After visiting a nearby resort filled with opulent wokesters, I couldn’t help but notice the signs proclaiming, “Love, not hate, makes America great.” I suspect the signs were meant to remind us of Donald Trump’s supposed nastiness for deporting as many as 50,000 illegal immigrants — most with criminal records. According to the left, such a policy makes Trump a fascist — maybe even the latest incarnation of Hitler.
A "nicer" leader, we’re told, would allow these illegal immigrants — including convicted rapists and other lowlifes — to remain in the country, at least until they exhausted multiple judicial appeals or committed a few more crimes. Why stop there? Let them vote in local elections, receive public assistance, education, and health care. After all, they supposedly enrich our society — or so Democrats insist, as they work tirelessly to provide all these forms of taxpayer-funded hospitality.
When virtue signalers clutch their pearls over Trump’s treatment of ‘nice illegal rapists,’ I have to wonder if they’re playing dumb.
But why did Democratic presidents we’re supposed to venerate — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — get a free pass for far harsher deportation records? Clinton expelled close to a million illegal aliens with minimal judicial involvement, even boasting about his deportations during his re-election campaign. Obama, the left’s beloved heartthrob, threw out over four million illegal immigrants, aided by Trump’s current border czar Tom Homan, all without major interference from Democratic-appointed judges.
Compared to Clinton and Obama, Trump’s deportation numbers look paltry, especially given the legal and media warfare waged against him.
Even as recently as 2006, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — now screaming about Trump’s “cruelty” — eagerly pushed for building a border wall. Thirty years ago, few Democratic senators would have voted against it. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), back then, warned against flooding the country with unskilled foreign labor that would hurt America’s most vulnerable workers. Obama himself praised tougher immigration controls. In 2006, Democrats still held some loyalty to their working-class base. They understood that saturating American communities with third world lumpenproletariat — not to mention foreign gangs — would devastate the working class.
That was before Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rachel Levine became the faces of the rebranded Democratic Party.
Since then, both national parties have swapped electoral bases. Republicans moved away from country-club elites and realigned with the white — and increasingly Hispanic — working class. Democrats abandoned their traditional blue-collar support to embrace progressive white women, the LGBTQ lobby, government bureaucrats, black militants, and now, the cause of illegal immigrants.
For Democrats, the strategy is simple: expand the non-working-class base. Biden’s administration opened the border to as many as 10 million illegal aliens, and anyone with a functioning brain can see why.
Yet, when virtue signalers clutch their pearls over Trump’s treatment of “nice illegal rapists,” I have to wonder if they’re playing dumb. Do they really not know why their party flooded the country with illegal aliens? Do they honestly think slogans about "love" explain why Democrats fight tooth and nail to keep even convicted criminals from deportation?
Every illegal immigrant represents a potential future Democratic voter. If Trump’s administration was allowed to make moral distinctions among the "undocumented," Democrats might lose too many future loyalists. Better, from their view, to defend even a wife-beating, MS-13-affiliated “Maryland man” than risk losing tomorrow’s votes.
Perhaps I’m being unfair. Maybe the Democratic cheering squad doesn’t know — or care — how radically its party reversed itself on immigration. Maybe leftists assume their Democratic heroes always held the same radical social views as Tim Walz and Hakeem Jeffries.
Most live in the present, parroting whatever slogans the media and party elites hand them. If journalists and historians hide the truth, these activists show little curiosity to uncover it.
Meanwhile, the media and judicial attacks on Trump’s supposedly “Nazi-like” immigration policies continue to erode public support. Trump now polls negatively even on immigration, the very issue that propelled him into the White House.
If this delusion holds, Democrats may succeed in securing nearly all of their future voters.
All of Arizona's 15 counties are preparing to purge up to 50,000 noncitizens from their voter rolls as a result of a settlement with America First Legal.
On behalf of EZAZ.org and Yvonne Cahill, a registered voter and naturalized citizen, AFL filed a lawsuit in August against the counties, arguing that they violated state law by failing to require proof of citizenship to vote in local and state elections. The counties were also accused of failing to perform monthly noncitizen voter roll checks.
'It will also potentially enfranchise federal-only voters whose citizenship is confirmed, which would allow them to vote in state and local elections.'
The complaint was terminated on April 9 after the parties reached a stipulation of dismissal.
As a result, all 15 counties sent requests to the Department of Homeland Security to assist them in cleaning up their voter rolls by verifying citizenship status.
Nearly 50,000 "federal-only" registered voters on the counties' rolls have not provided proof of citizenship, Fox News Digital reported.
AFL senior counsel James Rogers called the settlement "a great result for all Arizonans."
He told Fox News Digital that the counties' partnership with the DHS "will help County Recorders find and remove any aliens on their voter rolls."
"It will also potentially enfranchise federal-only voters whose citizenship is confirmed, which would allow them to vote in state and local elections. AFL congratulates each of Arizona's 15 county recorders for taking this bold and important step for election integrity in the state," Rogers stated.
On April 8, Maricopa County confirmed that the recorder's office had "initiated communications" with the DHS.
The county said, "The Office is seeking assistance to verify the citizenship status of registered voters who have not provided Documentary Proof of Citizenship (DPOC). This action aligns with Arizona law and underscores the Recorder's responsibility to maintain accurate voter registration rolls."
