Illegal immigration
March 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Digging deep into the Super Tuesday primary results, I foresee President Biden facing off for a rematch against President Trump. Can you feel the excitement? The two candidates represent juggernauts within their respective parties. Let’s take the Democrats first, courtesy of RealClearPolitics. What we have here is one full boatload of results. They raise the question: who is Marianne Williamson and what is she doing here? She is the best-selling
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February 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here about the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley by, allegedly, illegal alien Jose Ibarra of Venezuela. The case has spurred outrage across the United States. Which, I suppose, is why the Associated Press felt the need to spin the story in another–bizarre–direction: “The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes.” If only Ms. Riley had been walking
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February 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia. Thursday morning, she went for a run and didn’t return. Her body was found on the campus of the University of Georgia. Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela: Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, who was arrested Friday in connection to the murder of the 22-year-old Augusta University student, crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Venezuela in September 2022,
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February 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
What’s wrong with this picture? could be a daily feature. “I’m thinking it over” is the punchline of the famous Jack Benny joke. His comic persona was that of a cheapskate. “I’m thinking it over” was his response to the robber’s query — “Your money or your life?” Today let us look in the news at the picture of Illegal Immigration. Nicole Gelinas, New York Post: “Inside Mayor Adams’ migrant
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February 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This time, Republicans made sure they had the votes–just barely, as the resolution impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas passed the House by a single vote, 214-213, with three Republicans crossing over to vote against the resolution. Mayorkas thus becomes the first sitting cabinet-level official to be impeached in U.S. history. Democratic Party press outlets naturally denounced the impeachment as a political stunt, and so on. But for the most
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February 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In Italy, illegal immigrants gang-raped a 13 year old girl. Was the crime significant because it shed light on the perils posed by illegal immigrants? Of course not: because it was “pounced on” by the dreaded “far right”: A 13-year-old girl was gang-rapęd by 7 illegals and this is how CNN covers it: pic.twitter.com/hYv4yItgmG — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 11, 2024 If the far right consists of those who are
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February 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The powers-that-be in the White House and the Biden reelection campaign think they can turn the “bipartisan border bill” fiasco to Biden’s benefit. As the sole author of the “emergency” that the bill was allegedly designed to address, Biden is in a uniquely poor position to advance the argument that Republicans are to blame. Regardless of one’s cynicism about the American electorate’s level of knowledge concerning such matters, no one
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February 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Democrats thought it was a brilliant idea to package aid for Ukraine and Israel together and shoehorn it into the Biden border cover protection bill under the rubric of “emergency national security appropriations.” Now that the border/illegal immigration provisions are dying, the White House has threatened to veto a standalone bill providing aid to Israel. The House will vote on the standalone bill today. Its prospects are uncertain. Seeking
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February 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Punchbowl News reports on the unraveling of Republican support for the border bill component of the “emergency” national security supplemental appropriation act last night. “Supplemental national security appropriations act” should probably be in quotes too. This is a characteristic Washington farce. Senator Schumer planned to put up the bill for an initial procedural vote tomorrow. The more time his Republican colleagues had to look at the bill, my theory went,
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February 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The disaster that is New York City under Mayor Eric Adams and District Attorney Alvin Bragg continues to unfold. One current scourge is a scooter gang that, among other things, dragged a 62-year-old woman down the street: The two suspects — Cleyber Andrade, 19, and Juan Uzcatgui, 23 — are allegedly part of a wider ring whose members are connected to 62 different instances of grand larceny throughout the Big
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February 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Politico West Wing Playbook celebrates “Biden’s border win.” This is what the White House wants its supporters at Politico to know about the so-called “bipartisan border bill.” Metaphorically speaking, we need to separate the propagandistic twigs and seeds from the dope before we put this in our pipe and smoke it, Clinton style (links omitted): Last night’s unveiling of a bipartisan border bill kicked off a hectic race for the
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February 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Firm of Schumer & McConnell (as Senator Lee calls it) released the text of the “bipartisan border bill” last night. The text is posted here. It’s part of an “emergency” supplemental appropriations bill that runs to 370 pages. The proponents of the bill have also released a 19-page summary. Fox News reporter Bill Melugin has posted his take on the bill’s highlights on X beginning here. Senator Schumer wants
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February 4, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I was on the Outsiders on Sky News Australia last night. We talked about the arson attack on my organization’s offices, the Biden administration’s airstrikes in the Middle East, and the Democrats’ effort to drag Republicans into their border fiasco. It is a good segment: While I was waiting to go on, I heard this riff on illegal immigration by host James Morrow. James concludes with an excellent idea for
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February 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
If there is a story/video/photo that captures the madness of the moment, it must be the one featuring illegal alien Jhoan Boda flipping off the crowd as he left the courthouse in Manhattan last week. Miranda Devine recapitulated key elements of the story in her Devine Online newsletter with the subject heading “Crazy Town.” Here is her summary of the story: Look at this charmer coming out of Manhattan Criminal
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February 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Realizing that Joe Biden’s open southern border will be a devastating issue in November, Democrats are desperately seeking cover. Their plan is to trick Congressional Republicans into another immigration “compromise” that will legalize much illegal immigration, in exchange for which Biden will belatedly take a few inadequate steps to rein in the invasion. Thus making the border a bipartisan fiasco. How many times have the Democrats used this ploy? Some
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January 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Andrew McCarthy has posted “Biden’s Iran Crisis Overlaps with His Border Crisis” in the accessible Corner cubby of NRO. This is his opening (links omitted): For many years, Iran has had an operational alliance with the Marxist totalitarian regime in Venezuela. This gives Iran a toehold in the West and a well-trod route to infiltrate operatives across the southern border. Biden has appeared blithely indifferent to this — which is
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January 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This morning I was on Chicago’s AM 560 The Answer during drive time, with hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson. Dan and Amy have a great show, one of the best, and it is always fun to be on with them. Today we talked about the constitutional crisis brewing at the southern border, what remains of the 2024 Republican primary process, and the connection between the two. It’s a good
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