You Can’t Celebrate 1776 While Ignoring The Invasion We’re Dealing With In 2025
If we ignore the invasion that has occurred, we're not honoring the founders — we're betraying them.If we ignore the invasion that has occurred, we're not honoring the founders — we're betraying them.Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz' as liberals melt down
President Donald Trump has just toured the site of a new immigration detention center in South Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz” for the surrounding dangerous wildlife.
President Trump even joked that "we're going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison."
The detention facility — which has liberals across the nation up in arms — is located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades. And as Trump toured the facility, he called it “so professional and so well done.”
Even the Department of Homeland Security is getting in on the jokes, posting a meme of alligators wearing ICE hats.
“Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t get any more awesome, they found a way to raise the bar,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage says on “Blaze News: The Mandate.” “And I just have to say, is this what you voted for?”
“This is absolutely what I voted for. I would have voted for this two or three times if I had the chance. I love that people also are getting upset on X about anything that the administration puts out there,” Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson comments.
Peterson and Savage aren’t alone, as Trump supporters are thrilled with the new facility as well.
“And that’s why I posted on X today, ‘Alligator Alcatraz! How would you enhance maximum security prisons? What additions would make the biggest impact?’” Savage says, before reading some seriously funny replies.
Among the replies were “Sharks with lasers attached to their heads” and “Minefield and automated mini-guns on the perimeter.”
“Surround the prison with angry ex-wives. They’ll volunteer to go back inside” was a crowd favorite, and Savage admits it’s “one of the funnier replies I think that we have ever had at this part of the show.”
“Funny, but also terrifying,” Peterson agrees.
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If Trump Lets Farm Workers Evade Immigration Laws, Expect The Whole World To Claim ‘Farm Worker’ Status
'By saying we're going to tolerate illegal immigration, it destroys Trump's credibility, the credibility of enforcement, and takes what is a legal system and basically makes it meaningless.'Don’t let rural America become the next New York City
Elect strong conservative leaders in your state — or watch it go the way of New York City. That’s the unmistakable warning conservatives should take from New York voters nominating a Hamas sympathizer and self-proclaimed socialist for mayor.
How could this happen just one generation after 9/11? How does the city that suffered most from jihadist terrorism now embrace a foreign-born Islamist who wants to “globalize the intifada”?
When Trump calls for more farm labor from the third world — so long as the workers aren’t 'murderers' — he misses the deeper issue. Violent crime isn’t the only threat.
Several factors explain the city’s decline, but one stands out: immigration. Forty percent of New York City’s population now consists of foreign-born residents — not including the children of immigrants. Mass immigration on that scale, especially from Islamic and third world countries, doesn’t just change the labor market. It imports foreign values and embeds them in the culture.
Trump should think twice about demanding more foreign agricultural workers for red-state America. His arguments about labor shortages miss the larger picture. This isn’t just about harvesting crops — it’s about reshaping schools, neighborhoods, and eventually, the ballot box.
In 2022, the Center for Immigration Studies mapped 2,351 Census Bureau-defined Public Use Microdata Areas to show the percentage of schoolchildren from immigrant households. No surprise: Urban districts in places like New York and Los Angeles show overwhelming majorities of immigrant families.
But that trend now stretches deep into red states. Cities and even rural counties are seeing shockingly high proportions of students from immigrant families.
In southeast Nashville, 65% of public-school students come from immigrant families. Iraq ranks as the second-largest country of origin. In Dallas, all 20 school districts report at least one-third of students from immigrant households. In most of those districts, a majority of families are foreign-born.
This trend extends well beyond major cities. In southwest Oklahoma City, 43% of students come from immigrant families. Greenville, South Carolina, stands at 35%. Birmingham and Chattanooga each hover around 20%.
Red-state cities and midsize towns now reflect immigration levels once limited to coastal urban hubs. That leaves rural America as the last holdout — and even that is changing.
