A hotel in downtown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">El Paso</a> that is allegedly occupied by a Venezuelan gang was ordered temporarily shut down by a state judge on Monday.
The judge&#8217;s order came after the Gateway Hotel and its owner <a href="https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-pasos-gateway-hotel-faces-legal-action-over-alleged-gang-activity-safety-violations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> a temporary injunction and restraining order from the El Paso County attorney on Monday over suspicions that the Venezuelan &#8220;Tren De Aragua&#8221; gang was engaging in criminal activity inside the hotel.
Tren de Aragua made national headlines a few weeks ago after gang members allegedly commandeered an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. Police there have <a href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/03/aurora-colorado-apartment-gang-police/75013215007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the gang controls the complex.
Court documents say that police reports show the Gateway Hotel in El Paso has regular criminal activity, and members of Tren De Aragua have been allowed to operate inside, according to sworn testimony from El Paso police officers.
One officer said police witnessed several Venezuelan men with tattoos associated with the gang walking around the hotel. Hotel management was not attempting to control the conduct of guests, the officer said.
At least 693 calls to police have been made about the hotel over the last two years, including for drugs, thefts, burglaries, and fights.
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The court documents also accuse the hotel of operating for the past six years without a valid certificate of occupancy and in violation of city requirements, as well as failing at least three inspections by the El Paso Fire Department since July.
Security videos and pictures from the court documents also show people &#8220;partying&#8221; on the third floor, drinking, smoking, dancing provocatively, and one woman even apparently vomiting in a hallway with children around.
One video also shows a gun being shot, a person threatening someone with another gun, men holding knives, and a man with a hatchet assaulting people in front of a security guard.
One police officer said he suspected prostitution in the hotel. Police also described trash and fire hazards as well and said the general reputation of the hotel was for &#8220;allowing illegal activity (consuming drugs, gang activity, illegal dumping).&#8221;
A hearing is scheduled for December 9 to determine if hotel owner Howard Yun allowed criminal activity on the property.
The county attorney&#8217;s office sued the hotel last month and is seeking a permanent injunction to stop the hotel from operating until long-term solutions are in place.
The Gateway Hotel has been in downtown El Paso since the 1920s, although it has changed ownership.
The occupants of the hotel have until 10 a.m. on Thursday to vacate the building. It is unclear whether law enforcement will be required to evict those living in the hotel.

