The Democrat-controlled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> voted on Wednesday to quash a pair of <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">articles of impeachment</a> against Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a>, ending a months-long effort by Republicans to hold the Cabinet official accountable for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handling of</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> before a full trial could be held.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> impeachment managers tasked with prosecuting the case did not even get a chance to speak when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Le9FYWgrqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the proceedings</a> wrapped up in one afternoon. Senators were sworn in as jurors, fought over how to conduct the trial for a couple of hours, and ultimately voted 51-48 to nix one article of impeachment and 51-49 to crush the second.
The impeachment charges accused Mayorkas &#8220;willfully and systemically&#8221; refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and alleged he &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; with false statements and obstructing lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Back in January, Mayorkas <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1752349544925294720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> he was facing &#8220;false accusations&#8221; that &#8220;do not rattle me and do not divert me from the law enforcement and broader public service mission to which I have devoted most of my career and to which I remain devoted.”
One week after a failed attempt to advance the articles, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-impeaches-mayorkas-in-second-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the impeachment resolution by a 214-213 vote in mid-February, making Mayorkas the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876. Three Republican lawmakers broke ranks and joined Democrats in opposing it.
On Tuesday, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-articles-of-impeachment-against-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transferred</a> the articles to the Senate and the lead impeachment manager, House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), read aloud the articles in the Senate chamber.
Republicans pushed for a full trial to take place. Were that to happen, a two-thirds vote would have eventually been required for a conviction that would remove Mayorkas from office.
&#8220;If the Senate fails to hold a trial, it is an endorsement of [President Joe] Biden’s border catastrophe,&#8221; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-articles-of-impeachment-against-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> in a post to X before the proceedings began on Wednesday. House Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1780634428970094674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> &#8220;policy disagreements are not a legitimate basis for impeachment.&#8221;
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During the trial, presided over by Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-WA), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled a <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1780661212172181610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> allowing for limited debate followed by motions to dismiss, but that strategy was quickly abandoned when Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780669344357200338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">objected</a>.
Schumer then moved to effectively discard each of the articles on the view that they were unconstitutional because they failed to rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. He used a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/research-tools/glossary.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">point of order</a>, which the Senate glossary says is a &#8220;claim made by a senator or representative from the floor that a rule of the Chamber is being violated,&#8221; that led to a vote to kill each article of impeachment.
Republicans sought to prolong the proceedings after Schumer made each point of order, offering an assortment of motions that included moving to a closed session and <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1780686389538893890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adjourning</a> the court of impeachment for weeks or months, but each one got voted down.
&#8220;Our colleagues know that we are obligated to take these proceedings seriously,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780675855909314915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before introducing one of the motions. He added, &#8220;This process must not be abused. It must not be short-circuited. History will not judge this moment well.&#8221;
After both points of order prevailed in rejecting the articles of impeachment, Schumer teed up a vote to dismiss the trial. It succeeded by a 51-49 vote.
The Senate <a href="https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently has</a> 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and three independents who caucus with the Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the sole Republican to vote &#8220;present&#8221; on the point of order that squelched the first article of impeachment, but she voted with her fellow Republicans to preserve the second one.
Whereas McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780697623965716980" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> after the trial that lawmakers &#8220;set a very unfortunate precedent here,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/Jvguzm/status/1780707712831262830" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that using impeachment to replace &#8220;policy disagreements&#8221; would set a &#8220;dangerous precedent.&#8221; A White House spokesman released a statement that <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1780699835756364010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Senate &#8220;rightly voted down&#8221; the impeachment effort.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Senate Kills Mayorkas Impeachment Articles Without Full Trial

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U.S. Senate

The branch of the Department of Homeland Security that handles transnational criminal investigations is rebranding itself in the hopes that major Democratic-controlled cities will cooperate with it.
The Department of Homeland Security’s investigative branch, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), is rebranding and scrubbing agents’ contact information of connections to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which HSI technically exists. HSI officials have complained that the politics connected to ICE have made their jobs increasingly difficult in areas with “sanctuary city” laws, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/04/15/homeland-security-immigration-customs-enforcement/">The Washington Post</a>.
&#8220;HSI’s &#8216;independent branding&#8217; will allow its agents &#8216;to work without the undue toxicity that in some places comes with the ICE moniker,'&#8221; according to the Post. “They’ll still be part of ICE, just like the Marines are part of the Department of the Navy,” ICE acting director Patrick Lechleitner said. 
HSI will roll out a new website empty of references to ICE, as well as a new agency insignia and badges for its agents that are similarly free of the ICE connection.
To make HSI an independent agency, which is what some officials have pushed for over the politics connected to ICE, an act of Congress would be required. The rebranding can avoid the hassle of navigating Capitol Hill while having the same effect, or so the hope goes.
HSI agents have been repeatedly blocked or refused information from local officials and police departments that operate under areas with sanctuary city laws. HSI officials say the agency’s connection to ICE gives people the wrong impression. Though HSI operates under ICE, it does not handle the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants. HSI’s main focus is investigating transnational crime and gangs.
“We try to the best ability within the entire agency to be apolitical,” Lechleitner said. “We’re not a political organization. We’re a law enforcement, national security, public safety agency. However, it was affecting HSI’s ability to conduct operations and investigations.”
The Department of Homeland Security has fallen deeper into divisive politics under President Joe Biden. The House impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who now awaits his trial in the Senate. House lawmakers impeached Mayorkas, the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in 150 years, on two articles for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.”
Illegal immigration into the United States has exploded under Biden and Mayorkas’ tenure. The monthly record for the number of illegal border crossings was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-crossings-mexico-biden-18ac91ef502e0c5433f74de6cc629b32">broken</a> in December when Border Patrol agents reported just under 250,000 arrests at the southern border. The numbers have fallen slightly since the start of the year, though they remain at historically high levels.

