JD Vance rejects Democrats' narrative, names the 'real threat to democracy'



Democrats and elements of the liberal media have suggested ad nauseam that President Donald Trump, his supporters, and like-minded Republicans constitute threats to democracy.

After a Biden official's group got Trump temporarily removed in 2023 from the presidential primary ballot in Colorado, former President Joe Biden tweeted, "Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy."

Years after calling her political opponents "enemies of the state," Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in April 2024 that Trump is "a great threat to our democracy."

'It was a radical success.'

Less than a day after a Democratic donor who claimed "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot" in the 2024 election allegedly tried to assassinate Trump, New York magazine rushed to inform its readers that "Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, and saying so is not incitement."

It's clear that this mantra is little more than a political cudgel intended for those who threaten to diminish Democrats' hold on power. Nevertheless, its repetition has prompted some on the right to seriously reflect on that which actually threatens the American republic's democratic processes.

In his keynote speech at the Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance made clear that the apparent effort by Democrats to import and then normalize new voter blocs rather than engage and help homegrown Americans — to seek out a new demos as opposed to serving the current demos — is the real threat.

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The vice president stressed that illegal immigration is "the most important issue confronting this country" and "the most important issue that was destroying this country for over the past four years."

"If I had stood here in October of 2024, and you had told me that after 45 days of the Trump administration we would have illegal border crossings down between 95% and 99%, I would have said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. I believe the president is very serious about this, and I believe the president is very effective, but there is no way that we're going to have illegal border crossings down that much,'" said Vance. "I'm happy to report that one and a half months into the Trump administration, we had illegal border crossings down 99%. It was a radical success."

"I believe that saved the United States of America," continued Vance, "because we know exactly what the Democrats [would do] — not because we had to read their minds but because Democrats would go out and say that what they wanted to do with those 20, 25 million illegal aliens is give every single one of them the right to vote and turn them into permanent wards of the Democratic Party."

'Now, we have largely solved that problem.'

Democratic lawmakers have worked feverishly in recent years to give foreign nationals the right to vote.

Certain jurisdictions in California, Maryland, and Vermont allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. There are also indications that some noncitizens have been registered in Democratic enclaves to vote in federal elections — a troubling matter that the Trump administration is taking seriously.

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Orange County registrar of voters for refusing to provide the DOJ with records pertaining to the "removal of non-citizens from its voter registration list and for failing to maintain an accurate voter list in violation of the Help America Vote Act."

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Meanwhile, in the District of Columbia, noncitizens are allowed to vote in local elections so long as they were in the city for at least 30 days before the election. According to the Washington Post, of the over 500 foreign nationals who voted last year — including Ethiopians, Salvadorans, and Iranians — 310 registered as Democrat, 169 as independent, 28 as Republican, and 16 as Statehood Green.

Democrats evidently aspired to go far beyond local elections with their noncitizen voting push.

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The Democratic National Convention's 2024 platform endorsed a mass amnesty plan that would have paved the way to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens.

The Maine Wire noted that the platform incorporated language from the U.S. Citizenship Act, an inert bill from Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) that would change the word "alien" to "noncitizen" in the immigration code and allow illegal aliens to become "lawful prospective immigrants," thereby setting them on the path to legally voting in federal elections.

Even though Trump saw gains in each of the seven swing states in the 2024 election, giving voting rights to millions of yesteryear's illegal aliens could significantly alter America's political destiny.

"If we allowed that to happen, if we allowed the Democratic Party to import voters rather than persuade voters, that would have been the end of American democracy," said Vance. "You hear the American media say all the time that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. The threat to democracy is Democrats importing voters rather than persuading their fellow citizens."

The vice president proceeded to provide his audience with some good news.

"Now, we have largely solved that problem," said Vance. "If you look, for the first time in 50 years — the first time in 50 years — we now have net negative illegal immigration."

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One bad order could undermine Trump’s strongest issue



Thank God President Trump walked back his misguided order to grant de facto amnesty to illegal alien farm workers. Now he needs to kill the policy for good.

Trump won in 2016 — and again in 2024 — on two core promises: lower the cost of living and stop the third-world invasion of the United States. Since he shows no interest in cutting deficits in a way that might restore pre-COVID price levels, immigration remains the battlefield that will define his presidency. And unless he corrects course, he risks failure on that front too.

