“People talk about the tax cuts and other goodies in the OBBB, which are great.
However, they are missing the major point about the OBBB.
It literally changes the polarity of the country. The OBBB is Trump’s and MAGA’s new deal. Yes, it’s that big of a deal.
For instance, it cut off a billion dollars for planned parenthood. What does that mean? Yes, it will save a lot of babies, but it also changes the profit motive behind abortion. That funding was used as money laundering for democrat party. It’s why the democrat party championed abortion. Cut the profit motive, and you may again get prolife democrats. A billion might not seem like much in the world today, but congress critters dont need much to win a race. A couple million here and there, and you are in business. Figure if only 20% of those funds make it back to democrat coffers, that’s $200 million of free money to fund ads, gotv, college abortion activists, etc.
That revenue stream is ended. That means the other $800 million that went to fund the actual abortions etc is also gone. That means less pushing of the abortion narrative in the media, in classrooms, in society at large. Again, it might not seem like much, but look what the pro abortion crowd did with those funds over the years. How they changed the culture to promote killing the unborn.
The defunding of abortion is just one very, very small part of the OBBB…
The same goes for illegal immigration. Before the OBBB, the profit motive was in favor of increasing illegal immigration. It funded welcome centers, job programs, housing for illegals, drivers licenses, welfare programs, and on and on. It all was directed to increase/continue illegal immigration. The OBBB flips that entire profit motive to deportation and border security. Now people are being paid to deport people instead of importing people. Now, illegals are being paid to self deport instead of being paid to come here.”
“Why are Democrat Congressmen sobbing on the steps of the US Capitol like weepy children?
Because they know it’s over.
Once 20 million criminal aliens are deported, they have no future. No path to power. They’ll lose 25 house seats and every Presidential for a generation.
Permanent minority.
They bet against America, and America fought back. Now they are undone. The money is gone. The power is gone. The future is gone. The modern Democrat party is dead.”
“When TRUMP learned of the Guadaupe River Flooding Disaster his response was:
“ANYTHING YOU NEED, JUST ASK”
We asked for Blackhawk helicopters and military with equipment for search and rescue…within an hour they were flying over the river rescuing and leading the way.
“BREAKING: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele releases footage of the brutal torture that deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was forced endure.
While in prison, Garcia was subjected to the horrors of gardening, watching TV and playing soccer.”
Governor Josh Stein just vetoed House Bill 805, which would have:
• Officially recognized only two biological sexes in North Carolina
V Blocked taxpayer funding for
“gender-affirming” surgeries and hormones
V Protected students from being forced to share overnight sleeping quarters based on “gender identity”
• Reined in DEl indoctrination in schools and
government
And what’s his excuse?
He actually claimed his Christian faith compelled him to veto it — because the bill would “target vulnerable people.”
No, Governor. Christian faith doesn’t require you to ignore biological truth or hand over children to radical gender activists. It doesn’t mean you have to fund double mastectomies for confused teenagers or let boys into girls’ dorms on school trips.
This isn’t compassion. It’s cowardice, wrapped in virtue-signaling.
Here is a part of the Iranian underground church who fled to the US for asylum and the Biden administration granted her temporary status while they reviewed her application. The President cancelled all of these asylum applications. The woman is having a panic attack—a complete meltdown. I would be terrified if these masked men came to my church looking for me, and I’m a citizen.
I told a Christian co-worker about this incident. His response: ‘Anyone can say they’re a Christian. She probably has Iranian ties. She broke the law so she has to be deported.’
What are we doing? What are we thinking? Where will they send her? To Iran where she will most certainly be tormented or killed? Will we send her to Sudan or El Salvador to be imprisoned?
May God have mercy on his people. May God forgive me/us for what I/we have unleashed.
Debra, it is heartbreaking and we have no immediate answers except we are called to pray. Prayer for these people being sent back to almost certain death and/ or torture. Prayer for our government to be filled with wise and compassionate leadership. Prayer for ICE and other authorities to exercise wisdom and compassionate leadership.
