I can't explain to you what it feels like to come to a market and see such a variety of fruits, vegetables, meats, everything... Here you can buy whatever you need. People come here and buy what they'll need for the whole week. The truth is, I don't understand why my country, Cuba, goes through so much, when everywhere else in the world people have the right and can buy the basic necessities they need to live.

Despite our march toward electronic money, an important message is still jingling in pockets across America, “E pluribus unum.” The Latin phrase stamped on coins and bills means “Out of many, one.” It was coined in 1776 for the original design of the Great Seal of the United States. The Founding Fathers wanted to underscore the 13 colonies that came together as a single nation. Since then, it has come to include many different people forming one nation.

It is a concept so important that in the Coinage Act of 1873, Congress required “E pluribus unum” be inscribed on every coin, along with “In God We Trust.” We should take these mottos seriously.

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More evidence that the "best and brightest" #H1Bs are just lower-level participants in a jobs-for-kickbacks C-Suite auction of the careers earned by skilled American professionals.
For reasons, board members don't want to see the colossal economic losses.
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Newly released gov't records show the vast majority of H-1Bs approvals are for entry & junior level jobs

83% at Wage Levels I & II
Way below market salaries

These jobs can and should be filled by unemployed & underemployed American graduates 👇👇👇
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China is an authoritarian state, and has no incentive to allow any of its citizens to travel to the U.S. as students without getting something in return. That doesn't mean all Chinese students are committing espionage. On the contrary, you would expect most aren't due to the sheer practicalities at play, but the student visa program is used as a cover. When you flood universities with over half a million students from a single country, it gets a lot easier for the actual spies to hide in plain sight. Of course, putting all that aside, I'm not sure conservatives would be very upset with "half" of America's most liberal institutions closing because they can't farm Chinese money anymore. //

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I believe Trump is VERY wrong on this one. Don't have enough workers for certain industries? Then TRAIN people we have here (hell we are going to have HUGE job losses due to AI). Do not fund Universities with Chinese Money and Students - those students will take what they learn here and USE IT AGAINST US. So I say hell no on both counts,

These vehicular attacks present a troubling new twist on ICE enforcement operations in Chicago. ICE agents have already faced doxing, threats, and physical assault this year, as well as several incidents of lethal ambushes. Those attacking federal officers while they carry out their duty to enforce federal law have no excuse for their lawless violence. Their actions only provide an excuse for federal authorities to respond with their own aggressive tactics. And, while it’s fair to question whether those federal actions are warranted, it’s clear to see the opposition that prompted them.

When aggression follows aggression, it only leads America down a path towards further violence, less freedom, and an erosion of the ordered liberty that has made America unique and successful. When administrations set concerning new precedents, they must answer the question, what is the justification, and what is the cost?

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The New World Screwworm is yet another pestilence/disease that was once eradicated in the United States only to be reintroduced by poor border control. Back in the 1950s, a massive project to interrupt the life-cyle of the pest by introducing a critical mass of sterile flies, was surprisingly effective. By the mid-1960s, NWS was no longer a thing in the US & Canada (although they still persisted in parts of Mexico for another 40+ years)….until Joe Biden’s tenure.

Zhang operated a surrogacy agency called Mark Surrogacy from their mansion. The agency purportedly marketed itself as an institution assisting American and international couples struggling to conceive through surrogacy. However, investigations revealed a startling truth: The only couple the agency served was Zhang and Xuan themselves. They are the biological parents of 21 children born through surrogacy. Of these children, fifteen lived with them in the mansion under the care of a few nannies, while friends and family supposedly looked after the other six in different locations. //

It is crucial to highlight that Xuan must be a member of the CCP to serve on the People’s Congress. U.S. immigration law prohibits immigrants with “membership in or affiliation with the Communist or any other totalitarian party” from becoming naturalized citizens. Thus, it is curious how Xuan, a high-ranking CCP member linked to genocide in Xinjiang, was able to obtain U.S. citizenship. //

In addition to concerns about immigration, Xuan and Zhang’s case highlights the ethical, legal, and moral dilemmas surrounding the commercial surrogacy industry, which has turned a deeply human experience into a commodity. As one research paper concludes, “Surrogacy degrades a pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product.” //

Surrogacy is illegal in many countries, including China, but the United States has no federal restrictions. Commercial surrogacy is legal in most states, including California. This legal landscape, along with birthright citizenship, makes the U.S. a popular destination for international surrogacy, attracting foreign couples who seek American women to help fulfill their dreams of parenthood. //

Those who advocate for immoral policies such as unchecked immigration or the commodification of women’s bodies should understand that horrifying stories like this are what happens when we take these policies to their logical end, and that cases like Zhang and Xuan will only become more common.

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Yeah, doesn't seem right, does it?

