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To defend border TX seizes BP land
« Reply #2952 on: January 14, 2024, 05:15:26 AM »
Today's episode in this very interesting development.

@BPUnion statement:
“Governor Abbott is not harming Border Patrol operations, he is enhancing them. His seizing control of Shelby Park allows our agents to deploy to troubled spots that experience high numbers of gotaways. Governor Abbott’s actions should be seen as a force multiplier.”



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SCOTUS backdrop to Texas vs. the Feds
« Reply #2957 on: January 19, 2024, 03:54:18 PM »
With Texas vs. the Feds in Eagle Pass going on this will be coming up a lot:

https://legaldictionary.net/arizona-v-united-states/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States




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Ed Calderon: SERIOUS CONVO
« Reply #2962 on: January 24, 2024, 04:32:14 AM »
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Gov. Abbot unleashes the Kraken
« Reply #2963 on: January 24, 2024, 04:27:10 PM »
In his statement today, Gov. Abbot uncorked this highly significant citation:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-10/clause-3/

THIS answers the SCOTUS case of US v. Arizona!

Here is the entire statement:

https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1.24.2024.pdf
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Turley: Feds likely to have edge in court
« Reply #2967 on: January 27, 2024, 02:16:45 PM »

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Former FBI Official States Invasion Occurring
« Reply #2968 on: January 27, 2024, 07:08:08 PM »

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My friend Jaime Aguilar is interviewed
« Reply #2969 on: January 28, 2024, 04:01:23 PM »

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Texas Rangers capture Rio Grande island
« Reply #2971 on: January 29, 2024, 05:13:15 AM »

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Biden Boxes Himself In Redux
« Reply #2972 on: January 29, 2024, 05:29:46 AM »
The points made about LNG futures our allies own and now have to come up with a plan B for are worth mulling:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/biden_the_border_and_tik_tok_too.html?fbclid=IwAR1UcWRjwFEIWPBBrdEMQ2E_uByMLbpZkcO7rGwue0PigvfDo_1LLhi0Bn8

I've communicated with the author a couple times and think she is well worth following.


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Regime Math
« Reply #2974 on: January 29, 2024, 08:14:14 PM »
It’s been far too long since I checked in with Wm Briggs:

The Border Happening & The Weakness Of The Regime
BY BRIGGS ON JANUARY 29, 2024 • ( 12 COMMENTS )
Simple math: 5,000 x 365 = 1,825,000. Check me. Is it right?

That 5,000 is the number of “migrants” the Regime Senate would allow in each day—each and every day of the year, in perpetuity. Five thousand a day is just under 2 million a year. Every year.

This daily number, instead of annual, is well calculated to assist propagandists. You will hear idiotic things like, “They’re only letting 5,000 in.” Listen for this.

Special addition! No sooner did I write this article, then I heard on the radio news: “The new Senate deal would allow President Biden to shut the border down if migrants reached 5,000 or more”. With not a word about this being daily. And notice who it allows the power. This was Fox News radio.

Those 5,000 are just the legal ones. How many daily illegal “migrants”? Who knows. Not zero. One guy says there are now nearly 7,000 “migrant encounters” at the border daily.

Migrant encounters. Lord help us.

That 5,000 a day is the “deal” the Senate is “offering” to fix the wholly manufactured “crisis” at the border. English demands an outcome cannot be a crisis if it was desired, aided, and abetted. Yet English has already been sacrificed to the woke, who have lunatics strutting around announcing “their” pronouns.

Now some of this is surely also due to incompetence. If there is anything we learned these last three years is how incompetent our elite are. But it is a directed incompetence, especially with its emphasis on DIEing.

The only real solution, therefore, is replacing that elite.

At any rate, you will have heard the news. Last week, Governor Abbott declared an “invasion” and Texas forbade the Feds from monkeying with its border razor wire. This incensed, quietly, those same Feds. Biden issued an ultimatum: back down or else! Abbott did not back down. Then a slew of other governors announced “support” of Abbott. As of this writing, nobody really knows what this “support” means in practice.

Yet what was hilarious was Biden’s “or else.” After Abbott held, Biden issued some penny-ante decree pausing approval of natural gas terminals, which will sting Texas (and other states) in some small way. Biden blamed “the devastating toll of climate change” for the pause, and not Abbott.

Not only this, but then the White House starting touting the Senate deal as the “solution”, which we might call Open Borders Lite, the math of which we saw above. And then Biden backed down again!

He had somebody issue a hilarious tweet declaring the border is “broken” and saying that “It’s long past time to fix it”. And he said if he got Open Borders Lite, he would act.

Gorgeous propaganda! It will certainly fool every NPR listener and suchlike folk who are eager to find an excuse, any excuse, to continue to support the Regime. None of them will even pause to consider Abbott has already acted after Biden refused to. Consistently refused to, and, of course, abetting the invasion.

On the other hand—and here comes our main point—those NPR types might not ever hear of any of this. A quick scan at the time of writing (Sunday evening), and I don’t see word one on the New York Times on-line site. Last relevant article about Abbott or Texas was from the 22nd about another SCOTUS ruling issued before Abbott’s declaration.

Regime propaganda outlets are doing their absolute best to remain as quiet as they can about this genuine crisis, even though the Governors of half the States have issued declarations of support and against the Regime. Which one would assume is both shocking and newsworthy.

The reason for the hush is that the Regime is pathetically weak, and know it, and they look it. They tried muscle and blew it. Which weakens them. Abbott, so far anyway, has refused to budge, and he got Biden to surrender twice.