DHS Investigative Unit Scrubs ICE Connection So Sanctuary Cities Might Cooperate

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Washington D.C.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas admitted to Congress on Wednesday that an employee who was exposed by The Daily Wire as a Hamas supporter remains on the Department of Homeland Security payroll, even as she gloats about her employment online.
Nejwa Ali was placed on leave following The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-u-s-govt-hired-a-pro-hamas-plo-spokeswoman-to-handle-asylum-claims">report on October 18</a> about her posts celebrating the Hamas attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,000. At the close of a Wednesday <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/legislation/hearings/budget-hearing-fiscal-year-2025-request-department-homeland-security">congressional hearing</a> about DHS finances, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), who chairs the subcommittee responsible for the agency&#8217;s funding, asked Mayorkas whether Ali was still on the payroll.
&#8220;Since we&#8217;re talking about finances here&#8230; after the horrific terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, one of your employees was exposed celebrating the attack online. It was later revealed that she previously worked for the [Palestinian] Liberation Organization, or what&#8217;s commonly known as the PLO, which is a very troublesome reputation, you&#8217;d agree. According to a public comment she made on LinkedIn as of two months ago, she was still getting paid by the department&#8230; What is the status of the investigation into her behavior?&#8221;
Mayorkas said that the &#8220;individual is on administrative leave, not performing the duties and responsibilities for which she was hired,&#8221; but that &#8220;the investigation is ongoing&#8221; and that he &#8220;cannot speak any further about it because it is an ongoing personnel matter.&#8221;
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BREAKING: DHS Secretary Mayorkas confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDaveJoyce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDaveJoyce</a> that a Hamas-supporting employee remains on the payroll, even as she gloats online about her paid vacation. Nejwa Ali, a former PLO spokesman hired to vet refugees, is unrepentant but an &quot;investigation&quot; has taken 6 months <a href="https://t.co/fbykxHh1aP">pic.twitter.com/fbykxHh1aP</a>
&mdash; Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) <a href="https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1778170004178939967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ali was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-u-s-govt-hired-a-pro-hamas-plo-spokeswoman-to-handle-asylum-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spokeswoman for the PLO</a> who was hired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after the PLO was banned from Washington. Her job was to vet people who claimed to qualify for asylum, reviewing evidence to &#8220;determine fraud of security concerns&#8221; and to &#8220;perform credible fear interviews&#8221; that determine whether the person is actually fleeing persecution, or is just lying to get into the country.
She posted incessantly on various social media platforms almost exclusively about Israel, with her bio saying she is &#8220;Palestinian @ heart.&#8221; That included sharing an image glorifying the Hamas hang-gliders parachuting into a music concert with guns.
“F*** Israel and any Jew that supports Israel,” said one of her comments.
Agency spokesman Matthew Bourke told The Daily Wire at the time that it “strongly condemns anti-Semitism and the use of violent rhetoric in any form.” Yet she remains on the payroll, even though she openly admits her support for terrorism.
Ali has used her paid leave to protest in front of the Israel embassy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-agent-who-celebrates-hamas-is-using-paid-leave-from-dhs-to-threaten-military-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during work hours</a>, and to dox military members there, The Daily Wire reported in December.
Since then, she has gloated on LinkedIn about Mayorkas&#8217; refusal to fire her. When someone posted, &#8220;USCIS [please] review your employee&#8217;s posts,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;yes, please do!&#8221;
When someone wrote, &#8220;When you do everything you can to get fired but the boss says NO&#8221; she replied with a stream of laughing emotions and wrote, &#8220;hilarious, seriously.&#8221;
When someone posted that Ali &#8220;hasn&#8217;t yet been fired by&#8221; Mayorkas, Ali commented that she was &#8220;still laughing too. #freePalestine from APARTHEID Israel.&#8221;
When a military member commented on another one of her anti-Israel rants that &#8220;this is why you&#8217;ve been fired from your homeland security job,&#8221; she said: &#8220;I&#8217;m still being paid, but thanks&#8230; You&#8217;re a privileged white woman.&#8221;
Another LinkedIn user said, &#8220;Nejwa, as much as I believe in free speech and every American being entitled to develop and express their own opinion, tha [sic] ends when you&#8217;re a representative of the US and mpre [sic] implicitly, when dealing with immigration with the very people you are calling for total annihilation against.&#8221;
Ali replied: &#8220;Listen white women, shut the F*** UP.&#8221;
Joyce, the congressman, asked Mayorkas if others had also been investigated for Hamas loyalty, and Mayorkas said he was not aware of any. Mayorkas indicated that its vetting process had not been updated, but insisted that &#8220;individuals who are hired go through a clearing process.&#8221;
Reached by The Daily Wire following her initial posts, Ali confirmed her support for terrorists: &#8220;I abso-f&#8212;ing-lutely celebrate them, a&#8211;hole, f&#8212; you!&#8221; Ali said, in a call that was recorded by The Daily Wire.
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UPDATE: DHS/USCIS says the former PLO spox has been placed on administrative leave from her job vetting immigrants.
PLUS NEW AUDIO: She reaffirmed her allegiance to Hamas THIS AFTERNOON, saying of hang-gliders: &quot;I abso-fucking-lutely celebrate them, asshole, fuck you!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BJry1EisZe">https://t.co/BJry1EisZe</a> <a href="https://t.co/FPrQbjAPak">pic.twitter.com/FPrQbjAPak</a>
&mdash; Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) <a href="https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1714769461834633687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Mayorkas Confirms He’s Still Paying Hamas-Supporting DHS Agent, Who’s Been Gloating About Her ‘Paid’ Vacation

