Court: Democrat Election Chief’s Guidance Could Disenfranchise ‘Potentially Millions Of Arizona Voters’
In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge Liburdi eviscerated Fontes' canvassing rule, writing that it is 'utterly without precedent.'In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge Liburdi eviscerated Fontes' canvassing rule, writing that it is 'utterly without precedent.'The Left Is Attempting To Take Over Local Election Offices
The left is targeting the electoral system and local election boards. Their strategy appears to be simple: Make the rules. Decide the game.Trump promises death penalty for illegal alien sex traffickers — victims’ families endorse former president
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump visited Cochise County, Arizona, to tour the southern border and hold a press conference, during which he vowed to impose the death penalty for illegal aliens convicted of sex trafficking.
"We will impose tough new sentences on illegal alien criminals, including 10-year mandatory minimum sentences for anyone guilty of human smuggling; a guaranteed life sentence for any one guilty of child trafficking; and a death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking," Trump declared. "We'll also impose the death penalty on major drug dealers and traffickers."
Trump also promised to impose the death penalty for those who kill federal or local law enforcement officials.
Trump, joined by law enforcement agents and families of the victims of recent violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, kicked off his speech by slamming the Democratic Party for forcing President Joe Biden (D) out of the race and replacing him with his vice president, Kamala Harris. He warned that Harris would be a "Marxist president."
'I really hope everybody can hear my pain.'
Trump discussed the Biden-Harris administration's failed border policies and manufactured illegal immigration crisis. During his press conference, he pointed to sections of the border wall stacked up and lying on the ground, never installed.
"All of this wall was built at great expense," Trump said. "It just had to be stood up."
"It's sad to see it sitting here," he added.
He stated that Harris "unleashed a deadly plague of migrant crime" by keeping the border open.
"Since comrade Harris took over the border, there has been a 43% nationwide increase in violent crime and a 60% increase in rape," Trump claimed.
He introduced the mother of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five who was reportedly raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant in Maryland. According to authorities, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old El Salvadorian national who was charged with Morin's murder, entered the U.S. illegally after murdering a woman in El Salvador. He was also accused of attacking a 9-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles last year.
Morin's mother, Patty, described the devastation of receiving the phone call from a detective that her daughter's body had been recovered.
"The reason why I came here today and I accepted the invitation is because I really want our words to be heard, and I really want you to take to heart what we're saying. We're not here for a political stand, although we are. We're here because we're losing our moms, our daughters, our children to criminals, and that shouldn't happen," Patty Morin stated.
"We're going to end up being a third-world country if it continues this way. And I hope, truly, I hope that you would just take my words to heart because it's devastating to lose a child. But even more devastating when you see the pictures or you see the body and you really understand what's happened to that person," she added.
The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who was reportedly raped and murdered by two illegal aliens in Texas, also spoke at the news conference on Thursday afternoon.
Alexis Nungaray thanked Trump for inviting her to speak about the tragic murder of her daughter.
"She was left with no clothing from the waist down, was thrown in a bayou, left, was strangled to death. We believe, yes, she was assaulted," Alexis Nungaray stated. "But it's still very, very early and still very, very raw, and it is still very, very surreal. They had no reason to do anything that they did to Jocelyn. There was over 300 detention beds that they should have been at because they were detained, and they were released when they shouldn't have been released. One had an ankle monitor, didn't stop anything."
"I just really, really, really want everybody to please take into consideration how important border control is because we're losing very innocent people to heinous crimes that shouldn't be happening in the first place," she remarked. "So, please, please, I really hope everybody can hear my pain. Please, please, he [Trump] needs to be in office."
Trump vowed to secure the border and initiate the "largest deportation effort in American history."
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‘It’s deliberate’: Border rancher fumes over admin’s opening of floodgates driving more illegal crossings
John Ladd, an Arizona cattle rancher with 16,000 acres near the southern border, recently told the New York Post that he is frustrated with the Biden-Harris administration for the unprecedented immigration crisis.
Ladd claimed that his ranch in Cochise County has become a hotspot for illegal immigration. He noted that, once again, the federal government has opened up the floodgates along the border for the three-month monsoon season, which results in an uptick in unlawful crossings.
'Even if it’s not raining anywhere near us.'
