Texas Helps More Than 105,000 of Biden’s ‘Newcomers’ Migrate to Sanctuary Cities
“Texas has transported over 105,000 migrants to sanctuary cities,” Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced Tuesday, promising that “Until [President] Biden does his job to secure the border, Texas will continue to hold the line.”
The illegal aliens, or “newcomers,” as Biden now calls them, were transported under Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a program designed to secure Texas’ border from the onslaught of illegal immigration caused by the Biden Administration’s open-border policies.
Since its inception in 2021, Biden’s first year in office, the operation has been sending illegal newcomers overwhelming his state to self-designated “sanctuary” cities claiming to want them.
In a social media post on Tuesday, Gov. Abbott reported the number of aliens Texas has helped migrate to six prominent sanctuary cities:
- Over 12,500 to D.C.
- Over 39,300 to New York City
- Over 32,300 to Chicago
- Over 3,400 to Philadelphia
- Over 16,700 to Denver
- Over 1,500 to Los Angeles
Last Wednesday, in a press release marking the third anniversary of the project, Gov. Abbott noted that Operation Lone Star has resulted in the arrest of more than a half-million illegal aliens:
- More than 503,800 illegal immigrant apprehensions.
- More than 40,400 criminal arrests.
- More than 36,100 felony charges.
- More than 469 million lethal doses of fentanyl seized.
“Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Gov. Abbott said:
“Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”
Pres. Biden’s reference to illegal aliens as “newcomers” – instead of his traditional “undocumented migrants” euphemism – caught the media’s attention on January 29, when the White House released a “fact sheet” calling for $1.4 billion to better serve people who have broken into the country:
“The bill also includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers, and would expedite work permits for people who are in the country and qualify.”
Biden used the term again, on February 4, in another “fact sheet” calling for Congress to pass the stalled border bill. In it, Biden says he wants funding to provide “Shelter and critical services for newcomers in our cities and states.”
HOW MANY OF JOE'S ILLEGALS ARE ALREADY ON SOCIAL SECURITY? AS MANY WHO GET WELFARE AND 'FREE' HEALTHCARE???
Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
Donald Trump: ‘I Will Never Do Anything that Will Jeopardize or Hurt Social Security or Medicare’
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday evening that he will never touch Social Security or Medicare.
Asked during a 90-minute exclusive interview — his first print interview since locking down the Republican nomination for president for a third straight election — about cutting government waste, Trump pledged to never do anything to cut Social Security or Medicare.
“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump said. “We’ll have to do it elsewhere. But we’re not going to do anything to hurt them.”
Trump’s general election opponent, Democrat President Joe Biden, has in recent days attacked Trump after a CNBC interview in which Trump was talking about cutting waste and fraud in government spending. Biden has twisted quotes from Trump to make it appear as though Trump supported cutting the retirement programs that Americans have come to depend on when they enter later stages of life.
But Donald Trump, in his interview with Breitbart News at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening, made clear he will never touch Social Security or Medicare.
“There’s so many things we can do,” Trump said. “There’s so much cutting and so much waste in so many other areas, but I’ll never do anything to hurt Social Security.”
In his CNBC interview this week, Trump had said, when asked about entitlement reforms, that he supports cutting waste and fraud — but he also made clear in that interview that he opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare and that it is Biden and Democrats who represent a threat to these critical programs.
“So, first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” Trump told CNBC. “And in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements – tremendous bad management of entitlements – there’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”
Trump added in his CNBC interview that Democrat and Biden policies “end up weakening Social Security because the country is weak. I mean, take a look at outside of the stock market … We’re going through hell. People are going through hell.”
Biden twisted what Trump said to attack him and claim that Trump supports cutting Social Security. Biden’s campaign tweeted a clip, which cuts off part of the Trump quote, falsely claiming that Trump said in Biden’s campaign’s words that there “is a lot you can do in terms of cutting Social Security and Medicare.” Trump never said that, but nonetheless the Biden campaign ran with that claim — and then Biden himself tweeted: “Not on my watch.”
Then Biden launched even further false attacks on Trump on this front in New Hampshire on Monday, saying in remarks at a Granite State campaign event that “many of my Republican friends want to put Social Security and Medicare back on the chopping block again.”
“If anyone tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age again, I will stop them,” Biden said in New Hampshire, adding that he thinks “Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare to give us more tax cuts for the wealthy.”
“Even this morning, Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table again,” Biden said Monday.
Of course, that has long been false with regard to Trump. Trump has regularly pledged to protect Social Security and Medicare and again, of course, reaffirmed that position on Wednesday evening with Breitbart News.
In December 2022, in his first interview after launching this third campaign for the White House which was conducted with Breitbart News at his Doral property in Miami, Trump also made clear that he will never cut Social Security.