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An agency under the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> (DHS) of the Biden administration announced on Monday a third gender option, &#8220;X,&#8221; defined as &#8220;Another Gender Identity&#8221; for immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-provides-third-gender-option-on-form-n-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on its website that the option will appear on the revised N-400 application for naturalization.
The agency also noted that it is updating its policy manual &#8220;accordingly to account for this form revision and other forthcoming revisions that will add a third gender option.&#8221;
Applicants who have a pending form were advised they may request to update their gender.
&#8220;For all other forms, individuals must wait until USCIS revises those forms to include the X gender option,&#8221; the post added.
Because the announcement was made on April Fools&#8217; Day, which falls on April 1 every year, journalists and others posted about how this was not some prank.
&#8220;The US agency tasked with handling asylum claims, visas, and citizenship announces it will now offer &#8216;X&#8217; as a third gender identity. No, it’s not an April Fools joke,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1774869971103011137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
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The US agency tasked with handling asylum claims, visas, and citizenship announces it will now offer “X” as a third gender identity. No, it’s not an April Fools joke. <a href="https://t.co/vv3rJpiYAz">https://t.co/vv3rJpiYAz</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1774869971103011137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Others mocked and criticized the Biden administration for making the change while there are pressing border security issues.
&#8220;Crossing the border is inclusive,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1774886620417941593" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley.
&#8220;The Biden Administration has just launched a new [campaign] to convert transgender migrants into U.S. citizens,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1774872250866356398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Stephen Miller, who served as an adviser to former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) brought up Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-expand-laken-riley-probe-seeking-immigration-details-on-alleged-murderers-brothers?0=utm_source=ground.news&amp;1=utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly murdered</a> by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant.
&#8220;Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is too busy implementing woke DEI gender policies to protect Americans and secure the border,&#8221; Biggs <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1774852822556692697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X.
&#8220;I’m sure Laken Riley’s family is relieved to know that immigrants can now register as &#8216;Gender X,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Close the border.&#8221;
The Biden administration has taken other steps toward integrating gender ideology over the years.
In 2022, the State Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-rolls-out-gender-neutral-passports-americans-can-now-identify-as-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rolled out</a> passports in which U.S. citizens could select &#8220;X&#8221; as their gender instead of male or female.
DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/03/31/dhs-announces-new-measures-better-serve-transgender-non-binary-and-gender-non" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> reforms that it said were meant to &#8220;better serve&#8221; transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming Americans, such as accepting &#8220;X&#8221; as a gender marker for TSA PreCheck applications.
This year, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-stands-by-transgender-day-of-visibility-on-easter-amid-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced backlash</a> when it celebrated &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; because its usual date of March 31 fell on Easter Sunday.

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‘Not An April Fools Joke’: Biden Admin Unveils ‘X’ As Third Gender Identity For Immigrants

‘Not An April Fools Joke’: Biden Admin Unveils 'X' As Third Gender Identity For Immigrants

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The GOP-led House plans to send the <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment articles</a> against Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handling of</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> to the Senate next month.
Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) and the impeachment managers <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1773394272714195154">sent a letter</a> to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday saying they would present the articles on April 10.
&#8220;We urge you to schedule a trial of the matter expeditiously,&#8221; they wrote, adding later, &#8220;We call upon you to fulfill your constitutional obligation to hold this trial. The American people demand a secure border, an end to this crisis, and accountability for those responsible.&#8221;
Roughly six weeks ago, in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-impeaches-mayorkas-in-second-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second attempt</a>, House lawmakers narrowly passed two articles of impeachment that accuse Mayorkas of &#8220;willfully and systemically&#8221; refusing to comply with federal immigration laws, and the other alleged he &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; with false statements and obstructing lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Schumer&#8217;s office responded by <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1757570767376547950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that House impeachment managers &#8220;will present the articles of impeachment to the Senate following the state work period,&#8221; suggesting that a trial <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/2024_schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could have</a> started as early as late February. The office added that senators &#8220;will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day,&#8221; and Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-WA) will preside.
In the intervening weeks, Congress scrambled to pass two waves of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-passes-massive-spending-bill-in-middle-of-the-night" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spending legislation</a> to avert a government shutdown. House lawmakers also held a public hearing in the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
In a new statement following the House letter, Schumer&#8217;s office <a href="https://twitter.com/jordainc/status/1773397310304559368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reiterated</a>, &#8220;As we have said previously, after the House impeachment managers present the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the next day. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray will preside.”
A <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-thirds vote</a> is required for a conviction in the Democrat-led Senate, which would lead to removal from office. But the articles may not make it far with a motion to table, which, according to the Senate glossary, is &#8220;a proposal to set aside any pending question. Used to dispose of a question the Chamber does not want to consider further. Agreement to the motion is equivalent to defeating the question tabled.&#8221;
Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) and a dozen Republican colleagues <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1759946709151502612" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in February <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-warn-dems-may-dispense-with-mayorkas-impeachment-articles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stressing</a> that it is &#8220;imperative that the Senate Republican conference prepare to fully engage our Constitutional duty and hold a trial.&#8221;
Briefings by McConnell&#8217;s staff indicate Senate Democrats &#8220;intend to dispense with the articles of impeachment by simply tabling both individually,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;This is an action rarely contemplated and never taken by the U.S. Senate in the history of our Republic.&#8221;
Lee and his colleagues ended the letter by calling on McConnell to &#8220;join us in our efforts to jettison this approach by Democrats to shirk their Constitutional duty, ensure that the Senate conducts a proper trial, and that every Senator, Republican and Democrat, adjudicate this matter when the Senate returns.&#8221;
McConnell later <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1762568469667602510" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters that he thought a full Senate trial &#8220;would be the best way to go forward.&#8221;
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Johnson and the 10 impeachment managers, including Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) and Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), warned: &#8220;To table articles of impeachment without ever hearing a single argument or reviewing a piece of evidence would be a violation of our constitutional order and an affront to the American people whom we all serve.&#8221;
Democrats have criticized the impeachment proceedings <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-committee-picks-date-to-consider-mayorkas-impeachment-articles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a &#8220;political stunt</a>,&#8221; while Mayorkas <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1752349544925294720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back against</a> what he called &#8220;false accusations&#8221; levied against him. A DHS spokesperson reacted to the successful impeachment vote last month by <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1757562709107761523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border.&#8221;