Maricopa County recorder Justin Heap stated, "I promised the voters of Maricopa County that I would pursue every avenue to clean up our voter rolls, and that's exactly what we're doing. Ensuring only citizens can cast a ballot in future elections is essential to restoring trust in Maricopa County elections. It is my sincere hope that DHS will respond affirmatively and provide the resources we need to run comprehensive checks of our voter registration system against their non-citizen database. 'One citizen, one vote' isn't just a slogan, it is the right of every American citizen."
In September, Maricopa County's then-recorder Stephen Richer explained that state officials had discovered a decade-old "flaw" that allowed 97,000 individuals to register to vote without providing proof of citizenship. He noted that the error had impacted every county since 2004.
"Unfortunately, the way the system was designed allowed for one group of voters through the cracks," Richer said.
The Secretary of State's Office later found that the number of registered voters with non-verified citizenship was actually closer to 218,000.
"This data set includes approximately 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats, and 76,000 Other Party (OTH), bringing the total of impacted individuals to approximately 218,000," the office stated.
AFL sued the office for "illegally withholding" the list of voters. Arizona's secretary of state turned over the list to AFL in November.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, threatening to yank funding from states that fail to make efforts to secure elections.
The executive action scrutinized the United States' current voting methods, arguing that "modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing," have deployed systems that curb fraud and abuse. The EO noted that India and Brazil have incorporated a biometric database, Germany and Canada require paper ballots, and Denmark and Sweden place restrictions on mail-in voting.
'The farthest-reaching executive action taken in the history of the republic to secure our elections.'
It contended that the states have failed to comply with federal election requirements, in ways such as continuing to count ballots collected after Election Day and implementing inadequate citizenship vetting processes.
Trump's executive action mandates that voters provide proof of citizenship before casting their ballots, and election officials are required to record the details of the provided documentation, including issue date, expiration date, and identification number. It lists acceptable proof of citizenship documents such as U.S. passports, military identification cards, and forms of identification that meet Real ID requirements.
The EO will also add a citizenship question to the federal voting form.
States that fail to take adequate steps to protect the election process could have their federal funding cut.
Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to partner with the Department of Government Efficiency to review publicly available voter registration lists against immigration databases. Any noncitizens discovered on the voter rolls will be provided to Attorney General Pam Bondi, with the administration calling on the DOJ to prosecute election crimes.
During Tuesday's signing, homeland security adviser Stephen Miller called the EO "the farthest-reaching executive action taken in the history of the republic to secure our elections."
"We believe that these are very important steps that we need to be taking as an administration, at your direction, to ensure that our elections are as secure as they possible can be," Miller stated.
Trump said that the EO would "go a long way" toward ending election fraud, adding that the administration planned to take additional steps "in the coming weeks."
"Perhaps some people think I shouldn't be complaining because we won in a landslide, but we've got to straighten out our election. This country is so sick because of the election — the fake elections and the bad elections. And we're going to straighten it out one way or the other," he stated. "It's an honor to sign this one."
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The New York Court of Appeals struck down a law allowing noncitizens to vote in New York City elections, including mayoral races.
On Thursday, the state's highest court ruled 6-1 that the law, which would have let over 800,000 green card holders vote in local elections, violated the state constitution.
'It is my hope that left-wing lawmakers stop pushing these unconstitutional and reckless measures that dilute the voices of American citizens.'
The City Council passed the controversial legislation in 2021 under former Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).
Democratic supporters of the law argued that noncitizens should be able to vote because they are contributing members of their communities who pay taxes. However, most of the high court's progressive judges disagreed, with Chief Judge Rowan Wilson contending that voting is the right only of citizens.
"Under that interpretation, municipalities are free to enact legislation that would enable anyone to vote — including … thirteen-year-old children," Wilson wrote on behalf of the majority. "It is plain from the language and restrictions contained in [the state constitution] that 'citizen' is not meant as a floor, but as a condition of voter eligibility: the franchise extends only to citizens whose right to vote is established by proper proofs."
The court closed the door on the matter, declaring, "Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens."
Joe Borelli, the former Republican minority leader of the City Council and one of the plaintiffs in the case, stated, "We file some lawsuits that are stretches."
"This one was, from the beginning, an open-shut case," he remarked.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) called the ruling "a BIG win for common sense & democracy!"
"I'm pleased that we prevailed in our final round in court and have stopped New York City's Non-Citizen voting law once and for all!" she wrote on X. "The state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, has sided with us and two lower courts in striking down this unconstitutional law."
Malliotakis added, "There is nothing more important than preserving the integrity of our election system, and in today's age, the government should be working to create more trust in our elections, not less. The right to vote is a sacred right given only to United States citizens. It is my hope that left-wing lawmakers stop pushing these unconstitutional and reckless measures that dilute the voices of American citizens."
Elon Musk commented on the high court's decision, stating that the ruling has "not exactly killed" the Democrats' plans because New York City still does not require identification to vote.
"So they will now continue using non-citizen votes illegally," Musk said. "But it will be harder."
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Within the last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it charged multiple individuals with illegally voting as noncitizens in American elections. The DOJ also revealed a foreign national pleaded guilty to conspiring in a voter registration fraud scheme. As my colleague Beth Brelje reported, the DOJ announced Monday that 45-year-old Akeel Abdul Jamiel was […]
The Federalist asked where 15 likely noncitizen voters cast their ballots, but the secretary of state and attorney general refused to say.
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