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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.
RNC Research @RNCResearch
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In 2022, Biden claimed he had "a plan to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve" after draining it to its lowest level in four decades.
Today, they cancelled that plan because oil is too expensive.
10:51 AM · Apr 3, 2024 //
Not only are they paying more after they drained it, but they left it at its lowest point in 40 years, endangering our security for political reasons. It currently holds about 363 million barrels, down almost 600 million from the beginning of 2022. //
Brianna Lyman @briannalyman2
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Donald Trump wanted to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in March of 2020 when oil was $24 a barrel.
Schumer called it a big oil bailout.
Biden will now pay about TRIPLE to fill the reserves after draining them to keep gas prices artificially ‘low’ for votes.
5:06 PM · Oct 19, 2022 //
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Viscount Montgomery of Arkansi
10 hours ago
“Nearly 1 million barrels of oil from the most recent sale, which was announced on June 14 2022, went to Unipec America, Inc. Unipec is a Houston-based subsidiary of Sinopec, an oil company owned by the Chinese government.”
DonR Viscount Montgomery of Arkansi
10 hours ago
Virtually 100% of the oil they bought wound up in China's SPR, because they understand why having a bunch of oil handy is a good idea. As far as why, well 10% for the big guy comes to mind.
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.
Biden and Xi held their first phone since July 2020 on Monday. Within hours, dozens of Chinese warplanes and multiple naval vessels were reported around Taiwan, the largest coordinated display (implied threat) of 2024. At least 30 planes and nine ships were detected in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) by the country's Ministry of National Defense (MND).
The end goal here isn't ambiguous. It's not to just promote radicalism. It's to make it preeminent and to raise it above everything that you believe in and hold dear. It's only going to get worse from here. The far left is playing for keeps, and dominance is the point.
I stopped by Biden-Mart.com and was greeted with the message:
Putting food on the table has become harder than ever thanks to "Bidenomics." As costs for everyday items continue to rise, American families are struggling more and more to foot the bill.
Check off the items from the list below to compile your weekly grocery list and see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden. //
Grocery prices have jumped by 25 percent over the past four years as Americans are routinely shocked by the cost of a typical visit to the store. //
And now Biden is proposing a $7.3 trillion budget bloated with social justice efforts and green energy giveaways.
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.”
That Biden would prop up Russia and throw Israel under the bus is just about as shocking as George H. W. Bush trying to keep the Soviet Union from imploding. These decisions are made by small men with inflated egos who are desperately afraid to do what is right because the new security paradigm will render their experience useless.
The problem for Goldman is that he's left arguing every single person around the Bidens was corrupt except Joe and Hunter Biden. That's not a narrative that washes. Upstanding people do not surround themselves with corrupt people, and the fact that the DOJ has chosen to prosecute numerous business associates of the Bidens is evidence of selective bias, not innocence on the part of the president and his son. //
On the contrary, the prosecution of Luft points to broader criminality among those who were leading the operation. That would be members of the Biden family, most notably Hunter Biden. Further, Goldman also has zero evidence to support the idea that Bobulinski was fired because he was corrupt but the Bidens weren't.
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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
Former Special Counsel Robert Hur resigned from the DOJ one day before the hearing but repeatedly defended its hyperpartisan track record. //
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Classified documents were found...
At the Penn Biden Center? "That's correct."
In President Biden's garage? "Yes."
And in his basement den? "Yes."
And his main floor office? "Correct."
And his third floor den? "Correct."
At the University of Delaware? "Correct."
And at the… Show more
10:54 AM · Mar 12, 2024 //
Several Republicans questioned why Hur decided for the jury that Biden’s actions wouldn’t result in conviction instead of recommending charges and letting the jury decide for themselves. Hur claimed this was his ultimate task but, as multiple representatives noted, Trump faces charges and jail time for similar actions he took as president because someone at the DOJ decided he deserved scrutiny that Biden did not. //
“Joe Biden had 8 million reasons to break the rules,” Jordan said, referring to the $8 million revenue Biden made on his book. Hur did not explicitly disagree with Jordan’s assertion.
Wednesday, an unsigned statement attributed to a "top Israeli official" was quoted by Israeli media.
“Israeli citizens, and not anyone else, elect the prime minister,” the statement said.
“Israel is not a protectorate of the US but an independent and democratic country whose citizens are the ones who choose the government.
“We expect our friends to act to overthrow the terror regime of Hamas and not the elected government in Israel.”
