The House passed a resolution to form a bipartisan task force on Wednesday to investigate the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13.
H.R. 1367, which was spearheaded by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, passed the House in a unanimous vote. The task force was announced in the aftermath of U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle’s evasive testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, which sparked bipartisan outrage and her subsequent resignation on Tuesday.
The House voted 416-0 on the resolution.
“The security failures that allowed an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life are shocking,” Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “The task force will be empowered with subpoena authority and will move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such failures never happen again.”
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The task force will be composed of seven Republicans and six Democrats “in response to bipartisan demands for answers,” according to Johnson and Jeffries’ joint statement.
The resolution was also led by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who was in the front row of Trump’s rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, when 20-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at and wounded the former president, killing attendee Corey Comperatore and injuring James Copenhaver and David Dutch, who are both in stable condition as of Monday.
Crooks took aim at the Republican nominee from a rooftop positioned just 130 yards from the stage. The gunman was reportedly spotted by witnesses and flagged by the USSS almost an hour before Trump took the stage.
Cheatle resigned the day after her testimony on Monday, saying that she took “full responsibility for the security lapse,” according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Johnson said Cheatle’s resignation was “overdue,” but that there still “may be others in the line of authority” who were also at fault.
“She should have done this at least a week ago,” Johnson said in a press conference on Tuesday. “Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking several groups from obtaining audio recordings from President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur, according to the Washington Examiner.
The DOJ rejected Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from several entities attempting to gain access to the Biden-Hur tapes, prompting them to file a lawsuit Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported. The lawsuit was joined by Judicial Watch, Heritage Foundation and a CNN-led media coalition that includes The Associated Press, CBS, Reuters and other companies.
The Daily Caller News Foundation also filed a FOIA request to obtain the audio tapes on Feb. 13, but the DOJ said the request remains pending.
The Biden-Hur tapes sparked controversy after Hur described Biden as having mental lapses during the interview in October 2023.
In February, Hur’s team found that Biden had retained and mishandled classified information regarding the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy that he led as vice president, but he decided not to prosecute after the interview. Hur described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man,” and described his memory as having “significant limitations,” claiming that a jury might not find him guilty for that reason.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has persistently withheld the tapes from the public for months after Biden invoked executive privilege in May to prevent the tapes from being released. Since then, the House passed a resolution in June to hold Garland in contempt for violating a congressional subpoena.
The House also attempted to pass a resolution in July that would hold Garland in “inherent contempt,” fining him $10,000 every day he declined to turn over the tapes. That resolution, led by Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, failed in the House by a 204-210 vote.
The DOJ said that releasing the Biden-Hur tapes would cause “unwarranted privacy harms” without “any meaningful countervailing public benefit,” claiming it would “interfere with witness cooperation” in investigations, according to the Washington Examiner.
“I’ve been doing this for nearly 30 years, I really haven’t seen a desperate effort like this to avoid disclosure,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told the Washington Examiner.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who previously criticized Donald Trump, offered the 2024 Republican presidential nominee his endorsement Sunday after the former president was nearly assassinated.
Trump was grazed in the right ear by a bullet at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Cox, who had yet to endorse the GOP candidate, threw his full support behind Trump in a July 14 letter after the former president showed “courage literally under fire,” Deseret News first reported following the governor’s press conference Friday.
“In that moment, you represented the best of America at one of our very worst times,” Cox wrote. “Bloodied but not bowed. Courage — literally — under fire.”
Thank you President Trump. This is a winning message and one our nation desperately needs right now. Utah stands ready to help you heal the division in our nation. https://t.co/ESKq11gHQl
In the letter, Cox told Trump he and his wife watched the shooting in “disbelief.” The Utah governor acknowledged he was “even more impressed” by Trump and Melania Trump’sstatements following the assassination attempt, praising both responses for their “strength” and “humility.”
Cox wrote he believes “God had a hand in saving” Trump before revealing he was initially worried “the unthinkable” would happen if Trump was shot dead.
“In these dark times, it would be easy — and justified — to lash out. To return hate with hate and violence with violence,” Cox wrote.
Cox acknowledged he and Trump have “some differences” and that he “gets it” if Trump does not “like” him “much.” Cox had told CNN on July 10 he would not be voting for Trump and instead write in someone else. The Utah governor also said he did not vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, according to Deseret News. Cox nevertheless had a change of heart, writing to Trump, “I will do my best to help and support you” in the 2024 election.
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“Your life was spared. Now, because of that miracle, you have the opportunity to do something that no other person on earth can do right now: unify and save our country,” Cox wrote.
