“@HughHewitt to @BretBaier on President Trump’s massive legal victory against NY AG Letitia James: “It is a huge thing, Bret, and the key phrase is the one that you read: violates the Eighth Amendment. That opens up the door and I hope the president walks through it, to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the attorney general and Judge Engoron, who was sort of a Looney Tunes character through this whole thing. Of all the lawfare weighs against Donald Trump, this proceeding in New York was the most ridiculous. No victims, no injuries, nothing, and a half a billion dollar fine for that reason. The court was embarrassed and to withdrawing it. Even if they’re Democrats, they had to do it. And I hope the President goes back for the millions of dollars the interest on his bond cost him. This is the first of many wins he will enjoy, because the New York judicial system is so badly broken.””
“The press is flipping out because the Trump administration has announced it is reviewing ALL 55 million foreigners with visas in America to see who has committed crimes or other misconduct that would justify removal.
Of course, the panic says it all. The press doesn’t want valuable, useful, desirable immigrants coming to America. They just want an unlimited flood.
But the American people feel differently. America isn’t a dumping ground for the world’s troublemakers, parasites, and problems.
This WAY overdue and will prove massively popular.”
“The Supreme Court tossed another injunction blocking the Trump Administration. Justice Gorsuch delivered this haymaker to lower court judges: “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them.”
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“The Supreme Court’s ruling slapping down nationwide injunctions is a long-overdue check on activist judges who’ve weaponized their benches to sabotage America-First policies. For years, rogue district courts operated as de facto legislatures—halting border security, immigration enforcement, and energy independence with universal edicts.
Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion rightly exposes this judicial overreach, reaffirming that lower courts exist to resolve disputes between parties, not dictate national policy. The era of forum-shopping to activist judges in San Francisco or Maryland for countrywide paralysis ends now.
Next step? Codify this precedent to prevent future sabotage of executive authority.”
50 million illegals ??? 55 million visa holders?? Where do these numbers come from? The former is impossible. The latter might be accurate but that would include those on long term green cards who have been in the US for decades
The US population is about 340 million — the above numbers suggest 30% of the population is either illegal or has a visa. And you want to deport all of them? That would destroy the economy and any semblance of normality.
I thought the idea was to get rid of the illegal immigrants not those who went through all the legal processes and have been contributing members of society……. but it isn’t is it?
“Overstaying a visa is generally not a criminal offense in the United States but rather a civil violation, though it can lead to serious immigration consequences like removal (deportation), being barred from re-entry for several years, and even permanent inadmissibility. While federal law currently distinguishes between civil visa overstays and criminal offenses like illegal entry, there are ongoing legislative efforts, such as the Visa Overstay Penalties Act, to classify some overstays as criminal offenses with potential fines or imprisonment.
Civil Violation vs. Criminal Offense
Civil Violation:Overstaying a U.S. visa is a violation of immigration law that triggers civil penalties rather than criminal ones.
Criminal Offenses:In contrast, actions like entering or re-entering the United States without authorization are considered criminal offenses and can result in fines or imprisonment.
Consequences of OverstayingCancellation of Visa:
Your visa becomes void.
Unlawful Presence and Inadmissibility Bars:
Overstaying a visa for 180 days or more can result in being declared “unlawfully present”.
3-Year Bar: Overstaying for 180 days to less than one year and then departing can result in a 3-year ban from re-entering the U.S. 10-Year Bar:
Overstaying for one year or more can lead to a 10-year ban. Ineligibility for Other Immigration Benefits: You may be barred from adjusting your status or getting future visas in the U.S. Removal Proceedings: You can be placed in removal (deportation) proceedings.
Ongoing Legislative Changes
There is legislative momentum to make visa overstays a criminal offense. For example, the Visa Overstay Penalties Act seeks to impose criminal penalties, including imprisonment, for visa overstays.”
Every one of us citizens here in the USA who should bow down, kiss the ground, and be grateful that our own families came over when they did. Many, if not most, were the kind of people whom Emma Lazarus referred to in her poem, which is on the Statue of Liberty, as . . .
“. . .your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
I’m glad to see this one get scrutinized. He’s admitted to being part of multiple coups so he may very well be keeping and leaking sensitive information.
And yet detention centers are housing thousands who arrived, took nothing from taxpayers, got jobs, paid taxes, learned the language, and assimilated….until ICE quotas got in the way. Hmmm. It’s almost like we don’t care as long as deportation numbers are up.
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Yeah Kizzie, don’t send us prisoners or malcontents…. or poor people or persecuted people or undesirables like practicing Catholics or Iranian Christians or migrant farm workers or skilled workers or anyone who is not “white white” and rich. Send us your filthy rich–because that’s who’s going to pick our farm crops at $10 per hr and if they don’t …well, who needs to eat anyway. Americans are all fat and lazy. Deport them all. Deport them AAAAALLLLLLLL!
