THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Excerpt: The Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 47.9 million in September 2022 — a record high in American history — and an increase of 2.9 million since January 2021.
Washington, D.C. (November 7, 2022) - Based on data released just ten days ago bythe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the total foreign-born (legal and illegal) population likely stood at 48.4 million in October of this year, by far the largest number in U.S. history. This means the foreign-born population has increased by 3.4 million since January 2021, the month President Biden took office. (The foreign born include all persons who were not U.S. citizens at birth — naturalized citizens, green-card holders, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants). Based on our prior research, we estimate that about 2 million of this increase is from illegal immigration.
The illegal immigrant population is almost certainly increasing faster now than at any time in U.S. history. This data is important because unlike border apprehension numbers, it measures the likely number of illegal immigrants actually living in the country, which is what will ultimately determine their impact on American society.
“The new figures released Friday from BLS indicate that the illegal immigrant population has exploded under Biden,” said Steven Camarota, the Center’s Director of Research. He added, “The administration’s policies have consequences and we are clearly seeing them in the data.”
How We Know:
The employment situation report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last Friday shows 45.9 million immigrants 16 and older (legal and illegal) living in the country in October.
Based on data from prior months, when all of the October data is released, it will show at least 2.5 million immigrants under the age of 16, for a total foreign population of 48.4 million — an increase of half a million since last month.
Month-to-month changes in the data are not necessarily meaningful because of sampling variability, but since January 2021, when President Biden took office, the total foreign born has grown by about 3.4 million, a very large and statistically significant increase.
Both the Census Bureau, which collects the data, and the BLS which analyzes it, are clear that illegal immigrants are included in the households survey, officially known as the Current Population Survey (CPS).
Based on our prior analysis we estimate that about 60 percent or about 2 million of the increase in the foreign born is from illegal immigration since January 2021.
Looking at all foreign born workers (legal and illegal), the number is up 2.1 million October of 2019, before Covid, to October of 2022. There is no indication that there are “missing” immigrant workers as some have suggested.
While a large share of the recent increase in the total foreign-born population is due to illegal immigration, those in the country legally still account for three-fourths of all foreign-born residents.
Skyrocketing inflation is causing major financial strains across all income groups, according to a recent Wall Street Journal-commissioned poll.
The poll found that 64 percent of all U.S. registered voters say high inflation is placing a strain on their finances. Furthermore, 36 percent said it is placing a major strain on their finances — up four percent from August and up eight percent from last year.
Across household incomes, 26 percent of voters earning between $100,001 and $150,00 reported that surging inflation is imposing major financial pressures on their families, a seven percent increase from August and 12 percent from March.
Fifty-four percent of respondents earning under $60,000 say they were experiencing major financial strains, up three percent from August and seven percent from March.
“The share of Americans with household incomes $150,001 and higher who reported major financial strains because of inflation remained stable compared to August but rose significantly from March,” the Hill reported.
Earlier in the year, annual inflation hit a 40-year-record high but has come down slightly since. Still, inflation is up by 8.2 percent since last year, with other basic necessities, such as grocery prices, rising by 13 percent, gasoline by 18.2 percent, and electricity by 15.5 percent.
With the midterm elections set to occur Tuesday, the poll found that 48 percent of voters believe that congressional Republicans would be better at handling inflation compared to 27 percent who say Democrats would be. The Journal also noted that Republican voters are more motivated to vote in the midterm elections than Democrats.
Furthermore, 43 percent of voters say Republicans controlling the House and Senate would be the best outcome for the country, compared to 36 percent who say it would be if Democrats controlled both chambers.
The poll was conducted by Republican pollster Tony Fabrizo and Democrat pollster John Anzalone on behalf of the Journal. It surveyed 1,500 registered voters nationwide by phone or text between October 22 and October 26. The margin of error is +/- 2.5 percent.
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Excerpt: The Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 47.9 million in September 2022 — a record high in American history — and an increase of 2.9 million since January 2021.
20 Facts That Food Shortages Will Get A Lot Worse As Fears Of A Dark Winter Rising
The pain never stops. If you think that the empty shelves we're seeing are quite distressing and that food prices are extremely expensive right now, just wait until the winter begins. The food crisis that is unfolding before our eyes is getting worse by the day. Global food supplies were already tight in the past few years, but the food that wasn't produced in 2022 means that we're going to be hit by even harder challenges in the next few months. At this point, worldwide fertilizer prices have quadrupled, several countries started banning exports of essential commodities, tens of millions of chickens and turkeys have disappeared from the system, our domestic beef cattle herd has dramatically shrunk, and crazy weather patterns have resulted in the destruction of millions of acres of crops all over the planet.
While rich countries will continue to face shortages and higher food prices, in more vulnerable countries, people are going to get desperate. "Fields are not being planted," emphasized Theo de Jager, the president of the World Farmers' Organisation. "I"m not so sure it's possible to avoid a food crisis. Farmers need peace," de Jager said.
We haven’t even seen the worst of food shortages and price increases yet, but America’s food banks are already reaching a breaking point. All over the country, food banks are struggling to keep up with the increased demand they’re experiencing. Feeding America, one of the nation’s largest charities, with over 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries, reported 85 percent of their food banks saw increased demand for food assistance. Their President and Chief Operating Officer Katie Fitzgerald says the organization is already dipping into emergency reserves, switching to cheaper products, limiting how often people can visit or how much food they can get, and "stretching their inventory to be able to meet more people's needs.
"Our experience is that this rise in food and fuel costs are creating just as precarious a situation for people who are trying to feed their families as was the case during the pandemic. Inflation is devastating to the budgets of families, seniors, and people just barely getting by, driving more and more of them to food banks and food pantries,” Fitzgerald says. “The problem we’re seeing is that food banks are not immune to these inflationary pressures. So, while they’re dealing with longer lines at distributions, they face soaring costs and other challenges to their operations,” she added. A Feeding America survey found that inflation and supply chain issues are greatly affecting food banks, with 70% of their members reporting donations of food have decreased while operating costs have risen 95%.
This is a confluence of many disasters hitting our food supply chains all at once, and the most worrying part is that experts say we haven't seen the worst of it yet. This winter is going to be exceedingly difficult for all of us. In this video, we compiled signs that show us just how bad things are about to get.
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Election Day begins on November 8 with a total lunar eclipse — the third in the past eighteen months, the second this year, and the last until 2025. Stretching nearly ninety minutes in length, peak totality occurs around 6 A.M in the East, 5 A.M. in the Midwest, and 3 A.M. on the Pacific Coast. These celestial occurrences are known as "blood moons" because the bright white moon takes on a coppery-reddish hue. A red moon to usher in a red wave, perhaps? It is the moon's gravity, after all, that gives us the ocean's tides. Maybe it can help deliver a red tsunami, too.
Even though this periodic event has been mathematically determined for quite some time, it is difficult not to see a little cosmic joke rooted within God's celestial plan. Perhaps America's early-to-rise workforce will find some extra inspiration to stop by the local polling booth before punching the clock. Perhaps fed-up New Yorkers will vote for Joe Pinion and finally give Chuck Schumer the boot! Perhaps those around tight races in battleground states will notice that even the moon ahead says, "Vote red."
This Blood Moon certainly takes on a more ominous tone, too. Americans know that their country is coming apart at the seams. Inflation is destroying household wealth. The middle class is struggling to survive rising food and fuel prices. The never-ending onslaught of illegal aliens pouring over the border is exacerbating already out-of-control violent crime. Child-groomers are lopping off kids' body parts to fulfill the wishes of dangerous adults. The Democrats' sole rallying cry this season is for unrestricted baby-killing on demand. With Democrats in control, blood and pain are the norm.
While the words "Great Reset" and "Build Back Better" have momentarily disappeared from leftists' lips, Green New Deal despots promise only more middle-class financial agony, more State supervision over individuals' lives, and more Big Government vetoes over what supposedly "free" citizens may sell and buy. Biden has promised to force Americans into expensive and undependable electric vehicles and assured blue-collar workers that he will put coal miners out of work. He has promised to regulate and censor free speech. He insists that he will follow communist Canada's lead in coming for Americans' guns. Meanwhile, lingering in the background of all this socialist confiscation and intrusion into people's private lives remains the now ever-present threat of a new COVID-inspired pandemic "emergency" that unscrupulous health bureaucrats, power-mad Marxist pols, and their evil Big Pharma pimps can exploit to ratchet up Deep State control, inject citizens with more experimental lies, and drain what remains of our constitutional rights. It is a perfect storm of bloody callousness that has ruined lives; destroyed livelihoods; afflicted families; and left America weaker, poorer, and miserable.
Or maybe this Blood Moon has something to do with Dementia Joe's continued promises to punish Americans if they don't vote "correctly." According to President Angry-Creepy-Sleepy-Pervy, this election is about "saving democracy," but if Americans dare to reject his commie crew on Tuesday, and if he and his lawfare gangsters can't successfullymanipulate vote outcomes in the weeks ahead, then "democracy" is supposedly doomed. If "democracy" were doomed, then why would the bureaucratic dictatorship running the White House recognize the results? Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, has issued "one final warning" for Americans to vote "correctly." What he and his October Revolutionaries have in store for us should we reject their demands remains to be seen. They have already given us Soviet show trials, middle-of-the-night FBI round-ups, and MAGA political prisoners tormented in isolation. Maybe blood dripping from the blades of foreign-made guillotines or down the sides of hastily built gulag walls is next on their Black Book of Communism list.