Cox wrote that “only” Trump “can be that kind of leader” that America need “today.” At his monthly press conference on Friday, Cox reportedly expressed his intent to vote for Trump, stating his “commitment” is to “help him lower the temperature in this country,” according to Deseret News.
New York Democrats are growing increasingly concerned that their historically deep blue state is now in play after recent polls put former President Donald Trump within single digits of President Joe Biden, according to Politico.
Two polls conducted in a swing New York House district in September and March found Trump leading Biden by one point, while other public polling conducted in recent months found Biden’s lead over the former president statewide shrunk to eight points, Politico reported. Biden won the state in the 2020 election by 23 points, but Democratic leaders are now reportedly urging his team to reallocate resources to boost both his campaign and the candidates running in swing districts.
“We’re still acting like this is a one-party state, which for pretty much 20, 25 years it has been,” Democratic Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine told Politico. “I truly believe we’re a battleground state now.”
“It’s never been more important for a Democratic House member to focus on building their own local brand and to run on that,” a high-level New York Democrat told Politico anonymously. “Biden isn’t going to be handing out coattails no matter what. He’s only got anchors.”
Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler and Rep. Joe Morelle backed the idea of replacing Biden during a Sunday conference call with other House Democrats.
A tight race in New York would take time and money away from being spent in the nation’s six battleground states, Politico reported.
“The money that needs to be spent here will be subtracted from other areas he’s going to lose,” former Democratic Gov. David Paterson of New York told Politico.
Republicans managed to flip four congressional seats in New York in 2022, and Republican gubernatorial challenger Lee Zeldin lost by less than 6% compared to the double digit losses Republicans experienced in previous cycles.
“If I’m a Democrat in some of these suburban races, I’d run the hell away from Joe Biden,” Laura Curran, former Nassau County executive, told Politico.
Trump’s nationwide lead over Biden increased to six points among likely voters after the CNN debate, according to The New York Times/Siena poll, marking his largest lead in the poll since 2015.
Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas was the first Congressional Democrat to publicly urge Biden to drop out. Several other Democratic members have also backed replacing Biden as their candidate ahead of the election.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, however, have publicly come out in support of Biden’s candidacy.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor Dr. Marty Makary said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden seems to be experiencing signs of dementia and cognitive decline.
Corporate media endeavored for years to suppress questions about Biden’s cognitive health, but it has become a topic of discussion ever since the president’s disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump. Makary said on Fox News that the president’s movements during the debate showed “signs of somebody with cognitive slowing.”
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“There was times of intense confusion and it’s hard to make a curbside diagnosis from a distance,” Makary said. “But when you look at the shuffling, the slow motion movement, what we call dyskinesia, when a hand goes out very slow for a handshake, and that kind of very slow movements. Those are signs of somebody with cognitive slowing.”
“And if I put a medical student of mine in front of the president and said, ‘here’s a standardized patient, do an assessment.’ If they came back and said there’s a normal cognition, there’s no diagnosis, that patient would fail the exam,” he added. “We’re clearly witnessing dyskinesias and signs of age-related dementia.”
Dr. Marc Siegel on Monday criticized the media for what he considers an inaccurate characterization of Biden’s issues as “gaffes,” asserting the president has shown indications of at least “mild cognitive impairment.”
“There’s issues clearly with spatial orientation, with severe memory lapses,” Siegel said. “And another thing that the media did, which didn’t do him any favors, is call these gaffes. It’s not a gaffe if you have an error that’s related to something going on with your thinking, judgment, attention. These are really important things and the patient is always the last to know.”
Biden seemed to express that he was unwilling to undergo a cognitive test during his recent interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, claiming that he takes one everyday through his duties as president.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed on Monday by reporters demanding specific information on President Joe Biden’s medical records after a serious of reports showed a neurologist had visited him multiple times during his presidency.
White House reporters interrogated Jean-Pierre over the inclusion of a neurologist and Parkinson’s disease specialist in the White House log and asked whether this had any connection to the president’s health.
The press secretary stated that President Biden had consulted with a neurologist on three occasions, but declined to provide any further information, citing security concerns.
According to CBS News senior White House reporter Ed O’Keefe, the press secretary should have the ability to reply to inquiries on the president’s well-being. Jean-Pierre emphasized the need of respecting the confidentiality of the physicians and the numerous staff members who receive medical care at the White House.
“Ed, I also said to you for security reasons, we cannot share names. We cannot share names,” Jean-Pierre said.
“You cannot share names of others he would’ve met with, but you can share names in regards if someone came here in regards to the president,” O’Keefe shot back.