Yes, it’s all small stuff. So far. But the Regime could have done much more, if they really had the strength. For instance, many on-line lefties (none of whom are in any power) have called for the Regime to nationalize the Texas National Guards, which they have the authority to do.

Can you imagine them doing that in an election year, though? This would be the equivalent to the campaign slogan Vote for Biden and Open Borders — Or Else!

Probably the Regime is preparing some sort of “devastating” legal move, which might even work. Don’t forget, “conservatives” pride themselves on following the law, even when the law is insane. (The left has no such compunction.) Abbott may back down.

Yet now is the time to push them. Any use of force on the Regime’s part is the beginning of their end

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2975 on: January 30, 2024, 05:14:03 AM »
"For instance, many on-line lefties (none of whom are in any power) have called for the Regime to nationalize the Texas National Guards, which they have the authority to do."

I may have this a bit muddled but note that DeSantis has done something to make the FL NG a FL State thing and as such not subject to this.   Yet another example of why he would make a great president.


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Biden's First Days Executive Orders Re Immigration
« Reply #2977 on: January 30, 2024, 06:17:59 AM »
Much of the current border debate, at least from the "Progressive" side of the aisle, appears predicated on the opinion that some sort of bipartisan agreement (with some already proposed as shown above) is required to address the issues there, issues that all sorts of very nothing-behind-the-curtain-here maybe possibly is perhaps inspired by the damage being done to Biden's presidential bid due to his administration's handling of the border. Well for the sake of the Memory Hole let's paste what currently appears on the White Houses website re Biden's executive actions on immigration taken on the first days of his administration:

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FEBRUARY 02, 2021
Executive Order on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy.  Over 40 million foreign-born individuals live in the United States today.  Millions more Americans have immigrants in their families or ancestry.  New Americans and their children fuel our economy, working in every industry, including healthcare, construction, caregiving, manufacturing, service, and agriculture.  They open and successfully run businesses at high rates, creating jobs for millions, and they contribute to our arts, culture, and government, providing new traditions, customs, and viewpoints.  They are essential workers helping to keep our economy afloat and providing important services to Americans during a global pandemic.  They have helped the United States lead the world in science, technology, and innovation.  And they are on the frontlines of research to develop coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines and treatments for those afflicted with the deadly disease.

Consistent with our character as a Nation of opportunity and of welcome, it is essential to ensure that our laws and policies encourage full participation by immigrants, including refugees, in our civic life; that immigration processes and other benefits are delivered effectively and efficiently; and that the Federal Government eliminates sources of fear and other barriers that prevent immigrants from accessing government services available to them.  Our Nation is enriched socially and economically by the presence of immigrants, and we celebrate with them as they take the important step of becoming United States citizens.  The Federal Government should develop welcoming strategies that promote integration, inclusion, and citizenship, and it should embrace the full participation of the newest Americans in our democracy.

Sec. 2.  Role of the Domestic Policy Council.  The role of the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) is to convene executive departments and agencies (agencies) to coordinate the formulation and implementation of my Administration’s domestic policy objectives.  Consistent with that role, the DPC shall coordinate the Federal Government’s efforts to welcome and support immigrants, including refugees, and to catalyze State and local integration and inclusion efforts.  In furtherance of these goals, the DPC shall convene a Task Force on New Americans, which shall include members of agencies that implement policies that impact immigrant communities.

Sec. 3.  Restoring Trust in our Legal Immigration System.  The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall review existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions (collectively, agency actions) that may be inconsistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.

(a)  In conducting this review, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall:

(i)   identify barriers that impede access to immigration benefits and fair, efficient adjudications of these benefits and make recommendations on how to remove these barriers, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law; and

(ii)  identify any agency actions that fail to promote access to the legal immigration system — such as the final rule entitled, “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule and Changes to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Request Requirements,” 85 Fed. Reg. 46788 (Aug. 3, 2020), in light of the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act (title I of division D of Public Law 116-159) — and recommend steps, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to revise or rescind those agency actions.

(b)  Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a plan to the President describing the steps their respective agencies will take to advance the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.

(c)  Within 180 days of submitting the plan described in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a report to the President describing the progress of their respective agencies towards implementing the plan developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section and recognizing any areas of concern or barriers to implementing the plan.

Sec. 4.  Immediate Review of Agency Actions on Public Charge Inadmissibility.  The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the heads of other relevant agencies, as appropriate, shall review all agency actions related to implementation of the public charge ground of inadmissibility in section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4), and the related ground of deportability in section 237(a)(5) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(5).  They shall, in considering the effects and implications of public charge policies, consult with the heads of relevant agencies, including the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

(a)  This review should:

(i)    consider and evaluate the current effects of these agency actions and the implications of their continued implementation in light of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order;

(ii)   identify appropriate agency actions, if any, to address concerns about the current public charge policies’ effect on the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system and public health; and

(iii)  recommend steps that relevant agencies should take to clearly communicate current public charge policies and proposed changes, if any, to reduce fear and confusion among impacted communities.

(b)  Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a report to the President describing any agency actions identified pursuant to subsection (a)(ii) of this section and any steps their agencies intend to take or have taken, consistent with subsection (a)(iii) of this section.