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METETI, Panama – The 19,000-strong indigenous Embera-Wounaan tribe resides far beyond the reach of American pollsters who regularly log high voter disapproval of the three-plus years of illegal mass migration over the Southwest U.S. Border.
But if anyone ever sought Embera opinion about distant U.S. border policy – and, almost incredibly, I may be the only one who ever has – they’d get an ear full. 
The Embera live on reservation lands right at the trail exits in Panama’s infamous Darién Gap migration foot passage that in just three or so years have emptied nearly two million stampeding US-bound immigrants moving out of Colombia for eventual illegal crossings of the opened U.S. border. And while their vote of course wouldn’t count in the United States presidential election, in these modern times, indigenous tribal cries to the heavens that imperial U.S. decisions are destroying them without thought should qualify as special moral standing requiring authentic listening.
As I finally heard them during a first-ever interview with all five Embera tribal chiefs and <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/opinion/biden-harris-open-border-is-destroying-an-indigenous-tribes-land-and-way-of-life/">aired them in the New York Post</a>, they demand that U.S. border policies that set off this vast destructive great migration through their “Comarca” lands, never asking permission nor begging forgiveness, be ended. They also want the United States to help immediately close the Darién Gap at the Panama-Colombia border for the sake of their cultural survival.
<div id="attachment_788823" style="width: 634px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-788823" class="wp-image-788823 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Embera-chiefs.jpeg" alt="Embera tribal chiefs. Credit: Todd Bensman" width="624" height="491" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Embera-chiefs.jpeg 624w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Embera-chiefs-300x236.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px" />Embera tribal chiefs. Credit: Todd Bensman</div>
“Mr. President and you candidates, you are finishing us off, and you are killing all the Indians on the Comarca!” General Chief Leonide Cunampia said. “You have to pay attention to what’s going on in our territory. The immigration is contaminating us!”
The chiefs, including Jose Anilo Barringon, Cirilo Pena, Vianide Cunapa, and Pablo Guainora, described a long litany of environmental poisonings of their village water supplies, harvest theft, and especially of corrupting access to immigrant currency that has diverted an entire generation of Embera youth from their own rich culture to drugs and alcohol. They reserve special ire for the United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have set up shop all over their reservation with “zero” permission to lure, aid and abet the mass migration. For the millions in cash the United States directs their way.
<div id="attachment_788829" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-788829" class="wp-image-788829 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/3IMG_0713-1024x536.jpg" alt="Embera earning cash running immigrants out of the Darien Gap. Leaders say the money has led the younger generation astray into drugs and alcohol. Credit: Todd Bensman" width="1024" height="536" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/3IMG_0713-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/3IMG_0713-300x157.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/3IMG_0713-768x402.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/3IMG_0713.jpg 1274w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Embera earning cash running immigrants out of the Darien Gap. Leaders say the money has led the younger generation astray into drugs and alcohol. Credit: Todd Bensman</div>
Much more must be said about all of this. The unheard cries of the Embera serve as a wake-up call that U.S. policy, enacted without sufficient thoughtfulness, often portends destructive consequences far away. The United States is ever the elephant, all too often stamping mice it never saw, thought of, or cared about, especially if no one else did either. 
All the above appears to have been the case since the Biden-Harris administration’s opening days in 2021, when it decided to reverse Donald Trump’s impactful deterrence policies and instead release into the United States vast numbers of illegal border crossers with pinky finger honor system shakes that they’d self-report someday to an ICE office in the city of settlement choice. Once the world caught on that the Americans were really, truly doing this crazy thing on a massive scale, the relative trickle of less than 10,000 foreign nationals a year crossing through the Darién Gap before 2021, flooded the Embera zone to 250,000 in 2022 and 550,000 in 2023 with a similar number projected for 2024.
The time is well beyond nigh that the United States hear the Embera cries for help and stop stomping on them. It shouldn’t matter that they don’t vote in American elections; change is warranted enough by deference to the terrible history of U.S. elephant stomping of indigenous tribes that looks just like this latest instance of it. 
<div id="attachment_788839" style="width: 804px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-788839" class="size-large wp-image-788839" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686-794x576.jpg" alt="Regional Embera Chief Pablo Guainora. Credit: Todd Bensman." width="794" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686-794x576.jpg 794w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686-300x218.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686-768x557.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686-1536x1115.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/IMG_0686.jpg 1769w" sizes="(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px" />Regional Embera Chief Pablo Guainora. Credit: Todd Bensman.</div>
What struck me most listening to the five Embera chiefs is how much their concerns reminded me of when U.S. policy allowed gold miners, settlers, and the U.S. cavalry to push aside and destroy Native American tribes during the 19th Century.
American and international liberal UN and NGO groups are clearly repeating that same terrible old history with the Embera, prioritizing the interests of foreign national &#8220;settlers&#8221; over the interests of Native tribes in this new &#8220;gold rush&#8221; to the U.S. border.
What stood out as especially ironic in this Darién Gap situation is that, since the bad old 19th Century days of developing the American West, all sorts of <a href="https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/indigenous-human-rights-organizations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indigenous-protection human rights groups</a> step up long before alarm bells like this one are already sounding. But for the Embera, none have reached out even once, the chiefs say.
Why the hell not? I believe it’s because they won’t cross their politically ideological allies doing immigration advocacy work in Panama for hundreds of millions of dollars. When it comes to money, one liberal cause can win out at the expense of other traditionally liberal causes that don’t pay as much.
One would think that the liberal progressives who staff the UN and NGOs down there would occupy a higher moral plane than Gen. George Armstrong Custer or President Andrew Jackson during their days of doling out pain to indigenous peoples. But economic migrants rushing toward U.S. gold clearly are too profitable.
The perfect opportunity to save the Embera has just availed itself too, in the form of a new Panamanian president – Jose Raul Mulino – who took office July 1 promising to “close the Darién Gap” for the first time and begging the U.S. government to pick up the tab for enough deterring air deportations.
But alas, the Biden administration’s commitment <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/opinion/biden-harris-made-empty-promises-to-stop-migrants-in-panama-but-flood-continues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has proven tepid</a>, to say the least, having spent the last three years pouring cash into the UN and NGOs who have transitioned the Darién Gap from country lane to superhighway with their so-called “safe, humane, and orderly” smuggling.
<div id="attachment_788853" style="width: 376px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-788853" class="size-large wp-image-788853" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/embera-couple-366x576.jpg" alt="Embera couple in traditional dress. Credit: Embera tribe." width="366" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/embera-couple-366x576.jpg 366w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/embera-couple-191x300.jpg 191w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/embera-couple.jpg 503w" sizes="(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px" />Embera couple in traditional dress. Credit: Embera tribe.</div>
A Harris or Trump administration could quadruple down on investments to help the new Panamanian government actually deter these vast numbers pouring through the Embera Comarca.
But like the gold miners who invaded the Black Hills of Dakota Territory in the 1870s, the lure of profit for everyone but the natives is just too irresistible for anyone to care about the little tribe in Panama.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Biden-Harris Mass Migration Is ‘Killing All The Indians’ In Panama

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A recent campaign advertisement from Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> seeks to portray the candidate as a proponent of border security, even going as far as to include a shot of the border wall built under former President Donald Trump.
The advertisement from the Harris campaign uses a shot of the border wall that <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/27/kamala-harriss-latest-campaign-ad-features-border-wall-built-by-trump-administration/">appears</a> to be taken from a Voice of America news clip from May of this year.
“As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels,” the advertisement claims of Harris as it shows the border wall. The footage depicts the border wall in Sasabe, Arizona, where Trump had been <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/1-28-billion-wall-project-on-arizona-border-goes-to-firm-favored-by-trump/article_ad3b3de1-ccbd-5771-951c-49e09c720ec0.html">building</a> the wall under his term.
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The Kamala Harris campaign is up on TV with multiple new ads this a.m. &#8212;
This spot is focused on border security
Male voiceover:
&#8220;As president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is… <a href="https://t.co/qb2wS5CLml">pic.twitter.com/qb2wS5CLml</a>
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It isn’t the first advertisement that has sought to portray Harris as a proponent of border security. “Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamD7RueuvA">a different ad said</a>. “Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.”
Despite the attempt from the Harris campaign to portray the Democrat as an advocate for border security, the Biden-Harris administration has presided over an unprecedented crisis on both the southern and northern borders.
Over <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since he was inaugurated in 2021. The figures present a stark contrast from the Trump administration, when there were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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President Joe Biden tasked Harris with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-denies-that-kamala-harris-was-bidens-border-czar-amid-unprecedented-illegal-immigration">stemming the tide</a> of migrants to the border in 2021 shortly after taking office, calling her the &#8220;most qualified&#8221; person for the role.
The Biden-Harris administration also <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/activists-send-letter-to-president-biden-asking-to-resume-dna-testing-at-the-us-mexico-border/3300396/">ended DNA testing</a> at the border, which law enforcement previously used to prevent unaccompanied minor immigrants from being sex trafficked.
Several polls have indicated that immigration/border security is one of the single <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-immigration-remain-top-concerns-for-voters-poll-finds">most important issues</a> for voters heading into the November election, shedding light on why the Harris campaign may be making a pivot.