“We cannot share names of specialists broadly. From a dermatologist to a neurologist. We cannot share names,” she said. “There are security reasons—Ed, I hear you. I cannot from here confirm any of that because we have to keep their privacy. I think they would appreciate that too.”
“It is public,” NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell said.
“It is public information,” O’Keefe added.
“I hear you, guys, guys, guys, hold on a second. There’s no reason to go back and forth and get this aggressive,” she said.
O’Keefe said he was “miffed” by the White House Press Secretary’s responses.
“You answer incorrectly and then you have to come back and clean it up,” O’Keefe said.
“I didn’t answer the question incorrectly,” the press secretary said. “That is not true. I was asked about a medical exam. I was asked about a physical. That was in the line of question that I answered and I said no, he did not have a medical exam, and I stand by that. The president stands by that. He had a verbal check in, that’s something that the president has a couple times a week. A couple times a week.”
“Now in regards to Dr. Kevin Cannard…” O’Keefe began.
“And I am telling you, right now, that I am not sharing confirming names from here. It is for security reasons, Ed. It doesn’t matter how hard you push me, it doesn’t matter how angry you get with me, I am not going to confirm a name. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the log. I am not going to do that from here. That is not something I am going to do,” she said.
According to White House records, Cannard, a neurologist specializing in movement disorders, had a meeting with Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor in the White House on January 17 and visited the resident clinic on March 28.
A Parkinson’s disease specialist visited the White House on eight occasions during a period of eight months from July 2023 to March 2024.
Jean-Pierre stated during the briefing that Biden is not undergoing treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
The White House has issued a statement in strong opposition to the the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), which would ensure that illegal aliens do not vote in U.S. elections.
The Statement of Administration Policy was posted at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB( website.
“The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 8281, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections—it is a Federal crime punishable by prison and fines. The alleged justification for this bill is based on easily disproven falsehoods. Additionally, making a false claim of citizenship or unlawfully voting in an election is punishable by removal from the United States and a permanent bar to admission. States already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters’ eligibility and maintain the accuracy of voter rolls. This bill would do nothing to safeguard our elections, but it would make it much harder for all eligible Americans to register to vote and increase the risk that eligible voters are purged from voter rolls. The evidence is clear that the current laws to prevent noncitizen voting are working as intended—it is extraordinarily rare for noncitizens to break the law by voting in Federal elections.”
“The President has been clear: he will continue fighting to protect Americans’ sacred right to vote in free, fair, and secure elections, including by calling on Congress to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. If House Republicans really want to do something about securing our border and fixing our broken immigration system, they should vote on the border deal that the President negotiated with a bipartisan group of Senators—this would provide immigration officials the resources they need to do their jobs and be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border that we have seen in decades.”
This legislation aims to implement crucial measures to prevent illegal aliens from voting in U.S. elections. The SAVE Act mandates that states exclude non-citizens from voter registers and grants individuals the authority to sue election officials who breach their sworn obligation to safeguard the integrity of the ballot box.
The Democratic Party has fully mobilized in opposition to the SAVE Act.
The Democratic leadership is strongly urging its House members to vote against the SAVE Act prior to the vote, arguing that it will impose an excessive burden on many Americans in order to cast their votes.
“As we’ve seen a number of times this Congress, House Republicans continue to irresponsibly call into question the credibility of our elections. Despite numerous recounts, challenges in court, and deep-dives by conservative think-tanks, there has been zero evidence of the widespread fraud that this bill purports to target. It is already illegal under current law for noncitizens to register to vote or to vote in federal elections,” the office of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) remarked.
“Democrats are urged to VOTE NO on H.R. 8281,” the whip question adds.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) questioned the motives of Democrats who would oppose the SAVE Act.
“Why are Democrats so adamantly against ensuring only American citizens vote in our elections?” he asked.
“They want to turn illegal aliens into voters. We must pass the SAVE Act to prevent this.”
X owner Elon Musk concurred with the assessment.
“The goal all along has been to import as many illegal voters as possible,” he said.
Journalist Greg Price pointed out that the White House’s opposition comes after allowing millions of illegal aliens into the United States.
“After spending the last three years flooding the country with millions of illegals, the Biden admin just came out against the SAVE Act, which would require documentary proof of United States citizenship in order to vote in American elections,” he remarked.
Contrary to the Democratic Party’s claims, federal elections are not secure against illegal aliens voting (or their names being used to fraudulently vote by mail-in ballot) in U.S. elections.