What we were doing was not working. What we are now doing appears alarming. Most of us don’t want evil put on anybody.
Nor do we know the truth in each situation. Some people are indeed plants. Some have been told to make contact and have chosen not to. Some are erroneously apprehended.
We can pray. We can register complaint. We can write letters to officials. We can notify each other. We can vote. But we cannot fix a broken world. Believers have been martyred for their faith as long as there has been faith.
To add to Debra’s comment. . .Lately I have been thinking of the verses in the Bible about caring for the stranger in the land. Just two examples:
“The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” ~ Leviticus 19:34
“Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” ~ Deuteronomy 10:19
Although those verses were specifically meant for the land of Israel, the general meaning behind them – treating strangers in one’s land well – certainly seems like a biblical precept for all of us. Especially since the USA is made up of people (except for the Native Americans) whose ancestors came here for freedom almost like the Israelite people journeyed to the land of Israel for their own freedom.
I am not saying that we should automatically grant citizenship to anyone and everyone who comes here or that some should not be deported. I am merely saying that it should all be done in a much more compassionate, thoughtful way.
This revoking of asylum applications seems particularly cruel. Sending people to other countries other than their own is cruel. And in many cases, sending them back to their own countries is cruel.
Last I read, the current majority of illegal immigrants being swept up are those who are working and living quiet lives, not the criminals that Trump initially said ICE would go after.
And now that the funding bill has passed there are literally billions of dollars that can be spent on macabre concentration camps like the one in the Florida swamps.
They are facilities where illegal invaders are being detained and processed out of our sovereign nation. No country on this earth allows the illegal invasion on their soil but we are supposed to take them all?! We are a nation of laws and I for one am sick of seeing the Mexican flag being flown in our country while they burn the US flag! I am sick of the rape murder trafficking drugs cartels thievery and robbing of taxpayers for illegal invaders. This has to stop.
But lately ICE seems to be concentrating on those who are working for a living. They are “easy picking,” and can run up the numbers of those deported. Easier than actually concentrating on the gang members and criminals.
What kind of people put a concentration camp in a swamp surrounded by alligators and pythons. And then sell T-shirts advertizing it. We’ve lost our collective mind.
Such a slap in the face for those who lived died and even survived real concentration camps. There is absolutely no comparison even with the Japanese detention camps during the war. ICE may have some bully power tripping agents but hopefully they will be dealt with. Most are trying to bring order to an out of control situation and yes they have to wear masks to protect themselves from radical leftist types who desire to harm them for doing their job!
Internment camps were nothing like concentration camps. They were wrong but they were not inhumane or brutal. People were put there unfairly and without payment for their lost homes and businesses, true. But no. Not even close. And if you think they are, you have no knowledge of history or choose to ignore it.
Kizzie, yes, Christians (and ordinary Americans) are expected to treat others well. That is why we are told to care for the prisoners, visiting them. But lawbreakers are criminals and even in our kindness, there is a time to make people follow the law.
Actually, Alligator Alcatraz does not look like anything but what it is: a holding facility to hold people who have entered our country illegally and are being out processed. It does not look as nice as the El Salvador prison.
Mumsee – Let’s set aside the general matter of arresting illegal aliens for now. I may not like the way it is currently being done, nor that many are being sent to countries other than their own that may not be as merciful as we would like, but I understand that the law is the law. What I don’t understand is why they seem to be concentrating on the “easy pickings” instead of the criminals and gang members. Trump had said that those were the ones he most wanted to deport.
Well, actually, I guess do understand it, at least somewhat. ICE has quotas to meet, so the easier the catch, the easier and quicker they can make their quota.
Then to make things worse, there is the revoking of asylum applications of people who were trying to do things the right way, and may indeed be in grave danger if sent back. That does not seem right.