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Not too long ago, being labeled a &#8220;flip-flopper&#8221; was a big deal in presidential politics. Whatever your policy positions might be, the worst possible sin was to be indecisive about them. If you remember what happened to John Kerry back in 2004, you know what I&#8217;m talking about. A day before his first debate with George W. Bush, no one was asking John Kerry about his position on the Iraq War, or his views on taxes or anything like that. Instead, Kerry was being asked about his image as a flip-flopper.
And he was forced to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/politics/campaign/kerry-says-flipflop-image-doesnt-reflect-the-truth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admit</a>, in an interview with The New York Times, that it was a major vulnerability. Kerry claimed that his positions had really been consistent, but at the same time he acknowledged that the Bush campaign had succeeded in portraying him as indecisive and untrustworthy. That&#8217;s why 60% of voters <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/washington/the-2004-campaign-the-poll-poll-finds-kerry-assured-voters-in-in.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kerry &#8220;told people what they wanted to hear rather than what he really believed.&#8221; And ultimately, whether you think Kerry&#8217;s reputation for flip flopping was deserved or not, it&#8217;s a big part of why he lost the election.
Twenty years later, it&#8217;s now abundantly clear that the &#8220;flip flopper&#8221; label doesn&#8217;t scare Democrats anymore. And the corporate press isn&#8217;t concerned about it, either.
In the span of just a month, Kamala Harris&#8217; team has systematically reversed pretty much every major policy proposal she&#8217;s ever supported in her career. These changes are so significant, and so completely unexplained, that they would have immediately destroyed Kamala Harris&#8217; candidacy if she were running 20 years ago. But this country has changed a lot in two decades — or at least the Kamala Harris campaign is betting it&#8217;s changed a lot. So, day by day, they&#8217;re proceeding to revise her entire platform.
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For example, Harris&#8217; campaign now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/kamala-harris-fracking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> she no longer wants to ban fracking, even though as recently as 2019, she said she supported a total fracking ban as part of the Green New Deal. 
The campaign also <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/27/us-news/harris-campaign-now-says-vp-does-not-support-electric-vehicle-mandate-in-latest-flip-flop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> Harris no longer supports an electric vehicle mandate, even though in 2019, Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act. That bill would have required that 100% of new vehicles be &#8220;electric or hydrogen powered&#8221; by 2040. And if any manufacturer tried to make a gas-powered car after 2040, the EPA could shut them down. According to the text of the bill, “After model year 2040, the [Environmental Protection Agency] Administrator may issue an injunction on the manufacture of any passenger vehicles other than zero emission vehicles by a vehicle manufacturer.&#8221;
But yesterday, that all changed. Harris&#8217; &#8220;rapid response director&#8221; sent out a so-called &#8220;fact-check&#8221; email that began: “FACT: Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate.&#8221; Instead, the email states that Harris supports “ground-breaking subsidies and tax credits for electric vehicles.”
So they&#8217;re dressing up a major policy reversal as a &#8220;fact-check.&#8221; They&#8217;re implying that you&#8217;re the one who&#8217;s mistaken, when really they&#8217;re trying to pull a sleight of hand. And there are other reversals too, on everything from abolishing private health insurance to closing immigrant detention centers to defunding the police and so on.
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Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign has offered no explanation for these changes. But everyone knows what the explanation is: she wants to win the election, and she understands that California Leftism isn&#8217;t popular outside of California. She does not have principles. She only has internal polling — and apparently, it&#8217;s not looking good.
To that end, the Kamala Harris campaign has just announced its most dramatic policy reversal yet. Contrary to everything Kamala Harris has said for the past five years, her campaign has just come out in support of Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall. Yes, you heard that correctly. The Kamala Harris campaign is making a very direct play for John Kerry&#8217;s title as the most flagrant and notorious flip-flopper in the modern history of the Democrat Party. Out of nowhere, our border czar Kamala Harris is now all for &#8220;building the wall.&#8221;
As Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall?utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> this week:
<blockquote>Harris flip-flops on building the border wall. &#8230; If she&#8217;s elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called &#8216;un-American&#8217; during the Trump administration.</blockquote>
Specifically, Harris has announced her support for the recent bipartisan &#8220;border security bill,&#8221; which requires that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to continue building the wall on the southern border.
On the Sunday shows the other day, there were a few signs this reversal was coming. At one point, ABC anchor Jon Karl noticed that Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign was running ads that prominently featured Trump&#8217;s border wall, as part of an effort to show that Kamala Harris is supposedly tough on illegal immigration (which she previously said she wants to decriminalize). Watch:
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🚨 ABC just CALLED OUT Kamala Harris for using video of President Trump’s border wall in her new ads
If even *ABC* is calling her out for her hypocrisy, you know it’s REALLY bad 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/R9DakoOKw5">pic.twitter.com/R9DakoOKw5</a>
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At first that looked like some lazy editing mistake. After all, this is the same border wall that Kamala Harris said in 2020 was a, &#8220;complete waste of taxpayer money&#8221; that &#8220;won&#8217;t make us any safer.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same border wall that Kamala Harris said in 2017 was a &#8220;stupid use of money&#8221; that she would &#8220;block any funding for.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same wall that the Biden administration — with Kamala Harris as VP — sabotaged the minute they took office. They immediately killed all border wall construction. Watch:
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Kamala will never be able to run away from this
She and Biden wasted billions of taxpayer dollars — and costed countless lives — to halt border wall construction for politics
