Transportation Secretary <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg?_gl=1*crdi6u*_ga*OTAwNTI1NTYwLjE2MTM5NzIxMzI.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2NDA3NTAwOC4xMjgwLjEuMTY2NDA3NTY4OC4zMS4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Buttigieg</a> argued on Thursday that citizens of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> should consider purchasing <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/electric-vehicles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electric vehicles</a>.
During a <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/22/pete-buttigieg-texas-tribune-festival/">keynote address</a> at the Texas Tribune Festival, Buttigieg contended that the Lone Star State could save money by buying electric cars to bypass prices at the pump. “Some of the best use cases for electric vehicles are in places like Texas,” Buttigieg said, “places where people spend more time in their vehicles, where you drive longer distances than in a dense coastal city and therefore spend more money on gas and therefore would save more money — provided you can afford an electric vehicle, which is why we’re fighting to make electric vehicles cheaper.”
The Biden administration has set the “ambitious target” of ensuring that electric vehicles constitute 50% of car sales in the United States by 2030, according to a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/13/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-electric-vehicle-charging-action-plan/">fact sheet</a> from the White House. President Joe Biden recently signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains $369 billion for climate initiatives — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/energy-sec-granholm-families-should-use-ev-tax-credits-weatherize-their-homes-finance-solar-panels-to-cope-with-inflation">including</a> $7,500 tax credits for new electric vehicles.
Buttigieg added on Thursday that the nation should invest more heavily in alternate modes of transportation. “Cars will always play an important role in our lives, but you should not have to bring two tons of metal with you everywhere you’re going,” he continued.
The White House has also established the goal of procuring only 100% zero-emission light-duty vehicles by 2027 and will extend the same standard to all vehicles in the federal fleet by 2035, according to another <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/09/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-proposes-new-standards-for-national-electric-vehicle-charging-network/">fact sheet</a> from the White House.
Buttigieg recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-interested-in-california-ban-on-new-gas-cars-as-he-weighs-a-national-policy">nodded</a> to a policy from the California Air Resources Board that will require 35% of new vehicles to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-expected-to-ban-sale-of-new-gas-cars">produce zero emissions</a> by 2026 — a standard that will progressively rise to 100% by 2035. The policy was unveiled days before grid officials requested that residents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-asks-residents-to-avoid-charging-electric-vehicles-due-to-blackout-risk-days-after-unveiling-new-gas-car-ban">lower energy usage</a> during peak hours of a heatwave, including by refraining from charging their electric vehicles, in the interest of averting power failure.
Buttigieg nevertheless argued that speed is necessary for an electric vehicle policy. “We’ve got to make sure that this happens quickly enough to help us beat climate change,” he said during an <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/the-issue-is-podcast-gavin-newsom-pete-buttigieg-and-melissa-giller">interview</a> with Fox 11 Los Angeles. “We’ve got to make sure it happens affordably enough that’s it not just wealthy people, but low-income people who most need those gas savings if they can afford the EVs in the first place.”
Washington, Massachusetts, and Virginia will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-more-states-follow-californias-ban-on-new-gas-cars">follow</a> the California Air Resources Board policy in accordance with previously enacted law, although Republicans in the latter state are attempting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ridiculous-edict-virginia-gov-glenn-youngkin-blasts-californias-gas-car-phase-out">overturn</a> the regulation.
Acknowledging the high cost of electric cars relative to gas vehicles, Buttigieg has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-tells-americans-how-they-can-channel-their-pain-at-the-pump">claimed</a> that rising fuel prices would lead more Americans to rely on alternatives. “The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles,” he said during a hearing for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The national average price of gasoline was $2.38 per gallon when Biden assumed office and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gas-prices-are-1-50-higher-since-biden-took-office-cnn-business-america-got-a-raise">increased</a> to $3.53 per gallon by the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After surpassing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gas-prices">$5.00 per gallon</a> in early June, prices have somewhat subsided to $3.71 per gallon as of Sunday, according to <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">data</a> from AAA.

