DHS Should Be Threatening Employers Of Illegal Aliens, Not Buttering Them Up
DHS should not be working with businesses to preserve a cycle that undermines American workers and American sovereignty.DHS should not be working with businesses to preserve a cycle that undermines American workers and American sovereignty.Foreign adversaries CAN change American votes, and states better take action: Mullin
President Donald Trump enraged Democrats and other leftists — including the heir to George Soros' activist empire — on Thursday by disclosing in his national address evidence pointing to the insecurity of American elections.
"Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost," the president said. "This cannot be allowed to continue."
'We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate.'
While Democratic officials were still hyperventilating over Trump's insistence that lawmakers pass the SAVE America Act to protect against the kinds of trust-breaking meddling that evidence suggests occurred in recent years, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed in a Friday briefing what his agency plans to do to "secure our elections."
"It shouldn't be a partisan issue," Mullin said. "This should be something that every American, regardless if you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're an independent, you're a libertarian — regardless of if you live in a blue state or you live in a red state — everybody should know that their vote counts. And we have individuals that are voting that shouldn't be. It cancels out someone that should be."
Digging "just a little bit deeper" into some of Trump's claims from the night before, Mullin said the Department of Homeland Security has identified 250,000 noncitizens who were registered to vote in just four states — California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.
According to the DHS' preliminary review, there were 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California; 35,152 in New Jersey; 15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.
Mullin issued warnings to the secretaries of state for these four states on Friday, asking them to confirm within two weeks whether they intend to collaborate with the DHS on voter security measures.
"Mind you, we have 46 other states," said Mullin, who noted further that the DHS has worked with 23 "proactive states" to identify another 28,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, along with "400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased."
Again reinforcing concerns raised by Trump on Thursday, Mullin claimed that foreign adversaries are able to gain access to American voting machines.
"Talking about our machines, we know for sure that our foreign adversaries — not our allies, foreign adversaries — have parts that are vital pieces in our voting machines. We know that they can access what they consider the key to the back of these machines," he explained.
"We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate," Mullin continued.
In terms of remedies, the DHS secretary said his agency will not only apply "maximum pressure" flushing out noncitizens attempting to vote, but — working in concert with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick — will make new security enhancements "mandatory."
Accordingly, states seeking reimbursements for administering federal elections must take steps to ensure both that their voting machines are secured and their voter registration lists are "scrubbed."
"We are not going to spend taxpayer dollars reimbursing the state that is refusing to secure their elections," Mullin said.
The DHS announced last week that all Homeland Security Grant Program recipients must:
- submit a plan for phasing out certain electronic voting systems and shifting to hand-marked paper ballots;
- conduct a manual audit of at least 5% of all ballots cast after each federal election;
- reconcile the number of voters who participated in each federal election with the numbers of ballots cast;
- run voter rolls through the DHS' citizenship verification database; and
- use the Immigration Services' Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system or another authorized government system to ensure that everyone working at polling places or operating election systems are American citizens.
"States must do their part to secure our election system, and we stand by to help," Mullin said.
Mullin noted further that the DHS is working with the Pentagon to safeguard the voting systems used by military service members, and that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release an updated election infrastructure plan providing states with the additional resources "they need to help from the cyber side."
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Rather Than Back Down, Trump Must Escalate His Campaign For Mass Deportations
The Trump administration can't allow its deportation policies to be dictated by the outrage of the left and the propaganda press.ICE traffic stops will continue after lethal shootings — but only under certain conditions
The two lethal shootings during federal immigration operations in the last couple of weeks have led to restrictions on traffic stops by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Initially the traffic stops were temporarily paused after the shooting deaths of a Mexican migrant in Houston and a Colombian migrant in Maine.
'Over half of all ICE field offices now do have body cameras, and the remainder of the field offices are expected within 60 days.'
President Donald Trump stepped in to order that the traffic stops continue as part of his promise for mass deportations, but a Daily Wire report on Thursday indicated that new restrictions were approved.
Traffic stops will be allowed in operations where at least one officer had a body camera and one teammate had training in specialized prosecutions. In addition, the stop needs to have an "operational" justification.
Fox News' Bill Melugin said his ICE sources confirmed the report.
In both recent lethal incidents, no officers were wearing body cameras. Officials explained that the rapid expansion of officers led to a shortage of cameras available in the field.