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

House Picks Date To Present Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate

Mike Johnson

Politics

The Biden administration is reportedly considering expanding noncitizens’ access to green cards, which confer legal permanent residence in the U.S.
White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are looking into expanding the “cancellation of removal” program. Officials are working on actions the president could take, possibly this summer, to blunt criticism of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/what-happened-to-bidens-executive-actions-on-the-border-00148717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
Immigrants undergoing deportation proceedings in immigration court can <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/cancellation_of_removal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apply</a> for “cancellation of removal.” If eligible, applicants may be given a green card and lawful permanent residence in the U.S.
The cancellation process is <a href="https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1596141/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">limited</a> to 4,000 people each year, and the applicant must be undergoing deportation proceedings to apply. To qualify, the applicant must have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, be of “good moral character,” not have been convicted of disqualifying crimes, and have a family member who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident who would “suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” if the applicant is deported.
The program is only defensive, meaning that immigrants cannot apply until they officially enter into deportation proceedings in an immigration court. It’s unclear how the Biden administration may intend to broaden out the process.
A group of Democratic lawmakers last year pressed the Biden administration to consider expanding the cancellation of removal process. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, and Alex Padilla of California <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/foia/CancellationofRemoval-SenatorCortezMasto.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to officials at DHS and the Department of Justice in May 2023, pushing them to make cancellation of removal proceedings “more accessible.”
The letter urges a reform of the program that would allow immigrants to apply for a review of their case outside of deportation proceedings. If the applicant is found to be a good candidate for the program and a green card, officials would then start deportation proceedings to allow the immigrant to officially apply for cancellation of removal.
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“It is estimated that 1.2 million undocumented individuals are married to a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, and about 4.1 million U.S. citizen children have undocumented parents,” the senators wrote. “Establishing a new process for cancellation of removal could have a significant positive impact on many of those individuals and help deliver on the administration’s commitment to immigrant families who deserve to stay together and live and work in the communities they call home.”
Ur Jaddou, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at DHS, responded to the letter in July 2023.
“DHS will consider your recommendation to establish a new process and will examine pre-existing policy and process options that may be available to noncitizens who may be eligible for cancellation of removal, but who are not in removal proceedings,” Jaddou wrote.

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Report: Biden Admin Eyes Expanding Green Card Access In Deportation Cases

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Top House lawmakers received a classified briefing on Thursday from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> and the Drug Enforcement Agency on the proliferation of illegal Chinese-backed marijuana farms across the United States.
Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), who heads up the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, and Rep. Clay Higgins, who leads the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, alongside other committee members, received the briefing from the DHS, DEA, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a committee spokesman told The Daily Wire.
According to the spokesman, the briefing focused on “the recent trend in illicit marijuana grow operations within the homeland by People’s Republic of China (PRC) nationals,” as well as how federal “entities are working to combat the issue.”
In the last several years, Chinese-backed marijuana operations have cropped up across the United States, including major drug busts in New Mexico and <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chinese-marijuana-grows-are-all-over-maine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maine</a>. In Maine alone, Border Patrol has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-chinese-marijuana-grow-operations-worth-billions-cropping-up-in-maine-border-patrol-memo">reportedly</a> identified at least 270 illegal marijuana grow operations throughout the state that are worth billions of dollars.
In November, a suspected Chinese national <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspect-massive-church-marijuana-operation-was-run-by-chinese-foreign-national" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> in rural Tennessee for allegedly operating a large marijuana growing operation out of an old church. A Daily Wire request for the police report on the arrest was denied due to an ongoing investigation into the operation.
“The Committee continues to conduct oversight of the federal government’s response to the worrying trend of illicit Chinese-operated marijuana farms,” the spokesman added. “Many of these operations work in conjunction with transnational criminal organizations, engage in human trafficking and force labor practices, and pose serious threats to public safety. The Committee is committed to combating the threats posed by transnational criminal organizations and countering the malign influence of the PRC on U.S. soil.”
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The briefing comes after House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN), Pfluger, and Higgins <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-republicans-investigating-spread-of-chinese-backed-marijuana-farms-in-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested a briefing</a> from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the DEA Administrator Anne Milgram in a letter first reported on by The Daily Wire.
“Illicit Chinese-operated marijuana farms have been found across the country and pose significant risks to our nation’s security,” the lawmakers wrote. “In addition, Chinese investors have financed some of these illegal operations, and these investments include cash payment for large swaths of land to conduct these operations.”