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Buttigieg Explains To Texans Why They Should Buy Electric Vehicles

Buttigieg Tries To Convince Texans Why They Should Buy Electric Vehicles

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Pete Buttigieg

Texas

Video from a Hispanic Texas farmer shows illegal immigrants fleeing Border Patrol first trying to get in his house, but when unsuccessful, entering his elderly grandfather&#8217;s home next door.
The farmer’s 150-acre ranch, which his family has owned for more than 100 years, abuts the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Well, this is my house. My house where I live with my children in this house right here,” the farmer narrates in the video. “There’s your freaking border wall. &#8230; Eight individuals just crossed the freaking border wall, running. &#8230; Tried going in my door but the door was locked. So what did they do? They ran right inside my grandpa’s house. Four of them made it inside the barricades themselves inside my 95-year-old grandpa’s house. You want to tell me it’s okay?”
“They tried to break into my house, that&#8217;s locked. They tried to razzle-dazzle my porch and my laundry room door and that&#8217;s locked,” he added.
“These guys just bull-rushed our houses. I mean trying to open doors, trying to get in,” the farmer told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-farmer-near-border-says-migrants-bull-rushed-property-broke-elderly-grandparents-house">Fox News Digital</a>. “Not everyone is that and I’m in agreement with that, but these guys were trying to get away and get into our houses. That was pretty bad.”
“When they have zero respect and barge in your home on a Sunday at four o’clock in the afternoon when you’re sitting down, rest and relaxing, recliner up and your door flings wide open and three people that you don’t know just come running through the kitchen, it’s unfathomable,” he added.
“I feel that we’re at an all-time peak right now. We’re at the highest we’ve seen this in, ultimately, 90 to 95 years,” he concluded.
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On Monday, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/us-border-arrests.html">acknowledged</a> “the historic pace of undocumented immigrants entering the country.”
Earlier this month, the executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Corey Price issued a stunning and revealing response when asked by Florida Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard about ICE deportation rates in the past decade.
“I do not have the last ten years’ data available. But it is less than at least the last four years that I have here,” Price answered.
“In 2012, a decade ago, under President Obama, ICE removed almost eight times or, excuse me, almost seven times the number of aliens than the Biden administration did in either 2021 or 2022, right?” Guard followed up.
“That appears correct,” Price admitted.
“From 2008 to 2016, ICE removed up to 400,000 aliens per year and never less than 230,000. In 2021 the agency removed only 55,598 aliens,” The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11241771/Farmer-near-border-says-migrants-bull-rushed-property-broke-elderly-grandparents-house.html#comments">pointed out</a>.

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WATCH: ‘These Guys Just Bull-Rushed Our Houses’: Texas Farmer’s Video Of Illegals Barging Into His Grandpa’s Home

