Former Border Patrol leader Chris Clem has sharply criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of illegal immigration. Clem, who served for over 27 years with Border Patrol, said this week that Harris must take ownership of the crisis, stating, “You own this. You can’t say, ‘It’s not my responsibility.'”
“The numbers don’t lie,” Clem said, describing the current situation as “disastrous.”
Harris, appointed by Joe Biden to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration, is trying to disown the “border czar” title attributed to her by politicians and media alike. She hardly visited the U.S. southern frontier and refused invitations to visit from border states such as Arizona in 2021.
Chris Clem is not the only border official to criticize Harris since she became the presumptive Democratic Party nominee. Brandon Judd, President of the National Border Patrol Council, stated this week that Harris was made aware of the policies needed to end the border crisis but refused to implement any of them.
Speaking at a rally alongside former President Donald J. Trump, Judd said, “She does not care about you; she does not care about the safety of this country. [Trump] does.”
Raul Ortiz, another former Border Patrol leader, stated earlier this year that, during his tenure, Harris never met with him.
Former Border Patrol leader Chris Clem has sharply criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of illegal immigration. Clem, who served for over 27 years with Border Patrol, said this week that Harris must take ownership of the crisis, stating, "You own this. You can't say, 'It's not my responsibility.'"
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The House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump. The committee will be empowered to review the actions taken by federal, state, and local agencies, officers, and other entities involved in the attempt on Trump’s life.
Introduced by Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), H.R. 1367 passed with all 416 present Members of the House voting in favor. Among the task force’s duties will be scrutinizing United States Secret Service (USSS) security lapses that allowed would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire a reported eight rounds at former President Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Two Trump supporters were wounded in the shooting, while rallygoer Corey Comperatore was killed while shielding his family from the gunfire.
SECRET SERVICE CHIEF RESIGNS.
The resolution was prompted by the resignation of USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle following a disastrous hearing where Cheatle was called “full of shit” by Republican representative Nancy Mace after the now-former USSS director refused to answer simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions. Another lawmaker, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX), stated he re-created the shooting and was able to land 15 of 16 shots he fired, saying it was a miracle Trump managed to survive the attempt on his life.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Chris Wray, meanwhile, stated that Crooks had targeted Trump specifically and had researched Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Wray also noted that Crooks had used a drone at the rally site and may have attempted to livestream his footage prior to the shooting.
BIPARTISAN TASK FORCE.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) jointly announced the task force’s composition, which includes seven Republicans and six Democrats.
“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,” Johnson said on X.
The task force is charged with delivering a comprehensive report to the House by December 13, 2024.
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The House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump. The committee will be empowered to review the actions taken by federal, state, and local agencies, officers, and other entities involved in the attempt on Trump's life.
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) expressed concern this week regarding Joe Biden’s intentions to radically transform the U.S. Supreme Court, accusing the 81-year-old Democrat of launching an effort to undermine the institution. The Texas Republican said that by “reform,” Biden means he wants to “destroy” the court in comments made during the latest episode of his “Verdict” podcast.
Discussing Biden‘s Oval Office address Wednesday evening, Cruz told his co-host, Ben Ferguson, “[U]nderstand by the word reform, he means destroy the Supreme Court. What he wants to do is utterly politicize it.” During the national address on July 24, Biden emphasized he intends to spend the final six months he has in office focused on ramping up efforts to fundamentally alter the nature of the high court—including proposals to enact term limits and pack the court with liberal judges.
Cruz referenced former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the court with supportive judges. Even though Roosevelt, a Democrat, had large majorities in both Congressional chambers, Democrats in Congress at the time opposed the idea. According to the Texas Senator, lawmakers at that time understood the importance of maintaining an independent court committed to the Constitution and the rule of law.
The Republican Senator, who faces a re-election challenge from Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), said he worries no Democrats are willing to oppose radical changes today. Consequently, he argues that if Kamala Harris becomes President and Democrats gain a narrow margin in the Senate, they would end the filibuster, allowing them to change the composition of the Supreme Court with 50 votes.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) expressed concern this week regarding Joe Biden’s intentions to radically transform the U.S. Supreme Court, accusing the 81-year-old Democrat of launching an effort to undermine the institution. The Texas Republican said that by "reform," Biden means he wants to "destroy" the court in comments made during the latest episode of his "Verdict" podcast.