Months ago... before Trump took office, streiff had a great piece on the whole issue of birthright citizenship, it was well worth the read.

Honestly, I don't see how with what's he brought up and referenced in that article that anyone can rule that Trump's order is unconstitutional.

There were examples of the US government having to get positive affirmation via a law to grant citizenship to Indians, the author of the 14th clarifying its intentions, and the need to recognize the limits of the 'seminal' case with extending citizenship to legal permanent foreign residents, explicit denial of citizenship to babies of foreign diplomats... all feeding into the State Department making a unilateral decision to grant 'birthright citizenship' without any grant of legal authority.

The best I can tell is that these judges are ruling on the constitutionality of the issue based on the length of time that the State Department's unilateral decision has remained unchallenged and then finding it unconstitutional. //

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“And subject to the jurisdiction” must mean someone approved by the govt to be here. Otherwise the words are simply meaningless and being ignored as inconvenient.

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If you came here illegally you are excluding yourself from the jurisdiction of this nation. Therefore your children born here cannot be born citizens.

If you came here on a visa you are not subject to United States' jurisdiction either, your country of citizenship still has jurisdiction -- for conscription or draft, for example.

..Federal authorities detained more than 70 people during a raid on the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant near 68th and J streets, ICE said in a statement.

The large-scale raid also involved the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and Omaha police, according to the plant’s president. //

When I initially heard about this raid, I thought it was a repeat of that classic dance from the late 90s and early 2000s, but was kind of surprised that a factory owner would be so sanguine about employing illegals in numbers approaching that in this day and age. It didn't seem especially prudent.

I also gave a passing moment to wondering why the feds would be bothering with a plant in the middle of nowhere when surely there were plenty of the first-to-go criminals to be found by the gross in any city they were already working in.

And that was that, until I read a Judicial Watch newsletter this morning, which began to explain exactly HOW an obscure plant out of thousands in the country wound up raided.

It also answered my question about the plant owner's apparent lack of concern. It turns out, as far as he knew, all his employees were kosher by virtue of passing their E-Verify screenings. The plant was 100% compliant with federal regulations for hiring. The workers did so by using stolen identities and Social Security numbers. //

Years after Judicial Watch reported that the government’s system to verify if employees are authorized to work legally in the United States approved hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, federal authorities have uncovered widespread identity theft at a meat processing plant that used the defective tool to screen 100% of its staff. //

What led the feds to raid that plant in particular was a deep, detailed, multi-agency investigation into at least a hundred cases of individual identity theft across the country that - SURPRISE! - all led back to a massive identity theft ring originating in that very plant. //

“These so-called honest workers have caused an immeasurable amount of financial and emotional hardship for innocent Americans. If pretending to be someone you aren’t in order to steal their lives isn’t blatant, criminal dishonesty, I don’t know what is.” //

Agents took hours to meticulously go through and verify everyone's paperwork and authenticate documents. They even allowed workers to return home to retrieve paperwork for other family members or friends who didn't have what they needed with them. This wasn't any inhumane cattle round-up. //

Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year. //

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The canard of the “law abiding undocumented worker” takes another big hit.

By the way, notice that identity theft victims hardest hit are the legal citizens with Hispanic surnames that “look like them?” I bet that’s a demographic already and increasingly disenchanted with the whole “undocumented migrant” thing - and the politicians supporting it. //

What is the purpose of immigration policy for any nation? The correct answer is to add to numbers either in general, or in areas of certain aptitudes that are needed to enable a specific, tangible, and quantifiable benefit to the larger society. While feeling and expressing sympathy for people in nations rocked by harsh conditions is noble, it is not a responsible basis for policies related to population growth here. //

In our time, the argument about immigration has ceased entirely from being about what’s good for the nation, and instead focuses on sympathy for those who want to escape the plight of the homelands that they are unable or unwilling to fight to save or improve. This has led to a surge of people who come not to join the American experiment, but to derive the financial and security benefits of the Western tradition while working to subvert it. The mindset gave us people like Ilhan Omar—who said publicly that her top priority is what’s good for Somalia—as a member of Congress, and Zohran Mamdani—whose mother characterized him as “not an Uhmericcan (American) at all”—as the Democrat nominee for NYC mayor. //

The relationship progressives demand of us is very one-sided. This is a breach of trust for America’s citizenry, as those of us here legally are given no choice in the importation of new cultures at odds with our own. Nor are we given a vote when it comes to these new masses being immediately absorbed into taxpayer-funded services. The process is deliberately undemocratic. //

One might have thought that a leftist finally said the quiet part out loud. But they have been saying the quiet part out loud for years with arguments that America needs open borders because we need a class of people to pick tomatoes, clean hotel rooms, and shingle roofs. The implication is that these are menial, unworthy vocations that should be ascribed to those who open borders advocates seem to view as a servant class of humanity. In recent months, it occurred to me that similar arguments were made to justify the chattel slave trade during the first half of American history. Replace the word "tomatoes" with "cotton" and then ask if we’re really more enlightened than our 18th and 19th-century ancestors. There are many indicators—like the abortion trade, the butchering of children for the transgender agenda, and the human sex trafficking trade—that suggest the opposite is true. //

other nations grow food and build structures without importing millions of people from South America. Just as the antebellum South built an economy around slavery, the America of my lifetime built an economy around a class of foreign labor that’s deliberately shuffled into the shadows. That’s the opposite of compassionate.