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‘Worrying’: Top Lawmakers Receive Classified Briefing On Spread Of Chinese-Backed Marijuana Farms In United States

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The Biden administration failed to file court papers in hundreds of thousands of deportation cases, which were as a result tossed by judges.
The Department of Homeland Security enforces immigration laws by issuing a Notice to Appear (NTA) to each illegal immigrant and filing it in court. But in approximately 200,000 cases in which NTAs were issued to aliens at the border, triggering the creation of a court date, DHS never filed the actual paper with the court, according to <a href="https://trac.syr.edu/reports/739/">new data obtained</a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an academic group better known as TRAC.
In immigration courts in Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, both immigration hotbeds, more than half of their deportation cases have been dismissed for that reason since fiscal year 2021.
“These large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” the nonpartisan group, affiliated with Syracuse University, said in its report. The percentage of immigration cases that were dismissed skyrocketed immediately upon President Joe Biden taking office, rising from 0.1% in 2017 and 1.2% in 2019 to 10.6% in 2021.
The percentage of cases dismissed has shrunk since that peak, but with the number of illegal border-crossers at record highs, the actual number of dismissals was far higher in 2022 and 2023 than at any time on record.  
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If the case is dismissed because the government has not filed paperwork by the time the court date rolls around, the government can simply file a new case against the alien. But TRAC obtained data that allowed it to see that nearly 75% of the time, DHS never bothered to do so. 
That has remained constant through Biden’s term. And, in some cases, what would appear to be a clerical mistake is virtually never corrected: At the DHS’ Baltimore location, it made a second attempt at deporting the alien only 2% of the time.
“This suggests that in three-quarters of these 200,000 cases the immigrant was effectively left in legal limbo without any way to pursue asylum or other means of relief,” TRAC wrote.
The data experts at TRAC have frequently complained that immigration agencies have been tight-lipped and prone to turning over faulty or incomplete data.
&#8220;No information to our knowledge has been publicly released by DHS on why and where these problems occur,&#8221; it wrote. “Troubling is the almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred. Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases.”
TRAC previously reported that 50,000 asylum files <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-records-went-missing-false-impression-backlog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mysteriously disappeared</a>, allowing the Biden administration to “falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown.”
The Biden administration’s failure to file papers has the effect of jamming up immigration courts because time on the docket is reserved, but never used.
The dramatic change in immigration stats lining up precisely with Biden’s inauguration contradicts the president’s assertion that he cannot crack down on illegal immigration unless Congress passes new laws.

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200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed Because Biden Admin Failed To File Paperwork

Congressional leaders announced on Tuesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal 2024, which is nearly half over.
If it holds, the deal would cover the remaining spending bills that were not included in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/politics/house-spending-bill-shutdown.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$460 billion</a> <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/murray-top-appropriators-release-minibus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;minibus&#8221;</a> that passed earlier this month. Lawmakers have until the end of this week to avert a partial shutdown for the unfunded agencies, which include the Departments of Defense, State, Health and Human Services, and others.
&#8220;Senate and House leaders and the White House have reached an agreement to finish the final set of full year appropriations bills,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1770074134522839295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;The Senate and House Appropriations Committees are in the process of finalizing text and reports for Congress to closely review and consider ASAP.&#8221;
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Senate and House leaders and the White House have reached an agreement to finish the final set of full year appropriations bills.
The Senate and House Appropriations Committees are in the process of finalizing text and reports for Congress to closely review and consider ASAP.
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1770074134522839295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) indicated that appropriations for the Homeland Security Department (DHS) was the final sticking point that negotiators had to work out before a resolution was reached.
&#8220;An agreement has been reached for DHS appropriations, which will allow completion of the FY24 appropriations process,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1770073371079802902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;House and Senate committees have begun drafting bill text to be prepared for release and consideration by the full House and Senate as soon as possible.&#8221;
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An agreement has been reached for DHS appropriations, which will allow completion of the FY24 appropriations process. 
House and Senate committees have begun drafting bill text to be prepared for release and consideration by the full House and Senate as soon as possible.
&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1770073371079802902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Not everyone is on board with the spending deal, even though lawmakers have yet to unveil the final text of the legislation. A few dozen Republican members, led by the conservative House Freedom Caucus, released a <a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/1769825731389845659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on Thursday urging the House GOP to use the &#8220;power of the purse&#8221; to rein in the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;open borders&#8217; policies.&#8221;
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HFC Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBobGood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBobGood</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChipRoy</a> led 41 fellow Republicans in urging the <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> to use the power of the purse in this week’s government funding bill to dismantle Biden’s disastrous “open borders” policies, otherwise Republicans will be actively funding this crisis. <a href="https://t.co/BBR7GW0Pw0">pic.twitter.com/BBR7GW0Pw0</a>
&mdash; House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) <a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/1769825731389845659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The letter&#8217;s 43 signatures indicate that a second &#8220;minibus,&#8221; if it were to pass the House this week, might do so with more Democrat votes than Republican votes in the narrowly divided lower chamber.
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If there is a hangup on one or more parts of the spending package, Congress may opt to pass yet another stop-gap measure.
President Joe Biden released a <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferShutt/status/1770081885701480936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Tuesday saying that he had reached an agreement &#8220;on a path forward&#8221; with congressional leaders and would sign the resulting package &#8220;immediately&#8221; once it reached his desk.
The White House is already looking ahead to what comes next, with Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/2025-biden-budget-proposal-explainer/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposing</a> earlier this month a roughly $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal 2025. The new fiscal year begins on October 1.