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Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to serve as the rural broadband czar in 2021. Part of her task was overseeing the implementation of a $42 billion program to connect Americans in rural and remote parts of the country to the Internet. According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr, however, after almost 1,000 days, not a single person has actually been connected to the web.
“Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been wired to fail,” FCC Commissioner Carr wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He added: “President Biden put VP Harris in charge of this effort back in 2021 and 982 days later not [one] person has been connected.”
The National Pulse reported on the rural broadband program’s looming failure in June, noting that no project receiving funds from the $42 billion plan will break ground before 2025. Internet service providers (ISPs) and lawmakers on Capitol Hill contend the Biden-Harris government’s burdensome regulations—including climate change mandates, union worker requirements, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies—have brought progress on expanding rural Internet access to a halt.
Additionally, the ISPs point to attempts by the Biden-Harris Commerce Department to regulate consumer rates in a manner beyond the agency’s authority as a reason for the program’s ineffectiveness. This could soon change with the recent Supreme Court ruling effectively ending Chevron deference, which allowed for such instances of regulatory overreach.
Commissioner Carr has warned that the Biden-Harris government estimates claiming the program is on track to break ground in 2025 and see substantial progress by 2026 are overly optimistic. According to Carr, the projects overseen by Harris won’t be near completion in many underserved areas until 2030.
NEW: Hundreds of broadband infrastructure builders are now sounding the alarm, writing that the $42 billion plan to expand Internet has been wired to fail.
Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to serve as the rural broadband czar in 2021. Part of her task was overseeing the implementation of a $42 billion program to connect Americans in rural and remote parts of the country to the Internet. According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr, however, after almost 1,000 days, not a single person has actually been connected to the web.
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A YouGov poll found that among voters under 30, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was more popular than the Conservative Party in this month’s general election.
The poll of 35,000 voters found that 9.5 percent voted for Reform UK, compared to 8 percent for the Tories. Reform is the third most popular party among young people after Labour and the Green Party.
“The youth thing is really interesting, something very big is happening,” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP said Tuesday.
The polling echoes a trend experienced by other anti-establishment and populist right-wing parties across Europe, which have also seen surges in support from younger voters.
In France, Marine Le Pen‘s National Rally (RN) was able to secure 30 percent of the youth vote in the European parliament elections this year, up 10 points from the 2019 election.
In Germany, a song about deportation became a viral sensation among young people this summer as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the most popular party among 14 to 29-year-olds in Germany.
Professor Klaus Hurrelmann claimed that the popularity of the AfD among young people showed a shift to anxiety over the country’s future and an increased fear of instability, both economic and geopolitical.
Mathieu Gallard, research director at Ipsos, explained that immigration was a major factor driving people toward populist parties, and that seems to be the major issue among those young voters.
In the UK, Reform UK campaigned on net zero immigration, meaning that the party promised to only allow in as many immigrants as those who left the country each year.
The Tories, meanwhile, oversaw the largest legal and illegalmigration wave the UK has ever seen during their tenure in government.
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A YouGov poll found that among voters under 30, Nigel Farage's Reform UK was more popular than the Conservative Party in this month's general election.
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A freedom of information request has revealed that Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) contacted police over a social media post from a gun rights group after she suggested a possible ban on so-called assault weapons. The documents indicate that the governor’s staff referred posts from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the Maine Wire newspaper to the State Police.
The incident stems from a post on X (formerly Twitter) from last December featuring a video where Gov. Mills discussed potential firearm regulations following a shooting in Lewiston. The FPC reposted the video with the blunt message “Fuck you, no,” which led to the governor’s press secretary flagging the post and sending it to the Maine State Police.
The motivations behind treating advocacy from a prominent gun rights organization as a security issue remain unclear from the emails. However, there have been prior instances of Democratic officials in Maine, including Secretary of State Shenna Bellows‘s office, seeking investigations into social media posts without apparent justification.
Democrats have previously attempted to use social media platforms to ban right-wing voices online. One of the most high-profile instances was the Biden-Harris government colluding with Twitter to censor Americans before billionaire Elon Musk purchased the company in October 2022.