Should the un-American tyrants now running D.C. try to provoke Americans into the same kind of January 6 mayhem they used to quell citizen protests, censor debate about the fraudulent 2020 election, and intimidate and imprison political adversaries, do not take the bait! The Deep State and its Uniparty friends have been very clear in how they use propaganda, psychological warfare, and a compromised criminal justice system against the American people to manipulate the nation in their best interest. They may be committed to using violence against veterans and other peaceful citizens, but we should look beyond their stratagems and crimes, while remaining wisely and dutifully committed to the task at hand.
History has been remarkably clear that a nation cannot simply vote its way out of tyranny, but that does not mean you overturn the chessboard before the best gambits have yet to be played. Movements for great change begin small and grow stealthily yet steadily until their energy can no longer be contained. In the years between the formation of the first Tea Parties, the political rise of President Trump, and these last two years of MAGA's stubborn persistence and D.C.'s sense of abject horror that it won't wilt away, more and more curious citizens have awakened to what is really going on in the United States and across the West.
For nearly a decade now, the number-one stated fear of surveyed Americans has been "corrupt government officials," yet this fact is always buried somewhere deep under newspapers' sports sections and entertainment gossip. Today, voters of all backgrounds see more clearly than ever before globalism's malevolent campaign against national sovereignty, individual freedom, and personal rights. Today, people are beginning to see through governments' COVID and "climate change" scare tactics, central banks' manipulation of markets, and the nefarious Big Tech-Intelligence Community Surveillance State. Today, more Americans than ever understand that government is best when it vigilantly protects citizens' rights, defends the country from foreign harms, and otherwise gets entirely out of the way.
While we have finally pierced the veil of government-orchestrated propaganda that has kept so many in the dark for so long, the practitioners of psychological warfare are more desperate than ever to slander their opponents, hide the truth, spread fresh lies, and recapture newly freed brains. Do not fret. Do not fear. This is the time to keep calm, speak loudly, stay vigilant, and refuse to go away.
Unlike the un-American Deep State that seems committed to doling out pain and violence, good leaders wisely avoid violence whenever possible. Avoiding violence means seizing peaceful opportunities when they arise. Voting in such large numbers on November 8 that election-riggers strain to distort the outcome with anonymous mail-in ballots is a grand opportunity. To force our enemies to stumble, we must only demonstrate that we have won America's hearts and minds. Our patience and fortitude will light the way — that and a big, red moon to start the day!
This is it, the “most important election of our lifetime,” which is how most national elections are described. But this year’s Congressional midterm elections may be just that important. Much rides on which party controls Congress, state legislatures, and many state governorships in terms of the country’s direction and what everyday life looks like for Americans over the remainder of the decade and beyond.
President Barack Obama described the original plan as “the fundamental transformation of America.” It was supposed to be eight years of Obama followed by eight more years of a President Hillary Clinton, to complete the “great reset” from freedom, liberty, and prosperity for much of the Western world, to a top-down command and control society, more in line with a George Orwell novel than the vision of America’s founding fathers.
Will it be a red wave, a blue wave, or a purple trickle? I already made my case predicting a red wave, but given the propensity for Democrat electoral shenanigans, Republicans and conservatives (not necessarily the same group) need to vote like their lives and well-being depend on it because they certainly do. Libertarians too.
Hugh Hewitt summed it up in the title of his 2012 book, “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat: Crushing The Democrats In Every Election And Why Your Life Depends On It.” President Biden hinted at such cheating in recent remarks at the Columbus Club in Washington, DC.
We know that many states don’t start counting those ballots until after the polls close on November 8. That means in some cases we won’t know the winner of the election until a few days after the election. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. Huh?
Days to count ballots? Since when? Since any close election where the Republican candidate is ahead, beginning with Bush v Gore in Florida in 2000 to Trump v Biden in 2020. The Mega Millions lottery can identify the winner almost immediately and know where in America he purchased the winning ticket. Most countries, including a previously more honest America, know the election winner hours after the polls close.
Biden’s comment about “a few days” suggests that once the votes are counted the first time, if the Republican candidate is the winner, counting stops until additional votes can be found or manufactured, enough to put the Democrat over the top. This is why voting is so important and that every vote counts to so overwhelm the tally that cheating is impossible, as Hugh Hewitt described.
What’s in store for the country if Democrats control Congress and, in essence, all three branches of government? Yes, the US Supreme Court is supposed to be independent, but even the high court can be pressured and politicized. Court decisions are often ignored, as in New York City Mayor Eric Adams having no interest in following the ruling of a NY Supreme Court justice requiring reinstatement of municipal employees fired for not taking the COVID vaccine.
So how do your country and life depend on the November 8 election outcome? What would Democrat majorities in Congress mean for America? All tricks and no treats.
Abortion on demand, up to and perhaps even beyond birth, would be codified into national law. Democrats had 50 years post-Roe v Wade to legalize abortion legislatively, many of those years when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, but they didn’t. After the recent SCOTUS decision repealing Roe, turning the decision over to the states as prescribed by the Tenth Amendment, expect a donkey Congress to legalize killing babies.
Censorship is the new norm, with unelected and unaccountable social media behemoths determining “truth” and acceptable conversation. Asking questions of or disagreeing with those in charge leads to censorship or worse. Noted cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny may lose their medical licenses and board certifications over having the temerity to challenge Dr. Fauci, and the three-letter medical agencies, just as Galileo was imprisoned for questioning the leading scientists of the day over the earth-revolving around the sun rather than vice versa.
Taxes will rise under a Democrat Congress. The government is spending money it does not have, now financing a $31 trillion national debt at an interest rate of 4 percent and rising. This translates to $1.4 trillion in annual interest payments on the debt, consuming 29 percent of federal tax receipts according to Zero Hedge. Given that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suggested additional interest rate hikes to combat inflation, expect debt service to grow, leaving little money for other government spending priorities, with tax hikes as the only solution for Democrats to make ends meet.
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for US adults. Democrat open borders and sanctuary city policies are supporting the Fentanyl supply chain, while other Democrat policies are choking the supply chain for the essential and non-lethal goods and services that Americans depend on.
Speaking of the border, expect Democrats to leave the border wide open, flooding America with low-skilled migrants, unable to assimilate into American culture, bringing criminal activity and economic dependence, all of which will be supported by already overtaxed American citizens.
From Trump era energy independence, when America was a net energy exporter, to the Democrat President begging the Saudis for more oil and depleting our strategic petroleum reserves, expect this trend to continue spiraling downward. Remember gasoline under $2 a gallon during a Republican administration to a doubling of gasoline prices under the current Democrat cabal? With a deliberate effort to reduce energy supplies, expect energy prices to continue rising while Biden licks his ice cream cones “like a boss” according to ABC News.
What’s the Democrat solution to unaffordable gasoline? Electric vehicles, as if electricity and EV batteries magically grow on trees. California can’t keep its lights on, but the state has mandated 100 percent new EV sales by 2035. But don’t worry if the lights go out. President Biden claims that EVs can light your homes. Aside from such a practice voiding a Tesla warranty, how will you recharge your batteries during a brownout? How will you drive to work with a dead EV battery? This is what passes for Democrat leadership these days.
Democrats have no solution for inflation, other than calling it “transitory.” Or there’s Biden’s recent proposal of windfall profit taxes on oil companies, a tactic that has been tried and was an abject failure. Democrats in charge going forward means higher prices for virtually everything.
But rest assured, government tax revenues, when not supporting interest payments on the national debt, will be sent to Ukraine to finance a proxy war against Russia, an endeavor for which America has no compelling national interest, and that could possibly escalate into a nuclear holocaust that, by comparison, would make the COVID pandemic look like a day at the beach.
Don’t forget the children. Democrats want unnecessary COVID vaccines for your children. Drag queen story hour and encouraging gender confusion, followed by surgical castration, are Democrat priorities and likely to be codified into law if Democrats control Congress.
Lastly, Democrats want to defund the police, leading to increased crime and violence. How ironic that the husband of the US Speaker of the House, herself calling for police defunding, was “allegedly” violently attacked (the emerging details are becoming dodgier by the day) in his own home. With an election ahead, Democrats deny their calls for defunding the police, but here is a 7-minute video of them advocating for that from which they now run.
Democrats will turn America into, at best, a socialist state and, at worst, a communist dictatorship with a handful of them in charge, much like the capital city in the Hunger Games.
Electoral reform is happening, but will it be enough to ensure a fair and honest election? Election reform advocate and attorney Lin Wood cries, “Fix 2020 or bust.” Does this mean we shouldn’t vote as elections are still sketchy but likely better than in 2020? Or because every GOP candidate is not the perfect solution to our current problems? How can we fix anything without electing leaders who acknowledge the problem and have the cojones to actually fix the broken and fraudulent electoral system?
Perfect is the enemy of good, and that applies to candidates as well. An imperfect Republican official will do far less damage than any Democrat and may even do some good. Leave principles and convictions in the chatrooms and think tanks.