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Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) reportedly blasted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “stonewalling” details about the illegal immigrant accused of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia college student.
Green, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote to Mayorkas in a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-26-Letter-to-Mayorkas-DHS-re-Illegal-Venezuelan-Murder-Suspect.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 27 letter</a> requesting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) communications regarding the immigration proceedings of Jose Antonio Ibarra, the Venezuelan national accused of killing Riley.
Green <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/exclusive-mark-green-dhs-mayorkas-laken-riley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Breitbart News</a> that DHS confirmed receipt of the letter and claimed it was a “high priority,” but the federal agency has now fallen silent.
“It’s unacceptable that DHS has failed to comply with this reasonable request,” Green told Breitbart. “The documents and information that we have requested should be quite simple for DHS to compile and produce.”
“Secretary Mayorkas has repeatedly claimed that parole is being granted on a case-by-case basis, per the law’s requirement, and if that’s true, DHS shouldn’t have any trouble producing the documents verifying that in the matter of Jose Ibarra,” Green continued. “This is the type of stonewalling we’ve encountered over and over again from the administration. It’s time for DHS to be forthcoming.”
Riley went for a jog on February 22 on the University of Georgia campus, with police beginning a search for her after she did not return home. Her body was found later that day in a wooded area after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-suspect-in-laken-riley-murder-accused-of-disfiguring-her-skull" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sustaining</a> severe injuries to her skull. Ibarra, 26, was arrested and charged the following day in connection to the murder.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-26-Letter-to-Mayorkas-DHS-re-Illegal-Venezuelan-Murder-Suspect.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that Ibarra had been apprehended at the border in September 2022 before being “paroled and released for further processing.” Ibarra was also reportedly arrested in New York City in August 2023 and was charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.
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President Joe Biden has been largely silent on the killing, only addressing it after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shouted Riley’s name last week during his State of the Union address. Biden then botched Riley’s name and said she was killed by “an illegal.” Biden later said he regretted his word choice, adding that illegal immigrants “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-apologizes-for-calling-alleged-laken-riley-murderer-an-illegal-they-built-the-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">built this country</a>.”
The killing of Riley comes as the United States grapples with an unprecedented surge of illegal migrants at the southern border, with officials recording about 9 million <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nationwide encounters</a> and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated gotaways</a> since Biden took office.

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Rep. Mark Green Blasts Mayorkas For ‘Stonewalling’ Details On Laken Riley’s Alleged Killer: Report

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On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) once again subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a>, this time demanding records pertaining to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The subpoena is at least the third one Jordan has sent to Mayorkas in recent months, following one in <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-subpoenas-secretary-mayorkas-information-violent-criminal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December</a> regarding documents on &#8220;violent&#8221; illegal immigrants and another in <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-subpoenas-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-failing-provide-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February</a> over border security issues in Texas.
Jordan has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-demands-mayorkas-provide-info-on-illegal-immigrant-charged-with-murdering-georgia-student" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought</a> information on the illegal immigrant charged with murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> subpoenas DHS Secretary Mayorkas for <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> data, documents, and communications.
America faces a migrant crisis at the southern border and DHS failed to fully comply with the Committee&#39;s requests for over four months. 
Unacceptable. <a href="https://t.co/maMf5LHr8q">pic.twitter.com/maMf5LHr8q</a>
&mdash; House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1767968216381350342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;As a part of its oversight efforts, we conducted transcribed interviews with several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. During these transcribed interviews, the ICE witnesses were unable to answer certain questions about data, documents, and communications related to the Biden Administration’s immigration policies,&#8221; Jordan <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-13%20JDJ%20to%20DHS%20re%20subpoena.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his latest subpoena cover letter to Mayorkas.
&#8220;On November 2, 2023, the Committee requested that the Department provide the information that the ICE witnesses could not provide during their transcribed interviews. To date, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to fully comply with our requests,&#8221; he added.
Jordan said committee staff tried on a number of occasions to inquire about the status of the requested information in the months after DHS missed the deadline. Across two occasions, the agency&#8217;s staff responded with first &#8220;only a partial answer&#8221; and later produced links to some public data and information that did not meet the panel&#8217;s demands, the chairman added.
&#8220;Although we appreciate that DHS has provided some limited data, your failure to produce all the requested documents and information prevents the Committee from fulfilling its constitutional oversight obligations,&#8221; Jordan wrote.
Jordan said that his committee has jurisdiction over matters concerning federal immigration law and suggested the information it seeks may influence legislative forms that could include, &#8220;reforming Alternatives to Detention, increasing penalties on aliens who abscond from ICE, and enhancing ICE’s tracking, detention, and communications standards for aliens on the terrorist watchlist.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to DHS seeking comment on the newest subpoena. In reply, a DHS official said the agency has facilitated 10 transcribed interviews with ICE personnel for the committee, provided &#8220;extensive&#8221; data and information in response to follow-up requests, and answered two-thirds of the 24 &#8220;get backs&#8221; from the panel with others in progress.
&#8220;Instead of working cooperatively, as DHS has repeatedly sought to do, the House Judiciary Committee continues to waste time with unnecessary subpoenas that serve no purpose beyond political posturing,&#8221; said DHS press secretary Mia Ehrenberg. &#8220;In this Administration, DHS has produced thousands of pages of documents, provided countless briefings, and sent dozens of witnesses to appear for hearings. On this request alone, DHS already provided the vast majority of the information requested by the committee and made clear that our efforts remain ongoing.&#8221;
Ehrenberg added, “DHS will continue cooperating with Congressional oversight requests, all while faithfully working to protect our nation from terrorism and targeted violence, secure our borders, respond to natural disasters, defend against cyberattacks, and more.&#8221;
House Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-impeaches-mayorkas-in-second-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> in February to impeach Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis. A month later, a Senate trial <a href="https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1767990471324737779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has yet to happen</a>.