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“We told you exactly what would happen if Biden used federal law enforcement to destroy and imprison his political enemies. We told you that once you crossed that Rubicon, there was no going back. We told you how it would go down, that the toothpaste could never be put back in the tube, and you laughed because you thought you’d be in charge forever.”
So live for today, and feast on your own tears tomorrow? That’s one solution. Not a godly one, but I dare say it’s popular among heathen and hypocrite alike. Carry on if you must.
I am currently studying in the book of Exodus. I am at the point of the Jews leaving Egypt behind. There were about 600,000 men who left and with others added on it totaled around 2,000,000. Thinking of those big numbers back then and wondering how the percentage compares with the Exodus of another kind that we are witness to today.
The numbers are quite fascinating. It is the individuals that make up those numbers that can bring heartbreak when considered. It can be heartbreak over all the bad stuff that perpetrators were allowed to do to people while here, or the loss of the good that came from ones having to go because they broke the law originally by deciding to come here illegally and now their family is ripped apart. It is certainly a God-sized mess. We don’t live in Utopia or heaven so there is no perfect solution, but what we have now is much better than what we had last year.
Last year we had untold numbers of undocumented children being allowed to be trafficked, and we never have heard their stories. Silence of the media. Their stories would be worse than all the sad stories we hear today, I fear. No one could bear to hear their stories.
“MSNBC is not taking the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home well.
“This is chilling. It really is…Clearly this is using the FBI in a way that not only tarnishes the FBI, but it tarnishes our country. I mean, this is what they do in countries where they don’t have rule of law. This is what happens when despots take over, like Putin.”
“I just learned that there are 55,000,000 people in the United States of America on visas.That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Even 5,000,000 would be a lot.
55,000,000 is literally the population of Albania, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Serbia, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Norway, Hungary, and Georgia COMBINED.
Often, it was the second generation, the children of the immigrants, who learned the language. It takes time.
Many, maybe even most, illegal immigrants do indeed make an effort to assimilate and work and raise their families as best they can. With any group of people, it is always the minority who cause the problems, but get the most attention, casting suspicion on all of them.
The 55 million has to include green card holders or the number makes no sense. From what I can gather the 55 million would be green card holders, work visa holders and temporary work visa holders. Green card holders are subject to a 10 year renewal but general are considered permanent residents. The others may be subject to both employer and gov’t whims.
Those who overstay a visa are normally those who enter on a tourist visa and then stay. I think that’s the rules AJ refers to in his posts. I don’t think they are included in the 55 million number.
The vast majority of both legal and illegal migrants are law abiding. In fact, stats usually indicate a lower crime rate among immigrants — subject to definition, area, and time period.
I don’t think there was every a golden age of immigration. It may have been easier to absorb immigrants when natives were dispossessed and immigrants were given homesteads. In other situations, immigrants were used as scabs to break unions or to fight in the US army as substitutes, ie cannon fodder. And of course, ethnic groups brought their own criminal groups with them — the mafia for one.
Bolton — I’m amused — they are eating their own, time for the show trials. I’m waiting for the night of the long knives.
AJ — not sure what protest film that is being posted but the only protest in Kiev was four weeks ago. Zelensky is still incredibly popular in Ukraine, more popular than I thought he would be. The latest round of so-called peace talks probably increased his standing as the EU stood by him and its obvious the Trump admin is merely engaged in performative acts. Putin appears not to have budged and thus the Ukrainians have very little choice but to continue to back Zelensky.
Meanwhile Gabbard stopped intelligence sharing of the peace talks and Putin summit with the Five Eyes intelligence cmttee. Thus the Trump admin is trying to keep what happend with the Trump-Putin talks away from its Anglophone partners. This is extremely rare even in the cold war and one wonders why Canada and the UK, strong Ukraine allies, are banned from information sharing.
Actually Canada removed tariffs from all goods compliant with the existing CUSMA treaty. The tariffs that Trump put on Canadian goods already exempted CUSMA compliant goods (about 85% of all goods) hence Canada was just returning the favour.
“President Trump’s Administration Cuts Off California’s Federal Funding
The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated California’s PREP grant after the state refused to strip radical gender ideology from its taxpayer-funded sex ed curriculum.
PREP funds are meant to prevent teen pregnancy and STDs. Instead, California used them to push students, some as young as 10, to “explore gender identity options,” consider hormone therapy, breast removal, and even genital mutilation.
@HHSGov reviewers ruled the curriculum not medically accurate, not age appropriate, and a misuse of taxpayer money. California was given 60 days to remove the gender ideology content. They refused. Funding pulled.
Officials say other states are also under review and will face the same consequences if they cross the line.
The Bottom line? No more federal dollars for gender indoctrination in America’s classrooms.”