The so-called farm labor trade has transformed heartland communities. These public school districts report the following immigrant family enrollment rates:
- Texas Panhandle (outside Potter and Randall Counties): 31%
- Oklahoma Panhandle: 21%
- Southwest Kansas (Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal City): 55%
- Central Nebraska: 27%
- Canyon and Owyhee Counties, Idaho (Caldwell and Nampa): 30%
- Whitfield County, Georgia: 43%
- Woodbury and Plymouth Counties, Iowa (Sioux City): 26%
- Washington County, Arkansas: 26%
- Fargo, North Dakota: 23%
Until recently, these areas were overwhelmingly native-born. They maintained a strong continuity of American culture and civic tradition.
What happens when the next generation of these children grows up, votes, and brings in more from similar backgrounds? These red counties may not stay red for long.
Mitt Romney won Washington County, Arkansas, by 16 points in 2012. Just 12 years later, Donald Trump carried it by only six — even as he expanded his statewide margin. What changed? More than a quarter of the local student body now comes from immigrant households.
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Trump won rural Sampson County, North Carolina, by a 2-to-1 margin. Yet, by the 2022–23 school year, Hispanic students made up 44.2% of public school enrollment. The district now runs extensive English as a Second Language programs to meet ongoing demand. Even if Hispanic voters shift modestly right, when has such rapid demographic upheaval ever worked to conservatives’ advantage?
The pace of change is impossible to ignore. Importing foreign labor into rural counties inevitably reshapes culture — and, soon after, voting patterns.
Greene County, Iowa, illustrates the point. In 2023, Hispanic residents accounted for just 3.3% of the total population. But that number underrepresents their influence. Iowa State University researchers found Latino populations in rural Iowa tend to skew young, meaning they disproportionately fill the schools even when their overall numbers look small. That imbalance compounds over time.
When Trump calls for more farm labor from the third world — so long as the workers aren’t “murderers” — he misses the deeper issue. Violent crime isn’t the only threat. The more serious loss lies in surrendering the very communities that naturally align with traditional American culture.
As Vice President JD Vance put it during his Republican National Convention acceptance speech: “America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”
That is the nation Trump must promise to defend — not just with words but with sound policy.
America Will Be Better Off, And More Self-Reliant, Without Illegal Immigrant Labor
Not relying on illegal immigrant labor means we have to learn to take care of ourselves, much as Americans have for most of our history.Send Violent Illegal Aliens To Live With Judge Concerned About Their Safety
Rogue federal judge wants robbers, rapists and murderers to have 'time to express any concerns they might have.'‘Crime spree’ feared as Tennessee judge orders release of MS-13 gang suspect Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man the mainstream media labeled a “Maryland father” despite the fact that he entered the U.S. illegally and exhibits signs of MS-13 gang affiliation — might be released from criminal custody. In April, after the Supreme Court upheld an order by a federal judge, Garcia was returned to the U.S. from a Salvadoran prison, but he was soon hit with human trafficking charges and detained.
Now, another lower court judge has intervened. Tennessee Judge Barbara D. Holmes has ordered Garcia’s release from criminal custody until his trial arrives. The hearing to discuss the conditions of his release is scheduled for tomorrow.
“Overall, the Court cannot find from the evidence presented that Abrego’s release clearly and convincingly poses an irremediable to other persons or the community,” Holmes announced.
“He was extradited back to the United States to stand trial for human trafficking in Tennessee, so there's that,” scoffs Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
She then plays the bodycam footage of Garcia being pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol in 2022, which captures Garcia’s large vehicle with eight passengers inside. This footage is being used by prosecutors in his human smuggling trial to support allegations that he was transporting illegal immigrants.
But there’s more evidence that suggests Garcia poses a threat to the community. Sara plays an audio clip of Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, recounting his history of domestic abuse.
“I kept trying to get to the door basement to try to open the door, and then, like, he pushed me,” Sura said, adding that she called 911 but had to ask a neighbor for “help” since it was taking police a long time to respond.