Texas Farmer’s Video Of Illegals Barging Into His Grandpa’s Home

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The Democrat sheriff that opened an investigation Monday into 50 illegal immigrants that were sent to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard last week by Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) said during a press conference that he was &#8220;not able&#8221; to point to any laws that were broken but just said &#8220;it&#8217;s wrong.&#8221; Salazar also did not name any suspects.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar claimed that the migrants were &#8220;lured&#8221; into making the flight, even though a Florida publication reported that they obtained a brochure given to the illegal immigrants that showed that Massachusetts is where they were going.
&#8220;That does tend to bother me quite a bit,&#8221; Salazar said. &#8220;And so we are absolutely opening up an investigation into this.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe people need to be held accountable for it to the extent possible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At this point, I&#8217;m not able to definitively say here&#8217;s the statute that they broke either federal, state or local. But what I can tell you is it&#8217;s wrong just from a human rights perspective, what was done to these folks is wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;From now on out, we&#8217;re hoping to talk to some of these these victims and witnesses firsthand to find out what was said what was done, how were you lured into this, and then the full extent of how they were placed in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;At that point, we will make the determination if there was any criminal activity. Certainly, I can tell you right now, the allegations that we&#8217;ve heard, is absolutely distasteful. It&#8217;s disgusting.&#8221;
DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-shreds-claims-that-illegal-immigrants-were-falsely-lured-into-going-to-marthas-vineyard">said</a> at a press conference that the people who were contracted gave the illegal immigrants a release form to sign and a packet that included a map of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. &#8220;So it was obvious that that’s where they were going and they gave that to them,&#8221; DeSantis added.
Florida&#8217;s Voice reported Monday that they obtained one of the brochures that the illegal immigrants were given prior to heading to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. The publication said that they confirmed the information with the governor&#8217;s office.
The brochure, which is written in both English and Spanish, is titled: &#8220;Massachusetts Refugee Benefits/Massachusetts Beneficios para Refugiados,&#8221; and includes pictures of Massachusetts.
Florida&#8217;s Voice said that the brochure contained information &#8220;directly from the Massachusetts government website.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Florida&#39;s Voice has confirmed with Ron DeSantis&#39; office the below brochure was given to migrants who were voluntarily flown to Martha&#39;s Vineyard 
The brochure contains information directly from the Massachusetts government website <a href="https://t.co/IPRO4UD4ad">pic.twitter.com/IPRO4UD4ad</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1571902660265279488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information. 
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters at a campaign

Democrat Sheriff Probing Migrants Sent To Martha’s Vineyard: ‘I’m Not Able’ To Point To Any Laws Broken

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Migrants

Ron DeSantis

A <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Javier_Salazar">Democrat</a> sheriff announced Monday that his office has launched an investigation into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his operation which sent 50 illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard last week, although he did not name any suspects.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar&#8217;s said in a statement that his office &#8220;has opened an investigation into the migrants that were lured from the Migrant Resource Center, located in Bexar County, TX, and flown to Florida, where they were ultimately left to fend for themselves in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.&#8221;
&#8220;Additionally, we are working with private attorneys who are representing the victims, as well as advocacy organizations regarding this incident,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We are also preparing to work with any federal agencies that have concurrent jurisdiction, should the need arise.&#8221;
DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-shreds-claims-that-illegal-immigrants-were-falsely-lured-into-going-to-marthas-vineyard">said</a> at a press conference that the people who were contracted gave the illegal immigrants a release form to sign and a packet that included a map of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. &#8220;So it was obvious that that’s where they were going and they gave that to them,&#8221; DeSantis added.
Florida&#8217;s Voice reported Monday that they obtained one of the brochures that the illegal immigrants were given prior to heading to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. The publication said that they confirmed the information with the governor&#8217;s office.
The brochure, which is written in both English and Spanish, is titled: &#8220;Massachusetts Refugee Benefits/Massachusetts Beneficios para Refugiados,&#8221; and includes pictures of Massachusetts.
Florida&#8217;s Voice said that the brochure contained information &#8220;directly from the Massachusetts government website.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Florida&#39;s Voice has confirmed with Ron DeSantis&#39; office the below brochure was given to migrants who were voluntarily flown to Martha&#39;s Vineyard 
The brochure contains information directly from the Massachusetts government website <a href="https://t.co/IPRO4UD4ad">pic.twitter.com/IPRO4UD4ad</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1571902660265279488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Salazar claimed without evidence that the illegal immigrants were in the U.S. &#8220;legally&#8221; and that they had &#8220;every right to be&#8221; where they were.
&#8220;Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” an official for DeSantis’ office <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-sends-two-planes-illegal-immigrants-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement last week. “States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country’ by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies.”
The official continued, “In this past legislative session the Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of illegal immigrants from this state consistent with federal law.”
This report has been updated to include additional information.
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Democrat Sheriff Launches Investigation Into Migrants Being Sent To Martha’s Vineyard

Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins fired back at the suggestion that the network had coordinated with Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/brilliant-political-strategy-former-ny-dem-governor-praises-greg-abbott-sending-illegals-to-nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R-TX) to capture footage of illegal migrants being dropped off outside Vice President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/texas-drops-more-illegal-immigrants-including-infant-off-at-vice-president-kamala-harriss-doorstep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris&#8217;</a> residence last week.
Jenkins, who has been an integral part of the network&#8217;s coverage, told &#8220;MediaBuzz&#8221; host Howard Kurtz that it was &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; to suggest that he had coordinated anything with Abbott ahead of the story.
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Jenkins also noted that small border towns were still being overwhelmed by the crisis — &quot;But yet 50 drop in the tiny island paradise of Martha’s Vineyard, and the tiny island paradise is brought to its knees? There’s a double standard there.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/T3L6IKeTrg">pic.twitter.com/T3L6IKeTrg</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1571599340870799360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Kurtz began the segment with a few clips of the coverage showing migrants being dropped off outside Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; official residence — on orders from Governor Abbott — and two plane loads of migrants landing in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, courtesy of Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-hammers-biden-for-scrambling-to-respond-to-marthas-vineyard-but-not-to-these-crises/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL).
&#8220;Some critics said it looked like collusion,&#8221; Kurtz said, turning to Jenkins for a response.
&#8220;That&#8217;s ridiculous. We did not coordinate nor would we coordinate,&#8221; Jenkins fired back, noting that there had been an official press release that was sent out to multiple news organizations, embargoed until the migrants were scheduled to arrive.
&#8220;We did not have much details,&#8221; Jenkins continued, going on to point out the fact that other news organizations had also been on the scene when the migrants began to disembark. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a charge that holds no water.&#8221;
&#8220;CNN and MSNBC immediately sent reporters to Martha’s Vineyard,&#8221; Kurtz continued. &#8220;President Biden said this is playing politics with human beings, reckless and unAmerican. Many pundits are criticizing it as well.&#8221;
Jenkins pushed back, noting that he had been covering the U.S.-Mexico border for years — and that his goal had always been to shed light on the crisis there. &#8220;I even went to the Panamanian jungle —&#8221;
Kurtz asked how that coverage related to the current concern — namely the migrants who were being hand-delivered by Republican governors to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities and states — and Jenkins said that the governors were only trying to drive an important message home.
&#8220;Del Rio has a population of 35,000. They had 50,000 migrants come there in July,&#8221; Jenkins explained. He later added, &#8220;In one case, the city of El Paso sending nearly 2,000 migrants on 50 buses to New York, there’s no criticism there. But yet 50 drop in the tiny island paradise of Martha’s Vineyard, and the tiny island paradise is brought to its knees? There’s a double standard there.&#8221;

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‘Ridiculous!’: Fox News Reporter Refutes Claim The Network Coordinated With Abbott Ahead Of Migrant Drop-Offs

Fox News' Griff Jenkins Refutes Claim The Network Coordinated With Abbott Ahead Of Migrant Drop-Offs