I would wager we are all thankful for having been born in this country. We live in a different time than our ancestors. Mine came from Germany and Ireland. Legally . They were poor. They worked to provide for their families. Not one expectation of those living here to provide for them in any way shape or manner. And I will guarantee they would not have come here by breaking our laws as their first action in this nation! My great grandparents did not fly the German nor Irish flags. They embraced the nation that allowed them to come. My great grandparents spoke German but learned to speak English as did my grandmother. No special accommodations for their language to be spoken to them…no “press 1 for English”!!!
Prior to the 1920s its doubtful there was a distinction between legal and illegal. People just showed up. And there was very little control at the land borders. Passports for example were not in wide use until after in WW1 after which they were standardised. And on the Canadian-US border it was enough to declare your nationality and perhaps show an ID (driver’s license, health card etc) to cross back and forth until 2002.
So for many of those who comment here, their ancestors just showed up without documentation. And after a cursory medical check, they were allowed in. Even in the 1950s, my dad lost his papers on board the ship yet was allowed into Canada and after obtaining temporary papers travelled between Canada and the US.
The Irish suffered from discrimination when they arrived in the US and thus stuck together not much different than today’s immigrants. Many of the “jobs” they found were courtesy of the Irish mob who controlled prostitution, alcohol, gambling etc in places like Boston and NewYork. The Gangs of New York is a documentary. The Italian, Russians and Chinese immigration experience is quite similar.
German, Dutch and Scandinavians settled in the upper midwest where they stuck together and helped each other only integrating by the second and third generation. In some cases entire towns were created by one ethnicity. Even today places like Pella and Sioux Center Iowa are more less Dutch enclaves. They may speak English but that’s after three or four generations. In South Dakota, German was taught in the public school system even in the 1980s — three or four generations after Germans settled South Dakota.
My point is simple — the immigrant experience of those who came 100 years ago is being replicated by current immigrants except they speak Spanish and Chinese, have a darker skin etc
There is a civil war raging in Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have died in the last 2 years and intense hunger and famine as well as genocide are destroying the country.
People here who are anxious to ‘burn it all down’ should stop and consider what it means to lose your civilization. The lives of multiple generations are affected. Stable food supply, basic healthcare, and the safety and security we all take for granted are lost.
I’ll just leave this here…children are being murdered ….
An estimated 1,038,000 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without total bans in 2024, a less than 1% increase from 2023 and an increase of 12% from 2020.1 This count includes medication abortions provided via telemedicine by US clinicians, with pills mailed to patients in states without total bans or bans on telemedicine. It does not include self-managed abortions, such as those using medications mailed from pharmacies outside the United States. Evidence suggests self-managed abortions have increased since Dobbs.2
I think this is tragic. We are literally killing our future. But if we take the attitude about these deaths that we do about the deaths of children in Gaza, — that we’ll be concerned about them ‘ when their parents are’— where does that leave us? And personally, I believe that people who have already drawn the breath of life have a greater claim, not lesser, to our concern and protection than people who have not yet breathed and may never do so for whatever reason.
We are killing our future in more ways than one. Every once in a while my family gets the opportunity to go to lunch at a Chinese buffet after church on Sunday. The food is good and the price fairly affordable, but one of the things that we particularly enjoy about this establishment is seeing the people. There must be a Spanish church nearby because the Mexican families are such a pleasure to see. They walk in single file led by the father and mother. Usually 6 or 7 children follow obediently behind, with the older siblings occasionally helping the younger, sometimes carrying a toddler on the hip. Each one is impeccably dressed for church. They are all very short; I’m 5’3″ and I usually tower over the men. I especially love seeing the little boys not even 3 feet tall but dressed in their best little suits and sometimes ties as well marching right along. They appear happy and loved.
There are many families like this. Or there used to be. We’ve noticed that most are missing in the last few months. Perhaps some are no longer here, or they are just afraid to come out. I don’t know which. But this also, is tragic.
We desperately need to know how to encourage young families again. Not be so harsh. Build them up, not tear them apart. Encourage them that childbearing and rearing is a worthwhile endeavor. We might not have to worry so much about abortion if we find a way to do this.
A chilling statement in my opinion, “And personally, I believe that people who have already drawn the breath of life have a greater claim, not lesser, to our concern and protection than people who have not yet breathed and may never do so for whatever reason.”
All life is breathed by our Creator…ALL. Whether that child has taken a breath outside the womb or not. To suggest one life is more valued over another is chilling.
Be chilled. It is my view that if the evangelicals in America were as concerned about the children outside the womb as they are about those inside, our country would support fewer wars. The hungry, hurt and dying we can see seem less important than those we can’t. I’m chilled by that every day. So yeah, be chilled.
My SIL came here legally. She paid a lot of money to become a citizen. Also, she and my brother spent a lot of time and effort so that she could. So did my friend, Maria, and her husband.