No more half measures or donor-driven compromises. No more weakness. Only total war on the policies, programs, and pipelines that keep America under siege.

To his credit, Trump moved quickly to shut off the surge at the southern border during his first week in office. But he did the same in 2017, and the long-term results didn’t last. A future Democrat administration will simply escalate. If Biden brought in 10 million, the next one will aim for 20 million.

Temporary border control and modest deportation numbers won’t solve the crisis. Fewer than a million removals over a four-year term won’t reverse the demographic or economic damage — especially while legal immigration, foreign student visas, and guest worker programs continue at record highs.

Unforced errors

Trump must go beyond symbolic border enforcement. That means neutralizing judicial interference through must-pass legislation — or ignoring illegitimate court rulings outright. He should authorize maritime deportations using ships, suspend most of the 1.5 million foreign student visas — especially from China and Islamic countries — and permanently empower states to enforce immigration law.

Instead, Trump recently unveiled a set of policies that undermine those very goals.

He announced continued access for Chinese nationals to U.S. universities — just as a spy ring was uncovered at the University of Michigan. He expanded his support for white-collar visas for Indian nationals and revived his “golden visa” scheme, which allows wealthy Chinese Communist Party elites to buy their way into U.S. citizenship.

Worst of all, Trump issued an order halting removals of illegal aliens working in farming and hospitality. He later reversed course — but the damage was done.

In pushing for more illegal labor, Trump handed leftists a talking point they had already lost. He lent moral weight to one of their core claims: that America needs illegal immigrants to do the “jobs Americans won’t do.” That argument, long peddled by George W. Bush, John McCain, and the donor-class GOP, was the very reason millions turned to Trump in the first place.

Ten years after calling for a moratorium on illegal immigration and a drastic cut to legal migration, Trump now echoes the talking points he once dismantled. If he keeps this up, he won’t just squander his mandate — he’ll cement the invasion he was elected to stop.

Five points Trump should heed

  1. You can’t re-onshore manufacturing and offshore the workforce. Trump champions tariffs to bring jobs home — but what good is that if those jobs go to foreign nationals here illegally? Patriotism means putting Americans to work on American soil — not just moving the factory.
  2. This isn’t about labor shortages. It’s about labor suppression. Trump wants more white-collar visas even as tech jobs disappear. He supports handing green cards to foreign students. This isn’t policy — it’s donor-class economics wrapped in populist branding.
  3. You can’t modernize with AI while subsidizing human labor. Trump wants to “win the AI arms race” with China. Great. Start by automating farm work instead of importing cartel-affiliated field hands. Cheap labor delays innovation — and the status quo keeps us dependent.
  4. The welfare state distorts the labor market. Trump refuses to shrink entitlements and yet complains that Americans won’t work. Maybe that’s true — but the welfare state is the push, and illegal labor is the pull. Cut both, and you raise wages and get people off the couch.
  5. Illegal labor invites cartel exploitation. Agricultural guest labor provides the perfect cover. In 2019, an exposé by the Louisville Courier Journal revealed how Mexican farm workers served as mules for the Jalisco New Generation cartel. One man, Ciro Macias Martinez, groomed horses by day at Calumet Farm — and ran a $30 million drug ring by night.

The cash-based, transient, and legally vulnerable workforce offers a logistical gold mine for transnational criminal organizations. Cartels use job scams to traffic humans, set up safe houses, and move product. Rural communities lack the law enforcement resources to push back. The result: strategic sanctuary zones for America's most dangerous enemies.

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When Trump says these workers are “hardworking” and “not criminals,” he ignores the obvious fact that every illegal alien is a criminal. Amnesty for farm workers isn’t just a policy mistake — it’s an operational gift to America’s foreign adversaries.

No room for ambiguity

Trump knows immigration is his strongest issue. The polls prove it. But if he wavers, even slightly, on mass deportations or illegal labor, he opens the door for his political enemies to sow doubt — and for cartel operatives to sow chaos.

He reversed the farm worker carve-out. Now he must bury it. Then, he needs to go farther. No more half measures. No more donor-driven compromises. No more weakness. Only total war on the policies, programs, and pipelines that keep America under siege.

His base expects it. The country needs it. The future depends on it.

Democrats Will Turn Every Illegal Alien Trump Doesn’t Deport Into A Voter

Given the chance, Democrats will choose voter registration over deportation.
Dem Rep Wants To Give Amnesty To Every Illegal
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'Democrats don’t want secure borders'

Illegal labor isn’t farming’s future. It’s Big Ag’s crutch.