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Kamala Harris

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrat</a> mayor of El Paso defended his city’s policy of busing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrants</a> 2,200 miles northeast to New York City, saying the beleaguered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Texas city</a> is just trying to help them get to their ultimate destination.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Mayor Oscar Leeser said the migrants are being treated humanely, even though Republican leaders, including Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX), have been criticized by Democrats for exporting them to blue states and liberal cities. Leeser said as many as 2,000 illegal immigrants are flooding into his city daily.
“The people are not coming to El Paso, they&#8217;re coming to America,” said Leeser, who served as mayor from 2013-2017 and was re-elected last year. “We don&#8217;t send anyone where they don&#8217;t want to go. We make sure we help them.
“We put them on buses with food and make sure they get to their destination and make sure that we always continue to greet and treat people like human beings,” he added.
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Democrat El Paso, Texas Mayor Oscar Leeser says between 1,500 and 2,000 illegal immigrants flood into the city EVERY DAY — and &quot;the numbers have been continuing to increase.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1kvEqUjO46">pic.twitter.com/1kvEqUjO46</a>
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Abbott and fellow Republican governors Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Doug Ducey of Arizona, have been sending illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to blue cities and states to bring attention to the border problem. An estimated 2 million migrants have flooded into the country since President Joe Biden took office and repealed several major components of former President Donald Trump’s border security policies.
<div id="attachment_438826" style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-438826" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-438826 size-full" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-18-at-11.10.38-AM.png" alt="El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser defended busing illegal immigrants to New York City, although Republicans have been condemned for the same thing." width="500" height="450" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-18-at-11.10.38-AM.png 500w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-18-at-11.10.38-AM-300x270.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser defended busing illegal immigrants to New York City, although Republicans have been condemned for the same thing. (City of El Paso)</div>
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said last month. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C., and New York City as an additional drop-off location.”
Abbott’s office said more than 7,700 migrants have been dropped off in Washington and more than 2,100 in New York since April. The state has spent an estimated $12 million chartering the buses.
Although Democrats have accused the GOP leaders of “human trafficking” for the practice, they have not criticized Leeser. Leeser and El Paso’s Democrat-controlled city council have sent nearly 30 buses full of migrants to New York in the last month and are seeking reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the costs.
Fox News reported that El Paso’s city council recently approved a 16-month, $2 million contract to continue busing migrants out of the city.
The Biden administration has been busing and flying migrants who are awaiting asylum or deportation hearings to locations around the country for more than a year, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-sanctuary-cities-the-border-crisis-arrives-by-bus-abbott-desantis-texas-marthas-vineyard-asylum-housing-title-42-washington-encounters-11663335794">Wall Street Journal</a> noted Friday.
Last week, Regional Border Patrol Chief Gloria Chavez posted snapshots on Instagram showing as many as 1,000 migrants left to huddle under an El Paso bridge because federal officials are too stretched to process them.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district covers part of the city, said. “It’s a scene that you would see in a third-world country, not in the streets of El Paso.”

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El Paso’s Democrat Mayor Defends Busing Migrants To New York

El Paso's Democrat Mayor Defends Busing Migrants To New York

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Democrats

Another 50 migrants were bused from Texas to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-lying-tulsi-torches-kamala-over-secure-border-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President Kamala Harris</a>’s doorstep Saturday, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-virtue-signaling-is-a-fraud-desantis-drags-leftists-attacking-him-for-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP governors continued their tactic</a> of exporting border crossers to so-called “sanctuary” states and cities.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrants-arrive-vice-president-kamala-harris-residence-3-more-buses-nyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, which first reported on Thursday that two buses from El Paso had discharged about 100 migrants in front of the vice president’s official residence at the Naval Observatory, broke Saturday morning’s news. The bus carried people mostly Venezuelan nationals, including an infant, the outlet reported, adding that aid workers took the passengers to a nearby shelter.
The bus was believed to have departed from El Paso, nearly 2,000 miles away.
In addition, six more buses carrying migrants from Texas reportedly arrived at New York&#8217;s Port Authority on Saturday.
The incidents were the latest case of red states exporting the influx of illegal immigrants to the democrat-run sanctuary cities they blame for causing it. On Wednesday night,  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-explode-after-desantis-sends-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-the-nazis-did-this">Florida sent two planes with 50 migrants</a> to the tiny liberal playland of Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obamas own a surfside mansion. Those migrants were shipped out the next day to a military base on Cape Cod.
Republican governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, Ron DeSantis, of Florida, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, have been sending migrants to blue cities and states to bring attention to the border problem. An estimated 2 million migrants have flooded into the country since President Joe Biden took office and repealed several major components of former President Trump’s border security policies.
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said last month. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C., and New York City as an additional drop-off location.”
Abbott’s office claims more than 7,700 migrants have been dropped off in Washington and more than 2,100 in New York since April. The state has spent an estimated $12 million chartering the buses.
Harris, who President Joe Biden appointed as border czar, claimed Sunday in an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that the U.S.-Mexican border is &#8220;secure.&#8221;
“We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration,” Harris told host Chuck Todd.
Fellow Democrats, including West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-lying-tulsi-torches-kamala-over-secure-border-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard</a>, said Harris was off-base with the claim.