Israeli media did not name the source but the country’s Channel 12 described the statement as coming from “the most senior Israeli political source you can imagine”. //
The White House's hope to replace Netanyahu with former Defense Minister and Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz took a shot to the teeth Monday—Gantz, who is perceived as much softer on Hamas and the Palestinian Authority than Netanyahu. Perhaps prompted by the US intelligence slam at Netanyahu, Gideon Sa'ar, the former Likud member who now leads the "New Hope" party as part of Gantz's opposition, decided to abandon the opposition coalition and seek closer ties with Netanyahu.
Hur's testimony was a disaster for Democrats. It produced a litany of viral moments, all showing Biden to be both flagrantly disrespectful of the law and in steep mental decline. It's a news cycle the White House couldn't afford given the current president's already tenuous re-election effort.
Also, the president was not “exonerated” //
During today’s hearing Democrats falsely used the word “exoneration” a number of times. Hur noted that the word “does not appear anywhere in my report, and that is not my conclusion.”
So, the fact remains that there are two ways to look at the Hur report. Either the president lacks the mental acuity to be charged for breaking the law, or he should be charged for breaking the law. Pick one.
During an appearance on Fox News's “America Reports,” Turley gave a perfect example.
Well, I thought the Republicans did a particularly good job today. Often the Democrats are way ahead in framing of hearings, but at points the Democrats seemed almost a border on the delusional.
When you had Hur say ‘I did not exonerate the president’ and then Democrats would say ‘OK, so you exonerated the president’ and he would say ‘No, I didn’t’ and they would say ‘Thank you for that, with that exoneration.’
So for a lot of people watching, they probably kept on having to sort of reverse and see if they missed something here. //
Turley continued:
The fact is that Hur tried over and over again to distinguish between his findings, which is that he was not confident he could convict if he did bring any charges, and the statement of Democrats that the president was cleared. //
I'm not a prosecutor but it seems to me after listening to multiple legal opinions — including Turley, several times — on this case that it should have been left to a jury to determine whether or not Biden is sufficiently competent to be held accountable.
What am I missing? Other than the reality of the two-tier justice system, I mean. //
anon-cdoc
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I am of mixed minds as to whether Hur is going with the incompetency excuse because he doesn't think he can get a conviction in a DC or Delaware jury pool. HOWEVER, Joe Biden broke the law and basically committed espionage. There are people in prison for the same thing, but one or two instances, not 40 freaking years worth. Joe Biden should still be charged as soon as he is no longer a sitting president and at least make the effort. Make him spend some of those millions on defending himself, just like Trump! //
Highlar75
4 hours ago
One of the things that has always struck me in Hur's report, and again during the hearing, was what it didn't say/emphasize: these were crimes committed not NOW...but decades ago when Biden WAS fully functioning and aware of what he did. To me, THAT is the way a prosecutor would handle this case. Hur is trying to place it all NOW, when that's not the case at all. Or am I missing something in Hur's defense of his report? //
Sojourner Hound Dog
2 hours ago
Respectfully disagree. While I would certainly like Biden to be tried/impeached/etc. for what is a lengthy spell of purloining items that he had no right to be in possession of, the reality - for me - is that Hur far exceeded what anyone thought he would be able to do.
His "unsatisfying" conclusion (because we DO want to see actual justice done to the crook) was brilliant: the pro-Biden DoJ couldn't squash the report b/c of the way Hur framed his conclusions. Similarly, it leaves the door open down the road for someone to say, "The heck with that, let's see if a jury will convict him" b/c the report did NOT exonerate Biden. Quite the contrary, it laid out that Biden committed crimes.
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In a fiery and revealing exchange during Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled former special counsel Robert Hur about President Joe Biden’s motivation for keeping classified documents after his term as vice president had concluded.
At the heart of the matter was an $8 million book deal Biden had been offered at the time. Jordan’s questioning centered on why the president would have taken classified documents in violation of the law after leaving the White House.
Hur, who had been tasked with investigating Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, indicated that his final report on the matter did not directly address the president’s motivations. However, Jordan debunked this statement.
"Page 231, you said this: 'President Biden had strong motivations'—that's a key word. We're getting a motive now: 'President Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his notebook.' Why did he have strong motivations? 'Because he decided months before leaving office to write a book.'" //
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Chairman Jordan:
"Joe Biden knew the rules, you know he knew the rules, and Joe Biden told us he knew the rules. So Mr. Hur, why did he break them?"