“We’re not cutting Social Security,” Trump said then. “It’s very simple. It’s a simple answer. We’re not cutting Social Security.”
Trump’s position on this has never changed, and he has long supported protecting Social Security and Medicare. It is also a big reason why Trump does not get along well with old guard establishment Republicans like former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who during his time in Congress was a major proponent of cutting Social Security and Medicare. Ryan, who failed in his bid for vice president when he was Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012, was one of the least popular Republicans when he left Congress and now sits on the board of Fox Corporation, the parent company of the Fox News Channel.
Poll: Voters More Concerned About the Economy and Immigration than Abortion
The economy and immigration are more important to voters than abortion going into the 2024 presidential election, a Rasmussen Reports survey released on Tuesday found.
Out of 907 likely American voters, 91 percent say economic issues will be important in the 2024 presidential election, including 65 percent who say the economy is “very important.” In comparison, 71 percent say abortion will be important this year, including 44 percent who say the issue is “very important.”
Broken down by political affiliation, Democrats (66 percent) are more likely than Republicans (28 percent) and unaffiliated voters (32 percent) to say abortion will be “very important” in the upcoming election. The result is not shocking, given that nearly a quarter of Democrats are single-issue voters on abortion.
Likewise, President Joe Biden’s strongest supporters are most likely to rank abortion as an important issue, the survey found. Abortion is Biden’s day-one, number-one priority if he is reelected, his staff has said — a strategy likely designed to bludgeon Republicans and appeal to a wide swath of women and young voters accustomed to 50 years of the “right” to abortion invented under the now-defunct Roe v. Wade decision.
“Among voters who Strongly Approve of Biden’s job performance as president, 87 percent say the issue of abortion will be Very Important in this year’s election. By contrast, among those who Strongly Disapprove of Biden’s performance, only 25 percent expect abortion to be a Very Important issue in November,” according to the poll report.
At the same time, 58 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of Republicans, and 62 percent of unaffiliated voters expect economic issues to be “very important” in the upcoming presidential election. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans, 45 percent of Democrats, and 61 percent of unaffiliated voters also say immigration-related issues will be “very important.”
By sex, men (71 percent) are more likely than women to think the economy will be “very important” in November, while more women than men (49 percent to 38 percent) expect abortion to be “very important.”
“Fewer black voters (44 percent) than whites (65 percent) or other minorities (60 percent) say immigration-related issues will be Very Important in the presidential election,” the report continues. “Breaking down the electorate by income categories, voters in the highest bracket – earning more than $200,000 a year – are least likely to expect immigration to be a Very Important issue in November.”
The survey was conducted Feb. 29 and March 3-4, 2024, and has a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.
Dollar Tree to Close 1,000 Stores After ‘Surprise Fourth-Quarter Loss’
Approximately 1,000 Family Dollar and Dollar Tree stores are scheduled to be closed after “botched” business decisions and a “surprise fourth-quarter loss,” with the company’s shares taking a tumble.
Dollar Tree outbid competitor Dollar General to buy Family Dollar for over $8 billion in 2015, but the merger has failed to produce good results.
Company executives announced to investors Wednesday that about 600 Family Dollar stores will be shut down in the first half of this year, with an additional 370 Family Dollars 30 Dollar Trees to follow in the coming years.
“This dramatic cull is the coup de grâce in the rather botched acquisition of the Family Dollar chain, which has caused Dollar Tree nothing but hassle since it was completed back in 2015,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, in a statement obtained by the Washington Post.
“Basically, almost ten years on, Dollar Tree is still sifting through the mess it inherited and has not been able to completely turn around.”
The soon-to-be-closed locations account for around 12 percent of Family Dollar stores, and have caused Dollar Tree to lose “approximately $730 million on an annual run rate basis,” chief executive Richard Dreiling told shareholders.
A Wednesday press release from Dollar Tree detailed the company’s finances through the fourth quarter of FY2023, saying the decisions to close stores came after a “portfolio optimization review.”
“We took a thoughtful and deliberate approach to address underperforming stores by considering each individual store’s performance, local operating environment, and our broader need for scale and operating efficiencies across the portfolio,” Dreiling explained.
The report showed a “surprise fourth-quarter loss,” reported WDIV Local 4, which further broke down the company’s earnings:
Shares of Dollar Tree tumbled 14 percent at the opening bell Wednesday.
For the three months ended Feb. 3, Dollar Tree lost $1.71 billion, or $7.85 per share. A year earlier the Chesapeake, Virginia, company earned $452.2 million, or $2.04 per share.
Stripping out certain items, earnings were $2.55 per share, which is still short of the per-share earnings of $2.67 expected on Wall Street, according to a survey by Zacks Investment Research.
The company’s shortfallings come less than three years after Dollar Tree was forced to raise prices on common items from $1.00 to $1.25 as inflation grew, Breitbart News reported in November 2021.
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