Our living generations are at a crossroads in America’s history. We inherited a nation of E Pluribus Unum—Out of Many, One. Will we steward that and hand it to our descendants? Or will we falter under the lie that justice demands a nation in which every culture is respected, except the one that birthed and sustained it? The choice is binary. We must reject thinking that reflects chattel-based moral commitments, and stand for an America-first immigration policy that perpetuates the unique greatness of this land to the ordered liberty benefit of all across the fruited plain.

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Thanks to the tireless efforts and diligent work of the men and women of CBP and the leadership of @POTUS and @Sec_Noem, USBP released 0 (not a single one) illegal aliens into our country in May, down from more than 62,000 in May of last year.

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The logic that ultimately drove our immigration policy to become effectively one of open borders under Joe Biden was built on the idea that Americans would not work in construction, manufacturing, food processing, or even the hospitality sector because... well, no one ever told us why Americans wouldn't do those jobs.

Omaha provided a laboratory to evaluate that claim. If Green Valley Foods required illegals to operate, then it was doomed. But something extraordinary happened:

Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.

Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.

Throughout history, labor shortages have not resulted in better wages, working conditions, or employee bargaining power. Labor shortages produced chattel slavery, indentured servitude, sharecropping, serfdom, and peonage. Hiring illegals creates a workforce that can't complain, organize, or demand better pay and working conditions; the same characteristics also explain the in-your-face abuses of the H1B program. The issues with E-Verify aside, I would submit that employment practices that resulted in 50% of the workforce being illegals required some degree of willful blindness. As an aside, if you think the reason that all kinds of people were befouling their drawers over Elon Musk's DOGE team getting access to the Social Security master file was because they were concerned about the sanctity of our personal information, you are profoundly stupid.

Americans will take most jobs now filled by illegals if they are only allowed to compete for them. They will only be allowed to compete for those jobs when our government takes the issue of illegal immigration seriously, as it is doing under President Trump.

“Immigrant voters, foreign-born voters, have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020,” CNN's Harry Enten explained. Back in 2020, Democrats enjoyed a comfortable 32-point lead among immigrant voters on the issue of immigration. But those days are gone. According to Enten, there has been “a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters,” and Republicans now lead Democrats by eight points on the issue, more than with any other demographic group.

This isn’t a marginal shift; it’s a political earthquake. And it’s not just about party preference; it’s also about attitudes toward Donald Trump himself.

Long dismissed as radioactive to immigrant voters, Trump is now seeing a surge in support that few thought possible. In 2016, he pulled 36% of the immigrant citizen vote. That ticked up to 39% in 2020. But in 2024, he’s jumped to 47% — and in some polls, he’s either tied or outright leading among immigrant voters. It’s a stunning political reversal that shatters the old assumptions.

That political shift mirrors a broader transformation in how immigrant citizens perceive illegal immigration. Back in 2020, illegal immigrants enjoyed a net favorable rating of +23 points among immigrant voters. By 2024, that number had plunged to -6. This dramatic drop completely undercuts the left’s go-to narrative that immigrant communities automatically align in solidarity with those here illegally.

When the feds served a criminal warrant on a business in L.A.'s garment district, however, they weren't there to arrest illegal aliens; they were after a business owner who allegedly hadn't paid millions of dollars in taxes and tariffs and was part of an investigation into possible drug cartel activity.

Border Czar Tom Homan told L.A. radio host John Kobylt that the bust was over a "criminal conspiracy investigation involving money laundering, tax evasion, and customs fraud where one of the companies didn't declare over $80 million in criminal imports and failed to pay $17 million in taxes and tariffs." He told the KFI host that, "It was a criminal investigation and while we served a criminal warrant, we arrested about 40 illegal aliens." //

The U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, told Kobylt that because they had a criminal warrant to search the premises, they're allowed to question and detain everyone. And they did. //

If what the feds say is true, then Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the entire leftist industrial complex, which is supported by U.S. tax dollars, as I reported in Who's Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are, are supporting riots while castigating the feds going after the illegal drug cartels.