Voting libertarian out of conviction will only split the Republican vote and likely elect the Democrat candidate. This election is a call for action, or else there may be nothing of America left to salvage after two more years of Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer in charge. Vote Republican or get the government and country you deserve.
On election day, vote like your country and life depend on it because they do! America needs and deserves better than the modern Democrat party.
Per NBC News, which is tracking mail-in and early voting counts in all fifty states, the Democrats are in deep trouble. In most competitive states the lopsided advantages that Democrats enjoyed in mail-in balloting and early voting in the 2020 elections are no longer lopsided. That means come Election Day, when Republicans and GOP-leaning independents typically cast ballots, the “Red Wave” election that many anticipate will roll across America like a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.
The major concern about the 2022 midterm elections for Republicans is that a red wave would be dashed against the rocks of early voting. Early voting in 2020 proved a decisive advantage for Democrats, giving them the edge in key contests, like the Trump-Biden presidential matchup.
Yes, there was fraud that evidently tipped the scales in favor of old, addled Joe Biden in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. But early voting permitted Democrats the time to organize and round up votes from their constituencies. Other than California, where vote harvesting is absurdly legal, in other states, where harvesting isn't legal, Democrats “gathered up” votes, even if they stayed -- just barely -- on the right side of the law.
But let's take a quick look at mail-in and early voting tallies for the key states just mentioned and some others. Other than Pennsylvania, which is worrisome and needs to remain on our watch list, Democrats are failing to gain the overwhelming edge they enjoyed two short years ago.
Percentage breakdown by party in this order: Democrat-Republican-independent:
Georgia: 49-42-9
Pennsylvania: 70-21-9 (Red Flag)
Wisconsin: 37-34-29
Arizona: 39-31-30
North Carolina: 39-31-30
New York: 58-24-18
Wash State: 58-30-12
New Mexico: 53-34-13
New Hampshire: 45-30-25
Michigan: 50-28-22
In examining the above percentages, it's important to collapse the Republican and independent vote. Why? Because we know that Republican voters will break overwhelming for GOP candidates. We know, too, that independent voters are breaking strongly for Republicans. White suburban women are swinging to the GOP by a huge 15% margin, per a Wall Street Journal poll. Democrats have lost their 2020 advantage among this key cohort.
We also know that Democrats are heavily relying on mail-in and early voting to win. They'll surely see a significant drop off in voting on Election Day, as they did in 2020.
The Democrat percentages stated earlier are intriguing in that more Democrats -- albeit still a smaller percentage -- may decide to cast their ballots for Republicans, at least in terms of splitting their tickets.
Otherwise, in the early and mail-in voting arena, Republicans are slugging it out toe-to-toe with Democrats.
In Georgia, 51% of mail-in and early voters are Republicans and independents. Wisconsin: 63%. Arizona: 61%. North Carolina: 61%. New Hampshire: 55%.
Those numbers, respectively, bode well for Herschel Walker, Ron Johnson, Tim Michels (Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee), Kari Lake and Blake Masters, Ted Budd, and Don Bolduc.
In New Mexico, where Ron Ronchetti is challenging the corrupt Michelle Lujan Grisham for governor, an upset is in the making. -- 47% of Republicans and independents are casting ballots early.
In Michigan, Tudor Dixon is aiming to unseat the incompetent and failed Gretchen Whitmer. There, Republicans/independents are matching Democrats in early votes (50-50). Again, Election Day voting should see a drop-off in Democrat voters and spikes in GOP and independent ballots cast.
New York State (Lee Zeldin vs. Kathy Hochul) and Washington State (Tiffany Smiley vs. Patty Murray) are tougher calls, but both contests are competitive and results are likely to be close.
Pennsylvania is where Democrats have a huge advantage in early and mail-in ballot voting, doubtlessly driven by Democrat machine efforts in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, principally.
It's conceivable that stroke-impaired, crazy left-winger John Fetterman could slip by Dr. Mehmet Oz. But is this a winnable contest for Oz? You bet, if Republicans and independents turn out in droves on Election Day. The Pennsylvania Republican Party damn well better have fearless and trained poll watchers in key precincts and jurisdictions and bevies of lawyers ready to aggressively challenge irregularities, which are fully expected in Democrat redoubts.
Why else do we know that Republicans are poised to roll up Democrats this Tuesday?
All the underlying numbers are dramatically cutting against Democrats. The trends have been in place for months.
Real Clear Politics averages: Right track/wrong track (42% margin wrong), Generic ballot (+2.8%, GOP, though Rasmussen and Trafalgar show GOP advantages, +5% and +6%, respectively), Biden's job performance (-12.6%).
Biden’s handling of critical single issues -- all are stunningly cutting against Democrats. Economy: -19.8%. Immigration (Border): -24.4%. Inflation: -27%
Add to that Hispanics, who appear to be shifting to Republicans (40%), and even black voters (21%) in an October 27 USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll.
It's conceivable that the 2022-24 elections may prove more historic than the 1918-20 elections that saw Republicans roll up a combined 16 U.S. Senate seats and 87 U.S. House seats, while electing Warren G. Harding in an epic landslide in 1920.
But this series of elections may grant the GOP control for not just a decade, but a generation. We can't say now with certainty, but the distinct, sweet smell of an historic realignment is in the air.
Yet, let's not take anything for granted. If you haven't voted, it’s imperative: show up at your polling place on Tuesday and cast your ballot. Make sure family and friends vote, too. The country is at a crossroads. These elections are the most consequential in most of our lifetimes.
J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith. He also blogs at Flyover.
A study published by the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Judicial and Legal Studies shows that 27 of the 30 cities with the highest murder rates are controlled by Democrats.
FOX News noted that the study indicates “27….[of the 30 cities] have Democratic mayors. Within those cities, there are at least 14 “rogue prosecutors” either backed or inspired by billionaire Democrat supporter George Soros.”
The Daily Signal reported that the authors of the study–Charles Stimson, Zack Smith, and Kevin D. Dayaratna–noted, “Those on the Left know that their soft-on-crime policies have wreaked havoc in the cities where they have implemented those policies.”
Stimson, Smith, and Dayaratna added:
It is not hard to understand why ‘reforms’ such as ending cash bail, defunding the police, refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes, letting thousands of convicted felons out of prison early, significantly cutting the prison population, and other ‘progressive’ ideas have led to massive spikes in crime—particularly violent crime, including murder—in the communities where those on the Left have implemented them.
The study undercuts Hillary Clinton’s claim that Republicans’ emphasis on crime and violence in Democrat-run cities was not valid.
On November 3, 2022, CNN quoted Clinton suggesting Republicans were “just trying to gin up all kinds of fear and anxiety in people.”
She added, “[The Republicans] are not dealing with it. They are not trying to tackle it. So I view it as an effort to scare voters.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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NYC Crime Wave: Teen Attacked, Stabbed by Masked Suspects on Manhattan Subway Platform
\A Democrat's dream: Commonsense knife and hammer control!
Kiernan Brown, 30, was recently charged with the hammer killings of two women after he showed cellphone photos of their beaten bodies to sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop. He was arrested on Interstate 69, about 108 miles northwest of Detroit, after an ex-girlfriend reported that he had been violating a personal protection order by banging on her door and sending disturbing texts. Brown pleaded guilty — but mentally ill — to second-degree murder in the deaths of 26-year-old Kaylee Ann Brock and 32-year-old Julie Ann Mooney in May 2019.
Paul Pelosi — the husband of House speaker Nancy Pelosi — was recently attacked by a man with a hammer at the couple's home in San Francisco. Pelosi required emergency surgery, and his full recovery is apparently still not guaranteed.
Deashe Calhoun, 20, recently attacked Hubert Meulens, 82, with a machete in lower Manhattan. She had previously been arrested seven times in roughly the past seven months for infractions involving knives and subsequently the machete.
There have been a staggering number of knife attacks in recent years, both in the United States and abroad. In fact, stabbings account for well over 1,000 homicides each year in the U.S. alone.
Knife violence in places like Britain is even more prevalent and shocking. In Britain in 2020, a knife crime was reported every 11 minutes, with the bulk of them occurring in London.
I am sick and tired of innocent people being stabbed by all forms of cutlery, from Swiss Army Knives to machetes. (Pocket knives are obviously a gateway weapon to swords and machetes.) And I am sick and tired of innocent people being hammered to death.
What can be done about the scourge of non-gun violence? To paraphrase progressives: "Do not blame the perp! Blame the implement!"
It is obvious we need commonsense knife and hammer control!
We must demand that the manufacture, sale, and possession of all knives, cutlery, hammers — and other blunt instruments — be banned immediately.
It matters not that progressive policies create envy, hate, and despair. Or that they make crime a low-risk, high-reward activity to those with no moral compass. The fact that criminals, even violent ones, are being booked and almost immediately released, time after time, with little or no (cashless!) bail, has nothing to do with the problem. Nor, obviously, does our society's descent into hyper-secular amorality.
No, it is the fault of the tools that seemingly once served us so well.
And, speaking of tools, remember to vote Democrat on November 8. Our democracy depends on it!