I’m a strong supporter of President Trump. I respect his drive to secure our borders, restore national sovereignty, and bring real vitality back to the American economy.

But the Department of Homeland Security’s latest move — limiting workplace enforcement and putting a stop to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on agricultural employers — cuts against the very heart of the America First agenda. It protects the same corporate giants that are bleeding rural communities dry.

If DHS and USDA want to fix agriculture, they need to stop hiding behind the word ‘farmer’ when they’re really talking about corporate middlemen.

Let’s not kid ourselves: This policy isn’t about helping “farmers.” It’s a gift to foreign-owned industrial agriculture giants like JBS and other multinationals that built their business models on cheap labor, government handouts, and total control over every link in the supply chain.

These are the corporations responsible for wiping out independent family farms across the country.

The Biden administration let Big Ag off the hook. Is Trump really about to follow suit?

Hiring legally and thriving

You don’t need to hire illegal workers to run a successful farm or ranch. In fact, some of the best in the business don’t.

Look at White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. Or Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Or Meriwether Farms out in Wyoming. These aren’t fantasy models. They’re real, thriving operations built on legal labor, strong local roots, and, when needed, carefully managed visa programs.

They don’t rely on mass illegal labor. They don’t need to.

What they do is create real jobs. They pay honest wages. They bring life back to rural towns.

Will Harris is the biggest employer in Bluffton — not because he cuts corners on labor, but because he heals the land, strengthens his community, and delivers food independence.

This is what Trump’s golden age of American farming should look like: self-reliance, real prosperity, and pride in a job well done.

A free pass for Big Ag

With this new policy, DHS basically gave corporate amnesty to the likes of Tyson, Smithfield, JBS, Cargill — you name it. These are companies that depend on cheap, illegal labor to keep their bloated, centralized model afloat.

We’ve been down this road before. Remember Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty? Legalization now, enforcement later — except “later” never came.

And now, we’re repeating the same mistake.

This policy protects a broken system built on:

  • Top-down corporate control
  • Massive consolidation
  • Debt traps and labor abuse
  • De facto open borders
  • Slave-wage labor
  • Legal loopholes for billion-dollar companies

What we’re left with is what journalist Christopher Leonard called “chickenization” — a corporate takeover of the food system that treats farmers like serfs and workers like machines.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s loyalty to these monopolies has already hollowed out towns, forced families off their land, and turned our food supply into a global pipeline where cartel-linked produce replaces homegrown independence.

This doesn’t serve America. It serves the bottom lines of a few mega-firms that like open borders and look the other way on enforcement.

And whether it admits it or not, this is how the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals get implemented — quietly, through broken farms, outsourced jobs, and illegal hires.

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This isn’t just about agriculture. It’s about national security.

A nation that can’t feed itself without breaking its own laws isn’t sovereign. And one that lets multinationals run roughshod over the heartland while outsourcing production to places run by cartels is heading for trouble.

We can do better

If DHS and USDA want to fix agriculture, they need to stop hiding behind the word “farmer” when they’re really talking about corporate middlemen.

Trump has a chance to change course — one that truly puts Americans first. That means backing the producers who follow the law, hiring citizens or legal workers, and building food systems that support independence, not dependence.

Independent farmers and ranchers are ready to help. They’ve already shown what works: strong property rights, legal labor, fair water access, and a commitment to community.

This isn’t some policy wish list. It’s already happening.

And it’s winning.

Let’s not give our food, our land, or our future back to the monopolies that wrecked the past.

Trump’s Success Proves Democrats And Weak Republicans Were Holding Border Security Hostage

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Pulitzer journalist’s anti-Trump rant backfires spectacularly



Helene Cooper, a black female former refugee from Liberia, remained in the United States unlawfully after her visa expired. She would have been deported if not for the sheer coincidence of being included in Ronald Reagan’s 1986 mass amnesty.

Now, 39 years later, she is a prize-winning journalist and a U.S. citizen. Yet, she has become an unrelenting elitist ingrate, attacking the legitimacy of the same United States government that once rescued her from the threat of imprisonment, servitude, or death.

Retired US officers who have not resigned their commissions can be called back to active duty at any time. Cooper might find that idea worthy of another tear-filled op-ed.