"Basically, it boils down to, unless someone has a body-worn camera, no vehicle stops can be made," one agency source said to the Daily Wire. "Since the majority of officers do not have body-worn cameras, hardly any stops will be made."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt admitted that the body camera rollout had faced difficulties.
"With respect to body cameras, I know there's been some questions about that in recent days. Over half of all ICE field offices now do have body cameras, and the remainder of the field offices are expected within 60 days," Leavitt said to reporters.
"It's been a slower rollout than we would have hoped, but that's because of the Democrats' decision to shut down DHS for several weeks," she added. "So, we expect to fully execute on the promise of body cams to all field offices across the country very soon."
The Wall Street Journal reported that the pause on traffic stops was made unilaterally by Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of Homeland Security, and angered the president.
"We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands," Trump wrote in response on social media.
"The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won't happen on my watch," he added. "I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those Crime Stat Records coming!"
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Democrat Senator Wants ICE Agents To Choose Between Getting Run Over And Going To Jail
Sen. Padilla suggested that officers whose lives are put at risk by agitators or illegals should automatically be fired for acting in self-defense.Deportations Are Only Deadly Because Of Democrat Resistance
A majority of Americans said they wanted these people out of their country. If Democrats believed in elections, they would have respected that choice, but they don't. So things have naturally turned violent.Mullin Caves On ICE Enforcement After Texas, Maine Shootings
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin has led his department to once again cave on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations Tuesday after fatal shootings in Texas and Maine. In the past week, a Mexican illegal alien was shot in Texas after he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an […]STOLEN ELECTION? Trump to address declassified intel revelations about 2020 foreign interference: Report
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will be addressing the nation at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday.
A pair of White House officials told MS NOW that in his speech, the president — who will be joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin — will detail a foreign nation's plans to interfere in the 2020 election.
'These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the [Trump] administration's policies.'
It is presently unclear which nation the president plans to name.
However, the publication of new evidence of foreign interference would further undermine the assessments rushed out by the Biden administration following the geriatric Democrat's inauguration in January 2021.
The Biden DOJ and DHS issued a joint report in March 2021 stating that there were several incidents where Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government-affiliated actors "materially impacted the security of networks associated with or pertaining to U.S. political organizations, candidates, and campaigns during 2020 federal elections."
The report claimed, however, that the DOJ, FBI, and DHS had "no evidence that any foreign government-affiliated actor prevented voting, changed votes, or disrupted the ability to tally votes or to transmit election results in a timely manner; altered any technical aspect of the voting process; or otherwise compromised the integrity of voter registration information of any ballots cast during 2020 federal elections."
The National Intelligence Council also dropped a report in March 2021 casting doubt on foreign interference in the 2020 election, stating, "We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results."
The intelligence community report said that:
- state-linked Russian actors sought to denigrate Biden's candidacy, support Trump, and undermine confidence in the electoral process;
- Iran "carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut former President Trump's re-election prospects"; and
- additional foreign actors, including Hezbollah and Cuba, "took some steps to attempt to influence the election."
The intelligence community's report downplayed the possibility of attempted interference efforts by China — an assessment that did not age well.
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Last year, the FBI uncovered intelligence from August 2020 detailing an alleged Chinese communist plot to rig the 2020 mail-in vote for Biden.
According to an Intelligence Information Report from the FBI's Albany Field Office in September 2020 that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) claimed was promptly recalled and suppressed by the bureau, a collaborative source obtained information about the alleged plot from a sub-source, "who claimed they obtained the information from unidentified PRC government officials."
The alleged plot involved the Chinese regime's production and export of fraudulent U.S. driver's licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the homeland "in order to create tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in votes for U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden."
Patel claimed last year that the allegations had been "substantiated."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses.
The CBP noted at the time that "the majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong" and were mostly intended for college-age students across various states.
The decision to suppress the intelligence report may have been driven by politics.
The intelligence community's then-analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf indicated in a Jan. 6, 2021, report on a number of election security intelligence issues that "China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the [Trump] administration's policies, saying in effect, 'I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies.'"
In addition to possible evidence of a nationwide foreign interference plot, the Trump administration has apparently found evidence that voting machines still have significant vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence report detailing these findings has been delayed for months, with some White House officials fearing it could undermine voter confidence, reported Reuters.
Blaze News has reached out to the White House for comment.
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