Hochul, widely blamed by the families of crime victims for the wave of terror sweeping over the state, had numerous opportunities to slam the brakes on the move by her former boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Democrat legislature to eliminate bail and free criminals.
Mark Kelly Says He’s a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took $350K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group.
A dark money group that wants to defund police and abolish federal immigration agencies has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Arizona Senate race, providing a last-minute boost for Democratic senator Mark Kelly, whose once-sizable lead has evaporated ahead of Election Day.
Living United for Change in Arizona has spent nearly $350,000 since Oct. 21 to help the Kelly campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. The expenditures have gone to pay wages for canvassers to knock on doors in the Grand Canyon State to turn out the vote for Kelly.
The donations create an uneasy alliance for Kelly, who fashions himself a moderate criminal justice reformer. Living United, which has received funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has called for defunding the Phoenix Police Department, saying, "The police do not protect or serve us." The group, which has held protests outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, made national headlines in October 2021 after its members filmed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) in a bathroom on the campus of Arizona State University and grilled her over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass a voting bill.
The group's support comes at a pivotal moment for Kelly, whose double-digit lead over Republican Blake Masters has disappeared amid growing concerns about crime and the economy. A recent poll from the progressive Data for Progress found Kelly tied with Masters. The poll also found that Latino voters favored Kelly by a 58-37 margin, down considerably from Kelly's support among the group in the 2020 special election.
While the Kelly campaign does not directly work with Living United on the canvassing effort, Living United has paid $210,000 to FieldCorps, a consulting firm with links to Kelly. Francisco Heredia, a Mesa city councilman who owns FieldCorps, has campaigned this year for Kelly. The Kelly campaign lists Heredia as a member of its "Latinos for Kelly Coalition." Living United paid another $138,546 to ADP Payroll to cover wages for canvassers, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Living United's political action committee received around $1 million in funding in the 2020 cycle from the left-wing voter mobilization groups Civic Participation Action Fund and the Movement Voter Project. The group's activist arm, which organizes anti-police and anti-ICE rallies, has been funded by numerous dark money progressive groups. The Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund, neither of which is required to disclose its donors, in 2019 gave $165,000 and $40,000, respectively, according to the Capital Research Center. Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2019 gave $1.5 million to Living United "to support policy advocacy led by communities of color in Arizona."
Living United campaigned last month for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, Fox News reported.
The Kelly campaign and Living United did not respond to requests for comment.
New York governor Kathy Hochul is a case study in denial. The unelected Democrat is in trouble because she won't acknowledge the danger of rising crime. When challenger Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman from Long Island, brought up public safety during last week's debate, Hochul scoffed. "I don't know why that's so important to you," she said. She might as well have stuck her tongue out at voters. Support for Zeldin has surged in recent days.
Hochul may yet win. New York hasn't voted for a Republican governor since 2002. Whatever the outcome—and Zeldin has a path to victory—the takeaway is clear: Crime is once again a matter of national concern.
Look at the polls. Sixty-one percent of registered voters told the Pew Research Center this month that violent crime is very important to their midterm vote. An October Gallup poll had crime in third place, after the economy and abortion. The October Fox poll showed that crime was second only to inflation in voters' minds. According to another recent Gallup survey, a record 56 percent of Americans say there is more crime in their area than there was last year.
Hochul blames this sentiment on mass delusion. "These are master manipulators," she told MSNBC on October 30. "They have this conspiracy going all across America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they're not safe." Hochul didn't say who "they" are. She meant Republicans.
The truth is that Hochul is the one who's out of touch. The reason voters are worried about crime is that crime has been rising. Sensational stories of subway murders, carjackings, kidnappings, and shoplifting are not isolated events. Murder and assaults have increased nationwide since 2019. Murder has dropped off somewhat since the beginning of this year, but the decline has been unevenly distributed and other forms of violent crime are going up. The lawlessness that spread across the country in 2020 hasn't abated.
Nor do voters believe that Democrats can restore order. An ABC News-Ipsos poll from October showed that a measly 22 percent of registered voters trust Democrats to handle crime. Thirty-seven percent trust the GOP. Republicans also had a 15-point advantage over Democrats on crime in the October Fox poll.
The trend is visible in individual campaigns. In September, Mandela Barnes was tied with Republican senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Then Johnson's campaign and Mitch McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund began running ads that attacked Barnes's positions on crime. Johnson has been in the lead since. Also in September, John Fetterman was ahead of Mehmet Oz in the race for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat. Then the crime ads went up. Oz began to gain.
The attacks work because Progressive Democrats like Barnes and Fetterman hold views on crime that are outside the mainstream. Over the past decade, the movement for criminal justice reform radicalized into advocacy for emptying prisons, or decarceration. Progressive prosecutors such as Kim Foxx in Chicago, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, George Gascón in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and Alvin Bragg in New York City refused to press charges for many crimes and sought light sentences for the infractions they did pursue. In 2019, New York ended cash bail for most felonies and misdemeanors. In 2020, Progressive Democrats began slashing police budgets.
Criminals maneuver easily within such permissive environments. Most cities are sanctuaries that do not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Nonprofits and local governments subsidize alcohol and drug addiction. Homeless encampments dot the landscape. The scent of highly potent legal marijuana fills the air. In Baltimore, squeegee kids harass motorists. In New York, turnstile jumping is rampant. Major retail chains have closed locations in downtown San Francisco, Philadelphia, and D.C. Antisocial behavior has flourished.
The Progressive Left rejected the lessons of the past. They repudiated the legacy of the tough-on-crime 1990s, when Democrats and Republicans alike built prisons, imposed harsh sentences on criminals, hired more police officers, used the death penalty, and adopted "broken windows" and community policing techniques. Progressives continued to pursue their false notion of social justice even as the body count went up. They ignored the voters yelling stop.
In the spring of 2020, left-wing data scientist David Shor shared research on his social media account that showed Republicans deriving electoral benefit from voter backlash against riots. He was fired from his job. In November 2020, Republicans proved Shor's point by unexpectedly picking up 14 House seats. The Left didn't bat an eye.
True, President Biden avoided the "Defund the Police" slogan. He promised to spend more money on law enforcement while cracking down on guns. His message was drowned out by the apostles of the cultural Left in politics, education, and the media, who condemn policing and sentencing as racist and the criminal justice system as irredeemable. The ineffectual Biden has little sway over the pandering governors and loopy prosecutors behind the crime surge.
The commitment to decarceration and decriminalization persists. Neither Eric Adams's election as mayor of New York nor the recall of Chesa Boudin in San Francisco has halted it. New York's bail reform may be responsible for Kathy Hochul's defeat, yet Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker wants a similar measure to take effect in the Prairie State next year.
The New York Times expresses wonderment that voters in Kenosha, Wis., blame incumbent Democratic governor Tony Evers for presiding over the riot that turned their city into a burned-out husk—the nerve! The scourge of crime may elect Oz to the U.S. Senate, yet District Attorney Krasner is focused more on potential election interference. "We have handcuffs, we have jail cells, and we have juries who will be here," he said at a press conference on extremism this week. That news might come as a surprise to anyone who's followed his career. Now that Krasner has acknowledged the existence of cuffs and jails, maybe he can use them to lock up the crooks terrorizing Philadelphia?
He won't. Krasner and company are ideologues who believe that they are insulated from the destructive consequences of their own agendas. Voters are about to teach Progressive Democrats a lesson: Crime doesn't pay.
“She should be charged for the crime. She’s also responsible for the crime,” Keaira Bennefield’s mother said of Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Hochul, widely blamed by the families of crime victims for the wave of terror sweeping over the state, had numerous opportunities to slam the brakes on the move by her former boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Democrat legislature to eliminate bail and free criminals.
Instead, despite pleas from mayors, law enforcement officers and crime victims, she cruelly doubled down on it leading to countless beatings, robberies, rapes and murders.
Including the murder of Keaira Bennefield.
Gov. Hochul claimed that her refusal to lock up criminals and hold them accountable was done to help black people. Keaira Bennefield, like many of the state’s crime victims, was black.
Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, who is black, along with State Dem Chairman Jay Jacobs, had pleaded with Gov. Hochul to bring back bail. All Adams and Jacobs had been asking for was giving judges some authority to keep dangerous criminals behind bars.
And Gov. Hochul had refused, “I don’t cave to pressure.”
She wasn’t alone. The Democrat legislative leadership refused to consider locking up criminals.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie sneered, “Can we stop blaming bail reform when the sun comes out?”
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins claimed that bringing back bail would hurt, “black and brown and poor defendants.”
One of those was Keaira Bennefield’s estranged husband.
Adam Bennefield, who had abducted another ex at gunpoint, had been arrested for punching and kicking her on camera. He was let go in less than 24 hours because Cuomo, Hochul and Dem leaders had eliminated bail.
Keaira was wearing a bulletproof vest to drop off her kids at school. It didn’t help her. Her husband rammed her car and then killed her with a shotgun in front of their children.
“The kids had blood all over their clothes,” her mother said.
“Three kids are going to grow up without a mother, because she was just murdered on a Wednesday by someone released from custody the day before due to cashless bail,” Lee Zeldin, who is running to replace Hochul, charged. “Hochul’s pandering to her pro-criminal allies just cost three kids a mother.”
