it hopefully will remain. //
Of all the speechifying I heard at CPAC, after all the great discussions I had with great people, these conversations were one of the most edifying experiences I have had on this excursion. Living as I do out in the Alaskan woods, I'm not often exposed to hard-working, legal immigrants like these folks; I was pleased and, yes, honored to talk to them, and my parting statement to all of them was, "Thanks for talking to me, and welcome to America; I'm glad you're here." //
The United States is still the greatest country in the world. We have our issues, and we have our enemies — some of whom are from within — but the potential of America remains. These people came to America because they saw that potential. Now, they are here and working to make their dreams happen.
To be perfectly frank, plenty of young Americans could learn a thing or two from their example.
Quite honestly, Lankford's position is utterly insane. This bill leaves the border no different than it is today, changes laws to make them more lenient, funds the chaos, and strips border states of the ability to effectively challenge this law in court. //
This bill is a solution looking for a problem.
The real problem, the asylum questions not being asked, remains.
It's sad that our lawmakers are so focused on making laws and not in solving problems. //
Random US Citizen
5 hours ago
We've reached an interesting point in the decline of the republic. The point where people are both willing and unashamed to openly state bald-faced lies that are diametric opposition to objective reality... and almost no one will say anything. It's both fascinating and alarming to watch as politicians make claims that are clearly the opposite of the plain text of the bill.
They've always lied, of course. They might shade the truth. They might omit important but controversial points when talking about a bill. They might even make hyperbolic pronouncements ("Republicans want to take away Social Security"). But we seem to have arrived at a time when they're quite willing to insist, against all the evidence of our senses, that "we've always been at war with East Asia."
Orwell is my least favorite prophet.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
As bad as everything I've just noted is, none of it even matters. Why? Because this bill gives President Joe Biden sole authority to override all the emergency provisions that supposedly kick in after 5,000 illegal entries. In other words, as laughably high as that threshold is, it's not even enforceable. //
Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT
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6/ But...important checks on that power. It can only be used for a limited number of days per year. It sunsets in 3 years. Emergency cases that show up in between the ports still need to be accepted. The ports must process a minimum of 1400 claims a day.
6:54 PM · Feb 4, 2024
In short, Ukraine gets a bunch of cash, some insanely weak border enforcement provisions are put in place that expire after three years, and Biden gets the authority to override them immediately anyway. Does that sound like something Republicans should be signing onto, especially in an election year? This nonsense is DOA, and the House should rip it apart and shove it back in the face of the Senate.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Most people in America don’t know that the census is based on a simple headcount of people (including illegals) not just citizens.
This shifts political power and money to states and Congressional districts with the highest number of illegals.
11:12 AM · Feb 3, 2024
Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie
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True. And when they find out, most Americans disagree with the current practice of counting illegals in the census and awarding congressional representation and electoral votes based on illegals.
Thats why I have cosponsored @WarrenDavidson ‘s resolution to stop this practice.
Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 @WarrenDavidson
Encourage your member of Congress to cosponsor HJ Resolution 37.
Congressional districts should be drawn based on the population of US citizens only. The Census should specifically count US citizens for apportionment of representation. Only US citizens are represented by the US…
1:11 PM · Feb 3, 2024
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
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NEW: The large majority of illegal crossings at the southern border are now happening in AZ & CA, as a shift away from TX continues.
Per CBP sources, 23,576 of them – 71.8% – were in Arizona and California. Notably, the numbers in Texas' Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, have fallen off a cliff. In December, the sector saw days of 3,000-4,000 illegal crossings per day. Over the last week, it has averaged around just 200.
12:34 PM · Feb 1, 2024 //
Barry Cunningham @barrycunningham
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Illegals got the message.
Texas encounters dropped from 4,000 per day down to 200!
Now they are headed to Arizona and California.
Sooo...a show of force DOES work! Whaddayaknow!
6:14 PM · Feb 1, 2024 //
NightTwister
a day ago
"So we don't know what Biden may have promised Mexico" -- Probably this: "We'll have more flexibility after the election in November."
Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee
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Earlier today, a reporter standing outside the Senate chamber told me that, after four months of secrecy, The Firm™️ plans to release the text of the $106 billion supplemental aid / border-security package—possibly as soon as tomorrow.
Wasting no time, she then asked, “if you get the bill by tomorrow, will you be ready to vote on it by Tuesday?”
The words “hell no” escaped my mouth before I could stop them. Those are strong words where I come from. (Sorry, Mom).
The reporter immediately understood that my frustration was not directed at her.
Rather," it was directed at the Law Firm of Schumer & McConnell ('The Firm'), which is perpetually trying to normalize a corrupt approach to legislating—in which 'The Firm':
(1) spends months drafting legislation in complete secrecy,
(2) aggressively markets that legislation based not on its details and practical implications (good and bad), but only on its broadest, least-controversial objectives,
(3) lets members see bill text for the first time only a few days (sometimes a few hours) before an arbitrary deadline imposed by The Firm itself, always with a contrived sense of urgency, and then
(4) forces a vote on the legislation on or before that deadline, denying senators any real opportunity to read, digest, and debate the measure on its merits, much less introduce, consider, and vote on amendments to fix any perceived problems with the bill or otherwise improve it.
Whenever The Firm engages in this practice, it largely excludes nearly every senator from the constitutionally prescribed process in which all senators are supposed to participate.
So why does The Firm do it?
The high success rate is largely attributable to the fact that The Firm has become very adept at (a) enlisting the help of the (freakishly cooperative) news media, (b) exerting peer pressure in a way that makes what you experienced in middle school look mild by comparison, and (c) rewarding those who consistently vote with The Firm with various privileges that The Firm is uniquely capable of offering (committee assignments, help with campaign fundraising, and a whole host of other widely coveted things that The Firm is free to distribute in any manner it pleases).
It’s through this process that The Firm passes most major spending legislation
It’s through this process that The Firm likely intends to pass the still-secret, $106 billion supplemental aid / border-security package, which The Firm has spent four months negotiating, with the luxury of obsessing over every sentence, word, period, and comma.
I still don’t know exactly what’s in this bill, although I have serious concerns with it based on the few details The Firm has been willing to share.
But under no circumstances should this bill — which would fund military operations in three distant parts of the world and make massive, permanent changes to immigration law — be passed next week.
Nor should it be passed until we have had adequate time to read the bill, discuss it with constituents, debate it, offer amendments, and vote on those amendments.
There’s no universe in which those things will happen by next week.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Biden’s strategy is very simple:
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Get as many illegals in the country as possible.
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Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state.
That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration. Simple, yet effective.
8:26 PM · Feb 2, 2024b//
In response to Biden's January 26 press release in which he claimed he needed congressional authority and more money to "shut down" the border, Musk fired back:
No laws need to be passed. All that is needed is an executive order to require proof before granting an asylum hearing. That is how it used to be. ///
Enforce the law as it is written.
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Sacks commented that there are plenty of laws -- there's just no enforcement by Biden, Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas et al. -- Musk was in agreement:
David Sacks @DavidSacks
Jan 26, 2024
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The border isn’t broken because Congress needs to pass new laws. It’s broken because this administration refuses to enforce the laws we already have.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Exactly
9:42 PM · Jan 26, 2024 //
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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That is undeniable at this point
David Sacks @DavidSacks
Biden’s policy is open borders. Everything else is noise.
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3:50 AM · Jan 27, 2024