“When [Garcia] heard me [call for help], like, he grabbed me from my hair and then he slapped me, and then the neighbor, like, he didn't know what to do. ... I have pictures of the evidence, like all the bruises,” she added, noting that the abuse was not a one-time incident.
“He would just wake up and, like, hit me, and then last Saturday ... before I went to my daughter's birthday party, he slammed me three times. ... My sister called the police because he hit me in front of my sister,” she said.
Besides the reality that Garcia is an “illegal human trafficker domestic abuser,” he’s “a really good guy,” says Sara sarcastically.
BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden predicts that if Garcia is released, “he’ll either flee and they won't be able to find him, or he'll go on and do something within his own character,” likely “something violent.”
“If criminals know that they're going to go away for a long time, they go on a crime spree. I mean we've seen it over and over and over again,” he adds.
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It’s Time For SCOTUS To Hold Rogue Judges Accountable
'[The ruling] was a warning shot across the bows of judges making basically policy decisions in all of these cases,' said Hans von Spakovsky.Democrats can’t stop chasing Trump’s red dot on immigration
In his first term, President Donald Trump chased Democrats’ laser pointer; now, they’re chasing his. No issue illustrates this like immigration; it’s become the Democrats’ red dot. Whenever, wherever, and however Trump moves it, Democrats can’t help pouncing.
In his first term, Trump reacted to everything Democrats and the establishment media did. He couldn’t help himself, as though always compensating for having lost the 2016 popular vote. Forever taking their bait, his tweets poured forth. His frequently abrupt policy and political changes cost him on Obamacare — and popular support, too. Throughout his first term, Trump never had a favorable job approval rating in the RealClearPolitics Average of national polls.
Of all the things Trump has pursued, nothing has exercised Democrats like his crackdown on illegal immigration.
In his second term, circumstances have markedly reversed. Democrats have been reacting to Trump since before he took office — if not since before he won it.
The tables have turned
Even before his inauguration, Democratic leaders ran to microphones to announce their defiance. As they did, they picked politically questionable issues. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) proclaimed he was opening his state to more transgender surgeries; California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) proclaimed support for electric vehicle credits.
When Trump talked about a third term, even with the Constitution clearly blocking it, Democrats and the establishment media were apoplectic. Once in office, they were opposed to the Department of Government Efficiency with equal vehemence.
In short, if Trump proposed it, Democrats opposed it. They couldn’t help taking the bait. However, of all the things Trump has pursued, nothing has exercised Democrats like his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Democrats flounder on immigration
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) , boldly proclaiming that he was harboring an illegal immigrant, dared ICE to come — until ICE said they intended to. Democratic officials stormed a New Jersey ICE holding center. When a Milwaukee judge was arrested for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant avoid ICE capture, Democrats rallied around her, despite a judge’s job being one of impartiality on cases before the bench.
When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported from Maryland, the accused MS-13 gang member became a Democratic cause célèbre. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) went to El Salvador to have cocktails with Garcia; other Democratic members of Congress followed. Nationwide, Democrats have prominently counseled illegal immigrants on evading ICE.
Still, the Los Angeles uprising this month took Democratic efforts (or lack thereof when it comes to enforcement) to another level. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) — who already had bungled wildfires that caused enormous damage — and Governor Newsom stood by as the city descended into anarchic chaos due to protests over ICE doing its job.
Trump called in the National Guard. Next, the Marines. Meanwhile, Newsom called press conferences — and sued. He sought to cast himself as a political paladin, a knight-errant in defense of not enforcing immigration law.
Democrats feel the pressure
The better term for Newsom and the rest of the Democrats rallying to the cause of blocking the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally would be “knights-in-error.” More accurate in terms of immigration and law enforcement policy, it would be more accurate still in terms of politics.
Having already given Trump a winning issue, they are now gift-wrapping it in images: attacking law enforcement, rioters, outside agitators, destruction, looting, burned-out vehicles, a city aflame. Each picture is a winner for Trump, each one a loser for Democrats.