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Texas Drops More Migrants, Including Infant, Off At Vice President Kamala Harris’s Doorstep

Texas Drops More Migrants, Including Infant, Off At Vice President Kamala Harris's Doorstep

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Washington D.C. Democrat Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-caught-violating-own-rules-on-first-day-of-new-mask-mandate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Muriel Bowser</a> complained Friday that the nation’s capital is not equipped for the influx of migrants being sent by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brilliant-political-strategy-former-ny-dem-governor-praises-greg-abbott-sending-illegals-to-nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red-state governors</a> fed up with the porous Mexican border.
The Democrat mayor spoke days after two buses Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott sent from Del Rio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-buses-sent-by-texas-drop-migrants-off-in-front-of-vp-kamala-harris-residence">dropped off 100 migrants</a> in front of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-buses-sent-by-texas-drop-migrants-off-in-front-of-vp-kamala-harris-residence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s</a> official residence at the Naval Observatory. Abbott and fellow GOP chief executives Ron DeSantis, of Florida, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, have stepped up their efforts to bring the border crisis to blue states and cities.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not a border town,” Bowser told reporters Friday. “We don&#8217;t have an infrastructure to handle this type of and level of immigration to our city &#8230; We&#8217;re not Texas.&#8221;
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser: &quot;We&#39;re not a border town. We don&#39;t have an infrastructure to handle this type of and level of immigration to our city &#8230; We&#39;re not Texas.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/n8NgZLwj16">pic.twitter.com/n8NgZLwj16</a>
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Bowser did vow to build an &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; to help her city absorb migrants, but in the meantime, said D.C. can&#8217;t handle the newcomers. Twitter users roasted Bowser, who in 2018 <a href="https://twitter.com/SatcomGod13/status/1571118389971783680?s=20&amp;t=sjQQ17l3fIIcyjNWuKpBgw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared Washington, D.C., a sanctuary city</a> for illegal immigrants.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve claimed to be a sanctuary city for years, and you&#8217;re just NOW planning on infrastructure to support that effort?&#8221; wrote one Twitter commenter. &#8220;And you think immigration is a Texas problem? SMH&#8221;
&#8220;What kind of “infrastructure“ does she think exists in Texas?&#8221; asked another person on Twitter.
&#8220;Funny how it&#8217;s not a problem till it comes knocking on her door, then suddenly her city is all kind of excuses why not to deal with that problem,&#8221; wrote another. &#8220;Lame excuses, really. Hypocrite much?&#8221;
More than 2 million migrants have crossed the border into the U.S. since President Joe Biden took office and rescinded many of the Trump administration’s border security measures. The Texas governor says his state’s border towns have been flooded with migrants, and sending them to jurisdictions that support the Biden administration’s lax border policies is only sensible.
According to Abbott’s office, more than 7,700 migrants have been dropped off in Washington and more than 2,100 in New York since April. The state has spent an estimated $12 million chartering the buses.
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said last month. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C., and New York City as an additional drop-off location.”
In addition to Bowser, other Democrat leaders, including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who have all supported the administration’s border policies, have decried the busing tactic and said their cities and states cannot absorb the influx of migrants.
The red-state tactic exploded into the national spotlight early Thursday, when planes sent by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose state has seen thousands of migrants dropped off by the Biden administration, brought 50 illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. The island, mostly populated by wealthy liberals, was unwilling to absorb the migrants and sent them off to a military base the next day.
Bowser last week declared a public emergency over the previous arrival of buses from Texas and Arizona. She has sought help from the National Guard in dealing with the problem but has been denied twice by the Department of Defense.