The steel bollards are rusting in piles to this day <a href="https://t.co/rzcy4A4Bkk">https://t.co/rzcy4A4Bkk</a> <a href="https://t.co/4n6R1BrQ7K">pic.twitter.com/4n6R1BrQ7K</a>
&mdash; johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href="https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1828414013585199365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So Biden-Harris ran on killing the wall. They got elected and stopped the construction of the wall. And now Kamala Harris wants to get back in and restart construction of the wall.
Already, it&#8217;s pretty clear how the corporate press and the Harris campaign plan to spin this. They&#8217;re probably going to suggest that taking down the wall was Joe Biden&#8217;s call, and Kamala Harris had nothing to do with it. Last night, Politico laid the groundwork for that kind of messaging. They ran <a href="https://x.com/politico/status/1828558004301508855" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this headline</a>: &#8220;Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally.&#8221; Yes, Vance dared to draw a connection between the president and his vice president. Can you imagine?
One of the many problems with this approach is that Kamala Harris is on tape, again and again, disparaging the border wall as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;medieval vanity project.&#8221; She laughed repeatedly at the idea that a wall could possibly deter illegal aliens from entering the country. Watch:
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Kamala Harris on the border wall over the years:
2017: &quot;Asking taxpayers to pay for a border wall is a terrible idea.&quot;
2018: &quot;Funding Trump’s unrealistic border wall would be a gross misuse of taxpayer money.&quot;
2019: &quot;Trump&#39;s border wall is stupid.&quot;
2020: &quot;As I said, Trump&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/RxWrRZ1MRh">pic.twitter.com/RxWrRZ1MRh</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1828453900221063538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Notice how Kamala Harris tries to sell the bit at the end — about how she was a prosecutor, and she&#8217;s an expert in transnational criminal gangs, and how she knows &#8220;that wall ain&#8217;t gonna stop them.&#8221; It&#8217;s supposed to come off as a natural, unrehearsed, jovial moment. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that Kamala Harris is speaking in a folksy way about her experience as a prosecutor because she&#8217;s being genuine and unscripted.
But this wasn&#8217;t an unscripted moment. She did the exact same routine several times before, on tape. Here&#8217;s one example:
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It&#8217;s all fake and scripted. Kamala Harris understands only the words she&#8217;s rehearsed, and nothing more. If that moderator had asked Kamala Harris how exactly transnational gangs bypass walls, she probably would have no idea what to say. She&#8217;d just freeze and stare straight ahead for hours. Without her canned talking points, the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee is completely unable to articulate a single thought, even one that&#8217;s supposedly based on her personal experience.
That&#8217;s probably why the Harris campaign has just announced that Kamala Harris is going to have Tim Walz sitting next to her during her first unscripted interview as the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. That interview will take place Thursday with a friendly news outlet (CNN) and it&#8217;ll be taped, so any particularly embarrassing moments can be edited out of the final broadcast. But apparently, a taped interview with CNN isn&#8217;t easy enough for Kamala Harris, so she needs to have Tim Walz by her side throughout the whole thing. After well over a month of preparation, she still can&#8217;t do a solo interview.
Neither can Tim Walz, apparently. According to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/tim-walz-doesnt-know-what-kamala-believes-because-she-doesnt-either/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>: 
<blockquote>One of the issues that Harris world is currently working to address is how to deploy running mate TIM WALZ in the media. The danger in sending him out to do big solo interviews is that he might not have a full command of where Harris is on every issue. As someone pointed out to us last night, Harris talks about the &#8216;opportunity economy,&#8217; but if Walz were asked to define it, would he know how.</blockquote>
In other words, neither Kamala Harris nor Tim Walz can sit for an interview alone, without any assistance. Kamala Harris&#8217; problem is that she can&#8217;t articulate a coherent thought. Meanwhile, Tim Walz has no idea what Kamala Harris&#8217; policies are. So the solution they&#8217;ve landed on is to send them both out at once, to a friendly media outlet that hopefully won&#8217;t ask about the whole border wall flip-flop. Because if CNN does ask about that, there&#8217;s also plenty of tape of Tim Walz mocking the idea of a border wall. Watch:
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Kamala is now saying she wants to build a border wall. Does she know her running mate said he would help illegals get ladders to scale a border wall if Trump built one? <a href="https://t.co/EQVTGoutRQ">pic.twitter.com/EQVTGoutRQ</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1828444145813422279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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If they want to conduct anything approaching an impartial interview on Thursday, CNN has an obligation to play all of this tape. Then they have an obligation to ask Kamala Harris and Tim Walz what changed. Why exactly do they now support spending tens of millions of dollars on a wall that they once called a useless vanity project? It would be interesting to hear Kamala Harris explain that in her own words.
But of course, that won&#8217;t happen.
The most we&#8217;ll get is another canned, scripted soundbite from Kamala Harris that totally contradicts her old canned, scripted soundbite about the wall. She might tell us all about how, as a prosecutor, she learned that walls do indeed work. They stop transnational criminal gangs all the time! That&#8217;s why they set up walls at the DNC. It&#8217;s why they set up walls around the Capitol for Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration. It&#8217;s why there are walls around Joe Biden&#8217;s many homes.
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Whatever soundbite they&#8217;ll come up with, Kamala Harris will deliver it with a laugh and some faux sincerity. And in all likelihood, the CNN anchor will nod along and pretend to be convinced.
But everyone watching at home — the ones who are open-minded and honest — will realize that Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t really speaking to them. Her handlers are. And as Kamala&#8217;s handlers adopt Donald Trump&#8217;s platform, piece by piece, while rejecting everything Kamala Harris herself once claimed to believe, their candidate is starting to look about as trustworthy as John Kerry. With just over two months to go until the election, more than any poll or focus group, that&#8217;s about as bullish a sign as the Trump campaign can possibly hope for.