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Here&#8217;s a statistic that, at least if you were born at any point prior to the 1990s, is probably pretty hard to believe. By revenue, the gaming industry is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2023/11/17/the-gaming-industry-a-behemoth-with-unprecedented-global-reach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bigger</a> than both the movie industry and the music industry — combined. And for the past several years, it hasn&#8217;t been particularly close. The difference is consistently more than $100 billion per year. Games are a massive market, one that&#8217;s mostly targeted at young people. But despite those numbers, for the most part, the games industry has avoided mainstream scrutiny. You&#8217;ll see far more discussion about, say, Sydney Sweeney or Taylor Swift than you&#8217;ll ever see about prominent video game voice actors and directors — who pretty much no one knows anything about. Everyone&#8217;s heard of Lionsgate, or Paramount, but almost no one&#8217;s heard of studios like &#8220;Don&#8217;t Nod Entertainment,&#8221; for example.
And that&#8217;s significant, because these no-name studios are behind the single most coordinated effort to indoctrinate millions of children through entertainment that&#8217;s ever occurred in this country. This effort is maybe more powerful than teachers&#8217; unions, if only because these propagandists mostly work in secret. Even if you homeschool your children, they&#8217;re not immune to it. You might have heard something about one of the companies behind this indoctrination effort, called &#8220;Sweet Baby Inc&#8221; or SBI. In a moment, I&#8217;ll get into the details about what exactly they&#8217;re doing, and who&#8217;s helping them do it.
But first, I want to get the good news out of the way. If there&#8217;s any silver lining, it&#8217;s that this effort to indoctrinate children is incredibly hamfisted. Some of the dumbest people in the world are behind it. Take that studio I just mentioned — &#8220;Don&#8217;t Nod Entertainment.&#8221; They&#8217;re behind the very popular &#8220;Life is Strange&#8221; video game series, which has been played by tens of millions of people. To give you an idea of how overt the propaganda is in &#8220;Life is Strange,&#8221; here&#8217;s just one, mercifully short sequence involving — what else — a racist white guy. There&#8217;s some backstory about how he kidnapped an innocent Hispanic kid or something:
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&#8220;We need to build a wall,&#8221; says the white racist kidnapping the innocent Hispanic boy. This is a game that, if Wikipedia is to be believed, received &#8220;generally positive reviews. &#8230; Critics praised the story.&#8221;
So we can conclude that the bar is incredibly low in this entire industry. All that developers have to do is beat their audience over the head with rote Left-wing propaganda, and their game will be well-received. The more recent game &#8220;Suicide Squad&#8221; is another prominent example. They decided to write a story about Batman&#8217;s toxic masculinity, which ended with a girlboss shooting Batman. Here&#8217;s part of that sequence:
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You can just imagine how many purple-haired women must work at that studio. They probably provide the hair dye on tap. I didn&#8217;t play that game, obviously. I haven&#8217;t played any of these games. I am not a video game fan or player, as most people I think know by now. But the point is that these clips were all over the internet because of how awful they are. They&#8217;re just terrible in every way — even just from a quality perspective — even if you happen to agree with their politics.
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But the fact remains that, for children of a certain age, the propaganda doesn&#8217;t need to be subtle. All they need to do is present it to children, and it can be effective. That&#8217;s why some anonymous people using the games platform &#8220;Steam&#8221; decided to figure out exactly who&#8217;s putting this garbage in games, and why.
They found that the company I mentioned earlier, called &#8220;Sweet Baby Inc.&#8221; — no relation to the Sweet Baby Gang, I swear off any association and I would file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, if not for the fact that I don’t have a copyright, and also Sweet Baby Inc. existed first, technically, but never mind that — anyway, these people on Steam found that Sweet Baby Inc. has contracted with major publishers to push principles of DEI in video games, as aggressively as possible. Sweet Baby Inc., or SBI, worked with the developers of the game I just showed you, Suicide Squad. They&#8217;ve also had a role in several other major releases.
On their website, SBI boasts that they&#8217;re committed to installing principles of &#8220;diversity&#8221; into games. And they do it forcibly. In fact, the co-founder and CEO of SBI, a woman named Kim Belair, recently spoke to game developers and instructed them to threaten their companies unless they comply with Sweet Baby&#8217;s DEI mandates:
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This is how DEI works in every industry, of course. The goal isn&#8217;t to improve the company&#8217;s product in any way. It&#8217;s to blackmail companies and threaten them into submission. Pay the DEI tax, or we&#8217;ll destroy you. Only in the games industry, where everyone is dumber than they are in every other industry, do they just come right out and say it.
Along these lines, as you might have guessed, so-called games journalists are somehow even dumber than journalists in other industries, too — which is really saying something. They&#8217;re completely unable to hide their real goals or display any hint of subtlety whatsoever. For example, in response to clips like this surfacing, games writers have produced several articles portraying SBI as the victim of a &#8220;harassment campaign&#8221; — by which they mean people are noticing what SBI is doing. For example, here&#8217;s how a writer for the website Polygon, Joshua Rivera, <a href="https://twitter.com/jmrivera02/status/1767600140695867472?s=20">responded</a> to people who are concerned about SBI: &#8220;In a just world these clowns would have their steam accounts turned off, their PlayStations bricked and get booted from any respectable social platform.&#8221;
