'...The package easily passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives earlier this week. But action in the Senate was delayed as some conservative Republicans pressed for votes on immigration and other topics. They all failed. ...'
'...On his first day in office, President Biden went to work tearing down important border security measures put in place by President Trump, sending a strong message to the world that his administration would not enforce our border laws.
In doing so, Biden paved the way for an invasion of millions of illegal immigrants on our southern border and set the stage for this dangerous and unsustainable border crisis.
It’s a reckless endangerment of the American people. President Biden and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas must be held accountable for what they have done.
When I visited the border near Nogales, Arizona several years ago, I saw firsthand how dangerous it is. ...'
'...Police departments in sanctuary cities and their suburbs are reporting crime waves tied to illegal aliens who are summarily released into the country by the Biden administration after crossing the southern border. In particular, Chicago and New York City are suffering significant increases in crimes committed by illegals. ...'
'...Many words describe President Biden’s Iran policy. “Craven,” “weak,” “obsequious” and “embarrassing,” among others, come readily to mind. But there are no words to describe adequately the recent White House decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, to warn Tehran about a possible terrorist attack. ...'
'...An alarming letter dated January 17th, 2024, was drafted by 10 former FBI executives that warned of an imminent but preventable terrorist threat to the United States perpetrated by hostile individuals who entered the country illegally through the southern border. The letter, which was sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the Chairs of both the House and Senate committees for Intelligence and Homeland Security, warns that the policies of President Joe Biden have enabled a "soft invasion" of military-aged men from several hostile nations with terror-linked groups. ...'
'Hunter stood up and left the hearing room, ending his morning cameo, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) began to speak — tearing into the first son as a “coward” ...Completing the spectacle, a heckling anti-Biden operative could be heard asking repeatedly as he exited the building: “Hunter, what’s your favorite kind of crack? Are you on crack today?”...'
'In two criminal cases against him, Brinton avoided jail time. ...Brinton was charged in October of 2022 with stealing luggage from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport’s luggage carousel after flying in from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, DC on September 16 of the same year. The luggage and its contents was valued at $2,325. In April of 2023, Brinton agreed during a remote Hennepin County, Minnesota hearing to enter into an adult diversion program...'
'...So far this year, 169 individuals with positive terrorism watchlist matches tried to cross the southern border into the United States. ...a “tenfold increase” from the fiscal year 2021 numbers. ...the Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from Biden on a number of border-related questions, including: • What proactive moves are underway to bolster the security'
'...The National Archives has informed House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer that it'll provide unredacted access to 1,799 Joe Biden emails 62,610 pages from his time as vice president. This is in response to Comer's letters on Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 requesting the information as part of the House probe of Biden and his role in son Hunter's foreign business dealings. ...Biden has reportedly used Robert Peters, Robin Ware and JRB Ware, pseudonyms that Republicans say he used to discuss dealings with energy giant Burisma when Hunter Biden was a board member of the Ukrainian firm. Also among the trove of emails: communications with Eric Schwerin and/or Devon Archer, former business associates of Hunter Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee released documents showing Biden communicated with Schwerin using the “Robin Ware” alias, including 50 emails around Biden’s trip to Ukraine in June 2014. ...'
'...Attacks by Iranian-backed terrorists against U.S. forces in the Middle East increased late this week as U.S. officials have grown frustrated by President Joe Biden’s lack of a forceful response to deter future attacks. Approximately a dozen attacks have been launched against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria over a roughly 48-hour span...'
'Any national security package has to begin with the security of our own borders,' the speaker insisted in a news conference on Capitol Hill...Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation's border security laws,' Johnson wrote in a letter to the White House...'
'...A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Texas must take down its buoy barrier on the border with Mexico in the Rio Grande, citing threats to navigation and human life. ...'
'...The Biden administration is poised to force every recipient of federal grants into transgender policies. ...The proposed rules would also delete existing language requiring all federal grants to adhere to the Constitution in “protecting free speech, religious liberty, public welfare, the environment, and prohibiting discrimination,” according to the Center for Political Justice (CPJ). If such rules pass, they would license government discrimination against religious Americans, which is unconstitutional. ...'
'While these data points highlight the chaos that President Biden’s failed border policies created, they only tell part of the story. This administration’s goal has never been to fix the border crisis but to simply hide the evidence. To that end, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has tried to "legalize" illegal immigration by funneling migrants into unlawful release – or as they say in immigration law jargon, "parole" – programs it created, and we have no idea how many or what kind of people are entering the United States through this boondoggle. ...Earlier this year, the Biden administration created a program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter and remain in the United States legally for two years and receive nearly instant work authorization. The Biden administration took this major step without the consent of Congress, acting unilaterally to offer work status for up to 360,000 people a year. ...'
'The $13.6 billion request would go toward hiring... 1,600 asylum officers to address "the significant backlog straining our immigration courts that has severely delayed resolutions," the letter states. The request also includes $1.4 billion to go toward the Shelter and Services Program, which reimburses local governments and nonprofit organizations that provide resources to released immigrants. ...'
'...oe Biden is failing at home and abroad,” Federalist Staff Writer Jordan Boyd said on Newsmax’s “Carl Higbie Frontline.” “Our nation is in crisis, our border is wide open, inflation is killing American families, and we’ve got issues. But what is Joe doing? He’s giving everyone the beach treatment just like he does with every other crisis that he’s either created or exacerbated since he became president.”...'
'Democrats love open borders, but only here in the United States. ...in other places around the world where walls and fences protect national borders… well, those walls aren’t racist and they all work just fine. ...not only have Democrats made the economy less productive, they’re also trying to make us less secure. With only nine months of 2023 complete, Joe Biden and the Democrats have already let at least 169 terrorists into the country – and those are just the ones they caught. Democrats never let a crisis go to waste, even if they have to create it themselves.'
'users have blamed the Biden administration's move to free up frozen Iranian funds in a prisoner-exchange for playing a role in the Hamas attacks in Israel. ...Conservative commentator Vince Mansfield posted: "I would like to see the Republicans in the US House open an investigation into how that $6 billion Joe Biden just sent to Iran was distributed. Specifically, did any of it go to Hamas before this latest attack on Israel." Canadian journalist Daniel Boardman wrote on X that, after Biden allowed the money to be released to Iran, "now Hamas, one of the terrorist proxies they brag openly about funding, is launching a sophisticated and expensive attack on Israel. Foreign Policy matters."...
'1 to 6.7% currently. In a grim indicator ...The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged up this week, pushing higher the borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers already facing a housing market limited by a dearth of homes for sale and rising prices. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose to 7.18%...'
'The gunfire erupted just after 4 p.m. in a parking lot outside Thomas R. Proctor High School, the city’s police department said. ...The violent group had been turned away from the varsity game against nearby Binghamton High School by another member of the school’s law enforcement just moments before the shooting, according to Utica Police Chief Mark Williams. ...'