The US/Mexico border fence in Nogales, Arizona USA

This Is The Most Egregious Kamala Flip-Flop Yet

2024 Election

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Opinion

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Tim Walz

The Arizona man accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manhunt-underway-for-arizona-suspect-who-threatened-to-shoot-trump-as-he-visits-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening to assassinate</a> former President Donald Trump was arrested by Cochise County, Arizona, deputies on Thursday.
Ronald Lee Syrvud, 66, was nabbed by authorities while Trump was visiting Arizona to address the southern border crisis, News Nation correspondent Ali Bradley reported. Syrvud, who had an outstanding warrant for felony failure to register as a sex offender, was charged with a sex offender violation upon his arrest. Bradley reported that the 66-year-old man could also be charged for the alleged threats he made toward Trump, pending an investigation.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> The Benson man accused of making threats to kill former President Trump was just arrested by Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies.
They are conducting an investigation into the threats and charges may come from that.
He will also be charged with a sex offender violation… <a href="https://t.co/6M6XnxwdgA">https://t.co/6M6XnxwdgA</a>
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1826743495350255780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Republican nominee said he was grateful for the Secret Service agents protecting him, adding that he wasn&#8217;t surprised that someone had allegedly threatened to kill him, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13769873/Arizona-shoot-trump-ronald-lee-syrvud.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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&#8220;And the reason is because I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys,&#8221; he remarked. &#8220;So, I have heard, it&#8217;s very unsafe to make this trip. There were some people that really didn&#8217;t want me to make it.&#8221;
According to the Mail, Syrvud was a registered Democrat in the past and had an extensive rap sheet, including pleading no contest to second-degree sexual assault of a child in 2000.
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The alleged assassination threats come just six weeks after Trump was shot by a would-be assassin while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump is visiting the U.S. southern border on Thursday before heading to Glendale on Friday for a rally. Trump held his first outdoor rally since the assassination attempt on Wednesday where he stood behind bulletproof glass that was installed at the behest of the Secret Service.

Deputies Arrest Suspect Who Threatened To Kill Trump

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CHICAGO—Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ record on illegal immigration on the final day of the Democratic National Convention, calling on her to apologize to the family members of victims of migrant crimes.
Speaking at a press conference on behalf of the Trump campaign, Ramaswamy tore into the Biden-Harris administration’s record on the border, specifically highlighting the murder of American citizens by illegal aliens.
The former Republican presidential primary contender challenged Harris to “have a spine and to apologize to the family members of Laken Riley” and to the families of other American citizens who’ve been killed by illegal aliens when she gives her acceptance speech Thursday night.
“Even more importantly, tell the rest of us what policies you’re actually going to adopt to make sure something like that never happens again in this country,” Ramaswamy went on to say.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VivekGRamaswamy</a> slams the Biden Administration for its failures on the southern border and challenges Kamala Harris &#8220;to have a spine&#8221; and apologize to the families of American citizens killed by illegal immigrants. <a href="https://t.co/HqRLEL0BiM">pic.twitter.com/HqRLEL0BiM</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1826667967800803717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ramaswamy&#8217;s comments come as former president Donald Trump prepares to visit the southern border in Arizona. Law enforcement in the state are currently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manhunt-underway-for-arizona-suspect-who-threatened-to-shoot-trump-as-he-visits-border?topStoryPosition=1">carrying out a manhunt</a> for a suspect who threatened to kill Trump during his trip.
During Thursday&#8217;s press conference, Ramaswamy also discussed the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s decision to <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/activists-send-letter-to-president-biden-asking-to-resume-dna-testing-at-the-us-mexico-border/3300396/">end DNA testing</a> on the southern border, which was used under Trump to ensure that children brought to the border were not being smuggled by human traffickers or cartel members.
“If you actually cared about reuniting families you would at least genetically test, using the toolkit of modern science,” Ramaswamy said. “The truth of the matter though is that the cartels, many of whom are responsible for the human trafficking and child trafficking into the country, don’t want that reunification.”
“Our own policy regime in this country, advanced by Democrats, favors exactly what the cartel business model calls for, which is allowing those children to be trafficked rather than reunited,” Ramaswamy told The Daily Wire.
As the Biden administration’s “Border Czar,” Harris oversaw <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> border crossings, including an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant “got-aways.&#8221;</a> She has <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Kamala-Harris-Immigration-Extremist">suggested</a> abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Vivek Ramaswamy

‘Have A Spine’: Vivek Ramaswamy Calls On Kamala Harris To Apologize To Victims Of Migrant Crime