Her latest diatribe in the New York Times not only attempts to undermine the authority of a freely elected president but also highlights her significant misunderstanding of how the military operates.

Although Cooper won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Ebola virus, she has no military experience. It’s no surprise, then, that she expresses shock — complete shock! — at President Trump’s dismissal of Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan and the removal of General Mark Milley’s portrait from the Pentagon.

In the military, all service members serve at the pleasure of the president, who has the authority to relieve anyone at any time.

So Helene, instead of focusing on your Liberian autobiography or chronicling Liberia’s first female president, consider reading up on how the U.S. military operates. If you can spare some time from your overly sentimental reporting, you might start with Abraham Lincoln’s firing of George McClellan, Harry Truman’s dismissal of Douglas MacArthur, or Jimmy Carter’s spanking of Jack Singlaub. Or maybe just skim Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

As for Milley, whose actions as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were at best disloyal and at worst treasonous — actions now irrelevant due to ex-President Biden’s blanket pardon — Trump’s removal of Milley’s portrait is a minor gesture.

If Trump wanted to, he could take far stronger actions against Milley. Retired U.S. officers who have not resigned their commissions can be called back to active duty at any time. Cooper might find that idea worthy of another tear-filled op-ed.

Imagine it: President Trump could summon Milley to serve as “assistant to the president for Military Affairs.” Once reinstated to active duty, Milley might be required to always appear in civilian attire and work from an office repurposed from a West Wing broom closet.

Reflecting further, the president could permanently revoke Milley’s security clearance, reducing his responsibilities to reading hard copies of military magazines and submitting daily typed reports to the Oval Office. (Without clearance, of course, Milley would be issued an IBM Selectric II typewriter, complete with correction tape and copy paper, as electronic devices would be off-limits.)

As commander in chief, Trump would personally draft Milley’s officer efficiency reports, potentially demoting him for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

Imagine four years in a broom closet — no phone, no computer — working six days a week, 9 to 5, or longer if the president required it. At least Milley could admire his famous portrait, conveniently displayed just outside his office ... right above the first urinal.

Alternatively, Milley could resign his commission, leaving the military behind to fully embrace his new role as citizen Milley, the mouth who roared.

Deportations are mass enforcement, not mass deprivation of ‘rights’



Donald Trump hasn’t yet begun his second term in office, and illegal alien advocates are having a complete meltdown. According to these self-proclaimed champions of the downtrodden, Trump’s plan for mass deportations will result in the worst civil rights crisis in the history of the United States. Don’t listen to any of them. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

To start, foreign nationals do not have the right to enter or remain in the United States. The Supreme Court established this principle in Ekiu v. United States. “It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions or to admit them only in such cases and upon such conditions as it may see fit to prescribe,” the court ruled.

Because the Biden administration ignored the Immigration and Nationality Act for four years, the Trump administration must now catch up to reset the system.

The court reaffirmed this view 75 years ago in United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, holding that a foreign national has no legal right to enter the United States without authorization from the U.S. government.

In plain English, that all means independent nations can let in, kick out, or refuse admission to foreigners as they see fit.

In the United States, the admission of aliens and the terms and conditions under which they may remain in the United States are set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act. There are, essentially, two classes of lawful migrants: those granted temporary admission and those granted lawful permanent residency (colloquially known as “green card holders”).

Aliens granted temporary admission to the United States may also be deported. This most often occurs if they violate the terms of their stay by overstaying the authorized period or by committing a crime while in the country. Essentially, the U.S. government expects foreign nationals to be good guests during their visit.

The term “lawful permanent resident” can be misleading. Green card holders may live in the United States indefinitely, as long as they follow the rules. However, they are subject to removal if they commit a crime, fail to pay taxes, or smuggle other aliens across the border.

In the end, whatever Uncle Sam giveth, Uncle Sam may taketh away.

Anyone who enters the United States without the government’s permission is an illegal alien. Illegal aliens are subject to deportation because they are trespassers. Whether an individual wants to remain in the United States, has managed to avoid detection, has not broken any other laws, or even has children born in the America does not matter. The key legal issue is that illegal aliens did not follow the process required to enter and remain lawfully.

Aliens in the United States are generally entitled to the same civil rights as everyone else. However, there are important differences. For example, U.S. citizens enjoy broad free speech protections and can freely join the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party. In contrast, an alien may be deported for membership in such a group.