I am angry at those who make this a racist issue, including those here. Where has anyone here complained about legal residents from anywhere, of any race? So, why is that even an issue here?
I don’t care if someone has a flag from another country, it is their disrespect for our country that is the problem. I see people who have Finnish flags or similar banners, but it is not done while stomping on the US flag.
Yes, there are refugees all over the world waiting for their turn to come. Apparently, they are fools to wait, just like all the rest coming recently legally.
There is more security and stability in coming legally. Although I have read that this administration is carefully looking at even those who came legally—checking their social media posts. Those who have the ‘right’ opinions may be more secure.
You have every right to have your opinion as do we all on this blog like it or not. Some will look upon the life of an innocent life not yet born as disposable but I am not one of those. Nor do I look upon the lives of illegals or those in harms way in warring counties as disposable. Our Lord looks upon us all as He gives life. To say one has more value over another is tragic. My chilled opinion…,
It is simply untrue that evangelicals don’t care about life outside the womb. I guess I don’t go around seeing if someone who is caring for the poor is the exact definition of an evangelical, but every single prolife person I know also gives and works to help others. Many have adopted the unwanted themselves or given for others to be able to do so. They support all kinds of mission work whether physical or seeking the lost. The ones I know don’t brag about it, however.
If you all say so I believe you. I just don’t see anyone else here commenting about the children being killed in Gaza so the President can have a resort there, or whatever. In fact, there’s been denial by Israel and others about what is happening.
And again, as I said to AJ in my response a couple of days ago, I know we are all limited in our bandwidth of concern so each speaks as they are burdened.
Wandering Views 
Right thru this door here Mr. President.
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1958672041705382221?t=Jhw72jG1YiILrONyyG0aFg&s=19
“@HughHewitt to @BretBaier on President Trump’s massive legal victory against NY AG Letitia James: “It is a huge thing, Bret, and the key phrase is the one that you read: violates the Eighth Amendment. That opens up the door and I hope the president walks through it, to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the attorney general and Judge Engoron, who was sort of a Looney Tunes character through this whole thing. Of all the lawfare weighs against Donald Trump, this proceeding in New York was the most ridiculous. No victims, no injuries, nothing, and a half a billion dollar fine for that reason. The court was embarrassed and to withdrawing it. Even if they’re Democrats, they had to do it. And I hope the President goes back for the millions of dollars the interest on his bond cost him. This is the first of many wins he will enjoy, because the New York judicial system is so badly broken.””
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Correct!
https://x.com/RepTenney/status/1958577313978700099?t=nr8AZtOyUfv7KYirJmhWkg&s=19
“Trump was forced to pay over $110,000 per day in interest on that unlawful bond.
Crooked Letitia James & Engoron should both be disbarred and removed from office for malicious prosecution and abusive process.
It appears @POTUS has a right to file a civil rights claim under 42 USC 1983.”
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https://x.com/SaveAmericaNew/status/1958153302002344061?t=v82o0N2O7OxPKuAtbM_JTw&s=19
“BREAKING: Donald Trump has just revoked the security clearances of Letitia James and DA Alvin Bragg and BANNED them from ANY federal buildings!”
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“Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberals and DEI Justice Ketanji Jackson in trying to block President Trump from ending woke grants at the NIH.
The ruling was 5-4. Amy Coney BARRETT, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch side with Trump.”
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1958673610132136224?t=yvaQVLuLnKFC_RnUD2BDiA&s=19
Once again, Trump wins in the end where it matters.
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“The press is flipping out because the Trump administration has announced it is reviewing ALL 55 million foreigners with visas in America to see who has committed crimes or other misconduct that would justify removal.
Of course, the panic says it all. The press doesn’t want valuable, useful, desirable immigrants coming to America. They just want an unlimited flood.
But the American people feel differently. America isn’t a dumping ground for the world’s troublemakers, parasites, and problems.
This WAY overdue and will prove massively popular.”
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1958647252760605114?t=nmr5CzhfApZpBvyiLjcTtg&s=19
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“It’s astonishing that we have 55,000,000 visa holders in America
We do not even need nor want a small fraction of that here.
Want lower housing costs, Want lower energy costs, Want lower food costs, remove all 50 Million illegals & 55 Million visa holders!”
https://x.com/JohnnyWhiskyTX/status/1958651651184558178?t=9ZJCc7NHMQ4R_ZBKa9rRfw&s=19
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Trump wins again. It’s all within his presidential powers.
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1958658976209416358?t=SU3rjEh4DHx0aag7NYTzfg&s=19
“The Supreme Court tossed another injunction blocking the Trump Administration. Justice Gorsuch delivered this haymaker to lower court judges: “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them.”