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Illegal immigration could cost Mississippi more than $100 million every year, a new report from the state’s auditor reveals.
The report, from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, addresses the costs of illegal immigration for the broader country before delving into the ways illegal immigration places a financial burden on Mississippi’s education, healthcare, and public safety systems. The investigation comes as polling indicates that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-immigration-remain-top-concerns-for-voters-poll-finds">immigration is a top issue</a> for voters heading into the presidential election.
“Just last week, an <a href="https://darkhorsepressnow.com/man-charged-with-rape-of-10-year-old-in-pontotoc-county/">illegal immigrant was arrested</a> in North Mississippi for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy twice,” State Auditor Shad White told The Daily Wire. “Every state is a border state now, and our new report shows how much state taxpayers are spending thanks to the open border.”
“Illegal immigration creates a financial burden for taxpayers across the country, but the cost of illegal immigration is not borne solely by the federal government,” the report explains, also noting that an estimated 22,000 illegal immigrants reside in the state. “Taxpayers from each state—including Mississippi—must face the reality of increased spending as a result of crisis-level illegal immigration.”
Mississippi’s healthcare system is hit particularly hard by illegal immigration, with the report estimating that the state spends a whopping $77 million on healthcare for illegal immigrants and their children every year. The report estimates the figure with data on the number of illegal immigrants in the state, their rate of health insurance, and their use of emergency medical services. It also found that Mississippi spends $4 million every year to pay for births to illegal immigrants, whose children are then designated as American citizens.
“Children born to illegal immigrant parents are citizens of the United States and immediately eligible to apply for Medicaid,” the report explains. “Given the incentive for hospitals to generate revenue for services provided, many of these children are likely enrolled in Mississippi’s Medicaid program.”
The state auditor’s report indicates that illegal immigration poses a massive financial burden on the Mississippi education system as well.
“In K-12 spending alone, in total, Mississippi taxpayers likely pay $25 million to educate illegal immigrants each year,” it reads, also noting that an estimated 2,500 illegal immigrants are currently enrolled in the state&#8217;s K-12 education system. “This estimate does not include the cost to educate the US-citizen children born to illegal immigrants, which is difficult to estimate given the state’s inability to collect citizenship data for students and their families.”
The sum was driven up in part by the increased costs associated with providing additional instruction to those who qualify as English Language Learners.
Mississippi&#8217;s public safety system also incurs additional costs because of illegal immigration, with the report estimating that “Mississippi taxpayers will spend at least $1.7 million annually incarcerating illegal immigrants.”
“This estimate does not include the cost of the extra burden law enforcement agencies face while policing Mississippi streets as a result of illegal immigration,” White’s report goes on to read. “The presence of illegal immigrants can strain local law enforcement agencies, which may lack the resources to effectively manage the increased workload. Additionally, the need for specialized training for officers to handle immigration-related issues can divert resources away from other critical public safety needs.”
The report also notes that an estimated 22.1 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States as of 2016 <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193">according to a study</a> performed by researchers at Yale and MIT. That number is expected to have increased under the Biden-Harris administration, which has presided over an unprecedented crisis on the southern border.
Over <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> people have crossed the border under President Joe Biden, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since he was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.

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New Report Details The True Cost Of Illegal Immigration

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> sheriff blasted Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> for using his image in a presidential campaign ad where she portrays herself as tough on crime and the border.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, who appears in the background of a recent Harris <a href="https://x.com/MediumBuying/status/1821882462017855925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1821882462017855925%7Ctwgr%5E778a93e37c4a2c19c592785aa02f3f25bd1639b5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fcalifornia-sheriff-featured-kamala-harris-campaign-ad-decries-use-image-i-do-not-support-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad</a>, ripped into Harris on Monday for using his image without his permission. He <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-sheriff-featured-kamala-harris-campaign-ad-decries-use-image-i-do-not-support-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that he does not support Harris’ candidacy for president, saying she never cared about securing the border when she was California’s attorney general. 
&#8220;In light of a recent political ad put out by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff Boudreaux, as well as other local law enforcement, the Sheriff wants to make it abundantly clear that his image is being used without his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or any other political office,&#8221; a statement issued by the sheriff reads. 
Boudreaux&#8217;s image appears in the ad in a video from when Harris made a stop in the Central Valley more than ten years ago. The ad says that Harris &#8220;took on drug cartels&#8221; and &#8220;jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border.&#8221; 
“As a matter of fact, I would like to point out the misleading information projected in that same political ad,&#8221; Boudreaux said. &#8220;The truth is, Harris never cared about the cartels and did nothing to stop people from illegally crossing the border.&#8221;  
Sheriff Boudreaux, a 37-year-veteran of the Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the former president of the California State Sheriffs&#8217; Association, said that Harris attempted to take credit for the work of local law enforcement. 
&#8220;We were in the green room. She never came in and said hello to any of us. She walked up front, gave her presser, literally walked out, never said hi to any of us,&#8221; Boudreaux said. &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted because, you know, she didn&#8217;t shake hands. She didn&#8217;t say hello. And she&#8217;s taken credit for all this work that the locals did.&#8221;
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He said the ad was “all smoke and mirrors” and that its description of Harris as a tough “border state prosecutor” contradicted the facts. 
Golden State Justice, a political action committee supporting Boudreaux, said in a statement to Fox that Harris “undercut” law enforcement trying to stop gun and drug trafficking over the border.
&#8220;She repeatedly defunded and shuttered task forces designed to protect our residents, leaving the Valley and our state vulnerable,&#8221; the PAC said. &#8220;Kamala&#8217;s sad attempt to paint herself as tough on the border by implying my support – and the support of neighboring law enforcement leaders – is pathetic.” 
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Six people were killed at a home in Goshen, California over the MLK holiday weekend.

