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Migrants who left their home countries headed for the US border are racing against time. Their goal is to get across before Donald Trump is inaugurated because word has spread that after Jan. 20 it won’t be so easy.
After leaving her hometown of Siguatepeque, in Honduras’ central highlands, she learned that Donald Trump had won the US election touting a crackdown on immigration – one that she feared could shrink her chances of reaching the US after a nearly 3-month trip through central America and Mexico.
Speaking from a shelter in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in December, the 39-year-old told CNN she was racing against the clock to reach the US’s southern border with Mexico before Trump’s January 20 inauguration.
“We’ve been told that when Trump starts, he won’t let us in,” Altagracia, who asked CNN not to share her last name over fears it would impact her asylum claim in the US, said on a phone call…
“Everyone wants to arrive before [Trump] does,” another migrant, from Cuba, told CNN. “I hope Trump understands that many of us have degrees” that could benefit the US, he said.
CNN quotes an ACLU lawyer who tells them people in danger will “flee regardless of what they know or hear about US restrictions on asylum.” This may be true for some portion of migrants who are facing threats at home, but it’s well known at this point that most of the migrants coming across the border are coming for a new life and a better job. That’s why the majority of people who apply for asylum are rejected. Contrary to what the ACLU claims, these are mostly economic migrants and many of them might decide to stay home if it wasn’t so easy to game the US asylum system.
Meanwhile, we have lots of progressives on this side of the border arguing that once someone arrives they shouldn’t be sent back, not even if they commit a crime. Here’s Greg Sargent writing for the New Republic.
The Laken Riley Act, which has passed the House with 48 Democrats backing it, would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain undocumented migrants accused of minor crimes like burglary, theft, larceny, and shoplifting, putting them on track to deportation. This is dubious policy: DHS already has the authority to detain such undocumented immigrants; the bill would merely require this…
What happened to Laken Riley—a nursing student murdered by undocumented migrant Jose Ibarra after he’d previously committed minor crimes—was a horror, and Ibarra has rightly received a life sentence for it. But as American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick points out, it’s extraordinarily rare for low-level offenders to go on to commit murder; now Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be required to detain every such offender, a potentially huge waste of resources that could be used to pursue more serious criminals. His case should not be the basis for such massive policy changes.
I always love hearing this argument, that fringe cases make bad law, from the same progressive corner of the Democratic party that supported defunding police over a handful of police interactions with black men over the past decade. Black Lives Matter’s whole purpose was to turn fringe cases into demands for radical new policy and even then they frequently got the facts wrong about those cases in order to justify their own crusade (remember Hands up, don’t shoot!). But when it comes to illegal immigrants murdering or raping Americans the same elements on the left caution us not to overreact. […]
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Mark Zuckerberg Claims Facebook Is Ditching “Fact-Checkers” and Going to Community Notes Similar to 𝕏
by JD Rucker
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a scoundrel, a billionaire snake who has backstabbed pretty much everyone he’s personally dealt with ever since rising to prominence. He spent over $400 million of his own money to prevent President Donald Trump from winning in 2020. His “platform” has been amongst the most…
Bill O’Reilly to Donald Trump: “The Press Hates You”
by Podcaster
There has been a very noticeable shift in the way legacy media is covering the transition for President Trump compared to his first victory in 2016. It seems that many in legacy media are toning down their rhetoric and preparing to treat President Trump more “fairly.” According to Bill O’Reilly,…
The Biggest Sale on Beef With 25-Year Shelf-Life EVER
by Sponsored Post
Let’s cut to the chase. Prepper All-Naturals is offering an unprecedented 40% off for its “Beef Steak” survival bags with promo code “steak40”. With a 25-year shelf life and a single ingredient (beef, of course), our most popular product is available for a very limited time with the biggest discount…
The Climate Agenda’s March Through the Institutions: Can It Be Stopped?
by Daily Signal
A spate of stories in the media recently provides a remarkable illustration of how the globalist policy agenda of the climate-industrial complex has captured key international institutions and perverted their original organizational aims. From initially serving broad, laudable objectives for the welfare of their constituents, these institutions have been subverted…
About That Video of Deb Fischer’s Husband and Kamala Harris That’s Circulating on Social Media
by Red State
Social media platforms can be bowls of dumb on any given day (that goes double for BlueSky), and Monday was no exception, with the certification of Donald Trump’s November election victory bringing out some fresh cray-cray from Democrats and their media allies. Though the President-Elect certainly does bring out the…
Trump Denies “Fake News” Report on Changes to Economic Plans
by Publius
President-elect Donald Trump has refuted a Washington Post report suggesting his aides were considering a more restrained tariff policy. The report claimed that Trump’s transition team was contemplating a tariff plan that would be less extensive than his campaign promises, targeting only imports deemed critical to national or economic security….
Radicalized Knife-Wielding Man Attempts to Storm Belgian Prime Minister’s Offices Shouting ‘Allah Akbar’
by RAIR Foundation
Brussels, Belgium — January 6, 2025: A potentially deadly attack was narrowly avoided this morning when a “radicalized” man in his twenties armed with a knife attempted to break into the offices of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. The incident occurred at 16 rue de la Loi as the…
Gold Breaks Out With Central Bank Surge and Interest Rate Drops Expected
by Sponsored Post
Precious metals are seeing gains once again following the post-election dip, just as many economists had expected. Even China, which had been holding back for five months, returned to purchasing massive quantities of gold. “Falling U.S. interest rates and ongoing solid demand from central banks are supporting the gold price,”…
JPMorgan: “Debasement Trade” Into Bitcoin and Gold Is Here to Stay
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge
(Zero Hedge)—The so-called “debasement trade” into gold and Bitcoin is “here to stay” as investors brace for persistent geopolitical uncertainty, according to a Jan. 3 research note by JPMorgan shared with CoinTelegraph. Gold and BTC “appear to have become more important components of investors’ portfolios structurally” as they increasingly seek to…
Study of 9 Million Exposes ‘Devastating’ Neurological Damage Surge Among Covid-Vaxxed
by Slay News
An explosive new study involving almost 9 million participants has exposed a devasted surge in deadly neurological and psychiatric damage among those who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.” According to the peer-reviewed study, just one dose of an mRNA injection puts recipients at risk of suffering several severe neurological diseases. The…
More Details Emerge Regarding the Plan to Kill a Supreme Court Justice
by Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times
(The Epoch Times)—A California man allegedly told authorities that he flew to the East Coast to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to newly filed court documents. Nicholas Roske flew across the country from California to Virginia on June 7, 2022, landing just before midnight. He got into a…
First US Death From H5N1 Bird Flu Reported in Louisiana
by Infowars
On the same day Congress certified Trump’s election victory – and with just 14 days before he takes office – the official confirmation of the nation’s first “H5N1-related human death” has been reported in Louisiana. Notably, authorities have made it clear that all we will know about the diseased patient…
Embracing Natural Foods: A Path to Better Health and Healing
by Local News
A diet high in natural foods has many benefits, from reducing the risk of disease and obesity to the vitamins and nutrients that natural foods contain that can aid in the healing of certain health conditions or diagnoses. Using natural foods in our diets is vital for Americans to become…
Dana White Has Joined Meta’s Board of Directors
by Cactus Williams, Discern Report
UFC CEO and long-time friend of Donald Trump, Dana White, has joined Meta’s board of directors alongside Charlie Songhurst and John Elkann. This is just the latest in a series of decisions Meta has made following Trump’s historic electoral victory which seemed to be aimed at cozying up to the…