In Matthews v. Diaz, the Supreme Court stated explicitly that “Congress, which has broad power over immigration and naturalization … regularly makes rules regarding aliens that would be unacceptable if applied to citizens.”

Aliens are entitled to due process during deportation proceedings, which means they must be given a chance to respond to any removal charges the government files against them. The bar for deportation is low: Officials need only prove that the individual is not a U.S. citizen and is subject to removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Immigration hearings are civil, administrative proceedings. An alien in removal proceedings is entitled to an attorney. But unlike a criminal proceeding — where indigent defendants can ask the court for a public defender — respondents in civil proceedings must pay for counsel out of their own pockets. Which is perfectly fair. Why should U.S. taxpayers be forced to foot the bill for legal counsel to defend uninvited foreign trespassers from deportation?

What will really happen is not “mass deportation” but the consistent, ongoing enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. In short, immigration laws will be enforced, deportation orders will be issued, and foreign nationals who entered illegally will be sent home.

The only difference lies in scale. Because the Biden administration evidently ignored the Immigration and Nationality Act for four years and allowed individuals to cross the U.S.-Mexico border unimpeded, the Trump administration must now catch up to reset the system and restore the process Congress intended. No one’s civil rights will be violated, because aliens have no inherent right to remain unless the United States grants them one.

Cosmic justice: Trump’s transition moves to restore order amid chaos



That feeling you have right now about Donald Trump’s appointment of Jay Bhattacharya to direct the National Institutes of Health is important for reasons that go way beyond health care. It also speaks to how you’ve likely changed in terms of your expectations for governance and citizenship overall. Enough screwing around, right? Get busy living or get busy dying.

To that end, Bhattacharya and Tom Homan, Trump’s would-be border czar, are clearly very different sorts of people. But both have very clear missions to reform that which is utterly broken, and you must remember that when things get hard along the way. The excitement you have right now can’t merely be an emotion. It must be a promise.

What began as people coming to pick berries and shingle roofs to access the American dream has devolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal entitlement.

We will not quit until we are done restoring truth and righteousness to our cause.

To that end, let’s sweep away some of the chaff and head off some nonsense when it comes to immigration. For example, are any mass deportations and wall-building used in the Bible to secure a country’s borders? The answer is yes. But a lot of you who grew up in the era of Hawaiian shirts, pleated khakis, and sweater vests haven’t been taught about that by your pastor.

Thus, loving your neighbors as you love yourself probably doesn’t mean what you think it means. Don’t feel too bad, though. Much of Latin America, for example, where the current pope comes from, was hoodwinked by something called “liberation theology,” which is neo-Marxism in the name of the Lord.

When Ronald Reagan endorsed amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986, many of the people coming to the United States shared a common value system with Americans. They sought to escape hardship and build better lives. What followed, however, was a series of waves of immigration that increasingly rejected the idea of borders as a guarantee of freedom and security. Instead, many began to see borders as something between negotiable and irrelevant, diverging from the values sought by earlier generations of immigrants.

Today, this generational and motivational clash has reached a tipping point. It fueled Trump’s successful presidential campaign, in which he ran on a platform of mass deportations and secured the largest percentage of the Latino vote of any Republican in history.

Why did this happen? Initially, many Hispanic immigrants lacked strong alignment with Democratic values but voted for Democrats out of fear of deportation or losing the chance to reunite their families in the United States. Over time, however, those fears gave way to more immediate concerns. Communities faced the devastating impact of unchecked immigration, including Venezuelan gangs raping women and taking over apartment complexes.

These harsh realities forced a shift in both electoral and existential priorities, fundamentally altering the political landscape in what many see as a moment of cosmic justice.

Earlier this year, the trajectory of the Republican presidential race shifted dramatically with Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump. Yet as the year progressed, one of Bragg’s own attorneys witnessed a member of a Venezuelan gang masturbating in public. The irony is staggering. This is the kind of situation that evokes “vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord” energy, and we must respond by allowing someone like Tom Homan to take decisive action.

Do not be deceived — God will not be mocked. We inevitably reap what we sow. What began as people coming to pick berries, make beds, mow lawns, and shingle roofs to access the American dream has devolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal entitlement. This decline has been fueled by unchecked globalism and the misplaced guilt of woke white suburbanites. It’s the worst version of the “We Are the World” sentiment — one born from ignoring or dismantling the fundamental plumb line of civilization.