So in the games industry, the journalists just come right out and demand that you&#8217;re deleted from the Internet if you dare to look deeper into their narrative. So let&#8217;s do that. In a recent podcast, Kim Belair explains that her company&#8217;s mandate is to make every game political. There has to be &#8220;diverse representation&#8221; in all contexts, even in, say, World War I:
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So SBI wants to &#8220;build a narrative and a story that includes moments and elements custom-made to bring representation and joy to people.&#8221; And she uses the example of World War I. There weren&#8217;t a whole lot of women fighting on the front lines of World War I. But they shoehorn that into their game anyway, because at every possible opportunity, they need to minimize and demonize white men. White men cannot be the hero of anything, even historical events where they were the heroes, like World War I. The point is to attack white men whenever possible.
We&#8217;re seeing this at all levels in the gaming industry. Here, for example, is Dani Lalonders. She reportedly used <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1767681553755509171">to work</a> at Sweet Baby Inc. just a year ago. Now she works for a studio at EA, one of the biggest games studios on the planet. Watch as she explains why she doesn&#8217;t hire white people on her team, because they commit all kinds of microaggressions:
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Notice that she doesn&#8217;t say what the white microaggressions were. Maybe those nasty white people said something nice about her hair. Maybe they asked where she was from. Maybe they say, &#8220;Hey, cut that line of dialogue about building the wall — it&#8217;s a little too on the nose.&#8221; Who knows? In any event, this is an employee of a major games studio straight-up admitting that she doesn&#8217;t hire white people. This isn&#8217;t just unethical; it&#8217;s illegal. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that&#8217;s usually left unsaid in major corporations. But it&#8217;s standard practice in the games industry to just come right out and announce it. To give another example — also in response to the SBI story — a senior editor at the gaming site Kotaku wrote, &#8220;hi! you can&#8217;t be racist against white people! thanks for tuning in!&#8221;
The people writing this garbage are &#8220;true believers.&#8221; They&#8217;re the low-IQ foot soldiers. But the reason they&#8217;re so well-funded is more interesting. As the former games executive Mark Kern explained this week, the cost of producing games is extremely high. It&#8217;s higher than it&#8217;s ever been, in fact. So games studios are looking to raise money in any way possible. And one way to get a lot of money is through ESG financing:
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What <a href="http://e.sg/">ESG</a> financing entails, Kern goes on to say, is that games studios have to agree to all kinds of conditions — including hiring companies like SBI to &#8220;diversify&#8221; their games.
In other words, what&#8217;s happening here is much bigger than SBI. It&#8217;s about the companies that fund SBI. That includes a fund called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Er7X1PSHM&amp;t=425s">Baby Ghosts</a>, which is also run by anti-white managers who are proud of their bigotry. It also includes the biggest institutional investors on the planet, like Vanguard and Blackrock, which own a substantial portion of gaming companies like Microsoft. These entities are creating the incentives. The only good news, as Kern points out later in that interview, is that ESG financing is drying up, in part because interest rates are changing. And there&#8217;s more exposure than ever to this propaganda, which makes it less effective.
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The U.S. government appears to be aware of that, and they view it as a potential problem. They want the propaganda to continue. We know that because, on its website, a nonprofit called &#8220;Take This&#8221; <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/03/12/us-government-funded-non-profit-take-this-responds-to-sweet-baby-inc-backlash-by-calling-on-video-game-industry-to-clearly-and-unequivocally-denounce-gamergate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labels</a> all criticism of SBI as &#8220;harassment.&#8221; They&#8217;re coordinating a response to it. What&#8217;s &#8220;Take This&#8221;? Apparently, according to their website, they&#8217;re a &#8220;mental health nonprofit&#8221; that&#8217;s funded by the Department of Homeland Security. In other words, your tax dollars are paying for the defense of propagandists targeting children in the video game industry. For some reason, DHS is involved.
And actually, it&#8217;s worse than that. As the Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> this month, &#8220;Gaming companies are coordinating with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to root out so-called domestic violent extremist content, according to a new government report. Noting that mechanisms have been established with social media companies to police extremism, the report recommends that the national security agencies establish new and similar processes with the vast gaming industry.&#8221;
What this means is that the video game industry — without a lot of fanfare — has transformed into a tool of both propaganda and surveillance. It&#8217;s an effective way to indoctrinate children precisely because it hasn&#8217;t received much attention. Now, finally, that attention is here. And it&#8217;s yet another reason to keep these games as far away from your children as possible. If you do that, games journalists — literally the lowest form of journalist on the planet — will accuse you of &#8220;harassment.&#8221; That&#8217;s how you&#8217;ll know you&#8217;re doing the right thing.

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