‘Smoke And Mirrors’: Sheriff Blasts Kamala For Using His Image In Border Security Ad

California

U.S. Politics

Mexican drug cartels are using drones packed with explosives in an area just south of the U.S. southern border, alarming members of the U.S. military as well as lawmakers in Congress.
Los Salazar, a cell of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel, is dropping explosives on its rival cartel Los Pelones only two miles from the U.S. border, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/08/us-news/hundreds-of-suspected-cartel-drones-some-with-explosives-are-flying-near-the-southern-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In March, Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of North American Defense Command and US Northern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that more than 1,000 drones a month were crossing the U.S. border; border agents told The Post the cartels used drones to surveil U.S. law enforcement.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) who, back in December 2023, <a href="https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-stefanik-prevent-us-tech-from-equipping-ccp-spyware">joined</a> House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) in urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to prevent U.S. technology from equipping Chinese-backed drones, has introduced an amendment to the NDAA requiring the DoD to implement countermeasures against drones by creating a Counter Unmanned Aviation Systems (CUAS) task force, the Post reported.
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“On Border Czar Kamala Harris’ watch, murderous drug cartels are controlling the southern border and using drones for turf war attacks within miles of the United States,” Ernst told The Post. “These thugs must be held accountable. That’s why I’m equipping the Pentagon to respond to these incursions by any means necessary.”
The legislation would create a Counter Unmanned Aviation Systems (CUAS) task force and various reporting requirements for unmanned aerial incursions in US airspace.
Last December, Ernst <a href="https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-stefanik-prevent-us-tech-from-equipping-ccp-spyware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “The U.S. Department of Defense should not be recommending approval of export control licenses for U.S. technology that advances DJI’s capabilities, which are actively being leveraged by our adversaries in attacks against our allies and partners, from Eastern Europe to Israel.”
In April, Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) stated in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/22/drone-attacks-us-troops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a>:
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The first problem is that our nation lacks adequate drone detection capability. We still rely on the early warning radars that served us so well during the Cold War. Today, though, they are unable to detect, identify and track small aircraft at both high and low altitudes. Inside the United States, we can hardly track anything other than commercial aircraft. Almost none of our domestic military bases have the sensors to identify small drones. &#8230; The United States must launch a broad overhaul of its detection capabilities and streamline its ability to respond once a threat is identified.  &#8230;
As Iran’s attack on Israel proved, our adversaries see drones as an inexpensive, deadly solution to penetrate the most sophisticated layered air defenses. There is no reason to think the challenge is limited to the skies over Iraq and Israel; it could threaten the United States, and fast. That means U.S. policymakers have no time to spare in generating a better blueprint for defenses against drones.
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Drug Cartels Flying Drones With Explosives Near U.S. Border: Report

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Joni Ernst

Mexico

World

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) is asking the Homeland Security Department (DHS) to hand over documents that may describe Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, who is now running for the presidency, as the &#8220;border czar&#8221; in the latest clash over the migrant crisis.
The request comes after the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/07/25/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-communications-advisor-john-kirby-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> Harris was ever given such a title, although President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Root-Causes-Strategy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tasked</a> her in 2021 with stemming the &#8220;root causes&#8221; of migration to the southern border and she had often received the label by the press and others.
Gaetz sent a <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/gaetz.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Rep.%20Gaetz%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20on%20Border%20Czar_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that seeks communications from March 24, 2021, and March 24, 2022, that use terms such as “czar,” “border,” or “migration,” from DHS and its correspondence with the Office of the Vice President.
The congressman also wants any internal DHS directive or guidance from 2021 to the present &#8220;referring to the Vice President or the Office of the Vice President as having any formal or informal clearance, approval, or stakeholder input on Departmental decisions.&#8221;
Gaetz asked that any responsive documents be provided by August 30.
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&#8220;Kamala Harris was named &#8216;BORDER CZAR&#8217; in 2021 by Joe Biden!&#8221; Gaetz <a href="https://x.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1821195851508621564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;She helped DESTROY our Southern Border. Now she and the liberal media want to cover it up.&#8221;
Ever since Harris began running for the presidency after Biden ended his re-election campaign last month, Republicans have increasingly shifted their focus on her failure to stop a record number of illegal crossings at the southern border in recent years.
But, as reported by The Daily Wire, members of the media have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-denies-that-kamala-harris-was-bidens-border-czar-amid-unprecedented-illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrambled to reject</a> the &#8220;border czar&#8221; moniker that they, in some cases, actually used over the years. And White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the label a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/07/25/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-communications-advisor-john-kirby-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;false&#8221;</a> characterization.
&#8220;She was a border czar, which — she doesn&#8217;t admit it now,&#8221; former President Donald Trump <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1821180925289623805" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a Fox News interview. &#8220;You know, the only thing they have now is the media will play off all of the bad things.&#8221;
Six House Democrats recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-dems-help-pass-house-resolution-condemning-vp-harris-as-border-czar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> with Republicans in condemning Harris as &#8220;border czar&#8221; and the Biden administration for its inability to curb illegal immigration. This week, the House Oversight Committee embarked on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-announces-probe-into-whether-harris-did-anything-to-address-border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an investigation</a> into the matter.