Sec. 5.  Promoting Naturalization. (a)  Improving the naturalization process.  The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, within 60 days of the date of this order, develop a plan describing any agency actions, in furtherance of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, that they will take to:

(i)    eliminate barriers in and otherwise improve the existing naturalization process, including by conducting a comprehensive review of that process with particular emphasis on the N-400 application, fingerprinting, background and security checks, interviews, civics and English language tests, and the oath of allegiance;

(ii)   substantially reduce current naturalization processing times;

(iii)  make the naturalization process more accessible to all eligible individuals, including through a potential reduction of the naturalization fee and restoration of the fee waiver process;

(iv)   facilitate naturalization for eligible candidates born abroad and members of the military, in consultation with the Department of Defense; and

(v)    review policies and practices regarding denaturalization and passport revocation to ensure that these authorities are not used excessively or inappropriately.

(b)  Implementing improvements to the naturalization process.  Within 180 days of the issuance of the plan developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a report to the President describing the progress in implementing the plan, any barriers to implementing the plan, and any additional areas of concern that should be addressed to ensure that eligible individuals are able to apply for naturalization in a fair and efficient manner.

(c)  Strategy to promote naturalization.  There is established an Interagency Working Group on Promoting Naturalization (Naturalization Working Group) to develop a national strategy to promote naturalization.  The Naturalization Working Group shall be chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Secretary’s designee, and it shall include the heads of the following agencies, or senior-level officials designated by the head of each agency:

(i)    the Secretary of Labor;

(ii)   the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

(iii)  the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;

(iv)   the Secretary of Education;

(v)    the Secretary of Homeland Security;

(vi)   the Commissioner of Social Security; and

(vii)  the heads of other agencies invited to participate by the Working Group chair.

(d)  Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Naturalization Working Group shall submit a strategy to the President outlining steps the Federal Government should take to promote naturalization, including the potential development of a public awareness campaign.

Sec. 6.  Revocation.  The Presidential Memorandum of May 23, 2019 (Enforcing the Legal Responsibilities of Sponsors of Aliens), is revoked.  The heads of relevant agencies shall review any investigations or compliance actions initiated pursuant to that memorandum and shall determine whether to suspend, as appropriate, any investigations or compliance actions inconsistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.  The heads of relevant agencies shall review any agency actions developed pursuant to that memorandum and, as appropriate, issue revised guidance consistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.

Sec. 7.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

                                JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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Re: Biden's First Days Executive Orders Re Immigration
« Reply #2978 on: January 30, 2024, 06:39:52 AM »
"Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans"

. - Illegals are not "New Americans" any more than home burglars are new family members.

The head fake of the Biden administration wanting to do something in an election year is disgraceful. And the bargain, we won't 'secure' the border unless you vote for amnesty, encouraging even more of it, is worse.

The people who believe our sovereignty as a nation is a political bargaining chip need to be soundly defeated.
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"federalizing" National Guard
« Reply #2979 on: January 30, 2024, 10:45:49 AM »
what ever that means.

I've read this is not Constitutional and he does not have the power to do this:

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/07/06/court-ruling-could-overturn-federal-control-of-the-national-guard/

of course, shysters led by Larry the Harvard lib asshole are working hard dreaming up ways to subvert this
in the name of the "rule of law"

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2980 on: January 30, 2024, 12:44:34 PM »
I'm going to paste this in the Tenth Amendment thread.


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Sh*t Howdy!!!
« Reply #2982 on: January 31, 2024, 06:16:33 AM »


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When Invaders Outnumber the Army
« Reply #2985 on: February 01, 2024, 05:17:07 AM »
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/01/when-the-invaders-outnumber-the-army/

When the Invaders Outnumber the Army
In the past three years, we’ve had upwards of eight million people slip into our country, both detected and undetected. We are being invaded, and our government is failing to do anything about it.

By Chuck Owen
February 1, 2024

According to the website Statista, the United States has the third largest standing “Army” in the world. The website says that we have 1.3 million soldiers under arms. By “soldiers,” they’re referring to all of our armed forces—Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. Third largest in the world. Not bad, if you’re into measuring things. China and India are the only countries with larger militaries. Russia has one about the same size as us, as does North Korea.

In addition to our active force, Statista says we have over 760,000 reservists attached to our armed forces. For those unfamiliar, a reservist is also a soldier (generic term) who can theoretically be called into duty to do things the active forces do. They’re called reservists because they are the first line of replenishment for the active force. Reservists serve in various capacities in all of the branches of the US military. They train once a month with their unit and have a two-week annual training event where they go to an installation and ensure their skills are ready for wartime. Some call them weekend warriors. I call them heroes—many or most have other jobs and serve our great country because they want to serve. Of key importance is that all of these service members are federally authorized and work at the direction of the president.

We also have over 325,000 National Guardsmen in the United States of America. These people serve in all 50 states and hail from over 2,500 separate communities in our great republic. Their lives are very similar to those of reservists. The Guard is a dual-hat organization that works in peacetime primarily for the governor of each state and can be called into national service at the direction of the president. Our guardsmen are especially visible in times of crisis at home, most prominently during times of disaster. Their units are also frequently involved in overseas contingency operations in support of national commitments, like in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East right now. Once a guardsman goes on federal orders, he or she works for the president. When they’re in their home state, they generally work for their governor.

When you add these numbers up, we look pretty good on paper. We have about 2.3 million people serving in the armed forces in our country. Sounds like we’re set.

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As a rule, the mission of our armed forces is to defend our country and national interests. At the outset of our country’s founding, our Army protected us. That’s kind of changed, in that we use our military primarily as an overseas arm of American policies—to defend our values and to help our friends. So, two million people who have the capacity to defend really aren’t here for us in the real sense of defending our country. Our Guard is here for that, but the mission of the Guard is a bit obscure in this day and age. We ostensibly have the Border Patrol and Homeland Security to protect our sovereign land. The federal Border Patrol is part of Homeland Security and is a 22,000 agent-strong unit. The Department of Homeland Security has roughly 260,000 people on its payroll.