The Twitter Files, published in 2022 after Musk took over, revealed collusion between the deep state, including the FBI, and social media.
Additionally, tech mogul Mark Zuckerberg has colluded with government agencies to censor the speech of Americans on his Facebook social media platform.
The case in Maine also echoes the Democrats’ willingness to use the police or the court system against opponents, with the prime example being the myriad of charges against former President Donald J. Trump.
A freedom of information request has revealed that Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) contacted police over a social media post from a gun rights group after she suggested a possible ban on so-called assault weapons. The documents indicate that the governor's staff referred posts from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the Maine Wire newspaper to the State Police.
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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, who has been currying favor with the European Union’s establishment since becoming Prime Minister, has secured several posts for her European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament. The Patriots for Europe group spearheaded by Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who has stood up to the EU more resolutely, have been totally sidelined.
The newly formed Patriots are the European Parliament’s third-largest bloc, with 84 Members of the European Parliament (MEP). Orban’s Fidesz party and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) are the main forces in the grouping. However, they have been excluded from all leadership positions in the European Parliament.
Meanwhile, Meloni’s ECR has gained multiple parliamentary vice presidencies despite having fewer MEPs than the Patriots, seemingly as a reward for submitting to the globalist groupings that hold sway in the EU.
The favor shown to the ECR over the Patriots, despite the Patriots having more seats, has triggered accusations of undemocratic practices.
ABANDONING POPULISM.
After the European Parliament elections, Meloni made it clear that she rejected an alliance with Orban, seemingly a natural ally.
The developments highlight the different paths undertaken by Orban and Meloni. The Hungarian leader, whose country now holds the rotating European Council presidency, is focused on stopping mass migration and trying to bring peace to Europe by visiting Ukraine, Russia, and China in attempts to facilitate negotiations.
Orban has also spoken with former President Donald J. Trump, who has promised to end the Ukraine war if elected President in November.
In retaliation for Orban’s overseas visits and for saying the EU has a “pro-war policy,” EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell stated that upcoming key meetings of foreign and defense ministers would be moved out of Hungary.
Meanwhile, Meloni has sought the approval of the EU establishment, putting more effort into supporting Ukraine than delivering on her election promises to stop slash immigration. In July 2023, she went so far as to parrot the establishment line that “Europe and Italy need immigration.”
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Italy's Giorgia Meloni, who has been currying favor with the European Union's establishment since becoming Prime Minister, has secured several posts for her European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament. The Patriots for Europe group spearheaded by Hungary's Viktor Orban, who has stood up to the EU more resolutely, have been totally sidelined.
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Germany’s governing coalition, alongside the largest opposition party, the “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has unveiled a constitutional reform plan to prevent populists from changing the Federal Constitutional Court. The coalition will introduce a draft law that is expected to pass before the end of its term in 2025.
Key provisions of the proposed law include integrating the court, currently based in Karlsruhe, into the national constitution. It also imposes an age limit of 68 years and limits judges’ terms to 12 years.
Most importantly, the new law will require a two-thirds majority in both chambers of the German parliament to reform the court, which currently can be reformed by a simple majority vote.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann explained the changes were needed due to the “erosion of the rule of law in countries such as Poland and Hungary and the strengthening of the AfD,” referring to the populist Alternative for Germany party.
ENTRENCHING THE STATUS QUO.
This move comes amid the growing popularity of the AfD, which outperformed every individual party in the ruling coalition during recent European elections amid surging crime and ongoing mass migration.
The populist party also leads polls in some German states, particularly in the former East Germany.
In the state of Brandenburg, the AfD is in first place heading into the state election in September, with the left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht alliance catching up to the mainstream parties as well.
The previous populist government in Poland passed court reforms to excise hangovers from the communist era and reduce the influence of the globalist left, which had been stacking the courts to undermine any populist government. These reforms led to frequent clashes with the European Union, which supported the globalist status quo.
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court holds significant sway in the country. It has historically weighed in on crucial matters such as Eurozone bailouts. It is composed of justices elected by both the Bundestag and state governments.