Kizzie, by entering a country illegally, they have set themselves up for this unfortunately. I wish we had a better system but we are not starting from scratch. We are starting in the hole after years of allowing people free access. Our communities are not designed to function so far beyond capacity. A functional immigration system would allow a steady stream of newcomers, spreading out, not the influx of unexamined newcomers being given free stuff.
of course we care about the downtrodden, but there is the story of the golden egg. The immigration system we recently experienced was that story. Killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. That continuing would quickly make us unable to help anybody.
Yes, Debra, that is heartbreaking. I watched the linked video and prayed for our sister and brothers in it. We’re in a dangerous time for freedom in this land, when asylum seekers can be grabbed by masked men and a large percentage of the country applauds it.
It is a matter demanding much prayer and God’s solutions. If only all our complaining could be turned to prayers, how much more quickly might God be prodded to action?
I would suggest there are many praying concerning these situations and not the implied celebratory mindset. I question the response of the “asylum seeker” writhing on the ground in defiance of ICE. Where is her hope found? In Christ or her defiance? The clip is hard to watch on many levels for we as outsiders have not much context. To use manipulative narratives is disingenuous at best.
Wandering Views 
Good read, click it and read the rest…..
https://x.com/unseen1_unseen/status/1941364286686654661?t=INJCRJeX68AOsNpM1lcaOQ&s=19
“People talk about the tax cuts and other goodies in the OBBB, which are great.
However, they are missing the major point about the OBBB.
It literally changes the polarity of the country. The OBBB is Trump’s and MAGA’s new deal. Yes, it’s that big of a deal.
For instance, it cut off a billion dollars for planned parenthood. What does that mean? Yes, it will save a lot of babies, but it also changes the profit motive behind abortion. That funding was used as money laundering for democrat party. It’s why the democrat party championed abortion. Cut the profit motive, and you may again get prolife democrats. A billion might not seem like much in the world today, but congress critters dont need much to win a race. A couple million here and there, and you are in business. Figure if only 20% of those funds make it back to democrat coffers, that’s $200 million of free money to fund ads, gotv, college abortion activists, etc.
That revenue stream is ended. That means the other $800 million that went to fund the actual abortions etc is also gone. That means less pushing of the abortion narrative in the media, in classrooms, in society at large. Again, it might not seem like much, but look what the pro abortion crowd did with those funds over the years. How they changed the culture to promote killing the unborn.
The defunding of abortion is just one very, very small part of the OBBB…
The same goes for illegal immigration. Before the OBBB, the profit motive was in favor of increasing illegal immigration. It funded welcome centers, job programs, housing for illegals, drivers licenses, welfare programs, and on and on. It all was directed to increase/continue illegal immigration. The OBBB flips that entire profit motive to deportation and border security. Now people are being paid to deport people instead of importing people. Now, illegals are being paid to self deport instead of being paid to come here.”
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Yes please.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1940923975514706106?t=Z9dy1d4sSks13Fr-5l0TZw&s=19
“Why are Democrat Congressmen sobbing on the steps of the US Capitol like weepy children?
Because they know it’s over.
Once 20 million criminal aliens are deported, they have no future. No path to power. They’ll lose 25 house seats and every Presidential for a generation.
Permanent minority.
They bet against America, and America fought back. Now they are undone. The money is gone. The power is gone. The future is gone. The modern Democrat party is dead.”
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It’s nice to have a president who steps up when needed.
https://x.com/JosephLTrahan/status/1941344738075873526?t=8aNuFmDKFwv3_QIcVNceHw&s=19
“When TRUMP learned of the Guadaupe River Flooding Disaster his response was:
“ANYTHING YOU NEED, JUST ASK”
We asked for Blackhawk helicopters and military with equipment for search and rescue…within an hour they were flying over the river rescuing and leading the way.
I voted for this.”
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Just heartbreaking….
https://x.com/BoLoudon/status/1941242941005259179?t=JYHW-tjxsYSHaFkdNFk9WA&s=19
Yet tragedy often brings out the best in some.
https://x.com/Unitedcajunnavy/status/1941316930616623311?t=vuwQFfr4grnrNPCKIB5D5A&s=19
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Oh…… the horror…. 🙄
https://x.com/alx/status/1940959019172352358?t=kOKeM52wNGk1zQBk90wZ4g&s=19
“BREAKING: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele releases footage of the brutal torture that deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was forced endure.