“She failed me. She let me down and my daughter down, and she needs to make a change with the bail reform,” the deceased woman’s mother demanded.
Gov. Hochul has continued to insist that she’s protecting black people by pandering to criminals.
But in one poll, 60% of white people, 44% of Latinos, and 46% of black people came out against eliminating bail. Only 30% of white people, 41% of Latinos, and 39% of black people thought Hochul’s plan of letting criminals out as soon as they were arrested was a good idea.
When it came to the question of whether the bail law increased crime, 46% of black people said that it did increase crime, only 34% disagreed.
Women, 56%, were more likely than men, 52%, to say it was bad. Female crime victims, like Keaira Bennefield, are much more vulnerable to the violence unleashed by the Democrats.
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the first black woman to hold that office, once again urged “changes to the bail reform law” especially allowing “judges to be able to consider whether the person is a public safety threat.”
It was a bold move for a career official in the final stretch before Election Day.
Keaira Bennefield’s murder was the culmination of a horrifying pro-crime experiment enacted by Democrats after being vocally funded by think-tanks and pressure groups most notoriously, the Brennan Center funded by George Soros, Tides and the Joyce Foundation under Obama.
Democrats who implemented the pro-crime agenda destroyed cities, states and the country.
Gov. Hochul’s obliviousness to the horrors that she had unleashed on innocent victims like Keaira’s children came to the fore during the gubernatorial debate when she snapped at Zeldin that she didn’t understand why locking up criminals was so important to him.
Keaira’s mother understands. So do the family members of so many other Hochul victims.
Bui Van Phu, a convicted sex offender on parole, put a man in a coma and then was let out with no bail again.
Frank Abrokwa smeared his feces on a woman in the subway, was arrested, released, and then committed an anti-semitic hate crime, and then was released again. He had punched a man on the subway in January and another man at a bus station in February.
Donny Ubiera was busted by police while waving a large knife. He had threatened and assaulted multiple employees. He was let go and stabbed two people.
Afterward, “There was so much blood in the train car that it had to be taken out of service.”
“We keep arresting him,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said of his 14 previous arrests. “His record demonstrates that each time he is involved in unprovoked violence against innocent victims, the criminal justice system has him back to the streets.”
Instead of ending his wave of terror, Gov. Hochul doubled down on her pro-crime policies, renaming criminals, “incarcerated individuals”.
“Our criminal justice system is insane. It is dangerous. It’s harmful. And it’s destroying the fabric of our city,” Mayor Eric Adams charged.
And he’s right.
“We never said that the cause of crime in the state is because of bail reform,” Gov. Hochul whined. “That is too simplistic. That is a political slogan.”
But Hochul is the one mouthing political slogans while New Yorkers are beaten, stabbed and killed. 10 career criminals alone accounted for 500 arrests: 6 of them were still on the street.
Some accuse Gov. Hochul of being soft on crime. That’s not true. She’s not soft on crime, she’s pro-crime. While claiming to help black people, she got a black woman killed. And the skyrocketing murder rates show that Keaira Bennefield is not alone.
There’s blood on Hochul’s hands and whatever the election results are, it will not wash away.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Report: Chicago Man on First-Time Gun Probation Accused of Robbing Delivery Driver
A Chicago man on first-time gun offender probation allegedly robbed a pizza delivery driver with a gun.
Lorenzo Clark was previously charged with a felony for allegedly having a gun in a car in the city and was later granted the probation, CWB Chicago reported Wednesday.
“If he did well, the charge against him would be dismissed,” the outlet said, noting the man has no additional criminal history and manages a fast-food restaurant.
The article detailed the events that happened Sunday when Clark allegedly targeted the pizza delivery driver:
A little after 11 p.m., a bicyclist was robbed of their phone and a white Mongoose bike with distinctive accessories in Chicago Lawn. Minutes later, someone riding a similar bike rode up to a pizza delivery driver who had just returned to his car after dropping off an order in the 7100 block of South Washtenaw.
The cyclist, who was wearing a ski mask and glasses, tried several times to sell the driver pot, according to prosecutor Rhianna Biernat.
However, the driver said no and placed the vehicle into gear but the suspect then pointed a gun at him and demanded he hand over his property. When the driver hit the accelerator, the suspect allegedly fired twice and one bullet reportedly struck the dashboard while another missed the driver.
Authorities tracked the bicyclist’s stolen phone to a nearby residence and a white Mongoose bike was reportedly spotted inside.
A man at the scene was identified as Clark, who was wearing a white hoodie and jeans, an outfit reportedly similar to the suspect’s.
Officials brought the deliveryman to the scene and he identified Clark as the suspect involved. Now, the results of a gunshot residue test taken from the suspect’s hands are outstanding.
“Prosecutors charged Clark with attempted first-degree murder but not with trying to rob the pizza driver. No one has been charged with robbing the bicyclist,” the article said.
A judge eventually granted the state’s no-bail request in the case.
Meanwhile, 35 individuals were shot and five of them died over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News reported Monday.
In addition, fourteen people were shot during a Halloween night vigil in Chicago, and the victims included three children.
A mid-year survey found violent crime across cities in President Joe Biden’s (D) America grew by over four percent during the first six months of this year, Breitbart News reported in September.
Mark Kelly Says He’s a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took $350K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group.
A dark money group that wants to defund police and abolish federal immigration agencies has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Arizona Senate race, providing a last-minute boost for Democratic senator Mark Kelly, whose once-sizable lead has evaporated ahead of Election Day.
Living United for Change in Arizona has spent nearly $350,000 since Oct. 21 to help the Kelly campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. The expenditures have gone to pay wages for canvassers to knock on doors in the Grand Canyon State to turn out the vote for Kelly.
The donations create an uneasy alliance for Kelly, who fashions himself a moderate criminal justice reformer. Living United, which has received funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has called for defunding the Phoenix Police Department, saying, "The police do not protect or serve us." The group, which has held protests outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, made national headlines in October 2021 after its members filmed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) in a bathroom on the campus of Arizona State University and grilled her over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass a voting bill.
The group's support comes at a pivotal moment for Kelly, whose double-digit lead over Republican Blake Masters has disappeared amid growing concerns about crime and the economy. A recent poll from the progressive Data for Progress found Kelly tied with Masters. The poll also found that Latino voters favored Kelly by a 58-37 margin, down considerably from Kelly's support among the group in the 2020 special election.
While the Kelly campaign does not directly work with Living United on the canvassing effort, Living United has paid $210,000 to FieldCorps, a consulting firm with links to Kelly. Francisco Heredia, a Mesa city councilman who owns FieldCorps, has campaigned this year for Kelly. The Kelly campaign lists Heredia as a member of its "Latinos for Kelly Coalition." Living United paid another $138,546 to ADP Payroll to cover wages for canvassers, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Living United's political action committee received around $1 million in funding in the 2020 cycle from the left-wing voter mobilization groups Civic Participation Action Fund and the Movement Voter Project. The group's activist arm, which organizes anti-police and anti-ICE rallies, has been funded by numerous dark money progressive groups. The Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund, neither of which is required to disclose its donors, in 2019 gave $165,000 and $40,000, respectively, according to the Capital Research Center. Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2019 gave $1.5 million to Living United "to support policy advocacy led by communities of color in Arizona."
Living United campaigned last month for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, Fox News reported.
The Kelly campaign and Living United did not respond to requests for comment.'
ANY BLACK RAPPER NOT YET MURDERED BY BLACK THUGS???
The graphic video of Takeoff's death and what it says about our desensitization to trauma
A Chicago man on first-time gun offender probation allegedly robbed a pizza delivery driver with a gun.
Lorenzo Clark was previously charged with a felony for allegedly having a gun in a car in the city and was later granted the probation, CWB Chicago reported Wednesday.
“If he did well, the charge against him would be dismissed,” the outlet said, noting the man has no additional criminal history and manages a fast-food restaurant.
The article detailed the events that happened Sunday when Clark allegedly targeted the pizza delivery driver:
A little after 11 p.m., a bicyclist was robbed of their phone and a white Mongoose bike with distinctive accessories in Chicago Lawn. Minutes later, someone riding a similar bike rode up to a pizza delivery driver who had just returned to his car after dropping off an order in the 7100 block of South Washtenaw.
The cyclist, who was wearing a ski mask and glasses, tried several times to sell the driver pot, according to prosecutor Rhianna Biernat.
However, the driver said no and placed the vehicle into gear but the suspect then pointed a gun at him and demanded he hand over his property. When the driver hit the accelerator, the suspect allegedly fired twice and one bullet reportedly struck the dashboard while another missed the driver.
Authorities tracked the bicyclist’s stolen phone to a nearby residence and a white Mongoose bike was reportedly spotted inside.
A man at the scene was identified as Clark, who was wearing a white hoodie and jeans, an outfit reportedly similar to the suspect’s.
Officials brought the deliveryman to the scene and he identified Clark as the suspect involved. Now, the results of a gunshot residue test taken from the suspect’s hands are outstanding.
“Prosecutors charged Clark with attempted first-degree murder but not with trying to rob the pizza driver. No one has been charged with robbing the bicyclist,” the article said.
A judge eventually granted the state’s no-bail request in the case.
Meanwhile, 35 individuals were shot and five of them died over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News reported Monday.
In addition, fourteen people were shot during a Halloween night vigil in Chicago, and the victims included three children.
A mid-year survey found violent crime across cities in President Joe Biden’s (D) America grew by over four percent during the first six months of this year, Breitbart News reported in September.
Reputed drug dealer accused of raping informant jumps bail
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FILE - This photo provided by the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office in September 2022, shows Antonio D. Jones. The reputed drug dealer, accused of raping a woman police informant sent into his house alone in an unmonitored sting, has skipped bail and was a no-show Monday, Oct. 17, at what was supposed to the start of his trial. (Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A reputed drug dealer accused of raping a woman police informant sent into his house alone in an unmonitored sting has skipped bail and was a no-show Monday at what was supposed to the start of his trial.
Antonio D. Jones’ alleged attack in which he was caught on video forcing the woman to perform oral sex on him twice was reported in an Associated Press investigation last month that exposed the perils such informants can face seeking to “work off” criminal charges in often loosely regulated, secretive arrangements.
“I guess I need to address the elephant that’s not in the room,” Assistant District Attorney Brian Cespiva said during a brief court hearing, adding that federal marshals were actively searching for Jones and “he will be here eventually.”
Jones, a 48-year-old career criminal known as “Mississippi,” had attended previous hearings in the case but was discovered last week to have jumped his $70,000 bail and fled the central Louisiana area. Prosecutors told AP the amount of Jones’ bail had been “pre-set” and was not unreasonably low despite the violent nature of the charges and his extensive criminal history.
But Jones’ disappearance deepened the scandal over law enforcement’s handling of the case and their treatment of the informant, who was sent into the suspect’s dilapidated house in January 2021 to buy meth with hidden video recording equipment that could not be monitored by law enforcement handlers in real time.
“We’ve always done it this way,” Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Parker, the ranking officer in the operation, told AP. “She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before.”
Despite the woman’s cooperation and the alleged attack, she was still charged with possession of drug paraphernalia stemming from an arrest that happened about a month before the sting.
The informant, who declined interview requests and is not being named because the AP does not typically identify victims of sexual assault, is expected to testify against Jones if he is ever found.
The case turns in large part on the footage of the attack, which Jones’ own defense attorney argued was “extremely graphic” and too prejudicial to show to jurors, conceding it depicts “forced oral sex.”
According to interviews and confidential law enforcement records obtained by AP, the dealer threatened to put the crying woman “in the hospital” and even paused at one point during the attack to conduct a separate drug deal.
In court papers that baffled prosecutors, defense attorney Phillip M. Robinson even offered to stipulate that “Mr. Jones had specific intent to rape” the woman, contending it would be “difficult for a jury to maintain neutrality and non-bias” after viewing the “violent sexual intercourse.”
Prosecutor Cespiva told the AP that Jones’ charges were recently reduced from forcible second-degree rape to third-degree rape, or simple rape, to make a conviction more likely. He said prosecutors intend to seek consecutive 25-year terms on each count.
“We want to convict this guy” for the informant, said Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell. “She wants this to be behind her.”
Black Voters Say They’re Concerned About Violent Crime. White Liberals Think It’s a GOP ‘Conspiracy’ Fueled by ‘Data Deniers.’
Democrats aren't just out of touch with America, they're out of touch with their own voters
Black voters are concerned about violent crime. Most Americans agree, with one notable exception: White liberals.
According to a recent Pew survey of registered voters, 82 percent of black Democrats said violent crime was a "very important" issue in the 2022 election, compared with just 33 percent of white Democrats.
Overall, 61 percent of registered voters described violent crime as a very important factor when deciding who to vote for in the upcoming midterm election. The groups least likely to agree with that assessment were Democratic voters (49 percent), voters under 30 (44 percent), voters with graduate degrees (44 percent), and self-described liberals (34 percent).
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D., N.Y.) is a white liberal running in a state President Joe Biden won by 23 points. Nevertheless, her Republican challenger, Rep. Lee Zeldin, is within striking distance thanks in part to his campaign's focus on violent crime. "Mr. Zeldin could win because independents are siding with Republicans on crime and inflation rather than with Democrats, whose concerns over protecting democracy take precedence," former Clinton adviser Mark Penn wrote in the New York Times this week.
The Democratic Party's increasingly radical approach to crime in recent years has already provoked a backlash from voters. Even the liberal residents of San Francisco were outraged at District Attorney Chesa Boudin's attempt to create a "fair" justice system by refusing to punish criminals. Boudin was recalled in June by a vote of 55 percent to 45 percent. The following month, voters in deep-blue Maryland voted to oust Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby, who adopted similar "reforms" even as murder rates soared.
Generally speaking, journalists and other Democrats have struggled to address or even acknowledge voter concerns about crime. They repeatedly attack Republican efforts to highlight crime in campaign ads as "racist dog whistles." They occasionally point to charts and graphs to explain that voters are wrong to be concerned. They have already started blaming voters for destroying democracy by prioritizing inflation and crime over the latest revelations from the January 6 select committee.
Hochul's response during an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC epitomized her party's flippant approach. "These are master manipulators," she said of Republicans. "They have this conspiracy going all across America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they’re not as safe. Well guess what? They’re also not only election deniers, they’re data deniers."
That doesn't sound like a winning message.
Star High School Football Player Shot Dead in Gun-Controlled California
Seventeen-year-old high school player Richard Reed was shot dead over the weekend in gun-controlled California.
TMZ Sports reported San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a call on October 30, 2022, and found Reed lying in the street in Victorville around 11 p.m.
Reed, described as “a standout football player from Silverado High School,” was pronounced dead at the scene. He had a gunshot wound and his death was ruled a homicide.
ABC 7 noted Reed “played offense, defense and special teams for the Silverado Hawks.”
A home security camera in the area in which Reed’s body was found “captured the sound of what appeared to be dozens of rounds of gunfire.”
The Victor Valley UHSD superintendent Carl Coles released a statement on Reed’s death, which said, in part: “This is a heartbreaking loss for the students, staff, and families of Silverado High School. On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire VVUHSD community, we will keep Richard’s family, friends, teammates, coaches and teachers in our thoughts and prayers. We will continue to support each other as we face this devastating tragedy.”
On June 5, 2022, Breitbart News observed California is ranked No. 1 for gun control by Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety, and the state is also ranked No. 1 for “active shooter incidents.”
California has universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, gun registration requirements, a ban on carrying a gun on college campuses for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed on campus for classroom defense, a background check requirement for ammunition purchases, and a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can purchase in a given month, strict regulations on firearm advertisements, and numerous other gun controls.
Additionally, Californians are only allowed to make ammunition purchases from state-approved vendors.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Poll: Black Voters Overwhelmingly See Violent Crime as Very Important Issue for Midterms
Black voters are significantly more concerned about violent crime than other racial and ethnic groups, according to a Pew Research Poll released just over one week before the midterm elections.
Pew Research Center found 61 percent of American voters believe violent crime is “very important” when deciding who to vote for in next week’s midterm elections.
However, Pew found 81 percent of black voters believe violent crime is a very important issue when considering who to vote for, compared to 65 percent of Hispanic voters and 56 percent of white voters.
Interestingly, 82 percent of black Democrats think crime is very important to their vote next week, while only 33 percent of white Democrat voters feel the same.
Pew Research Center surveyed 5,098 U.S. adults, including 3,993 registered voters, from October 10 to October 16.
If Pew’s poll numbers are any indication, Republicans, who have emphasized crime in their pitch to voters this midterm cycle, could be in for record levels of support from black voters.
While Democrats are trying to pivot away from anti-law enforcement policies like defunding the police or abolishing ice, the GOP is presenting themselves as voters’ tough-on-crime choice in next week’s election.
For example, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pledged to hold federal funds from local prosecutors and “woke district attorneys” who refuse to prosecute crimes as part of House Republicans’ Commitment to America plan.
In the upper chamber, National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released an 11-point plan that, among other things, similarly calls on Republicans to focus on reducing the country’s rising crime rates. Point three in Scott’s plan strives to reduce crime by increasing police funding and imposing tougher penalties for criminals.
Scott told Breitbart News that the way to end the crime wave is to “enforce the law.”
The Republican Party is also focused on securing our southern border, which would reduce crime and the fentanyl influx by cracking down on those who enter the country illegally.
Black voters’ emphasis on crime could also be the reason why they are increasingly supporting the Republican Party and Republican candidates at record levels.
Recently, an October USA Todaypoll found that 21 percent of black Americans support the GOP. If the Republican Party can gain 21 percent of the black vote in next week’s midterms, that would nearly double the 12 percent of black voters who supported former President Donald Trump in 2020, which was a record for a GOP presidential candidate in recent years.
Georgia, which has a 33 percent black population, could be a preview of what Republicans can expect nationwide from black voters.
For example, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) is performing 12 points worse among black voters than he did in last year’s special election, according to recent polls. Further, Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is also struggling to get the same amount of black support in this cycle as she did in her 2018 loss to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
Abrams is polling at less than 80 percent among black voters, which is a decline from the 85 percent she earned in 2018.
Rapper Takeoff, one-third of hip-hop act Migos, was shot and killed Tuesday morning, according to a report.
He was gunned down at a private party at 810 Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston, TMZ reported. He was 28.
The “Walk It Talk It” hitmaker, whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, died soon after Houston Police and fire officials arrived on the scene at around 2:40 a.m. following multiple reports of a shooting.
Houston Police Lt. Ronnie Willkens said the man appeared to have been shot in the head or neck, AP reports.
Two other victims were transported to nearby hospitals and their immediate fate is reportedly unknown.
Police did not release the identities of the victims, but said it was a fatal shooting.
Rapper Takeoff of Migos performs at the 2019 Rolling Loud Music Festival on Day 2 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on September 29, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Steve Jennings/FilmMagic)
The victim’s identity will not be released until it is verified by the county coroner and his family has been notified, police said.
Police confirmed that Migos members Quavo and Takeoff were in attendance at the time of the shooting, according to KPRC.
Heartbroken fans watch as Migos rapper Takeoff's body is removed after he was shot dead during game of dice: Cops confirm 28-year-old died on the scene as they launch manhunt for his killer
Rapper Takeoff, 28, was shot dead after leaving a 'private party' at a bowling alley
Horrifying pictures show Takeoff lying dead on the floor surrounded by a puddle of blood
Houston police have launched a manhunt for the shooter or shooters involved in the incident and confirmed two firearms were used
Medical examiners removed the body from the scene in San Jacinto, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon
Bella Hadid and Sean 'Diddy' Combs have led the outpouring of tributes to the Grammy-nominated star
Two other people were rushed to hospital in private vehicles in the shooting - their condition is unknown
Heartbroken fans watched as medical examiners removed the body of Migos rapper Takeoff after he was shot in the 'head or neck' in a dispute, as police launch a manhunt for his killer.
The 28-year-old member of the hip hop trio was shot at a 'private party' as a group gathered outside 810 Billiards & Bowling Houston, in Texas, at 2.34am.
Police confirmed that the artist died at the scene of the incident, and investigators have launched a manhunt for the shooter or shooters behind the attack.
Troy Finner, Houston police chief, said they believe the assailant was at the party with Takeoff, who he described as 'very peaceful and loving'.
Authorities say they have 'no reason to believe he was involved in anything criminal' and confirmed that two firearms were used in the incident.
They are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward so they can apprehend his killer.
A 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were taken to hospital in private vehicles suffering from gunshot wounds, which are not thought to be life threatening.
Takeoff, 28, who is a member of the hip hop trio, was shot at a 'private party' as a group gathered outside 810 Billiards & Bowling Houston, in Texas, at 2.30am
Horrifying footage shows the desperate last moments that Migos rapper Quavo desperately tried to help his nephew Takeoff after he was shot in the 'head or neck'
Takeoff, 28, posed inside of the Texas bowling hall with a friend before he was shot at 2.30am on Tuesday morning
One fan visited the scene with a bunch of roses for the Grammy-nominated artist, looking distraught as authorities removed his body
Migos rapper and Takeoff's uncle Quavo seen before fatal shooting
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Medical examiners removed the body from the scene in San Jacinto, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon
A picture from the scene reportedly shows Takeoff lying dead on the floor, just a few hours after he posted an Instagram story of him smoking
Houston PD say 'they will get justice' for family of rapper Takeoff
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Officers remain on the scene and are investigating the cause of the fatal incident in the early hours
Officers confirmed that his mother had flown in to Houston to speak to them, with the police chief urging anyone with information or footage to come forward.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Finner said: 'There were at least 40 people in that private party. Someone knows who the actual shooter or shooters are.
'Anyone with that information should provide that information to us, and let us solve this situation, and bring justice to this family.
'It doesn't matter how famous you are, anybody who loses his or her life is a life lost.
Similar attacks have become increasingly common on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in New York City, with the New York Post recently reporting there have been 25 such incidents on NYC’s venerable subway system so far in 2022.
Khan’s London: Police Arrest Suspect After Man Shoved Onto Underground Tracks
The British Transport Police (BTP) have arrested a suspect after releasing footage of a man they were seeking in relation to a member of the public being shoved onto the tracks of the London Underground on October 27th.
The force released video footage of a black male who they were “seeking to identify in connection [with the incident] after he was seen behaving aggressively at Marylebone station on Saturday 29 October” on their website and on social media.
On Thursday, the London Underground, often referred to as the Tube, saw a “series of assaults”, with one man allegedly assaulted at Baker Street station at 11:50 a.m., another allegedly shoved onto the railway tracks at around 12 p.m., and a third coming forward to say he was allegedly “assaulted by the same man on a train from Finchley Road” later on.
Announcing they had found the man they believed to be a suspect, the BTP said: “We’re pleased to update that a 37-year-old man has been arrested after a man was pushed on the tracks and two others assaulted on the Underground last week,” in an update on the case shared on social media.
“He was identified by two off duty officers on the Central Line this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who shared our appeal,” they added.
Similar attacks have become increasingly common on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in New York City, with the New York Post recently reporting there have been 25 such incidents on NYC’s venerable subway system so far in 2022.
These shoving attacks sometimes prove deadly, as in January of this year when Michelle Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old East Asian heritage woman, died after being pushed into the path of an oncoming train by Simon Martial, a 61-year-old black male.
They have also taken place in Continental Europe, with a Moroccan migrant pushing a woman onto railway tracks in Hamburg, Germany in 2017, and a Tunisian migrant pushing a man onto railway tracks on the Paris Metro in France and yelling “Allahu Akbar!” in January of this year, for example.
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6 injured in shooting outside funeral in Pittsburgh
Federal prosecutors have indicted a violent convicted drug trafficker for fentanyl distribution after a Virginia prosecutor boosted by the left-wing billionaire George Soros released the felon without bail just a day after his arrest.
Alpha Kamara last week was charged and taken into federal custody for conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, according to a Justice Department filing unsealed on Monday. The indictment supersedes charges brought by Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano (D.), who on June 27 filed charges against Kamara for the same case, only to release the offender without bail one day after his arrest.
The Justice Department's decision to charge Kamara ensures Descano's office won't mishandle the case. Descano has a history of releasing offenders before trial, dropping charges, and reducing sentences—sometimes with deadly consequences. His office last year dropped felony charges for a man who was charged later for killing two homeless men and wounding three others in New York City and Washington, D.C. In June, the prosecutor released on probation a violent repeat offender who went on to beat an elderly homeless woman to death at a bus stop.
Descano's soft-on-crime approach is typical of Soros-backed prosecutors, who have in the past decade received more than $40 million in donations from the Democratic megadonor. Soros contributed more than half-a-million dollars to Descano's campaign, along with fellow far-left Virginia prosecutors Buta Biberaj in Loudoun County and Parisa Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington County, dwarfing any other donation amounts in the races and helping to oust veteran prosecutors. Fueled by citizens' concerns over rising crime and lenient prosecution, recall efforts have spawned in each of the three Virginia counties, as well as in major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, city residents in June voted out far-left prosecutor Chesa Boudin by double digits. Top Democrats in Virginia are similarly courting candidates to challenge Biberaj.
Virginia State Police arrested Kamara on June 26 following a high-speed chase involving a stolen vehicle that ended in a crash on a highway interstate. State troopers seized a loaded 9 mm handgun and more than two kilos of fentanyl pills from the wrecked car, and Kamara was charged with driving without a license, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, resisting arrest, eluding police, grand larceny auto theft, and possession with intent to distribute a schedule I substance. He had been out of federal prison and on supervised release for just three days before his June joyride, having served slightly less than the length of his five-year sentence.
Descano's decision to release Kamara before his trial surprised prosecutors who spoke with the Free Beacon, given his criminal record. Virginia Republican attorney general Jason Miyares said the release was "just another example of the criminal-first, victim-last mentality pushed by far-left prosecutors."
"Fentanyl has rapidly become one of the most dangerous opioids to infect neighborhoods across our country," Miyares said. "Nationally, we've lost 105,000 Americans to overdoses from opioids, most commonly fentanyl. Continually letting repeat offenders get back onto the street only encourages more crime and creates even more victims. I am grateful for our partners in the DOJ stepping up when these local prosecutors fail to do their jobs."
The 25-year-old felon's first brush with law enforcement came in 2018, when he was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a major federal crackdown on Blood gang members and violent drug dealers in Northern Virginia. Operation Tin Panda, a joint effort between the FBI and ATF, resulted in 36 convictions and seized scores of firearms and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and assets, as well as hundreds of pounds of drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. The federal agencies greenlighted the operation following a series of murders and violent incidents in Prince William County.
After publication of this article, Descano's office told the Free Beacon it is not able to participate in the arraignment process for defendants—a fact that former members of the Fairfax County commonwealth's attorneys office disputed—and Kamara's release was decided by a county magistrate. The office also said it learned of the release too late to file a motion to apprehend Kamara before he was in federal custody.
"We have always believed that this individual represented a danger to the public and should be held," a spokeswoman for the office said. "We were therefore dismayed that he was released prior to the point in the proceedings at which our office can be involved and pleased to learn from our partners in federal law enforcement, with whom we were coordinating throughout, that they were taking action to get him off the streets. We will pursue our charges in this case vigorously."