That plumb line is the true gospel. No, continuing in sin does not cause grace to abound. No, good does not come from committing evil. Hunger does not justify theft. And it certainly doesn’t justify welfare fraud while real Americans in places like Western North Carolina endure ignored suffering, or while parents like Laken Riley’s in Georgia are left to bury their daughter.

God shows no partiality. He demands justice. To address the question: Does the Bible support mass deportations? Do God’s people build walls to secure their borders? Absolutely. The book of Nehemiah chronicles such an effort. After enduring exile and learning a harsh lesson, the Jews mass-deported those who did not belong in their country, including women and children.

That is what it looks like when a people consumed with repentance returns to God’s path. Remember that when Homan commences that which the American people have now rightly given him a mandate to do. For it never should have been otherwise.

Harris stands firm on wildly unpopular immigration plan in final pitch to voters



Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down on her support for mass amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States.

However, Harris' position on immigration issues appears to defy public sentiment. A poll released in September revealed that roughly 54% of Americans, including 25% of Democrats, “strongly” or “somewhat” support mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

Another poll released in May indicated that just 36% of likely U.S. voters would favor a candidate who promoted amnesty over a candidate who promoted mass deportation.

In her closing argument to voters on Tuesday evening, Harris stated, “We must acknowledge we are a nation of immigrants. And I will work with Congress to pass immigration reform, including an earned path to citizenship.”

'Reform our broken immigration system.'

Just last week, Harris told Telemundo host Julio Vaqueiro, “We need smart, humane immigration policy in America that includes a pathway to citizenship, putting more resources at the border in terms of security, honoring America’s history as a country of immigrants, not vilifying people who are fleeing harm, but instead, creating an orderly system for them to actually be able to make their case.”

During the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference in September, Harris stated that she would work with the CHC to “reform our broken immigration system and protect our DREAMers.”

Harris again pledged to “create an earned pathway to citizenship.”

An October report from the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee explains how the Biden-Harris administration has already provided “quiet amnesty” to illegal aliens through the immigration court backlog.

“Instead of actually adjudicating illegal aliens’ cases based on the merits of aliens’ claims for relief — such as whether an alien has a valid and successful asylum claim — immigration judges under the Biden-Harris Administration have been tasked with rubberstamping case dismissals, case closures, and case terminations, all of which allow illegal aliens to remain in the United States without immigration consequences,” the report read.

“This sort of quiet amnesty has become a staple of the Biden-Harris Administration’s immigration courts,” it added.

The administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program could also extend mass amnesty to at least 550,000 illegal aliens in the U.S. The program, which is being challenged in court, would allow spouses and stepchildren of American citizens to request parole in place while they seek an adjustment of status.

Harris has pledged to sign the failed so-called bipartisan Senate border bill into law.

Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, discussed immigration during a Tuesday appearance on “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.”

Walz said, “We had a bill that added 1,500 more agents. It added more equipment, but it also added more money to DOJ [Department of Justice] to expedite these asylum claims. And then you can secure the border, which we need to do and also adhere to American values by giving pathways to citizenship.”

“We can’t forsake this idea that there are pathways to citizenship that aren’t — take too long and you can get people who are here, want to be here, contributing to this country. Give them that pathway that’s legal, and I think that’s what the vice president has said. She said she’d sign the bill immediately,” Walz continued.

Harris’ campaign website also notes her vow to establish such pathways but does not elaborate on how she plans to accomplish this goal.

However, during a Fox News interview earlier this month, Harris touted the administration’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 as an immigration solution.

The bill, which never made it out of committee, would have allowed “undocumented individuals to apply for temporary legal status, with the ability to apply for green cards after five years if they pass criminal and national security background checks and pay their taxes.”

“Dreamers, TPS holders, and immigrant farmworkers who meet specific requirements are eligible for green cards immediately under the legislation,” a White House statement read. “After three years, all green card holders who pass additional background checks and demonstrate knowledge of English and U.S. civics can apply to become citizens.”

While it would have required applicants to be present in the U.S. on or before January 1, 2021, it would have allowed the administration’s secretary of Homeland Security to “waive the presence requirement for those deported on or after January 20, 2017” if they were previously in the U.S. for three years.

The New York Post reported that the bill would allow the return of 1.5 million foreign nationals deported under former President Donald Trump's administration.

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