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“The Supreme Court’s ruling slapping down nationwide injunctions is a long-overdue check on activist judges who’ve weaponized their benches to sabotage America-First policies. For years, rogue district courts operated as de facto legislatures—halting border security, immigration enforcement, and energy independence with universal edicts.
Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion rightly exposes this judicial overreach, reaffirming that lower courts exist to resolve disputes between parties, not dictate national policy. The era of forum-shopping to activist judges in San Francisco or Maryland for countrywide paralysis ends now.
Next step? Codify this precedent to prevent future sabotage of executive authority.”
https://x.com/dogeai_gov/status/1958659376631161272?t=k4pFdFrKP5jtz-9QKjUT2g&s=19
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50 million illegals ??? 55 million visa holders?? Where do these numbers come from? The former is impossible. The latter might be accurate but that would include those on long term green cards who have been in the US for decades
The US population is about 340 million — the above numbers suggest 30% of the population is either illegal or has a visa. And you want to deport all of them? That would destroy the economy and any semblance of normality.
I thought the idea was to get rid of the illegal immigrants not those who went through all the legal processes and have been contributing members of society……. but it isn’t is it?
hrw
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Yeah. We’re high on “winning”….overdosing actually. Suiciding en masse. When we’re done maybe we can be Canada’s 11th province?
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Sorry HRW,
But overstating your visa is also a civil offense, and makes you’re being here illegal. And it’s punishable by removal and barred from reentry.
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“Overstaying a visa is generally not a criminal offense in the United States but rather a civil violation, though it can lead to serious immigration consequences like removal (deportation), being barred from re-entry for several years, and even permanent inadmissibility. While federal law currently distinguishes between civil visa overstays and criminal offenses like illegal entry, there are ongoing legislative efforts, such as the Visa Overstay Penalties Act, to classify some overstays as criminal offenses with potential fines or imprisonment.
Civil Violation vs. Criminal Offense
Civil Violation:Overstaying a U.S. visa is a violation of immigration law that triggers civil penalties rather than criminal ones.
Criminal Offenses:In contrast, actions like entering or re-entering the United States without authorization are considered criminal offenses and can result in fines or imprisonment.
Consequences of OverstayingCancellation of Visa:
Your visa becomes void.
Unlawful Presence and Inadmissibility Bars:
Overstaying a visa for 180 days or more can result in being declared “unlawfully present”.
3-Year Bar: Overstaying for 180 days to less than one year and then departing can result in a 3-year ban from re-entering the U.S. 10-Year Bar:
Overstaying for one year or more can lead to a 10-year ban. Ineligibility for Other Immigration Benefits: You may be barred from adjusting your status or getting future visas in the U.S. Removal Proceedings: You can be placed in removal (deportation) proceedings.
Ongoing Legislative Changes
There is legislative momentum to make visa overstays a criminal offense. For example, the Visa Overstay Penalties Act seeks to impose criminal penalties, including imprisonment, for visa overstays.”
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No stinking country on earth tolerates such…not even Canada! Obey the laws of the country or leave…or be arrested and deported!
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Every one of us citizens here in the USA who should bow down, kiss the ground, and be grateful that our own families came over when they did. Many, if not most, were the kind of people whom Emma Lazarus referred to in her poem, which is on the Statue of Liberty, as . . .
“. . .your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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IOW, many of our families were the kind that are not welcome anymore.
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Right again. Another dirty NTer….
Funny how that keeps happening.
Let the crying and whining begin as the criminals are held to their own standards for raids.
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1958864988707197231?t=aWGDNw8bYrwMkjVKZ8c7sA&s=19
“Little doubt Bolton not only kept classified documents but unlawfully leaked info to media.
This is only the beginning I’m told”
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“BREAKING: The FBI has just RAIDED John Bolton’s DC-area home in a high profile national security probe
NOW we’re talking!
🔥Agents busted down Bolton’s door around 7am this morning, in an investigation ordered by Kash Patel
Patel posted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission””
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I’m glad to see this one get scrutinized. He’s admitted to being part of multiple coups so he may very well be keeping and leaking sensitive information.
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BTW, my comments above were in response to “valuable, useful, desirable immigrants” in the 9:55 post.
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Comeuppance.
https://x.com/RealSLokhova/status/1958867527507091467?t=VXqQfs7zYdsxbB9B3LXx0A&s=19
“Karma
Bolton was a cheerleader for the unlawful Mar-o-Lago raid. Now he is on the receiving end of a lawful search.”
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“Archbishop’s win at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ exposes GOP religious freedom hypocrisy
(RNS) — This summer has brought these contradictions into sharp focus.”
https://religionnews.com/2025/08/07/archbishops-win-at-alligator-alcatraz-exposes-gop-religious-freedom-hypocrisy/
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No Kizzie, what that means is don’t send us prisoners and malcontents, like the former admin allowed.