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🚨NEW — LA Mayor Karen Bass DOUBLES DOWN on calling riots "peaceful" & blaming ICE raids for violence.

"If immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder..."

"It is peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids will be!"

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Karen Bass was mentored by Fidel Castro. That's all you need to know about her politics. //

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They really need to point out that the raids started as the execution of a warrant for the business owners. They only apprehended the illegals after they found them there. She looks very foolish pretending this all started because of ICE. //

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Money laundering operation was the intent on Friday, not illegals. Tells you everything you need to know about B-ass and LA.

According to author Peter Schweizer, the ICE operation where Huerta inserted himself to obstruct had less to do with illegal workers and more to do with money laundering. So, why did Huerta know to go there on that day, and toward what end? //

It seems bigger corruption is being exposed, and neither Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass nor Gov. Gavin Newsom want this to happen. They are flat-out refusing to cooperate with ICE and allow them to conduct their investigations and removal operations.

A federal judge has stranded three ICE officers and their convicted-criminal deportees in Djibouti, Africa, after an order was handed down grounding their flight.

The eight illegal immigrants were on their way to South Sudan in late May when US District Judge Brian Murphy stepped in, claiming the Trump administration "unquestionably" violated a March decision on deportations. The flight then landed in Djibouti, a small nation on the Horn of Africa, with ICE agents being ill-equipped to deal with the "outrageous" conditions. //

The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to step in regarding this case, but so far, nothing has happened. As I've said before, regardless of what legal arguments exist, the longer this constant stream of lower-court decisions usurping executive power is allowed to continue without any new guardrails put in place, the less credibility the judiciary will enjoy. That's not a good thing for the country, and I sincerely hope this doesn't reach the point where court orders have to be ignored, because if that happens, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.

With this latest video, we now know why the terrorist was shirtless in the aftermath. He caught himself on fire as he threw the Molotov cocktails at his innocent victims. //

Left-wing immigration lawyer Eric Lee revealed on social media that it was his outfit that filed the Habeas petition, claiming that deporting Soliman's family was retribution for his crimes. He also played on emotion, noting that all five children are minors. //

Not discussed in Lee's post is whether they have any right to be here in the first place. Someone's father committing a terror attack doesn't give his family magical immunity from being deported, just like anyone else who overstays a visa. This kind of weaponization of the legal system, making it impossible for elected officials to exercise even the most basic aspects of their statutory power, is going to destroy the judiciary. That this case enjoys another level of absurdity only makes it worse. //

With this latest video, we now know why the terrorist was shirtless in the aftermath. He caught himself on fire as he threw the Molotov cocktails at his innocent victims.

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In light of yesterday’s horrific attack, all terrorists, their family members, and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know that under the Trump Administration we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you.
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Per Fox News' Bill Melugin, Soliman "allegedly told investigators that he waited to carry out the attack until his daughter graduated high school." //

It sounds as though her post-graduation plans will not include remaining in the United States.

"People are out there taking photos of the names and their faces and posting them online with death threats to their family and to themselves," Lyons emphasized, explaining just one incident in Los Angeles where officers were doxxed after an operation. He was upset that they would be put in that position.

"So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don't like what immigration enforcement is."

He wanted to know why the media was asking about masks, and not about the threats to the ICE officers and their families.

"Is that the issue here, or is anyone upset with the fact that ICE officers' families were labeled as terrorists?" he declared with great emotion.

On Friday, the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to suspend a program that provided “parole” to 500,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Democrats are crying foul, saying Trump isn’t following the law. But it was President Biden who broke the law when he allowed these migrants here in the first place.

While the Supreme Court’s reprieve doesn’t assure that the Court will ultimately rule in the administration’s favor, it is good news for now. For these parole programs were some of the most egregious misdeeds of Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security.

This program ushered into the United States on a red carpet over half a million aliens who, under our
nation’s immigration laws, were flatly inadmissible.

In fact, the House of Representatives impeached Secretary Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors in part because of these very programs: proclaiming that “Mayorkas willfully exceeded his parole authority” by “creat[ing], re-open[ing], or expand[ing] a series of categorical parole programs … which enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.”

When Congress granted the President the parole power in 1952, it was strictly for, as the House Judiciary Committee made clear, ONLY “emergency cases,” such as “an alien who requires immediate medical attention” or an inadmissible alien who needs to be here as “a witness or for purposes of prosecution.” //

In 1996, Congress reacted to decades of abuses by administrations of both parties by tightening the language of the parole power in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Among other changes, IIRIRA required that parole only be granted “on a case-by-case basis.” //

While Biden ignored the “case by case basis” requirement, and provided a mass parole, the lower-court judge who ruled against Trump, said that since parole can only be granted on a case-by-case basis, it likewise can only be terminated on a case-by-case basis.

So one law for Biden, another for Trump.