But, hey, we have 2.3 million people in uniform and about 260,000 Homeland Security personnel. We have our own state and local police forces who are here for public safety. We’re all good, right? Our minds should be at ease.

Until you realize that in the past three years, we’ve had upwards of eight million people slip into our country, both detected and undetected. The Biden administration’s Border Patrol has caught and released into America a reported 2.3 million foreign nationals since 2021. There are informed estimates that as many as six million others have filtered in illegally during the same period. The thought of so many unaccounted-for and unvetted people sneaking into our country is a great concern. In December 2023 alone, more than 300,000 people have shown up at our border trying to get into the United States.

What a person knows about this topic is a function of the news they watch—or don’t watch. Many who zero in on left-wing media barely know this problem exists. CNN and MSNBC barely talk about the subject. Why they ignore it is mystifying. Fox News covers it, as does Newsmax. The Big Three networks cover it, but only when they’re covering something in an attempt to make Republicans or conservatives look like ogres.

In truth, we don’t know where most of these estimated eight million people have gone. Many or most appear to be military-age men. We don’t know where these people are from. Some are stopped by curious media, and most of those tell where they’re from. Migrants from Latin America make sense. They can walk here. Belize and Bolivia are on this side of the world. It’s a long walk, but it’s a walk. But what on earth are migrants from Southwest Asia doing walking across our southern border? How did an indigent person from Bulgaria, Pakistan, or India get here? How did a supposedly poor person from Senegal, Albania, or China get here, and who carted them to the border of America and Mexico?

A recent in-person report by news outlet Muckraker chronicled the trip from South America to here. The reporter documented the aid stations created by the United Nations along the route. He documented supplies from American organizations. The reporter even documented Chinese aid facilities created for Chinese nationals who are making the trek into our country. It’s all on tape. The young reporter almost lost his life on this trip, but it’s now there for all to see.

While Congress and the White House wrestle over this, the invasion continues.

What appears to be the case is that the Biden administration is happy to try to make Texas absorb the entire cost of this influx. Every time Texas tries to do something to protect its citizenry, the Biden administration brings up ambiguous terms about things like “comprehensive immigration reform.” Team Biden and the blue states apparently expect all these people to just come and settle in Texas.


I don’t know what you call a three-year influx of millions of people, but it sure seems like an invasion to me. If the Biden administration cared about this country, they would close the border. And yes, they have the authority and means to do just that. Right now. The president simply has to direct the closure.

The sad truth is that if there was ever a time to protect this country with our purported third largest army in the world, it would be now. Before someone soils themselves over posse comitatus, I refer anyone reading this to the War of 1812. We are being invaded, and our government is failing to do a single thing about it. Article IV, Section 4, of the United States Constitution states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;..” The Biden Administration is not fulfilling this obligation to the States.

And for the record, I have every faith in our local and state law enforcement. Their jobs are already tough enough, dealing with the influx of people who have come here over decades and other festering criminal and social ills. Putting this on their backs is not fair. For the record, I am not anti-immigration. People ought to be able to come here—but under our terms. The people of the United States ought to be the ones deciding who comes here—via the laws we pass through our elected representatives. Waves of foreign invaders do not get to determine if they come into our country. What concerns me most is how we, as a country, can manage literal human waves coming from who knows where. This is going to strain every element of our society.

How this all ends is anyone’s guess. It is my hope that law and order prevail. It is my hope that Congress will hold the line and not give the federal government a single dime to do anything until this invasion is halted. Congress has the power of the purse. The good folks at Statista like to compile numbers; I hope they’re compiling the numbers of people who have illegally crossed here and then start compiling numbers on how this is managed. I also hope that if you have a family member who is unaware of these facts, you’ll share this article with them. Many are deeply concerned. I hope you are too.

Charles “Chuck” Owen is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives and the Louisiana Freedom Caucus.

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Through the “Immigration” Looking Glass
« Reply #2986 on: February 01, 2024, 04:21:00 PM »
I believe quite strongly that those seeking to understand an issue, and who seek to engage where that topic is concerned, owe it to themselves and those they engage to be at least acquainted with the arguments of the other side so they can frame any ensuing debate accurately, avoid straw arguments, and maybe perhaps alter their thinking when confronted by a good argument.

I also believe these days it’s easier for those leaning right to embrace this ethos than their peers on the other side as, let’s face it, the MSM et al tend to parrot the arguments of the left, which leaves those of us of another opinion basically unable to avoid the positions of the other side as they are so proliferate. Not so with with folks on the left side of the aisle, most of whom are essentially insulated from encountering any notions that aren’t sung from their hymnal.

And it shows. Having confronted little but caricatures of right leaning arguments few on the left are able to effectively address a cogent framing of a right leaning view that isn’t delivered in the imbecilic manner they’ve been assured is all the right is capable of. I think it leaves them at a significant disadvantage, much as person that has applied martial skills in context while sparring has an advantage over dojo ballerinas that have done little more than kick and punch air.