You leave out once again that old days immigrants arrived, took nothing from taxpayers, got jobs, learned the language, and assimilated.
Today’s class do the complete opposite.
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And yet detention centers are housing thousands who arrived, took nothing from taxpayers, got jobs, paid taxes, learned the language, and assimilated….until ICE quotas got in the way. Hmmm. It’s almost like we don’t care as long as deportation numbers are up.
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Yeah Kizzie, don’t send us prisoners or malcontents…. or poor people or persecuted people or undesirables like practicing Catholics or Iranian Christians or migrant farm workers or skilled workers or anyone who is not “white white” and rich. Send us your filthy rich–because that’s who’s going to pick our farm crops at $10 per hr and if they don’t …well, who needs to eat anyway. Americans are all fat and lazy. Deport them all. Deport them AAAAALLLLLLLL!
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Shhhh….
No crying now….
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1958927089182155012?t=V2oym7VyO7PGvGX0bwOhLw&s=19
“We told you exactly what would happen if Biden used federal law enforcement to destroy and imprison his political enemies. We told you that once you crossed that Rubicon, there was no going back. We told you how it would go down, that the toothpaste could never be put back in the tube, and you laughed because you thought you’d be in charge forever.”
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So live for today, and feast on your own tears tomorrow? That’s one solution. Not a godly one, but I dare say it’s popular among heathen and hypocrite alike. Carry on if you must.
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Here’s a local story from near me.
Sal’s your typical sellout for illegals dem, but threaten that sweet federal funding, and they cave fast.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-deportation-policies-spook-pennsylvania-city-scrapping-immigrant-protection-vote
“Trump deportation policies spook Pennsylvania city into scrapping immigrant protection vote
Democratic mayor removes ‘Welcoming City’ measure from agenda after federal funding threats from Pam Bondi”
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Huh.
Seems like the Ukrainian people might be ready for peace? Or the CIA…
Their embezzling leader will hate that.
https://x.com/RickyDoggin/status/1958723671184269382?t=gzzljX49krvEGLtcwKR4AQ&s=19
“A change in tactics for the CIA?
Huge protests erupt in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Zelensky as he is a dictator and refuses to make a peace deal and end the war.”
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I am currently studying in the book of Exodus. I am at the point of the Jews leaving Egypt behind. There were about 600,000 men who left and with others added on it totaled around 2,000,000. Thinking of those big numbers back then and wondering how the percentage compares with the Exodus of another kind that we are witness to today.
The numbers are quite fascinating. It is the individuals that make up those numbers that can bring heartbreak when considered. It can be heartbreak over all the bad stuff that perpetrators were allowed to do to people while here, or the loss of the good that came from ones having to go because they broke the law originally by deciding to come here illegally and now their family is ripped apart. It is certainly a God-sized mess. We don’t live in Utopia or heaven so there is no perfect solution, but what we have now is much better than what we had last year.
Last year we had untold numbers of undocumented children being allowed to be trafficked, and we never have heard their stories. Silence of the media. Their stories would be worse than all the sad stories we hear today, I fear. No one could bear to hear their stories.
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Oh sure, now it’s a problem….
Yet they cheered when Biden did it.
https://x.com/devorydarkins/status/1958895967912305142?t=h3H5jv5LShe5RD2j5PZVsQ&s=19
“MSNBC is not taking the FBI raid on John Bolton’s home well.
“This is chilling. It really is…Clearly this is using the FBI in a way that not only tarnishes the FBI, but it tarnishes our country. I mean, this is what they do in countries where they don’t have rule of law. This is what happens when despots take over, like Putin.”
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“I just learned that there are 55,000,000 people in the United States of America on visas.That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Even 5,000,000 would be a lot.
55,000,000 is literally the population of Albania, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Serbia, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Norway, Hungary, and Georgia COMBINED.
How in the hell is that even possible?”
https://x.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1958631844766757245?t=42daJmd5QrC2ykCS8RHq5A&s=19
This is not how the visa system is supposed to work.
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Often, it was the second generation, the children of the immigrants, who learned the language. It takes time.
Many, maybe even most, illegal immigrants do indeed make an effort to assimilate and work and raise their families as best they can. With any group of people, it is always the minority who cause the problems, but get the most attention, casting suspicion on all of them.
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More winning.
Elbows up!
Anyone….? No….?
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1958905945725046937?t=ZLi4a8nu5brkajJZH6FVOQ&s=19
“BREAKING: In a stunning blow to the Experts, CANADA IS REMOVING retaliatory tariffs on the United States. President Trump won.”
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The 55 million has to include green card holders or the number makes no sense. From what I can gather the 55 million would be green card holders, work visa holders and temporary work visa holders. Green card holders are subject to a 10 year renewal but general are considered permanent residents. The others may be subject to both employer and gov’t whims.