As Ned Ryun recently pointed on X, Arizona’s law makes it clear that voters with unverified citizenship can obtain ballots and vote in federal elections.
“I will run this out, again,” he said. “A form from Arizona’s AHCCCS (Medicaid office) very explicitly telling folks that if their citizenship status cannot be confirmed, no worries. We’ll make sure to send you a ‘federal-only’ ballot.”
In 1996, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation that forbids those who are not citizens from participating in federal elections, which encompasses elections for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and the Presidency.
The Pew Research Center reported that in 2020, the United States had a population of over 25 million non-U.S. citizens. The total population comprised over 12 million lawful permanent residents residing in the United States and 2 million temporary residents who were visiting the country for various purposes such as studying, tourism, employment, and diplomatic duties. Pew’s estimate also encompasses around 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.
The United States’ illegal alien population has roughly doubled under the Biden administration. It is estimated that an additional 10 million illegals have entered the country since President Biden took office.
If all 20 million illegal aliens were concentrated in a single state, that state would have the same population as New York, making it the fourth most populous state.
The White House has announced new steps on Tuesday to protect thousands of illegal immigrants living in the United States.
Officials informed Politico that Biden’s latest plan will urge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend protections to approximately 500,000 illegal immigrant spouses and children of US citizens.
The president also revealed plans to grant “DACA recipients and Dreamers” work permits rather than temporary work authorization, according to a White House news release:
Today, President Biden is announcing that the Department of Homeland Security will take action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children can keep their families together.
This new process will help certain noncitizen spouses and children apply for lawful permanent residence – status that they are already eligible for – without leaving the country.
These actions will promote family unity and strengthen our economy, providing a significant benefit to the country and helping U.S. citizens and their noncitizen family members stay together.
In order to be eligible, noncitizens must – as of June 17, 2024 – have resided in the United States for 10 or more years and be legally married to a U.S. citizen, while satisfying all applicable legal requirements. On average, those who are eligible for this process have resided in the U.S. for 23 years.
Those who are approved after DHS’s case-by-case assessment of their application will be afforded a three-year period to apply for permanent residency. They will be allowed to remain with their families in the United States and be eligible for work authorization for up to three years. This will apply to all married couples who are eligible.
This action will protect approximately half a million spouses of U.S. citizens, and approximately 50,000 noncitizen children under the age of 21 whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen.
A June CBS/YouGov poll found that 62% of registered voters would support a government program to deport all illegal immigrants living in the United States.
The president took unilateral action on June 4 to tackle the migrant situation, despite claims for months that he lacked the authority to do so.
Republican FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor will criticize the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “dangerous” failure to intervene in Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump, according to congressional testimony obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
During the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Bragg’s case against Trump, Trainor will explain that the DOJ’s decision not to intervene in the case sets a “dangerous precedent of local prosecutorial overreach in matters of federal concern” and unpack how Bragg “usurped the jurisdiction that Congress has explicitly reserved for federal authorities” when he attempted to enforce campaign finance law. A violation of federal campaign finance law was one of three possible crimes Bragg alleged Trump sought to cover up by falsifying business records.
Trainor argues that the Biden DOJ should have intervened when Bragg, a local prosecutor, effectively sought to enforce federal campaign finance law, arguing its failure to do so made Trump’s trial a major focus of the 2024 election.
“The fact that U.S. Supreme Court precedent is so decidedly in favor of jealously guarding the ability of federal agencies to enforce federal law leaves us to wonder why Attorney General Merrick Garland and the DOJ did not intervene in the prosecution of Donald Trump,” Trainor’s written testimony states. “The DOJ often touts its Memorandum Regarding Election Year Sensitivities as a reason for inaction on certain matters of a political nature. However, the purpose of the policy is to mitigate the affect legal actions have on providing an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.”
“I posit that if the DOJ had intervened early to protect the jurisdiction of the FEC and itself to prosecute federal campaign finance laws, we would not be here discussing this matter today and it wouldn’t be the preeminent topic of the 2024 presidential election,” he continues.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Florida International University law professor Elizabeth Foley are also expected to testify Thursday.
A Manhattan jury convicted Trump last month on 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to reimbursing Michael Cohen for a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels.
To bring the charges as felonies, Bragg alleged they were done to conceal or commit another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election through unlawful means.
The public still does not know, thanks to Judge Merchan’s instructions that did not require the jurors to agree on the secondary crime, which of the three unlawful activities alleged by prosecutors Trump was found guilty of concealing: a campaign finance violation, a tax violation or the falsification of additional business records.