11:20 AM · Mar 12, 2024
After President Joe Biden said Saturday that Israel invading the Gazan city of Rafah, where many refugees from northern Gaza have relocated, would be a "red line" regarding America's support, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied that Israel will indeed invade Rafah because his own red line is "that October 7th doesn't happen again, never happens again." //
A few minutes later Netanyahu was specifically asked about Biden's "red line" comments, and replied:
My red line is very simple. We're not going to leave Hamas with the capability of pursuing, of perpetrating another Hamas massacre as they did on October 7th. And the only way we can do that is, we cannot leave -- we cannot leave the Hamas terrorist battalions intact. It means that, in fact, we lose the war.
Philip Klein @philipaklein
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New poll finds that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 65% of Israelis overall support operation in Rafah, which Biden says is a “red line.” His efforts to portray the Gaza operation as Netanyahu policy will only help Bibi domestically. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53305
The Hill @thehill
President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping” https://trib.al/67YEzDN
12:02 PM · Mar 10, 2024
Biden is being a duplicitous snake and throwing Israel under the bus, trying to put pressure on Bibi to play both to our left and maybe to theirs. But Joe being Joe, he's wrong again, and he may be actually strengthening Netanyahu in the process.
Great job, Joe!
SLOTown Hoosier
8 hours ago
"can't have 30,000 more Palestinians dead,"- but apparently the number of dead Americans, at the hands of illegal aliens is of no concern //
edhuff SLOTown Hoosier
7 hours ago
Nobody in the Middle East or Ukraine would have had to die if Biden and his team had been even marginally competent in foreign affairs (or anything for that matter). //
houdini1984
8 hours ago
An Israeli expert who frequently consults for US officials is quoted by New York Magazine as saying, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.”
I'm old enough to remember when Trump was impeached for asking Ukraine's leaders to look into Biden's corruption in that country. And here we have a President whose administration is actively looking at options to undermine the government of one of our most important allies.
Add that to Biden's unbroken string of failed foreign policy positions. 50 years of being wrong on every major foreign policy issues. You almost have to admire his consistency. //
Mama Bear
4 hours ago
American Jews have had best friends in 3 US presidents:
1) George Washington.
He wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island, saying, among other things:
“May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Basically, he welcomed the Jewish people to this great country.
2) Thomas Jefferson.
His was one of the few voices in the early republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement of religious toleration.
After the Revolution he wrote a Jewish physician to say:
“Religious freedom is the most effectual anodyne against religious dissension.” Jefferson said he was delighted to see American Jews assuming full social rights and hoped “they will be seen taking their seats on the benches of science as preparatory to their doing the same at the board of government.”
3) Donald Trump.
In his first month in office Trump set about to accomplish the Abraham Accords — specifically taking the Palestinian lynchpin out of the equation and making US aid and support to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE conditional upon relations with Israel.
In 2019 President Trump signed an executive order that broadened Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to apply to discrimination based on anti-Semitism.
None of the networks carried it. Most Jews don’t even know about it.
In 2017, during his first year in office, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, helping fulfill a 2000 year old dream for world Jewry.
Trump is also the first and only US president to have Jewish children and grandchildren, and the first to have a rabbi do the benediction at his inauguration.
The list of what Trump has done for the Jewish people goes on and on. You would think American Jewry, including the so-called political leaders like Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, and their ilk would recognize this and be grateful.
It’s time for American Jews to wake up and see reality. The Dems no longer are our friends. But Donald Trump has been a very loyal one.
Retlag Mama Bear
3 hours ago
I agree with your assessment, but I think you would also have to include Harry Truman. He recognized Israel within minutes of their announcement of statehood. Without his support, Israel might never have survived 1948/49. //
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The lack of self awareness and optics is just breathtaking here
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9:51 AM · Mar 8, 2024
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The first point so many made was how the folks on the right looked just like everyone imagined the Biden HQs rapid response team would look -- like a bunch of NYU theater kids, as one person on X put it.
That explains so much about why we are in the mess we are now. The picture appears to be them checking out the State of the Union and/or its aftermath. What was hilarious was while the talking points on the left are that Biden hit a "home run," none of them look happy at all with what is going on. Kapp also clearly has no idea what that picture looks like. It looks like the picture of the Hillary people who cried in 2016, some on X observed. This is the adults back in charge?
Then the other hilarious thing that people pointed out to the Biden person is that the picture on the right did not show "Biden HQs"; it was the famous picture of Osama bin Laden being taken out in a raid, a raid ordered by Barack Obama—who you can see in the picture— and it was a raid that Biden opposed. So much for "rapid response."
Do his people not even know that? Why would they post that picture, of all pictures, with that caption? They're either clueless or believe everyone else is.
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: