Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley once seemingly parroted a talking point used by Democrats that suggests climate change is partially to blame for mass immigration to the United States and other countries.
Rand Paul: Nikki Haley’s ‘Surge’ Rooted in Establishment with TDS; They Want ‘Anybody but Donald Trump’
Large corporate interests and establishment figures that “frankly have Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) back presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, detailing why he believes she should not be the Republican nominee for president.
Paul said he was inspired to speak out against Haley after identifying her as the “outlier” in the debates. Namely, she is someone who seems to care more about Ukraine’s border than the U.S. southern border, he said, putting her in the same wing of the party as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as Dick Cheney and the late John McCain.
“I think every one of the other — I won’t say everyone — Trump, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy have all had significant misgivings and criticism of sending more money to Ukraine. I think all three of those candidates would be less likely to get us involved in a war. And I just have chosen — for, you know, my own reasons — not to get involved other than that, but I didn’t want to sit completely on the sidelines and watch an upset or something like that happen in New Hampshire,” Paul said, explaining that he wants to ensure that true conservative and libertarian voters know that “Nikki Haley doesn’t represent us.”
“And I’m very, very concerned that if she were president that she’d get us involved in foreign wars,” he said, going on to explain where he believes her so-called “surge” is coming from.
“I think there’s definitely a surge in money,” Paul said, adding that large corporate interests are backing her that suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS).
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“They frankly have Trump Derangement Syndrome and hate Donald Trump so much that they want anybody but Donald Trump. That’s still part of it. I mean, that doesn’t occur just on the Democrat side. There are some corporate, you know, wealthy folks on the Republican side, and these are the establishment people. These are the ones who don’t care about the border. These are the ones who don’t care about the deficit. Frankly, they only care about their particular industry, and they’ll give to both parties,” he said.
“So many of the people that are donors now to Nikki Haley are Democrats that give to both parties,” Paul said, also pointing to rumors that Democrats will come out to support Haley in New Hampshire, given that President Joe Biden will not be on the ballot on the Democrat side.
“That could end up being a problem, but I think we can nip it in the bud. I think that if the folks know who she is and they know that she’s coming from the McConnell-Dick Cheney wing of the party, I think people don’t want that. I think people do not want that as our standard bearer,” Paul added, noting his website NeverNikki.net has garnered millions of hits.
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Rand Paul Warns Voters: Nikki Haley More Concerned with Ukraine Border than Southern Border
Nikki Haley comes from the “McCain, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell wing of the party,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who recently made it abundantly clear that Haley should not be president, said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday, explaining that the former South Carolina governor is more concerned about the Ukraine border than the United States border.
Paul explained why he formally came out against Haley this week, pointing to comments she made during the presidential primary debates.
“As I watched the debates and I heard Nikki Haley’s responses on our border and on Ukraine’s border, I think she’s more concerned with Ukraine’s border than she is with our southern border,” Paul said. “And that’s a real problem.”
Paul explained that Haley’s position puts her in the “same camp with Sen. McConnell, same camp [with Sen. Chuck] Schumer, same camp with Biden. They’re all together” in their “first priority” being Ukraine, Paul explained.
“Above all else, it’s Ukraine. Now McConnell has been sort of boxed in that he has to do something on the border. What they’re offering on the border is going to be a sellout. What they’re offering on the border is that they’ll let 5,000 migrants come across every day. And then they’ll have some rule they’ll institute after they get to 5,000. So essentially, they allow 1.8 million migrants to come in a year. And then they try to kick in some rules after the fact,” Paul said.
On Haley, he added, “She’s been the one that’s been the biggest advocates for sending our money to Ukraine.”
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But it is not just Ukraine either, Paul said, explaining that foreign aid has been a big deal to Haley for a long time throughout her career as a politician.
“That’s not just Ukraine, you know, her work at the U.N. She’s written books about how she thinks it’s a big priority to send foreign aid to countries outside of the United States. And the problem is, is we’re running a deficit of over a trillion dollars a year. So in order to send money overseas, we actually just print it up, you know, we’ve got to borrow it from China to send it to Ukraine. It’s just not Ukraine. It’s all over Africa. It’s all over the Middle East. We even still send money to the Palestinians, believe it or not. And so all of this is just, I think, insane.
“But people need to know that she’s from the wing of the party — not the liberty wing,” Paul said. “She’s from the McCain, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell wing of the party, that you know, all of the establishment is gaga over Nikki Haley,” he said, explaining that he was largely inspired to speak out after realizing that Haley has a “chance” in New Hampshire with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropping out of the race this week.
“I decided I wasn’t ready to endorse a candidate. But at this point, I sure didn’t want to just sit quietly on the sidelines and not let people know how bad a candidate I think Nikki Haley is,” he added.
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Nikki Haley Parroted Leftist Talking Point Suggesting Climate Change to Blame for Mass Immigration
Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley once seemingly parroted a talking point used by Democrats that suggests climate change is partially to blame for mass immigration to the United States and other countries.
In January 2017, Haley went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in then-President Donald Trump’s administration.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), in a written question, asked Haley about so-called “climate refugees,” as Democrats claim that mass immigration to the U.S. and other countries is partially due to global warming’s destroying crops, conditions, and communities in certain regions of the world.
Merkley wrote:
We are already seeing the impacts of climate change on the ground around the world — 2016 was the hottest year on record (and 15 of the 16 warmest years have been since 2000). Some countries have already relocated citizens due to climate change, creating the world’s first climate refugees. Extreme drought in the Middle East and even small amounts of sea level rise in parts of Asia are likely to displace tens of millions of people, and Western nations have been asked to accept some of the displaced people. [Emphasis added]
“Do you agree that the rise in refugees presents a unique national security threat that requires international solutions? What do you view as the role of the U.N. and the United States in aiding with climate refugees around the world?” Merkley asked.
Haley responded:
If confirmed I commit to engaging experts at the State Department and the U.N. on the issues of climate change and refugee resettlement. The U.N. plays a significant role in the management of refugees on a global basis. If confirmed, the role that climate change plays in refugee flows is an issue I look forward to assessing, and assisting refugees is a U.S. policy in which I look forward to engaging. [Emphasis added]
In 2019, as Democrats used the “climate refugees” talking point to lobby for lax enforcement of federal immigration law, researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reviewed crop production in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
Ultimately, CIS researchers found scarce evidence suggesting climate change is responsible for mass immigration to the U.S.
“In all three Northern Triangle countries, the majority of the top agricultural products have seen production growth in recent years — in some cases tripling or quadrupling in size,” CIS researchers wrote. “Given the successful crop yields in Latin America, it is hard to imagine that climate change is a major factor driving migration flows. Even with regard to areas with declining production, such as coconuts in Honduras or Coffee in El Salvador, the primary explanatory factors appear to have little to do with climate change.”
Also in Haley’s UN confirmation questions and answers, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) asked “Do you believe that climate change is merely a “concept” and a “hoax” created by the Chinese or someone else?”
Haley responded:
No, I do not believe climate change is a hoax. If confirmed I commit to working with experts at the State Department and elsewhere in the government on the issue and helping to determine what role the U.S. Mission to the United Nations should play. [Emphasis added]
In her answers to Senators, Haley similarly called climate change “real” and “one of the threats” to American national security. These 2017 remarks are in line with Haley’s latest comments, wherein she told GOP primary voters last year that she believes in climate change.
“Is climate change real? Yes, it is,” Haley said at the first GOP presidential primary debate held in August 2023.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Rand Paul Says Mitch McConnell Plans ‘Sellout’ on Border Security
The GOP’s Senate leadership is preparing to betray their voters on President Joe Biden’s migration flood, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), told Fox News on Tuesday.
The still-secret draft deal “is a sellout — it’s going to continue to allow illegal immigration ” because Democrats are threatening Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with an aid cut-off for Ukraine, Paul said before adding:
It’s saying, “Oh, we’ll let 5,000 people come illegally a day, and then after that, we might try to stop the next 5,000 that day.” It’s completely a sellout.
But it’s because people like Senator [Mitch] McConnell care more about Ukraine than anything else — more than the border, more than anything else. He wants to send $60 billion of your money to Ukraine. On this issue, he is more aligned with Biden. On the issue of funding, of sending your money to Ukraine and sending it everywhere around the world, McConnell is much more closely aligned with Biden than he is with the Republican Party.
Paul’s comments about the 5,000 daily limit refer to a so-called “trigger” in the draft deal that would reimpose a Title 42 legal barrier when the number of migrants reaches 5,000 per day.
But 5,000 per day adds up to 1.8 million migrants per year. That inflow is one migrant for every two U.S. births.
Under the draft, those 1.8 million illegal economic migrants would be allowed into the United States via legal loopholes such as asylum and parole. Once allowed in, they would be able to take jobs and wages needed by ordinary Americans, and to compete for homes needed by American families.
The 1.8 million inflow is in addition to the annual inflow of one million legal immigrants and the inflow of many short-term visa workers. In enacted, the deal would effectively double the nation’s immigration rate under the guise of a “border security” bill.
In addition, Senate GOP leaders may also allow Biden to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers via a novel “parole” pathway created by his deputies. They may also fund Biden’s $14 billion request to house and hide his growing population of poor migrants during the 2024 election.
A GOP betrayal of its voters on immigration likely would be lethal to the party’s future, especially because former President Donald Trump is expected to build his 2024 campaign around the issue.
The Biden-supported migrant inflow is so unpopular that half of the public — and a supermajority of Republicans — describe it as an “invasion” that burdens and threatens Americans and their society.
In contrast, Democrats are fighting to win GOP approval for legal tools and funds to manage — not reduce — their huge inflow of migrants.
“I think we are interested as Democrats in providing the administration with tools that will help better manage the border,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn), told reporters on January 9.
We are not interested in taking away from the administration [the] tools that they use today to help better manage the border. And so, when we talk about this topic of parole, it is very important to understand that it is used today as a way that the administration is able to better manage the flow [of migrants] in a planful way.
So far, the administration has managed the inflow of migrants upwards to boost investors’ stock values, but not to reduce the pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
Some GOP Senators are demanding caps on the number of migrants allowed into the United States via the parole loophole.
“There are a couple of ideas out there about how to deal with it but the one that seems to have a lot of support is some sort of a cap along the lines of what we do with refugees and other categories of people who come into the country,” Sen. John Thune (R-SD), told reporters on Thursday.
“There’s a real strong opinion in our conference that this issue of parole’s got to be dealt with in some way … [Democrats] understand now that we’re serious about it,” he told reporters, according to TheHill.com. Thune, who is Sen. McConnell’s deputy, did not suggest a number for the cap.
The GOP’s House leadership, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), has repeatedly said that the parole pathway must be shut.
Biden’s pro-migration border chief — Alejandro Mayorkas — has already used the parole loophole to pull in roughly 700,000 economic migrants for jobs and homes in Americans’ neighborhoods.
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Overall, Mayorkas has invited roughly 5 million illegal migrants to enter or remain in the United States, via a wide variety of illegal, legal, or quasi-legal routes.
His goals are to raise the status of migrants and to help investors, regardless of the massive pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans. In December 2022, for example, Mayorkas told ElPasoMatters.org:
We look to our partner to the north that has a much more nimble immigration system that can be retooled to the [national government’s] needs at the moment. For example, Canada is in need of 1 million workers and they have agreed that in 2023, they will admit 1.4 million … immigrants to fill that labor need that Canadians themselves cannot. We are stuck in antiquated laws that do not meet our current [corporate] needs.
This goal of a cheap-labor, migrant-inflated Wall Street economy– and the use of parole to create it — is backed by the FWD.us.
The group was founded by pro-migration West Coast investors to push the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and cheap labor bill in 2013. In 2021, pushed the Senate to confirm Mayorkas as homeland secretary. The wealthy founders include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who spent over $100 million to boost voter turnout in Democratic districts in the 2020 election.
FWD.us is rallying pro-migration groups to minimize curbs on parole migration amid signals that Biden’s deputies may accept parole curbs.
“None of this is what we should be doing,” Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, told a left-wing site, TheMessenger.com. “It’s certainly possible that a really harmful deal gets made and that would be tragic and terrible.”
Biden should not agree to rules that require the deportation of migrants or the detention of asylum seekers, said Schulte. “People are going to die if you do this — a lot of people,” he said.
Schulte’s all-out campaign to protect the parole loophole seems to have reversed the Democrats’ willingness to curb the parole loophole.
“We’ve got a couple of issues that I thought were resolved that are not resolved,” Sen. James Lankford told Semafor.com on January 8, when has was asked about parole.
The GOP Senators may not be trying to curb Mayorkas’s “CHNV” parole program which imports 360,000 people a year for jobs and wages that otherwise go to Americans.
Instead, they may only be trying to curb only the CBP One program, which is used at the border to give parole to perhaps 50,000 people per month, or 600,000 people per year.
“Lankford, after Senate GOP meeting, says the parole conversation is focused on CBP One app, where migrants can make appointments at ports of entry, seek to enter the US & receive parole,” said a January 9 tweet by Bloomberg Government.
The CHNV program was created in 2013 — likely in violation of a 1996 law — to import workers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Those eager, lower-wage migrant workers are welcomed by many CEOs because it means they do not have to hire, pay, train, and manage the less productive Americans who have fallen out of the workforce.
Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRb2xFplKM
We Are in an Abusive Relationship
with Our Government
California is now covering the costs of genital-mutilating surgeries for illegal aliens. Leftism’s slippery slope invariably leads to depraved absurdity. Consider how Governor (receding) Hairdo and the Pyrite State’s other communist saboteurs have greased the shifting ground under Californians’ feet:
(1) There is no illegal immigration crisis.
(2) There may be a crisis, but California taxpayers won’t be paying for it.
(3) Taxpayers may have to foot the bill for the illegal immigration crisis, but California will do nothing to incentivize illegal immigration.
(4) After further review, these aliens aren’t “illegal,” but rather “undocumented.”
(5) Health care is a human right.
(6) California must provide “undocumented” aliens healthcare.
(7) Mutilating the genitals to make them look like the opposite sex is health care.
(8) California taxpayers must pay for “undocumented” aliens’ genital surgery.
(9) Californians who object to paying for undocumented aliens’ genital surgery may be guilty of “hate” crimes and will be prosecuted.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Why punish the people who illegally enter the United States when you can punish the people who do not want to subsidize immigration crimes while canceling their votes with the votes of those here illegally? Why should “health care” stop with free genital mutilation for the whole planet? Why not label spacious split-level homes with at least one electric vehicle in each garage “health care” as well? Why shouldn’t California taxpayers be on the hook for each new illegal alien’s “green energy” lifestyle? The absurdity will never end.
As Sundance frequently reminds readers over at The Conservative Treehouse, “We are in an abusive relationship with our government.” And in California, where the Marxist globalists rule with absolute power, the government never gets tired of slapping American citizens around and telling them it’s for their own good.
California’s decision to become a Mecca for foreign men who want to chop off their willies and hang out in women’s restrooms is just the latest example of government insanity promoted as “progress.” While foreign nationals are invading the United States in unprecedented numbers, Department of Homeland (in)Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to claim that (1) there is no crisis of any kind, and (2) if there is a crisis, Congress should just allocate more money for DHS to quickly bus the invaders into small towns throughout the country. Hear that, American citizens? The problem isn’t that tens of millions of foreigners are illegally entering the country; the problem is that people are noticing the problem — which would quickly disappear if DHS had the funds to hide the invaders more effectively and seed them into the counties where illegal votes from illegal aliens will do Democrats the most good. Canceling American votes one invader at a time — yet none dare call it election-rigging on a massive scale!
Mayorkas’s admission that his plan to tackle illegal immigration consists of (1) making it worse but (2) hiding it more effectively is another infuriating example of why governments (of any kind!) can never, ever be trusted. The best that any civilized society can do is shackle government power so severely that its agents feel as if they are rotting away in a dark dungeon without any prospect of public glory. That’s why our Founders worked so hard to write a Constitution that limits the powers of all the miscreants who inevitably end up running things. After all, at its core, government is nothing more than a collection of unethical people given legal immunity for performing otherwise criminal acts.
In exchange for a little law and order, prosperity, and peace, the people look the other way while government bureaucrats steal their property (taxes), intimidate them with threats of force (FBI-Gestapo), and occasionally sacrifice their children for the greater good (war). As soon as government is celebrated as something wonderful (instead of something that should always be dreaded and despised), those same bureaucrats break free from their dungeons, anoint themselves as unaccountable kings, and devise the most elaborate schemes to pillage, plunder, and endanger the citizenry without remorse. No tax is too high! No government mandate or regulatory fiat is too grotesque! No life is too precious for the spoils of endless, needless war! In Mayorkas’s world, bureaucrats bark orders, citizens comply, the government tells you what you may own, and armed IRS agents confiscate the rest!
How has the freest nation on Earth been reduced to a population of citizen-slaves begging for government scraps? America’s tyrants use the same two-pronged approach that all totalitarian regimes do: the U.S. government (1) lies about everything, while (2) intentionally inflicting emotional harm on its citizens. Everything that unscrupulous government agents such as Mayorkas shove down Americans’ throats is part of a psychological war meant to enfeeble, confuse, dispirit, and infantilize the adult population while indoctrinating younger generations to accept absurdities, surrender to “woke” ideology, and refrain from ever questioning authoritarian “elites.”
That’s why popular actors, musicians, and athletes must all believe the same thing — lest they be summarily “canceled.” It is absolutely essential that young minds see intellectual conformity as something to celebrate and dissent as something to abhor. It is why presidential puppet Joe Biden likes to say, “We’re all in this together,” while simultaneously stigmatizing half the electorate as “domestic terrorists” who “threaten democracy.” Critical thinking, artistic individualism, philosophical disagreement, and public debate are not tolerated in totalitarian regimes.
In an essay for the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker describes his experience at a train station where prominent warning signs still command travelers to obey COVID’s strict social distancing requirements. For the most part, people just ignored the government’s orders and went about their lives. After pondering the “enormous disjunction ... between what we are told to do and what we actually do,” Tucker concludes that the “edicts to which no one complies serve a certain purpose. They are a visual reminder of who is in charge, what those people believe, and the presence of a Sword of Damocles hanging above the whole population: at any point, anyone can be snatched away from normal life, made a criminal, and be forced to pay a price.” In a psychological war meant to obtain total control over citizen behavior, “the nuttier the edicts, the more effective the message.”
Writer Kit Knightly aptly describes these nutty edicts as part of the government’s broader propaganda campaign to “cultivate” a “perfidious unreality,” where our “authoritarian ruling elite” promulgate “insane narratives” that “serve as both loyalty test and humiliation ritual.” When government agents say something that is “impossible to believe” and people accept it as true nonetheless, then citizens demonstrate “greater loyalty” to the government’s absurd fabrications than to reality. “Humiliation is the ultimate demonstration of control” because under a system “where nothing is true, anything could be.” Knightly concludes that the government engages in psychopathic behavior meant to do one thing: break every citizen’s spirit and mind.
What this means is that fighting for human liberty against the government’s encroaching totalitarianism requires more than civil disobedience; it requires an acceptance that everything our government says is a lie and everything our government does is destructive. The U.S. government — along with most Western governments that have been captured by central banks, spy agencies, and an international cabal of Marxist “elites” — is dedicated to destroying any notion of “objective truth.” That is why we are told that biological sex is a social construct, that private property causes “climate change,” and that popular political movements are “undemocratic.” To free our bodies, we must free our minds. And to free our countries, we must work to free the minds of as many of our fellow citizens as we can.
When the battlefield is the human brain, revolutionary ideas are more important than bullets.
Speaker Johnson Presses Mayorkas on Lack of Transparency at Border, Citing Breitbart Report
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers on the latest surge of border migration, citing a Breitbart News report.
The letter comes days after Johnson and around 60 Republican Congressmen traveled to Eagle Pass “to engage in Congressional oversight and to see firsthand the economic, national security, and humanitarian crisis that has unfolded along the southwest border as a result of the deliberately destructive policies of the Biden Administration.”
Johnson cited reporting from Breitbart News that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took steps to hide the severity of the crisis from the Congressional delegation.
The letter reads:
According to one news report, a concerned CBP [Customs and Border Protection] official disclosed that in the days leading up to our CODEL’s [Congressional Member Delegation] arrival, DHS intentionally released nearly 1,500 illegal aliens every day from custody in Eagle Pass until the illegal alien detained population there was approximately five percent of what it had been on December 20, equal to nearly half of the facility’s holding capacity.
Johnson also raised questions about DHS granting access to CBS cameras while denying the Congressional delegation from taking photographs:
Even as CBP refused to allow Members of Congress to take photographs, House Republicans learned that CBP later gave CBS’s Face the Nation access to the same Eagle Pass facility. Face the Nation was also permitted to take photographs and record video while on the premises. This is a clear double standard designed to hide the truth of the crisis you have created at the southern border.
The Face the Nation report deflected responsibility for the border crisis from the Biden administration, instead placing the blame on Congress.
The House Committee on Homeland Security held its first hearing Tuesday regarding the impeachment of Mayorkas, expected to occur in the coming weeks.
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Homeland Security Committee Events / YouTubeBradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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