A preliminary hearing for the county charges is scheduled in August.
Descano during his tenure has abolished cash bail, told his attorneys to avoid mandatory minimum jail sentencing, and declined to prosecute many misdemeanors. A policy memo he distributed in his first year as Fairfax County's top prosecutor urged assistant commonwealth's attorneys to seek misdemeanor charges over felonies whenever appropriate. He has reportedly told his staff that they "will never get in trouble for prosecuting light." In one fraught meeting, Descano reportedly told one of his prosecutors to reduce a 20-year sentence by 5 years and to not "listen to victims" because they tend to be "overly dramatic."
In Fairfax, Virginians for Safe Communities has gathered more than half of the roughly 30,000 signatures necessary to trigger a special election.
"It is stunning that Steve Descano would cut loose a fentanyl-dealing gun felon after Kamara endangered the lives of the public and law enforcement," said Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe Communities. "The citizens of Fairfax need to know that the single biggest threat to public safety is the chief prosecutor and his disregard for the laws and lives of this commonwealth."
Drug overdose deaths have risen nationwide since 2019, driven by new synthetic opioids like fentanyl, according to the CDC. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported synthetic opioid-related deaths shot up 56 percent from 2020 to 2021.
Fairfax County has yet to release its annual police report. Preliminary data show homicides were up 40 percent last year and are on pace to be higher in 2022.
Kamara is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals and being held without bond pending trial.
Update 7/14/2022 at 4:38 p.m.: This story has been updated with a comment from the Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney's office.
Democrat Senate Candidates Across America Reject Border Security
Democratic Senate candidates across the country have fought against border security measures amid an unprecedented border crisis.
Senator Raphael Warnock
Senator Warnock of Georgia is just one Democrat who has fought against border security measures amid our border crisis. The incumbent Senator has voted against Title 42, a policy that allows authorities to expel migrants on the basis of public health.
Warnock has also voted to fund deadly sanctuary cities, prompting National Republican Senate Committee Spokesman Priscilla Ivasco to remark ”In the face of a growing migrant crisis at our Southern border, Senate Democrats once again chose to side with radical, liberal activists instead of with the vast majority of Americans.”
She also said that their policies will lead to a “permanent cycle of illegal immigration.”
National Republican Senate Committee Spokesman Jonathan Turcotte said in a statement that Warnock and other Democrat Senators “failed their most basic duty to secure the border and keep Americans safe” after they voted against legislation that would’ve ensured that the border wall continued to receive funding.
Warnock’s opponent, Herschel Walker, is endorsed by the U.S. Border Patrol Union, as well as various other law enforcement organizations.
Warnock has benefited from mass immigration, with the Democrat incumbent receiving massive swaths of the vote from Georgia’s foreign-born population in his 2020 race.
The New York Times contends that the Senator’s victory in 2020 was “fueled by the state’s changing demographics,” which could “mean that Georgia has finally achieved battleground status.”
The Washington Post also asserted that Warnock has been given a competitive advantage due to “demographic changes that are transforming the state” as a result of mass immigration. Leftist activists have boasted that they are mobilizing immigrant populations for the upcoming election.
Senator Mark Kelly
Meanwhile, Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly from Arizona has a history of voting against border security. Although he comes from a border state that is disproportionately affected by the crisis on our southern border, Kelly voted to end Title 42, just like Warnock.
In addition, the Democrat incumbent voted against an amendment that would have prohibited the Biden administration from canceling border wall contracts for which funds had already been appropriated.
Kelly even lied about this record during his opening statement in his debate against Republican Blake Masters, falsely claiming that he has stood up against the Democratic Party in favor of border security.
Additionally, the Democrat Senator from Arizona voted against a measure that would have prohibited the Internal Revenue Service from hiring any new agents until the U.S. Border Patrol doubled its forces. Kelly’s opponent, Republican Blake Masters, has been endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council.
Representative Tim Ryan
Democrat Senate candidate Tim Ryan of Ohio waffled on the issue of illegal immigration before becoming a stalwart opponent of border security. In 2018, Ryan voted for a resolution that signaled opposition to allowing illegal immigrants to vote.
But just six months later, Ryan voted against a motion to recommit to the resolution against allowing illegal immigrants to vote. Since then, Ryan has repeatedly voted against border security measures that would make America safer.
While in Congress, Democrat Tim Ryan voted to defund the border wall. Ryan also voted to increase the number of immigrant visas and to fund the transportation of migrants deeper into America, thereby making it more difficult for them to be deported.
John Fetterman
Democrat John Fetterman, who is running for Senate in Pennsylvania against Mehmet Oz, falsely claimed that sanctuary city policies that prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants make “everybody safer.” The Democrat candidate noted, “sanctuary cities is another policy that I very much support.”
Senator Maggie Hassan
Citizens for Sanity blasted Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire in a newspaper advertisement that read “Thank you Senator Hassan for keeping the border open” and “Sex traffickers could never succeed without friends like you.”
The Senator has called for increased personnel on the border, though she has ignored Biden’s policy of catch and release, which has fueled illegal immigration.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Incumbent Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada has been accused of feigning concern over the border by her Republican opponent Adam Laxalt. Cortez Masto has supported amnesty and opposed the construction of the border wall.
But the Democrat incumbent spoke out against the Biden Administration’s decision to end Title 42, telling Politico that ending the measure “is the wrong way to do this and it will leave the administration unprepared for a surge at the border.”
Laxalt told Breitbart News that Cortez Masto is “desperately trying to fool Nevadans into thinking she cares about protecting our border,” because she is “trailing in the polls.”
Laxalt also asserted, “The truth is that she’s spent her time in the Senate opposing common sense border security efforts, supporting lawless sanctuary cities, and undermining efforts to stop criminal illegal immigrants.”
Immigration and border security have taken center stage in races across the country as America grapples with a truly unprecedented crisis on our southern border. Roughly 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border according to a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
According to one poll, 47 percent of Independent voters say that they trust the Republican Party to handle issues surrounding illegal immigration more than they trust the Democrats. Only 40 percent say they trust the Democrats to handle the issue.
Republicans also hold a two-point advantage when voters are asked who they trust more to handle illegal immigration.
A poll from earlier this summer found that an increasing share of Americans want a decrease in immigration. Forty-one percent of respondents said that they wanted immigration to decrease. A whopping 67 percent of Republican voters want immigration decreased, the poll found.
Recent polling from NBC News found that immigration was one of the top issues for likely voters in the midterms while a poll from Morning Consult also found that it is a top issue.
Encouraging both legal and illegal mass immigration continues to be a primary aim for both politicians and organizations on the left. Breitbart News previously revealed that the wealthy Ford Foundation poured an astonishing $114 million into organizations that push for mass immigration and amnesty.
Breitbart News also revealed that George Soros’s Open Society Foundation dumped millions of dollars into organizations that encourage illegal immigration and amnesty.
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2021 VIDEO: John Fetterman Tells Abolish-the-Police Advocacy Group About His ‘Fastest’ Pardon Process in ‘History of Pennsylvania’
Pennsylvania Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman appeared on an abolish-the-police advocacy group’s show in 2021 to tout his “fastest” pardon process in the “history of Pennsylvania.”
1Hood Power, a “movement” that advocates for political power through “electoral organizing, issues advocacy, and civic education efforts,” hosted Fetterman on its show in January, 2021. Two days before the interview, the group pushed for defunding the police:
1Hood Power markets itself to listeners as supporting the voices of “every black freedom fighter, protester, abolitionist, and activist,” according to its website.
Fetterman, who is the Lt. Gov. of Pennsylvania, appeared on the show to brag about his ability to expedite pardons for felons. “If I had a couple minutes I’d love to talk about pardons. I’m chair of the Board of Pardons and Julie’s joining us, she’s our pardons coordinator for Western Pennsylvania,” he said. “I really want to sell that, because I’m Lieutenant Governor for two more years, and we have expedited pardon processes now. And they’re free, there’s no application fee.”
Fetterman highlighted that the pardons under his supervision have been the “fastest that it has ever” been in “the history” of the state.
“So Julie is an expert on the process and we are sending more and more people through and giving more and more – you know, uh – Just is faster than it’s ever happened in the history of Pennsylvania, quite frankly,” Fetterman said. “So I would just like anyone who’s watching that might need something taken off their record, especially a stupid marijuana conviction from years ago, ridiculous kind of conviction, that now is the time to apply.”
Fetterman continued by suggesting there has “never been a better chance” of getting pardoned under his leadership. “Please don’t waste money on an attorney, like don’t let this process intimidate you or put you off, there’s never been a better – there’s never been a better chance.”
Doubling down, Fetterman again encouraged listeners to “free yourself” of the punishment received for wrongdoing. “I just want to make one last shameless pitch for pardons. Please, you know like, again, truly, in the history of the commonwealth there has never been a better time to get this – to free yourself of something from years ago.”
Fetterman is one of the most radical Senate candidates in the 2022 cycle. Polling shows he is losing to Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz by a few points after Tuesday night’s debate. The betting odds are squarely in Oz’s favor.
Pennsylvania is one of eight Senate swing states that will determine which party controls the upper chamber. Election day is just 11 days away.