As that may be, this is from a source I’ve shared before called Just Security, a site that regularly promulgates lawfare tactics I follow in a “know your enemy” context. Well hell, this does a lovely job of demonstrating just how unhinged the left can become when the right wing folk like Abbot don’t play by the rules as the left would dictate them. The histrionic tone on full display here demonstrates full well just how effective someone embracing traditional American values can be when unapologetically smacking the “Progressive” left upside the head with them. The one trick pony “that’s racist” cognitive dissonance on full display is delicious. Enjoy:



The Biden Administration Must Use Civil Rights Enforcement to Push Back Against Texas’s Racist Invocation of Invasion
27 states support Texas border defense

•Just Security / by Kate Huddleston / February 01, 2024 at 09:07AM

In the last few weeks, Texas politicians have escalated confrontation with the Biden administration over its supposed failure to engage in immigration enforcement. In doing so, they have made extraordinary fact-free, conspiratorial assertions that the federal government is purportedly actively working to bring migrants to the United States, to increase votes for Democrats and in partnership with the cartels. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick claimed recently that the Biden administration’s “goal” is “to put millions of people into this country, one day turn them into citizens, and one day turn them into voters and take over the country”—and that the federal government doesn’t “care if people die” in the process. Attorney General Ken Paxton went even further, claiming with no evidence that the “federal government” is “actually participating with cartels and bringing people here as fast as they possibly can.”

Not coincidentally, in the last few weeks Texas has also asserted an extraordinary, previously fringe legal theory: that Texas is under invasion based on immigration and must assert a right to self-defense. This legal theory has its roots in the same racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory that has fueled Patrick and Paxton’s claims. Through civil rights enforcement, the Biden administration can and should counter the racist “invasion” narrative and years of Texas’s escalating border actions. Doing so will reassert at the Texas-Mexico border the rule of law, migrants’ humanity, and an essential role of the federal government—protecting civil rights from state law enforcement abuses.

Texas’s Border Extremism is Escalating

For three years, under Governor Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” program, Texas has sent thousands of state police and National Guard to border communities, where they have targeted migrants for arrest on state charges, conducted a disproportionate number of traffic stops, put up razor wire, and even reportedly pushed children back into the Rio Grande. Currently, the state is denying the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to a border park. Instead, Texas National Guard and law enforcement are building razor wire barriers, telling migrants to turn back, and arresting some for misdemeanor trespass. This comes days after the Supreme Court restored Border Patrol’s ability to remove Texas’s razor wire. In an inflammatory statement, Abbott asserted that Texas must “defend and protect itself” from an “invasion” of immigrants.

Abbott claims that Texas has a constitutional “right of self-defense”; that he has accordingly “declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3” based on President Joe Biden’s purported “refusal” to enforce immigration law; and that Texas will continue to act in light of its purported power to repel invasion. Abbott’s argument is antithetical to governing Supreme Court precedent, which has long held that immigration policy—as to entry, exit, and status—and immigration enforcement are federal powers. The Court explained in 1915, “the authority to control immigration—to admit or exclude aliens—is vested solely in the federal government.” In the 2012 touchstone decision Arizona v. United States, the Court reaffirmed that “the federal power to determine immigration policy is well settled” and held several state statutory provisions, including one authorizing state and local arrests for offenses making a person potentially deportable, preempted under federal law. As numerous scholars have argued, the invasion argument is legally outrageous. Despite that, 25 Republican governors issued a joint statement saying they “stand in solidarity with” Texas and endorse the invasion legal theory.

“Invasion”: Roots in White Supremacist Conspiracy Theory

How did we get to this extraordinary moment? The white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory has long fueled politicians’ “invasion” rhetoric—in a way, escalation from rhetoric to legal argument is a grimly logical next step.

In August 2019, a white supremacist drove hundreds of miles to El Paso, Texas, to target Latinos in a mass shooting, killing 23 people. In a written manifesto, the shooter claimed that his actions were to combat a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” and denounced Latino political power in the state. One day earlier, in a fundraising appeal, Abbott argued that Texans need to “DEFEND” the border because “[t]he national Democrat machine has made no secret of the fact that it hopes to ‘turn Texas blue.’” Abbott told his would-be supporters, “unless you and I want liberals to succeed in their plan to transform Texas—and our entire country—through illegal immigration, this is a message we MUST send.”

Both Abbott and the El Paso shooter were espousing the “great replacement” conspiracy theory—the fiction that liberal elites are working to bring nonwhite immigrants to the United States to “replace” white and conservative political power. (This idea rests on the predicate that immigrants will necessarily vote for liberals, which is not the case.) Following the shooting, amid intense backlash, Abbott recognized “the importance of making sure that rhetoric will not be used in any dangerous way.” But that was, obviously, short-lived.

Four years after the El Paso shooting, the language of “invasion” and other white supremacist rhetoric is common in Texas politics, as are conspiracy theories about the federal government’s involvement in attracting migrants to the country. For example, Kinney County is a border county that has played a leading role in Texas’s extreme anti-immigrant policies. A website run by the county asks for donations to “Defend Our Borders” from “this federally funded invasion.” And in 2021, when thousands of mostly Haitian migrants waited for federal processing in Del Rio, Texas, Patrick claimed that Biden and Democrats had started a “silent revolution” “trying to take over our country without firing a shot.” He argued, “in 18 years if every one of them has two or three children, you’re talking about millions and millions and millions of new voters and they will thank the Democrats and Biden for bringing them here. Who do you think they’re going to vote for?”

A fall 2023 conversation between a Texas state legislator and the then-executive director of Texans for Strong Borders —an organization with extensive white supremacist ties and extreme rhetoric that successfully pushed anti-immigrant legislation—provides another sign of the conspiracy theory’s reach. The advocate asserted that “the federal government” is “actively facilitating the invasion,” claiming “an orchestrated scheme” in which Democrats will extend voting rights to undocumented immigrants to flip Texas and permanently cement the Electoral College for Democrats. The legislator nodded along and emphasized in responding that “this is a fight between good and evil.”