Those who overstay a visa are normally those who enter on a tourist visa and then stay. I think that’s the rules AJ refers to in his posts. I don’t think they are included in the 55 million number.
The vast majority of both legal and illegal migrants are law abiding. In fact, stats usually indicate a lower crime rate among immigrants — subject to definition, area, and time period.
I don’t think there was every a golden age of immigration. It may have been easier to absorb immigrants when natives were dispossessed and immigrants were given homesteads. In other situations, immigrants were used as scabs to break unions or to fight in the US army as substitutes, ie cannon fodder. And of course, ethnic groups brought their own criminal groups with them — the mafia for one.
hrw
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Bolton — I’m amused — they are eating their own, time for the show trials. I’m waiting for the night of the long knives.
AJ — not sure what protest film that is being posted but the only protest in Kiev was four weeks ago. Zelensky is still incredibly popular in Ukraine, more popular than I thought he would be. The latest round of so-called peace talks probably increased his standing as the EU stood by him and its obvious the Trump admin is merely engaged in performative acts. Putin appears not to have budged and thus the Ukrainians have very little choice but to continue to back Zelensky.
Meanwhile Gabbard stopped intelligence sharing of the peace talks and Putin summit with the Five Eyes intelligence cmttee. Thus the Trump admin is trying to keep what happend with the Trump-Putin talks away from its Anglophone partners. This is extremely rare even in the cold war and one wonders why Canada and the UK, strong Ukraine allies, are banned from information sharing.
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WSJ “experts” and NTers hardest hit.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1958917203828343040?t=ta06UIBH1Be_5Oau3R-ejQ&s=19
“It has just been revealed by the CBO that President Trump’s tariffs can reduce the US national deficit by $4 TRILLION over 10 years.”
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Actually Canada removed tariffs from all goods compliant with the existing CUSMA treaty. The tariffs that Trump put on Canadian goods already exempted CUSMA compliant goods (about 85% of all goods) hence Canada was just returning the favour.
Trump blinked and we rewarded him
hrw
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Hardball.
https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/1958660345444356117?t=5Gdmu5pQ6PO_fiUVrQ8Qtw&s=19
“President Trump’s Administration Cuts Off California’s Federal Funding
The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated California’s PREP grant after the state refused to strip radical gender ideology from its taxpayer-funded sex ed curriculum.
PREP funds are meant to prevent teen pregnancy and STDs. Instead, California used them to push students, some as young as 10, to “explore gender identity options,” consider hormone therapy, breast removal, and even genital mutilation.
@HHSGov reviewers ruled the curriculum not medically accurate, not age appropriate, and a misuse of taxpayer money. California was given 60 days to remove the gender ideology content. They refused. Funding pulled.
Officials say other states are also under review and will face the same consequences if they cross the line.
The Bottom line? No more federal dollars for gender indoctrination in America’s classrooms.”
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So……
Trump won.
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I would wager we are all thankful for having been born in this country. We live in a different time than our ancestors. Mine came from Germany and Ireland. Legally . They were poor. They worked to provide for their families. Not one expectation of those living here to provide for them in any way shape or manner. And I will guarantee they would not have come here by breaking our laws as their first action in this nation! My great grandparents did not fly the German nor Irish flags. They embraced the nation that allowed them to come. My great grandparents spoke German but learned to speak English as did my grandmother. No special accommodations for their language to be spoken to them…no “press 1 for English”!!!
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Prior to the 1920s its doubtful there was a distinction between legal and illegal. People just showed up. And there was very little control at the land borders. Passports for example were not in wide use until after in WW1 after which they were standardised. And on the Canadian-US border it was enough to declare your nationality and perhaps show an ID (driver’s license, health card etc) to cross back and forth until 2002.
So for many of those who comment here, their ancestors just showed up without documentation. And after a cursory medical check, they were allowed in. Even in the 1950s, my dad lost his papers on board the ship yet was allowed into Canada and after obtaining temporary papers travelled between Canada and the US.
The Irish suffered from discrimination when they arrived in the US and thus stuck together not much different than today’s immigrants. Many of the “jobs” they found were courtesy of the Irish mob who controlled prostitution, alcohol, gambling etc in places like Boston and NewYork. The Gangs of New York is a documentary. The Italian, Russians and Chinese immigration experience is quite similar.
German, Dutch and Scandinavians settled in the upper midwest where they stuck together and helped each other only integrating by the second and third generation. In some cases entire towns were created by one ethnicity. Even today places like Pella and Sioux Center Iowa are more less Dutch enclaves. They may speak English but that’s after three or four generations. In South Dakota, German was taught in the public school system even in the 1980s — three or four generations after Germans settled South Dakota.