While in prison, Garcia was subjected to the horrors of gardening, watching TV and playing soccer.”
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The before and after pictures show the devastation.
https://x.com/madelynrogers/status/1941265954337644868?t=YE5VG7mIbJOIQ0iku4e-wA&s=19
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That’s my home area – those flash floods come so quickly, and with power… thank God for all the rescuers!
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Governor Josh Stein just vetoed House Bill 805, which would have:
• Officially recognized only two biological sexes in North Carolina
V Blocked taxpayer funding for
“gender-affirming” surgeries and hormones
V Protected students from being forced to share overnight sleeping quarters based on “gender identity”
• Reined in DEl indoctrination in schools and
government
And what’s his excuse?
He actually claimed his Christian faith compelled him to veto it — because the bill would “target vulnerable people.”
No, Governor. Christian faith doesn’t require you to ignore biological truth or hand over children to radical gender activists. It doesn’t mean you have to fund double mastectomies for confused teenagers or let boys into girls’ dorms on school trips.
This isn’t compassion. It’s cowardice, wrapped in virtue-signaling.
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Here is a part of the Iranian underground church who fled to the US for asylum and the Biden administration granted her temporary status while they reviewed her application. The President cancelled all of these asylum applications. The woman is having a panic attack—a complete meltdown. I would be terrified if these masked men came to my church looking for me, and I’m a citizen.
I told a Christian co-worker about this incident. His response: ‘Anyone can say they’re a Christian. She probably has Iranian ties. She broke the law so she has to be deported.’
What are we doing? What are we thinking? Where will they send her? To Iran where she will most certainly be tormented or killed? Will we send her to Sudan or El Salvador to be imprisoned?
May God have mercy on his people. May God forgive me/us for what I/we have unleashed.
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Debra, it is heartbreaking and we have no immediate answers except we are called to pray. Prayer for these people being sent back to almost certain death and/ or torture. Prayer for our government to be filled with wise and compassionate leadership. Prayer for ICE and other authorities to exercise wisdom and compassionate leadership.
What we were doing was not working. What we are now doing appears alarming. Most of us don’t want evil put on anybody.
Nor do we know the truth in each situation. Some people are indeed plants. Some have been told to make contact and have chosen not to. Some are erroneously apprehended.
We can pray. We can register complaint. We can write letters to officials. We can notify each other. We can vote. But we cannot fix a broken world. Believers have been martyred for their faith as long as there has been faith.
mumsee
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To add to Debra’s comment. . .Lately I have been thinking of the verses in the Bible about caring for the stranger in the land. Just two examples:
“The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” ~ Leviticus 19:34
“Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” ~ Deuteronomy 10:19
Although those verses were specifically meant for the land of Israel, the general meaning behind them – treating strangers in one’s land well – certainly seems like a biblical precept for all of us. Especially since the USA is made up of people (except for the Native Americans) whose ancestors came here for freedom almost like the Israelite people journeyed to the land of Israel for their own freedom.
I am not saying that we should automatically grant citizenship to anyone and everyone who comes here or that some should not be deported. I am merely saying that it should all be done in a much more compassionate, thoughtful way.
This revoking of asylum applications seems particularly cruel. Sending people to other countries other than their own is cruel. And in many cases, sending them back to their own countries is cruel.
Last I read, the current majority of illegal immigrants being swept up are those who are working and living quiet lives, not the criminals that Trump initially said ICE would go after.
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And now that the funding bill has passed there are literally billions of dollars that can be spent on macabre concentration camps like the one in the Florida swamps.
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Concentration camps????!!!!
