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Find out where illegal immigrants are allowed to vote



According to the mainstream media and its loyal leftist followers, the great replacement theory is just another extremist, right-wing, MAGA, conspiracy theory.

But with everything happening because of our open border, Sara Gonzales is fairly confident that they’re wrong.

“It’s just that places like New York are already doing this in local elections. They are allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections,” Gonzales says.

Now, experts are warning that a loophole in Arizona’s election procedures may allow non-citizens to cast federal election ballots in the 2024 presidential election.

Arizona’s secretary of state, Adrien Fontes, crafted the election procedures manual to permit individuals with unverifiable citizenship to register as “federal only voters” in order to participate in federal elections.

Fontes, of course, happens to be a Democrat.

“This is happening,” Gonzales says angrily. “As much as they want to claim this is not happening, this absolutely is happening.”

“They are literally trying to create loopholes so that illegal immigrants can vote in federal elections,” she continues. “We’re talking about the Presidential Election. If you don’t think that this is what the whole master plan has been, I don’t know what to tell you at this point.”


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Defiant and backed by 25 governors, Abbott says Texas will continue its self-defense at the southern border



Republican Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the efficacy of the Lone Star State's active self-defense Sunday, noting that it will not just continue but expand "until the Biden Administration decides to do its job and secure the border."

Abbott declared on Jan. 24 that his beleaguered state has the "constitutional authority to defend and protect itself" in the face of an unprecedented "invasion" by foreign nationals. Twenty-five American governors have signaled support for this self-defense, some of whom were in Texas over the weekend.

Flanked by 13 governors in person — Govs. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.), Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), Brad Little (R-Idaho), Eric Holcomb (R-Ind.), Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa), Jeff Landry (R-La.), Tate Reeves (R-Miss.), Mike Parson (R-Mo.), Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), Jim Pillen (R-Neb.), Chris Sununu (N.H.), Bill Lee (R-Tenn.), and Spencer Cox (R-Utah) — and backed by an additional 12 governors from afar, Abbott said Sunday, "Americans stand with Texas and our right to protect and defend our state from the crisis at our southern border."

Joe Biden\u2019s open border policies have had a devastating impact on every community in our nation.\n\nEven in the face of Biden's lawsuits, Texas will continue to step up & protect our nation.\n\nAmerica's Governors are behind us.\n\nMore from Eagle Pass today: https://t.co/1zZeLo9E7a
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The governors toured Shelby Park, the municipal park in Eagle Pass adjoining the Rio Grande where multitudes of illegal aliens have poured into the U.S. in recent months. Whereas the park was previously teeming with illegal aliens, the park now appears to be empty.

Abbott credited his state's material defensive efforts — particularly the razor wire and barriers criticized by the Biden White House — with reducing the average number of illegal entries into the area from 3,000-4,000 to a reported three migrants per day.

"If Arizona and California did what we're doing here, you would eliminate [illegal] immigration overnight," said Abbott.

Abbott further indicated that Texas would expand on its recent success in Eagle Pass and expand its efforts elsewhere along the border.

"As we speak right now, the Texas National Guard, they’re undertaking operations to expand this effort," said the Texas governor. "We're not going to contain ourselves to this park. We are expanding to further areas to make sure we expand our level of deterrence and denial of illegal entry into the United States."

A top Texas official said there is also interest in applying similar pressure to riverside ranch land north of the city where illegal aliens have historically made entry, reported the New York Times.

That expansion appears to include the construction of additional border wall.

Texas made history as the first and ONLY state to build our own border wall. \n\nConstruction is ongoing. \n\nWe will not back down from our efforts to secure the border.
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Various governors lauded the Lone Star State's efforts Sunday. Some indicated they would commit additional resources to help Texas secure the border, as Florida did last week.

Gov. Lee, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, thanked Abbott for doing "everything within his power to provide an improvement to the situation at the border and to provide safety and security for Texans, for Americans."

"The federal government has failed Texans and Americans in providing that security and that safety," added Lee.

Gov. Kemp noted that "every state in our country is now a border state. ... When you think about the amount of fentanyl and human trafficking, they're coming to every state in the county."

"If our border is not secure, our country is not secure," continued Kemp. "Joe Biden's policies are making our country less safe, and that's what we're here documenting today."

"This is a fight that all of us have to engage in," said Gov. Huckabee Sanders.

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Democratic governors in Arizona and Kansas veto legislation that would have protected babies born alive after botched abortions — but there's hope yet



The Republican-controlled legislatures in both Kansas and Arizona recently passed legislation to protect babies born alive after botched abortions. The states' Democratic governors, Laura Kelly of Kansas and Katie Hobbs of Arizona, conversely vetoed the bills.

The bills

House Bill 2313, the "Born-alive infants protection act," was introduced to the Kansas legislature on Feb. 7.

The stated purpose of the bill was to provide legal protections for infants born alive; require certain standards of care by health care providers for infants who are born alive; and provide criminal penalties and civil liability for violations of the act.

"Born alive" is defined as the "complete expulsion or extraction of a human being from its mother, at any stage of development, who, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section or induced abortion."

The bill passed the state House on March 22 in a 88-34 partisan vote and then the Senate on March 29 with a 31-9 vote. After the House signed off on Senate amendments, it went to the governor's desk.

Senate Bill 1600 was introduced to the Arizona Senate on Feb. 1.

This bill would have required that "any infant who is born alive, including one born during the course of an abortion, shall be treated as a legal person under the laws of this state and shall have the same rights to medically appropriate and reasonable care and treatment."