My point is simple — the immigrant experience of those who came 100 years ago is being replicated by current immigrants except they speak Spanish and Chinese, have a darker skin etc
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There is a civil war raging in Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have died in the last 2 years and intense hunger and famine as well as genocide are destroying the country.
People here who are anxious to ‘burn it all down’ should stop and consider what it means to lose your civilization. The lives of multiple generations are affected. Stable food supply, basic healthcare, and the safety and security we all take for granted are lost.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/22/drone-attack-destroys-un-aid-convoy-in-sudans-famine-hit-darfur-region
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I’ll just leave this here…children are being murdered ….
An estimated 1,038,000 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without total bans in 2024, a less than 1% increase from 2023 and an increase of 12% from 2020.1 This count includes medication abortions provided via telemedicine by US clinicians, with pills mailed to patients in states without total bans or bans on telemedicine. It does not include self-managed abortions, such as those using medications mailed from pharmacies outside the United States. Evidence suggests self-managed abortions have increased since Dobbs.2
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I think this is tragic. We are literally killing our future. But if we take the attitude about these deaths that we do about the deaths of children in Gaza, — that we’ll be concerned about them ‘ when their parents are’— where does that leave us? And personally, I believe that people who have already drawn the breath of life have a greater claim, not lesser, to our concern and protection than people who have not yet breathed and may never do so for whatever reason.
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HRW makes great points in his 7:15 comment.
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We are killing our future in more ways than one. Every once in a while my family gets the opportunity to go to lunch at a Chinese buffet after church on Sunday. The food is good and the price fairly affordable, but one of the things that we particularly enjoy about this establishment is seeing the people. There must be a Spanish church nearby because the Mexican families are such a pleasure to see. They walk in single file led by the father and mother. Usually 6 or 7 children follow obediently behind, with the older siblings occasionally helping the younger, sometimes carrying a toddler on the hip. Each one is impeccably dressed for church. They are all very short; I’m 5’3″ and I usually tower over the men. I especially love seeing the little boys not even 3 feet tall but dressed in their best little suits and sometimes ties as well marching right along. They appear happy and loved.
There are many families like this. Or there used to be. We’ve noticed that most are missing in the last few months. Perhaps some are no longer here, or they are just afraid to come out. I don’t know which. But this also, is tragic.
We desperately need to know how to encourage young families again. Not be so harsh. Build them up, not tear them apart. Encourage them that childbearing and rearing is a worthwhile endeavor. We might not have to worry so much about abortion if we find a way to do this.
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A chilling statement in my opinion, “And personally, I believe that people who have already drawn the breath of life have a greater claim, not lesser, to our concern and protection than people who have not yet breathed and may never do so for whatever reason.”
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All life is breathed by our Creator…ALL. Whether that child has taken a breath outside the womb or not. To suggest one life is more valued over another is chilling.
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amen and amen
Jo
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Be chilled. It is my view that if the evangelicals in America were as concerned about the children outside the womb as they are about those inside, our country would support fewer wars. The hungry, hurt and dying we can see seem less important than those we can’t. I’m chilled by that every day. So yeah, be chilled.
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My SIL came here legally. She paid a lot of money to become a citizen. Also, she and my brother spent a lot of time and effort so that she could. So did my friend, Maria, and her husband.
I am angry at those who make this a racist issue, including those here. Where has anyone here complained about legal residents from anywhere, of any race? So, why is that even an issue here?
I don’t care if someone has a flag from another country, it is their disrespect for our country that is the problem. I see people who have Finnish flags or similar banners, but it is not done while stomping on the US flag.
Yes, there are refugees all over the world waiting for their turn to come. Apparently, they are fools to wait, just like all the rest coming recently legally.
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There is more security and stability in coming legally. Although I have read that this administration is carefully looking at even those who came legally—checking their social media posts. Those who have the ‘right’ opinions may be more secure.
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And in addition to killing our future, we are also deporting it as well. So there’s that.
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You have every right to have your opinion as do we all on this blog like it or not. Some will look upon the life of an innocent life not yet born as disposable but I am not one of those. Nor do I look upon the lives of illegals or those in harms way in warring counties as disposable. Our Lord looks upon us all as He gives life. To say one has more value over another is tragic. My chilled opinion…,
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It is simply untrue that evangelicals don’t care about life outside the womb. I guess I don’t go around seeing if someone who is caring for the poor is the exact definition of an evangelical, but every single prolife person I know also gives and works to help others. Many have adopted the unwanted themselves or given for others to be able to do so. They support all kinds of mission work whether physical or seeking the lost. The ones I know don’t brag about it, however.
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If you all say so I believe you. I just don’t see anyone else here commenting about the children being killed in Gaza so the President can have a resort there, or whatever. In fact, there’s been denial by Israel and others about what is happening.
And again, as I said to AJ in my response a couple of days ago, I know we are all limited in our bandwidth of concern so each speaks as they are burdened.
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