These, and Patrick’s and Paxton’s recent public statements, are all variations of the racist great replacement conspiracy theory. Like a virus, the idea has made the jump from narrative to legal claim.

Invasion Legal Origins: White Supremacist Rhetoric, Anti-Immigrant Policies

The constitutional “invasion” theory appears to have originated not with Abbott but, years earlier, with local and national political figures who have espoused racist ideas and implemented anti-immigrant policies. Its apparent first expression was intertwined with great replacement rhetoric.

The first assertion of the legal “invasion” idea appears to have come from Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith, in an April 2021 letter to Texans. The letter claimed that Texas was being “invaded” by people who “originate from many different countries . . . including the Middle East.” It argued that under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, Texas has “the concurrent authority” to engage in immigration enforcement “in times of ‘invasion or imminent harm.’”

The letter was consistent with racist views that Smith has espoused, such as claiming that with immigration “we will lose our country . . . it won’t look the same way.” Smith has been on the leading edge of Texas’s anti-immigrant policies: for example, he suggested in 2021 that Texas could unilaterally deport individuals and appears to have originated Texas’s scheme of arresting migrants on state trespass charges. Three years later, his letter’s detailed legal argument is consistent with Abbott’s current one.

Two months after Smith’s letter, three former Trump administration DHS officials floated the invasion theory. Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, former senior official Ken Cuccinelli, and former DHS Office of General Counsel attorney Mike Howell cited the “invasion or imminent harm” language in Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 and argued, “Texas, as a sovereign state, has the inherent authority to protect its citizens and enforce its own borders.” Long before espousing this legal idea rooted in racism, both Morgan and Cuccinelli had made racist statements. In 2019, both publicly defended then-President Donald Trump’s claim that immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border was an “invasion.”

In October 2021, Cuccinelli published a blueprint for provoking a state confrontation with the federal government through the invasion clause. He argued that states should send National and State Guard to the border; instruct National Guard and law enforcement to unilaterally deport migrants; and bus migrants out of state, among other policy steps. Several months later, when Smith orchestrated declarations of invasion by Texas counties, Cuccinelli and Morgan attended the Kinney County press conference to pressure the state to do the same. Now, Abbott has declared an invasion and implemented many of Cuccinelli’s recommendations. This fringe legal theory with a racist predicate has broken through to the conservative mainstream.

Abbott’s Incrementalist Approach to Eroding Federal Control over Immigration

Great replacement rhetoric and its disguise in legal garb has partially led to the volatile current situation at the Texas border. Equally important, though, has been Abbott’s incrementalist approach to invoking the invasion theory and to provoking a confrontation with the federal government. Abbott has chipped away at federal control over immigration enforcement for years–and has not encountered significant opposition from the Biden administration.

From April 2021 through fall 2022, Abbott resisted declaring an invasion—despite entreaties from Kinney County and criticism from Cuccinelli. Instead, Abbott declared a state of disaster, comparable to a hurricane or flood. This was a norms-shattering step, and similar to Trump’s declaration of emergency to build the border wall. It also enabled Abbott to take three key steps starting in 2021: (1) saturating border communities with state law enforcement and National Guard; (2) creating a parallel immigration enforcement system predicated on state criminal trespass law, which targets migrants for often-questionable arrest and channels them into a separate detention and prosecution system rife with civil rights abuses; and (3) invoking an interstate emergency aid compact to successfully urge other states to send law enforcement to the border.

In the intervening years, Abbott has entrenched these aspects of Operation Lone Star. The Texas National Guard’s stringing of razor wire along border areas began initially to create physical fences, to provide constructive notice under state law of trespass. By spring 2023, Texas had begun characterizing the razor wire barriers as “essential impediments” to migration. Over 28 months, Texas has arrested almost 10,000 migrants on state misdemeanor trespass charges. Abbott has been clear about the trespass program’s goal to circumvent federal authorities: he’s explained that Texas is “employing state law, as opposed to federal law, because when we make an arrest under federal law we typically have to turn people over to the federal authorities, and they just release them.”

Perhaps most startlingly from a federalism perspective, Abbott has used the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) to circumvent the federal government. EMAC is an interstate agreement to share resources in disasters, such as a hurricane or flood. In 2021, Abbott and the then-Arizona governor sent a letter asking other states to “send all available law-enforcement resources to the border in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity.” In response, seven states sent National Guard and/or law enforcement. In spring 2023, Abbott again invoked EMAC, and 13 governors committed to sending 1,305 National Guard and 231 law enforcement to the Texas-Mexico border. They claimed they were “stepping up to protect Americans where Biden has failed.” While these deployments were typically short term and better viewed as political stunts, they have helped move the Overton window—placing within mainstream political thought the idea that states must band together to confront immigration at the border with armed force.

The Biden administration has not meaningfully pushed back on any of these efforts, either through actions or public statements. In July 2022, a Department of Justice review of Operation Lone Star for civil rights violations under Title VI came to light through public records requests. No formal investigation has ever been opened. There has been no public response to calls for investigations under other civil rights authority and for misappropriation of COVID relief funds. The administration has avoided most public comment on Abbott’s state immigration enforcement system. In a Texas Monthly interview, the then-Border Patrol chief briefly called for “coordination.”