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To understand how big a loser these visuals are for Democrats, just look at the polling numbers.
RealClearPolitics’ final average for President Joe Biden’s job approval on crime was 38% approval and 59% disapproval — a margin of negative 21 percentage points. On immigration, Biden’s final job approval average was 33.5% approval and 64.8% disapproval — a margin of negative 31.3 percentage points.
With negatives like these, why do Democrats insist on fighting on this terrain? Why Trump does is clear: His job approval on immigration is 51.5% approval versus 47% disapproval — a positive 4.5 percentage points.
The figures on reduced illegal immigration and overall crime since he took office only burnish the law-and-order credentials Democrats are thrusting on him.
Americans want immigration reform
Even in California, increased law enforcement is a winner. California’s ballot measure that increased penalties for shoplifting and drug possession — and undid an earlier ballot measure relaxing these — passed overwhelmingly last November.
Non-deluded Democrats have also voiced their concerns with picking this losing fight. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) have both had the temerity to swim against Democrats’ lemming tide.
Immigration has become a laser pointer for Trump to use on Democrats. With every flash of the red dot, Democrats instinctively respond, each time believing that one more pat of the paw, one more snap of the jaw, and they will have seized what is forever a pounce away.
Contrary to outward appearances, Democrats do, in fact, have an agenda: Trump’s. Or rather, Trump’s agenda has them. And on immigration, it has Democrats right where Trump wants them.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
Chain-snatching migrant moped gangs are having their dreams crushed by NYC mayor — but he won't mention it
After what has seemed like years of New York City circling the drain due to crime, Mayor Eric Adams (D) responded by writing a scathing review of mopeds and scooters.
In an op-ed in Caribbean Life, the mayor said New Yorkers have "strong feelings" toward the vehicles, which they've seen driving the wrong way down streets, leaving seniors scared and pedestrians "terrorized."
Every day, the mayor claimed, residents are dreading the sound of modified mopeds driving down the streets and possibly crashing into them.
'If your ride is illegal, say bye bye.'
Worse, the vehicles are being used in violent and heinous crimes, the mayor wrote. Unregistered dirt bikes, mopeds, and scooters are involved in cellphone snatches and wallet theft and are used as getaway vehicles after shootings and robberies.
As a result, Adams started a humor-fueled campaign of destruction against the vehicles, telling residents, "We are literally crushing it," as he makes trips to the junkyard to send the vehicles to their graves.
What the mayor is not revealing, however, is that many of the gangsters involved in the crimes are illegal immigrants.
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"Illegal moped? More like NO-ped," the official mayor's account wrote on X.
The post said Adams' administration has confiscated more than 100,000 illegal vehicles during his tenure.
"If your ride is illegal, say bye bye," the X post said.
While admitting the mopeds are illegal, the mayor's office is leaving out the fact that their operators often are, too. Many of the criminals come from illegal alien gangs that are rampantly taking advantage of citizens, investigative reporter Oren Levy told Blaze News.
Levy has been exposing some of the gangs in his reporting and says they are actually "highly organized migrant robbery crews."
Levy told Blaze News that migrant criminals sneak up on unsuspecting victims, rip chains off their necks, and, in some cases, rob people at gunpoint.
"These aren’t isolated incidents — this has been happening for a while now," Levy added.
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The mayor's op-ed failed to mention migrants, immigrants (legal or illegal), or even the term "gang," which Levy said was typical of Adams' deflections.
"It’s time for Mayor Eric Adams to take real action. He has the power to issue executive orders that would allow federal authorities to step in. Instead of blaming the city council, he should lead and do what’s needed to protect New Yorkers," Levy said.
Mayor Adams is facing a likely defeat in the mayoral election in November, if the polls can be believed. Former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo (D) holds double-digit leads in 12 of the most recent 15 polls published by the New York Times.
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