The Post reported last year about the administration’s seasonal opening of the 114 gates along the Arizona border wall. The massive gates are welded open to prevent them from being shut. Additionally, overwhelmed Customs and Border Protection resources prevent officers from being consistently stationed at the 12-foot doors to prevent and deter illegal crossings. The report noted that human traffickers exploit the opportunity to send thousands of illegal immigrants into the U.S.
In addition to the monsoon season, another reason the gates have been ordered opened is to allow for the migration of an endangered antelope species, officials told the Post last year.
Ladd said, “They’re drawing people to a certain area. It’s deliberate, there’s no other way to look at it.”
“It’s silly. There’s certainly a better idea than this,” Ladd continued. “If you gotta do it, shut them, you open them up for a flood and then shut them. Or have an agent here, but they can’t — they don’t have enough manpower to do that.”
“The biggest thing ... is we don’t have asylum seekers. The people we got don’t want to give up. And then we’ve got the load vehicles that pick them up and take them wherever they’re gonna go,” Ladd stated. “The majority of them are military-aged men. They’re from all over.”
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance spoke with Ladd during his visit to the southern border on Thursday. Ladd noted that he was “impressed” Vance requested his advice on addressing the ongoing crisis, adding that “nobody from the Biden administration has been here.”
A Border Patrol source told the Post, “It’s frustrating beyond belief that the floodgates on the line are open. It’s an open door right into the US.”
“What’s the point of a wall if they are just gonna have holes in it a few months of the year? They say it’s for monsoon season we gotta leave ’em open — even if it’s not raining anywhere near us,” the source added. “We get yelled at if we close the gates. It’s an open invitation to smugglers. I’ve seen trucks drive through the open gates. I’ve seen 50-plus bodies rush us. It’s a free-for-all.”
Ladd expressed his concerns to the Post about a potential Kamala Harris presidency, stating, “She’s not capable of running this country, and if she does it’ll be worse than Biden.”
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Poll Worker Gives An Inside Look At ‘Complete Chaos’ In Maricopa County On Election Day
'I was in Ukraine in March ... at no point was it ever as overwhelming as it was on Election Day in Maricopa,' Smith said.Arizona sheriff: Biden stopped building the wall and created a 'crime scene' at the border
An Arizona sheriff is calling out the Biden administration for politicizing law enforcement by halting the border wall construction, a decision he says puts American communities in danger.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" Friday that President Joe Biden's executive order ending the border wall construction is "a product of politics within policing."
"When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the Southwest border, it stopped resources and stopped construction on our border. As a result of that, one area where the fence is not complete we get five or six groups a day coming across there," Dannels said.
On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order terminating former President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and defunding construction of the border wall, directing those taxpayer funds elsewhere. Biden called the border wall a "waste of money" and "not a serious policy solution."
But Dannels says in Cochise County, which contains 83 miles of border wall, the end of wall construction has created an opportunity for criminal cartels to enter the United States.
"This administration owns this decision," Dannels said.
The sheriff shared pictures taken at the border in his county that show migrants traveling to the United States, including heavily armed drug cartel smugglers.
"It's wide open right now," Dannels told host Brian Kilmeade. "It's wide open and with the chaos going on at the border based on these administrative decisions — We saw this in 2019, Brian, where 141 countries breached our southwest border in the first nine months, over 1,000 gang members, 822 assaults on agents, 271 deaths on our border. This is a crime scene."
"We had it under control and now it's going back to 2019. It's frustrating."
Since Biden reversed Trump's policies a humanitarian crisis has developed along the southern border, even if the White House refuses to label it as such. The federal government is taking custody of an average 321 migrant children per day, according to leaked HHS documents reported by Axios. Shelter occupancy is at 94% capacity and is expected to fill up by the end of the month. The Department of Health and Human Services has told the White House it will need a facility with 20,000-bed capacity to humanely give shelter to all of these unaccompanied minors.
Drug cartels, human traffickers, and smugglers have taken advantage of the chaos at the border, creating an entire black market industry of smuggling children and adults to the U.S. and exacting payments from and otherwise abusing the desperate migrants, who come from all over the world. Violence is spilling into the United States and communities at the border are telling horror stories of shootings, car chases, and other crimes conducted by international cartels.
Dannels also pointed out there are health concerns as well because of the pandemic.
"Nobody is talking about what's going on at the southwest border when it comes to the health pandemic in this country. They are not testing them, they are being released without being tested into communities. And then you look at the public safety aspect of this it's upsetting," he said.
"It's almost like we're not part of this country."
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