Now, Abbott has combined the fruits of his incremental policy entrenchment under “emergency” authority with the bold assertion of the constitutional invasion theory. Texas’s occupation of a municipal park, denial of access to Border Patrol agents, and arrest of migrants on state criminal trespass charges are the culmination of years-long policies. State governors were primed to readily respond to a request for support by multiple requests, and positive responses, over years. And Texas leaders’ open assertion of inflammatory rhetoric about the Biden administration and a legal theory rooted in racism is possible due to a years-long narrative.

Time for the Biden Administration to Enforce Civil Rights Law at the Border

This showdown between Texas and the federal government has thus been building for years. The Biden administration’s failure to engage as Texas escalated, until its actions became extraordinarily egregious, was plainly misguided. To avert a crisis, the federal government now needs to shift the legal ground and narrative framing away from Texas’s racist, conspiracy-theory-based claim of immigration enforcement as tantamount to war.

To do so, the federal government should not only continue to assert federalism arguments but also enforce federal civil rights laws at the Texas-Mexico border. 34 U.S.C. § 12601 provides for DOJ pattern-or-practice investigations of and litigation against law enforcement agencies who violate civil rights, including through unlawful stops and arrests. The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act similarly provides for legal action where state and local agencies subject detained individuals to a pattern or practice of rights violations. 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242 provide for criminal prosecution where state and local officials deprive individuals of constitutional or statutory rights or conspire to do so.

There is ample evidence that, under Operation Lone Star, Texas law enforcement has engaged in racial profiling in traffic stops in border communities; arrested migrants for trespass without probable cause; held migrants long after they should have been released from custody; and held migrants in horrific conditions of confinement, among other civil rights violations—in a program created to punish migrants for coming to the United States.

Now is the time for DOJ to robustly enforce federal civil rights protections in Texas border communities, on behalf of residents and migrants. In doing so, DOJ should also publicly assert the need for law enforcement to treat all individuals with dignity and in accordance with the law. Undertaking this effort and combating rights violations by state law enforcement will help recast the situation at the border from a military crisis to a humanitarian emergency, and recenter the humanity of migrants. It will also shift the legal stakes from purely a constitutional federalism confrontation to highlight the federal government’s civil rights authority and duty.

The invasion theory is a white supremacist conspiracy theory wrapped in the Constitution. Continuing to ignore this underlying reality is dangerous and will only lead to further escalation, both governmental and by individuals fueled by hate. This is a civil rights as well as a federalism crisis, and the federal government should start treating it accordingly.

IMAGE: U.S. Border Patrol agents cut an opening through razor wire after immigrant families crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico on September 27, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2987 on: February 01, 2024, 05:47:52 PM »
Some where in here we have a citation of a serious quality study done by Yale? Princeton? MIT? (or maybe two of them) during the Trump years IIRC looking to come up with valid numbers regarding illegals in America.   I've tried looking for it both here and through Qwant but have not beeing able to find it.

IIRC it put the number at 22-24 million-- and that is before the Biden Invasion.

Would love to get my hands on it-- given the prestige of those names in Dem/Prog circles, it should be a potent piece of propaganda for us.

Also recently I saw something to the effect that 15% of people in America now are illegals.   Would love to get my hand on this too.

 

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2988 on: February 01, 2024, 06:21:48 PM »
Some where in here we have a citation of a serious quality study done by Yale? Princeton? MIT? (or maybe two of them) during the Trump years IIRC looking to come up with valid numbers regarding illegals in America.   I've tried looking for it both here and through Qwant but have not beeing able to find it.

IIRC it put the number at 22-24 million-- and that is before the Biden Invasion.

Would love to get my hands on it-- given the prestige of those names in Dem/Prog circles, it should be a potent piece of propaganda for us.

Also recently I saw something to the effect that 15% of people in America now are illegals.   Would love to get my hand on this too.

Not acquainted with either, but I’ll be looking for them.

ETA: is this the Yale study?

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates

Whups, another one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150478/
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Re: PrePaid Credit Cards to illegals in NYC
« Reply #2991 on: February 03, 2024, 09:36:06 PM »
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/n-y-c-launches-53m-program-to-provide-migrant-families-with-pre-paid-credit-cards/

Just saw that & was gonna post. $53 million IIRC in a city with all sorts of problems and underserved needs going to illegals instead. But hey, they gotta sign a piece of paper saying they will only use their free $1K/month on food and diapers. Right….

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WSJ on the Senate Bill
« Reply #2992 on: February 05, 2024, 05:03:44 AM »
How the Border Bill Would ‘Shut Down’ Illegal Crossings
Bipartisan measure would rein in asylum claims, try to decide cases more quickly
By Michelle Hackman
Feb. 5, 2024 5:00 am ET


Migrants were taken into custody by officials at the Texas-Mexico border in January. PHOTO: ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Senate released the long-awaited text of a compromise bill on Sunday aimed at curtailing historically high illegal border crossings.

The bill’s central aim is to end widespread use of a practice known as “catch and release,” in which migrants claiming asylum are released into the U.S. with immigration court dates years into the future.

It contains new measures that make it tougher to qualify for asylum, detain or track migrants as they move through the process and limit how many people can make asylum claims a day. In addition, it makes several minor changes to the legal immigration system, including ones to help children of work-visa holders avoid deportation when they become adults.

Here’s an explanation of what the bill would do if enacted.

Setting up a new process at the southern border

The bill would create a new system under which any migrant seeking asylum—whether they cross the border into the U.S. illegally or enter at a legal crossing point with an appointment—would be put through a rapid asylum-determination process meant to last about 90 days. Most adults would likely be detained for that new process, while most families with children under 18 would be released with a monitoring device, such as an ankle bracelet or a cellphone app.