Rep. Matt Gaetz

Gaetz Seeks Govt Documents Referring To Harris As ‘Border Czar’

Congress

Matt Gaetz

U.S. House of Representatives

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed for Minnesota to become a sanctuary state and signed legislation allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-expected-to-tap-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-as-running-mate?topStoryPosition=1">tapped</a> Walz, a two-term liberal Democrat governor from Minnesota, as her running mate. Walz has a history of advocating for liberal policies on illegal immigration, one of the top issues on voters’ minds heading into the November election.
During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, Walz <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/jeff-johnson-tim-walz-minnesota-sanctuary-state/">openly advocated</a> for Minnesota to become a sanctuary state, where illegal immigrants would be safe from deportation.
“My position on Minnesota becoming a sanctuary state boils down to who has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws,” Walz said at the time. “Here&#8217;s what I believe: Congress has given federal agencies the authority to enforce immigration laws in Minnesota, and I support their doing so.”
Sanctuary states do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials, which allows illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes to remain in the country.
Michigan Republicans <a href="https://stauber.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/stauber.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter%20to%20Walz%20Re.%20North%20Star%20Act%20FINAL.pdf">wrote a letter</a> to Waltz earlier this year outlining their concerns about legislation that would officially prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.
“This legislation, which does nothing to help the citizens of Minnesota and is devoid of common sense, ignores the ongoing crisis at our southern border that is plaguing our nation,” the lawmakers wrote. “It will encourage more illegal immigration, which has already reached record highs under the Biden Administration.”
As governor, Walz <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/governor-walz-to-sign-bill-expanding-access-to-drivers-licenses-regardless-of-immigration-status/">signed legislation</a> in 2023 that allowed as many as 81,000 illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, a policy that <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/drivers-licenses-illegal-aliens-policy-immigration">critics say</a> encourages and rewards illegal immigration.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a border security advocacy organization, says the policy “allows those breaking the nation’s immigration laws to remain hidden in plain sight, promotes the normalization of illegal aliens, and undermines the rule of law.”
“There is no reason for states to provide state identification documents to people who have no right to be present in the United States,” FAIR goes on to assert.
Numbers USA, an organization that advocates for increased border security, gave Walz a <a href="https://grades.numbersusa.com/gradecard/1241/career/">D on immigration</a> for his time as a congressman, noting that Walz co-sponsored a bill to increase chain migration and offer amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
Walz also <a href="https://x.com/RepTimWalz/status/978751683676327936">called</a> former President Donald Trump’s plan to use Defense Department funds to build a wall on the southern border “ridiculous.” Recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-support-building-border-wall-increasing-deportations-penalizing-businesses-that-hire-illegal-immigrants">polling</a> has found that a majority of Americans support building a border wall, increasing deportations, and penalizing businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
Harris’ choice of Walz occurs amid an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-denies-that-kamala-harris-was-bidens-border-czar-amid-unprecedented-illegal-immigration">unprecedented illegal immigration crisis</a>. President Joe Biden tasked Harris with stemming the tide of migration to our southern border, but the country has seen an estimated <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> illegal immigrants unlawfully cross the border since the two took office.
Recent polls have found that immigration is one of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration">most important issues</a> for voters heading into the November election, and that an increasing share of Americans are in favor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-want-fewer-immigrants-poll-finds">slashing immigration</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-support-building-border-wall-increasing-deportations-penalizing-businesses-that-hire-illegal-immigrants">ramping up mass deportations</a>.

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Tim Walz Pushed For Minnesota To Become Sanctuary State, Gave Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses

Republican vice presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> visited the U.S. southern border and ripped Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday for over the Biden administration’s approach to immigration.
Vance attacked Harris for the record amounts of immigrants who have flooded the southern border over the past four years. In addition to the damage done to the immigration system, Vance suggested that lax border policies have been taken advantage of by drug cartels to ship lethal drugs into the country.
“When they started their administration, Kamala Harris came into office making promises – and she kept those promises – to open the American Southern border,” said Vance, speaking from the southern border. “They stopped deportations on day one, they stopped construction of the border wall on day one. We see the border wall sitting here ready to be completed behind us, and that can&#8217;t happen because of Kamala Harris&#8217; administration.”
“They reinstated catch-and-release and they stopped Remain in Mexico, so all of these asylum claimants who come to our border, they can now get released into our country because they&#8217;re not forced to stay in Mexico while we adjudicate their asylum claims,” Vance said.
The GOP vice presidential candidate then reflected back on his own experience with a mother who struggled with drug addiction.
“We have to remember that as terrible and idiotic as these policies were, they cause real human beings to suffer,” said Vance. “A lot of you know my story and I have been a little kid waiting at the bedside of his mother, angry that his mom took something that she shouldn&#8217;t have taken, but praying to God, please, Jesus, let her wake up.”
“The unfortunate truth is because of the poison that Kamala Harris has let come into this country, there are a lot of those prayers that won&#8217;t be answered,” he continued. “There are a lot of kids out there who have been deprived of second chances with their moms and dads. There are a lot of moms and dads out there who will never see their kids walk down the aisle because of what Kamala Harris has unleashed at this border.”
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WATCH: Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> TORCHES Border Czar Kamala Harris 🔥
&quot;They stopped deportations on Day One. They stopped construction of the border wall on Day One&#8230;They reinstated catch-and-release and they stopped Remain-in-Mexico&#8230;these policies cause real human beings to suffer.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gwc2aljHXJ">pic.twitter.com/gwc2aljHXJ</a>
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The Biden administration’s approach to immigration has made that issue a target by Republican politicians and even some Democrats. According to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup polling</a> from June, 55% of Americans favor decreasing immigration levels versus 41% who say that immigration should stay the same or increase.
Immigration has become a top issue to the American public heading into the election. Other than in her role as vice president of the administration, Harris has a more direct connection with Biden’s border policy since she was tapped to lead efforts to tamp down immigration from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

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Vance Blasts Harris During Border Visit: ‘Terrible And Idiotic’ Policies Caused ‘Real Human Beings To Suffer’

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