They are facilities where illegal invaders are being detained and processed out of our sovereign nation. No country on this earth allows the illegal invasion on their soil but we are supposed to take them all?! We are a nation of laws and I for one am sick of seeing the Mexican flag being flown in our country while they burn the US flag! I am sick of the rape murder trafficking drugs cartels thievery and robbing of taxpayers for illegal invaders. This has to stop.
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perspective
https://www.thejewishnews.com/opinion/concentration-camps-and-detention-centers-there-s-a-big-difference/article_cd71e55d-d92e-5b55-a48b-f37b002392de.html
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But lately ICE seems to be concentrating on those who are working for a living. They are “easy picking,” and can run up the numbers of those deported. Easier than actually concentrating on the gang members and criminals.
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Thank you, NJ, for the piece on concentration camps.
Those ICE personnel were treating the Iranians as gently and peaceably as they could while still doing their job.
I do not know the truth of who is being arrested but old what’s his name “mistakenly” sent to the El Salvadoran prison did not look tortured to me.
mumsee
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Yes concentration camps. And it’s not the first time it’s been done in the US, as most of you are aware.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
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What kind of people put a concentration camp in a swamp surrounded by alligators and pythons. And then sell T-shirts advertizing it. We’ve lost our collective mind.
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Such a slap in the face for those who lived died and even survived real concentration camps. There is absolutely no comparison even with the Japanese detention camps during the war.
ICE may have some bully power tripping agents but hopefully they will be dealt with. Most are trying to bring order to an out of control situation and yes they have to wear masks to protect themselves from radical leftist types who desire to harm them for doing their job!
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Internment camps were nothing like concentration camps. They were wrong but they were not inhumane or brutal. People were put there unfairly and without payment for their lost homes and businesses, true. But no. Not even close. And if you think they are, you have no knowledge of history or choose to ignore it.
Kizzie, yes, Christians (and ordinary Americans) are expected to treat others well. That is why we are told to care for the prisoners, visiting them. But lawbreakers are criminals and even in our kindness, there is a time to make people follow the law.
mumsee
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Actually, Alligator Alcatraz does not look like anything but what it is: a holding facility to hold people who have entered our country illegally and are being out processed. It does not look as nice as the El Salvador prison.
mumsee
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Mumsee – Let’s set aside the general matter of arresting illegal aliens for now. I may not like the way it is currently being done, nor that many are being sent to countries other than their own that may not be as merciful as we would like, but I understand that the law is the law. What I don’t understand is why they seem to be concentrating on the “easy pickings” instead of the criminals and gang members. Trump had said that those were the ones he most wanted to deport.
Well, actually, I guess do understand it, at least somewhat. ICE has quotas to meet, so the easier the catch, the easier and quicker they can make their quota.
Then to make things worse, there is the revoking of asylum applications of people who were trying to do things the right way, and may indeed be in grave danger if sent back. That does not seem right.
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Kizzie, by entering a country illegally, they have set themselves up for this unfortunately. I wish we had a better system but we are not starting from scratch. We are starting in the hole after years of allowing people free access. Our communities are not designed to function so far beyond capacity. A functional immigration system would allow a steady stream of newcomers, spreading out, not the influx of unexamined newcomers being given free stuff.
of course we care about the downtrodden, but there is the story of the golden egg. The immigration system we recently experienced was that story. Killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. That continuing would quickly make us unable to help anybody.
mumsee
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Yes, Debra, that is heartbreaking. I watched the linked video and prayed for our sister and brothers in it. We’re in a dangerous time for freedom in this land, when asylum seekers can be grabbed by masked men and a large percentage of the country applauds it.
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It is a matter demanding much prayer and God’s solutions. If only all our complaining could be turned to prayers, how much more quickly might God be prodded to action?
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I would suggest there are many praying concerning these situations and not the implied celebratory mindset.
I question the response of the “asylum seeker” writhing on the ground in defiance of ICE. Where is her hope found? In Christ or her defiance? The clip is hard to watch on many levels for we as outsiders have not much context. To use manipulative narratives is disingenuous at best.
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