Within that 90-day window, migrants would then undergo a new, toughened initial asylum screening, where they would be asked to show some evidence backing their claims and prove they couldn’t safely live somewhere else in their home countries. Migrants who fail that initial screening, miss their appointments or tamper with their monitoring devices could all be swiftly deported. Those who do pass should receive a final decision within another 90 days. Still, those windows are targets rather than hard deadlines, and migrants won’t be deported if the process drags on.

Unaccompanied migrant children are exempted from the new process, and a separate provision of the bill would ensure that all children under the age of 14 would be represented in their immigration hearings by a government or pro bono lawyer.


Creating a new expulsion authority

The bill sets up a temporary new authority modeled after Title 42, the Trump pandemic-era policy that allowed the government to turn away migrants without needing to consider their asylum claims. Under that new power, which is authorized for three years, the government can “shut down” the border to asylum seekers if crossings surpass a daily average of 4,000 a day for at least seven days—roughly half the daily crossings seen in recent months. The shutdown becomes mandatory at 5,000 a day. The idea is to ensure the government’s detention capacity doesn’t get overwhelmed when illegal crossings climb too high. The border then couldn’t reopen until crossings fall to under 75% of the trigger point.

Even when the border is “shut down,” 1,400 appointments a day would remain available to asylum seekers who make appointments and enter at legal ports of entry. Those applicants would still be put through the rapid asylum determination process.

The bill also authorizes the president to suspend the border emergency for up to 45 days “if it is in the national interest.”
(MARC: !!!)

Limiting humanitarian parole at the border

The bill also restricts the use of an immigration power known as humanitarian parole, a temporary legal status that the government has been using to allow migrants to enter the country legally and work, so it could no longer be used at the southern border. Humanitarian parole can still be granted to people landing at the U.S. airports, meaning the bill will allow a program for Americans to sponsor Ukrainian refugees to continue, along with a similar one for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

Expanding legal immigration

The bill would create an additional 50,000 Green Cards each year for five years, which allow noncitizens to live and work permanently in the U.S. Of those, 32,000 will become available to family members of U.S. citizens, while 18,000 will be allotted to immigrants sponsored by their employers. Nearly all Green Card categories are currently oversubscribed, and immigrants from countries with high demand—such as Mexico, India and the Philippines—routinely must wait years or even decades for their number to come up in line. Adding Green Cards to the existing totals would help alleviate some of those backlogs.

Creating a path to citizenship for Afghan refugees

The bill includes a measure, known as the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would allow Afghans evacuated to the U.S. during the military withdrawal in 2021 to become permanent residents and citizens. About 80,000 afghans were brought to the U.S. on humanitarian parole, and many of them have no permanent legal options, meaning they could become undocumented if their parole status expires.

Including a fix for ‘documented dreamers’

The “documented dreamers” are a group of primarily Indian immigrants who moved to the U.S. as children when their parents moved here legally for work opportunities. Because the backlog for Green Cards for Indian applicants is estimated to be several decades long, tens of thousands of these children have started turning 21 and losing their parents’ visa protections—along with their place in the Green Card line. Some have been forced to return to their home countries because they are unable to qualify for new work visas, which are also oversubscribed. The bill would fix that by ensuring these adult children are still treated as children in the immigration system, so they can remain and work on their visas and become permanent residents when their parents are eligible

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Re: WSJ on the Senate Bill
« Reply #2993 on: February 05, 2024, 05:34:59 AM »
A lot of ""Includeds" there. No offense but actual reporting would also mention what isn't included, the billions it would take to build the wall 69% of Americans favor.

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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2994 on: February 05, 2024, 06:16:45 AM »
I agree with Speaker Johnson that this bill is, and should be, DOA.

Though there are some tempting improvements mingled in (if meaningful, tightening the definition and standards for political asylum), the fundamentals remain. 

First and foremost, Biden already can stop what is happening but quite deliberately does not.  He/his handlers DESIRE what is happening.  THE BILL SIMPLY IS NOT NECESSARY TO STOP OR DIMINISH WHAT IS HAPPENING. 

Second, it authorizes something like 1.8 million illegals per year!!!  WTF!!!  And with the chicanery and kabuki theater sure to attend any efforts to enforce this ceiling, the number is meaningless.

Third, were the bill to pass, we have castrated our strongest issue against Biden.   No doubt the Pravdas and he will protray rejecting the bill as politically motivated MAGA extremist obstructionism-- but that is a fight we need to accept and one which we should win.


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Re: Homeland Security, Border, sabotage of energy, transportation, environment
« Reply #2996 on: February 05, 2024, 06:38:23 PM »
Laura was fierce tonight on the Bill,, Stephen Miller on Hannity too.

Both were very specific, not just hyperventilating.

This may have been posted previously but having given it a careful listen, I am making sure by posting it here now.

THIS IS A MUST LISTEN.

https://t.co/mY8TlrLPnm" / X (twitter.com)

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EPA Cover Up of East Palsestine Toxins?
« Reply #2997 on: February 06, 2024, 06:21:05 PM »
Piece claims EPA knew of unsafe toxin levels, but didn't want to cause Biden and Buttigieg problems, particularly after their weak response to the derailment.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/did-the-epa-cover-up-east-palestine-toxins-to-help-biden/?fbclid=IwAR3KD_omplt2tVp06hOqPdvqc5knHYY3nKglwvBB_2MeKJalGUr7n5jqT_s

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In Case it’s Unclear, Here’s Their Plan
« Reply #2998 on: February 06, 2024, 07:56:39 PM »