Reasonable care and treatment would include resuscitation.

In addition to requiring that the human child be treated as a legal person and all that entails, SB 1600, if ratified, would have required birth and death certificates to be issued for the infant, ostensibly to ensure that medical professionals could not altogether dehumanize their victim.

Hospitals, abortionists, or others involved would be compelled to notify law enforcement of a failure to treat the child as a legal person.

Health professionals who failed to take proper action and willfully let the child die would be guilty of a class 6 felony.

The bill would also have required hospitals and facilities that killed babies in or outside the womb to "submit to the department of health services ... a report of each abortion performed in the hospital or facility."

SB 1600 passed the Arizona Senate with a 16-13 vote on Feb. 22, and was approved by the state House in a 32-26 vote on March 30.

The vetoes

Arizona Gov. Hobbs vetoed SB 1600 on April 6.

In the statement accompanying her veto, Hobbs intimated that the democratic will of the people was trumped by the medical community's preferences.

"The bill is uniformly opposed by the medical community, and interferes with the relationship between a patient and doctor," wrote Hobbs. "It's simply not the state's role to make such difficult medical decisions for patients."

Hobbs' decision was to the satisfaction of Brittany Fonteno, the incentivized CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, reported KGUN-TV.

Fonteno called the proposed law "part of a coordinated effort to undermine the bodily autonomy of pregnant people and exploit the spectrum of the abortion experience for political and cultural gain."

Kansas Gov. Kelly followed suit and vetoed HB 2313 on April 14.

Kelly noted in her veto statement, "This bill is misleading and unnecessary. Federal law already protects newborns, and the procedure being described in this bill does not exist in Kansas in the era of modern medicine."

"The intent of this bill is to interfere in medical decisions that should remain between doctors and their patients," added Kelly.

The backlash

Republican Kansas Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins responded to Kelly's veto with a statement, saying, "I'm saddened to see that with this veto of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act that the Governor has chosen to abandon the dignity of life by allowing for the ending of an infant's life even once it's outside the womb."

"This veto gives abortionists free rein to walk away as a living, breathing baby dies," said Hawkins. "This is not only radical, but also inhumane and I am confident House Republicans will make every effort during veto session to protect all living, breathing infants in our state regardless of the conditions surrounding their birth."

Sarah Moe with the Abortion Survivors Network similarly rejected Kelly's claim, telling the Catholic News Agency that an estimated 1,734 babies are born alive after failed surgical abortions every year.

"Although 1,734 is what we can account for based on those more medical procedures, it’s really hard to track the chemical abortions, which is going to yield a higher failure rate, which means a higher survival rate for those infants, said Moe. "And those infants in turn are susceptible to exposure to another abortion."

According to Moe, the abortion survivors that will now be left to die on hospital beds in Kelly's Arizona will join the ranks of an estimated 85,817 babies born alive after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, some of whom work with the Abortion Survivors Network.

As for Kelly's suggestion that federal law already protects newborns, Moe said, "I would love for her to tell us where that is, because it certainly has not been codified."

Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Denise Burke said Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs "has made it clear: she would rather cater to the abortion industry than affirm the basic human rights of vulnerable children. ... Her failure to protect the lives of children once they are outside of the womb is unthinkable and inexcusable."

Undying hope

While Hobbs has successfully killed the bill and by extension those it may have saved, the Catholic News Agency noted that the case is not hopeless in Kansas, where the GOP has supermajorities in the legislature and could possibly override Kelly's veto.

Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs at the Susan B. Anthony List, told the CNA, "Just based on the bill passing on an 86-36 margin in the House to begin with and also with overwhelming support in the Senate, we expect that the Kansas Legislature will do the right thing here and make this the law in Kansas."

"It’s just really disturbing for us to see [Democrats] and the abortion industry attempt to erase a whole group of people," added Pritchard.

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19 GOP governors sign statement decrying ESG 'proliferation' as 'a direct threat'



A coalition of Republican governors has signed on to a statement denouncing ESG investing, the spread of which they describe as a "threat" to the U.S. economy and individual liberty.

"The proliferation of ESG throughout America is a direct threat to the American economy, individual economic freedom, and our way of life, putting investment decisions in the hands of the woke mob to bypass the ballot box and inject political ideology into investment decisions, corporate governance, and the everyday economy," the governors declare.

"We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology," the statement reads.

The governors of Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming are backing the statement.

The document lists various policies that the state leaders could pursue in their efforts to battle ESG investing practices, including "blocking the use of ESG in all investment decisions at the state and local level, ensuring that only financial factors are considered to maximize the return on investment" and "banning the financial sector from considering so called 'Social Credit Scores' in banking and lending practices aimed to prevent citizens from obtaining financial services like loans, lines of credit, and bank accounts."

"At my direction, Florida has led the way in combatting the pernicious effects of the ESG regime by directing our state pension fund managers to reject ESG and instead focus on obtaining the highest return on investment for Florida’s taxpayers and retirees," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, according to a press release. "We will not stand idly by as the stability of our country’s economy is threatened by woke executives who put their political agenda ahead of their clients’ finances."

BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink, who adheres to the dogmas of climate alarmism, claims that the issue of climate is pertinent to the field of investing.

"For years now, we have viewed climate risk as an investment risk," Fink wrote in his annual chairman's letter to investors. "Anyone can see the impact of climate change in the natural disasters in California or Florida, in Pakistan, across Europe and Australia, and in many other places around the world. There's more flooding, more wildfires, and more intense storms. In fact, it's hard to find a part of our ecology – or our economy – that's not affected."

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