The new proposal comes as some in Germany’s parliament is mounting efforts to outright ban the AfD, so it cannot defeat the establishment parties at the ballot box.
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Germany's governing coalition, alongside the largest opposition party, the "center-right" Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has unveiled a constitutional reform plan to prevent populists from changing the Federal Constitutional Court. The coalition will introduce a draft law that is expected to pass before the end of its term in 2025.
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Marine Le Pen‘s National Rally (RN) intends to support a motion by the left-populist France Unbowed (LFI) party to scrap President Emmanuel Macron‘s controversial increase in the state pension age. Led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, LFI is the largest party in the far-left coalition that won the most seats in France’s snap legislative elections.
Macron’s changes to social security, which sparked widespread protests and riots last year, raised the retirement age from 62 to 64. It was implemented despite France allowing mass migration, punching holes in pro-immigration arguments that migrants will pay for pensions and other welfare benefits as Western populations age.
President Donald J. Trump has previously argued that illegal aliens are ruining social security in the U.S. as they are drain public benefits.
As Macron did not have a majority in parliament last year, he used presidential powers that allow the government to force through legislation even without the majority of votes in the National Assembly, but such powers will be harder to deploy now the pro-Macron faction in the legislature has fewer seats than the far left.
Loiret Thomas Ménagé, a National Rally lawmaker, commented on the leftist proposal to repeal Macron’s pension reforms saying, “The only majority available on this text is with the deputies of the RN group. The repeal of the pension reform is also part of our program.”
Marine Le Pen also stated on Tuesday that she intends to table a similar piece of legislation later this year on October 31, saying, “We will then see who will be on the side of social justice… or not!”
While France’s establishment and far-left parties have previously refused to support any legislation tabled by Le Pen‘s party, the RN has supported measures from other parties they have deemed to be in the interests of the French people.
Despite the RN supporting the left on pensions, they have colluded with the Macronist faction to prevent the right-populists—who placed first by share of the popular vote—from gaining any key positions within the new parliament.
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Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) intends to support a motion by the left-populist France Unbowed (LFI) party to scrap President Emmanuel Macron's controversial increase in the state pension age. Led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, LFI is the largest party in the far-left coalition that won the most seats in France's snap legislative elections.
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Corporate media outlets are claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris was never in charge of the southern border, despite labeling her Joe Biden’s “border czar” repeatedly.
In an article published July 24, Axios blames Donald J. Trump’s campaign for tagging Harris with the title “border czar.” On X, however, users noticed that Axios themselves referred to Harris as a “border czar” on at least three occasions in 2021, when Biden gave her special responsibility for illegal immigration.
In one April 2021 article—by the same —Axios stated, “The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border has reached crisis levels. Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the ‘root causes’ that drive migration.”
Other media outlets, including the BBC, have also referred to Harris as a “border czar.” Many see her as to blame for the ongoing border crisis, as Biden did put her in charge of migration from Central America.
She and her media allies have indeed tried to decouple her from the border since almost the moment Biden put her in charge of bringing down illegal immigration. Harris herself rebuked Biden for saying she was in charge of the immigration at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, according to a book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, insisting she was only responsible for the “Northern Triangle” of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. However, she has failed to control immigration from—and even through—these three countries.
The book says she frequently clashed with Biden and his “white inner circle,” which found her “fixat[ion] on real and perceived snubs… tedious.” The two now claim they “love” each other.
KAMALA’S ALBATROSS.
The border connection is a major liability for Harris as she heads towards the November election, considering the government’s disastrous record of letting in millions of illegals into the United States.
The immigrant population has surged to over 46 million overall under the Biden-Harris regime, increasing dramatically since former President Trump left office.
Earlier this year, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that half of the immigrants who arrived both illegally and legally over the last two years are unemployed, undercutting arguments that migrants are needed to take jobs Americans will not do.
Earlier this week, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles introduced articles of impeachment against the Vice President, specifically citing her failure to manage the border.
AXIOS BACKPEDDLES.
Since Axios attempted to obfuscate Harris’s role in immigration and border security policy, the publication has added an editor’s note to its story stating: “This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ back in 2021.”
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Corporate media outlets are claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris was never in charge of the southern border, despite labeling her Joe Biden's "border czar" repeatedly.
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