Setting aside the due process issues that will likely arise on appeal, Trainor notes the that DOJ’s failure to intervene comes after the department already investigated the campaign finance issue and was unable to find any crimes committed by Trump, pointing to footnotes in two FEC documents that were unredacted May 31 at his request.
The unredacted documents show that “the DOJ had no issues with intervening in eight pending investigations being conducted by the FEC into the supposed $130,000 payment that was alleged to be misreported on a campaign finance report.”
Trainor explains in his testimony that the “DOJ inserted itself so fully into ongoing FEC investigations” that commissioners ran into trouble with the statute of limitations after the DOJ was finished.
“Clearly, the DOJ knows a great deal about the federal campaign finance issues that Alvin Bragg has prosecuted,” Trainor argues. “DOJ counsel knew the extent to which they themselves had exercised federal jurisdiction, investigated, and found no illegal activity by anyone other than Michael Cohen.”
In 2021, FEC commissioners deadlocked 2-2 on pursuing a case against Trump regarding the non-disclosure agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels after Republican Commissioners voted to dismiss the matter “as an exercise of prosecutorial discretion,” upsetting Democratic FEC commissioners who noted there was no other route for Trump to be held accountable.
“In sum, the public record is complete with respect to the conduct at issue in these complaints, and Mr. Cohen has been punished by the government of the United States for the conduct at issue in these matters,” commissioners Trainor and Sean Cooksey wrote at the time in their statement of reasons.
The unredacted footnote in the document states that the FEC’s delay in action is partly attributable “to the Commission’s acquiescence to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to hold these matters in abeyance.”
In a May 2021 Washington Post op-ed, Democratic FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub slammed her colleagues’ decision to “kill” the case, writing that “no court can overturn this decision” under the current law.
The DOJ declined to respond to the DCNF’s inquiry about why it did not intervene in the case. Other FEC commissioners did not respond to requests for comment.
Other legal experts told the DCNF the law is clear on who has the authority to enforce federal campaign finance law — and it’s not Alvin Bragg.
“Both DOJ and the FEC could have appeared in the case through notification letters or a motion to intervene to raise objections to any claim of a violation of federal campaign finance law, explaining that the FEC has exclusive civil jurisdiction and the DOJ has exclusive criminal jurisdiction to enforce federal campaign finance law,” Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the DCNF.
The Supreme Court “interpreted the FEC to have primary oversight of the provisions of the U.S. Criminal Code regarding enforcement of political contributions and expenditures, as well as disclosure requirements, by individuals, political organizations and candidates” in its 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision, America First Legal Vice President Daniel Epstein told the DCNF.
“Interestingly, the Buckley Court pointed out that Congress provided public rights to individuals to petition the FEC for adjudication,” Epstein explained. “By taking federal law into his own hands, DA Bragg actually violated the public rights granted to U.S. citizens because his enforcement scheme, in circumventing the ability for individuals to oversee his enforcement, prevented the oversight Congress granted to individuals to petition the federal government.”
Similarly, Epstein noted the Supreme Court “made clear that federal election laws can only be criminally enforced by the Attorney General of the United States” in South Carolina v. Katzenbach.
Epstein said Congress could hold Bragg accountable by conducting oversight over his office and the Court “for violating its authority to pass all laws necessary and proper to the enforcement of its commerce clause and other powers that give it exclusive legislative authority to enforce election-related laws as applied to interstate activities.”
Less than half of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s handling on immigration, a new survey found.
Only 29% of Americans said they approve of the president’s handling of immigration, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released Wednesday. Conversely, more than 60% of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the issue, and among those, 47% said they strongly disapproved.
Immigration was the second “most important” issue, losing out only to inflation but ranking above other topics including jobs and the economy, health care, climate change and taxes, according to the poll. Only 28% percent of respondents said immigration makes the country “better off,” compared to 38% who said it makes the U.S. “worse off.”
The poll, which was conducted between June 9-11 and surveyed a total of 1,595 adult citizens, is the latest indication of voter discontentment as the U.S.-Mexico border crisis rages on. Previous polls have indicated a more hardline shift on immigration policies, showing American voters are increasingly receptive to the idea of mass deportations, a border wall, and detention camps for illegal immigrants awaiting removal.
Border Patrol agents have made nearly seven million encounters with illegal aliens attempting to enter the U.S. between ports of entry during Biden’s presidential tenure, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.
The immigration issue has forced Democrat lawmakers in New York City, a deep blue locality, to introduce legislation that would roll back their sanctuary policy protecting criminal illegal immigrants, and prompted a number of GOP-led states to pass laws that enable their state and local police to enforce immigration laws.