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> law prohibiting social media companies from censoring speech on the basis of political viewpoint.
In a <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22417944/document.pdf">decision</a> Friday, a panel of three judges on the Fifth Circuit upheld the Texas law, vacating an injunction from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-texas-social-media-censorship-law-abbotts-office-slams-move-as-hostile-to-americas-free-speech-foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Western District of Texas</a>.
In the 90-page ruling, the Fifth Circuit took aim at censorship by social media platforms, debunking the claim that the platforms would have their free speech rights restricted by the law. Instead, the Court found that the law would stop censorship conduct and protect the rights of individual users to speak freely on the platform.
&#8220;A Texas statute named <a href="https://fb.watch/fAUJHHajyg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 20</a> generally prohibits large social media platforms from censoring speech based on the viewpoint of its speaker,&#8221; Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew S. Oldham wrote in the opinion of the court. &#8220;The platforms urge us to hold that the statute is facially unconstitutional and hence cannot be applied to anyone at any time and under any circumstances. In urging such sweeping relief, the platforms offer a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment. That Amendment, of course, protects every person’s right to &#8216;the freedom of speech.&#8217; But the platforms argue that buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech.&#8221;
&#8220;Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,&#8221; Oldham added.
The court first rejected the social media platforms&#8217; claim that the law is too broad, saying that the law does not chill speech, but chills censorship instead. &#8220;HB 20’s prohibitions on censorship will cultivate rather than stifle the marketplace of ideas that justifies the overbreadth doctrine in the first place,&#8221; Oldham wrote.
Applying Supreme Court precedent, the court further found that the law does not regulate the speech of the platforms at all, neither compelling them to speak nor restricting them from speaking; instead, it protects the speech of users, and regulates platforms&#8217; conduct as it relates to that speech. &#8220;[C]ensorship is at best a form of expressive conduct, for which the overbreadth doctrine provides only &#8216;attenuate[d]&#8217; protection,&#8221; Oldham wrote.
The court cited Section 230, saying that the platforms are not &#8220;speaking&#8221; when they host other people&#8217;s speech. The court also rejected the platforms&#8217; claims of &#8220;editorial discretion&#8221; on two bases: first, the court noted that unlike newspapers, social media platforms do not claim responsibility for the content they host, and are in fact protected from such liability by Section 230. Second, newspapers engage in content moderation before it it published; platforms, on the other hand, engage in censorship after users publish their content. Furthermore, the Fifth Circuit cited the common carrier doctrine, which empowers Texas to prevent the platforms from discriminating against users who live in Texas.
&#8220;We reject the Platforms’ attempt to extract a freewheeling censorship right from the Constitution’s free speech guarantee,&#8221; the Fifth Circuit concluded. &#8220;The Platforms are not newspapers. Their censorship is not speech. They’re not entitled to pre-enforcement facial relief. And HB 20 is constitutional because it neither compels nor obstructs the Platforms’ own speech in any way.&#8221;
The court vacated the district court&#8217;s injunction on the law, and remanded it back to the Western District of Texas for further proceedings in light of the opinion.

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The long nightmare is finally over for the people of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-cheer-after-desantis-sends-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-time-to-pay-their-fair-share/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha’s Vineyard</a>, who were forced to share their idyllic island enclave for more than a day with some 50 migrants, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-candace-owens-on-kim-kardashian-and-a-sinister-threat-to-american-families/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> noted Friday on his podcast and radio show.
The migrants, flown in by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jean-pierre-freezes-up-when-asked-if-border-is-secure-after-desantis-sends-migrants-to-marthas-vineyard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</a>, were shuttled off Friday morning to a Massachusetts military base after wealthy locals in the liberal playland balked at their presence. Shapiro, tongue firmly in cheek, explained that it isn’t always easy to live up to the values on your self-righteous yard signs.
“My heart goes out to the victimized people on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard who are having to deal with like, a few days of charitable meal giving. It&#8217;s really rough stuff happening here,” Shapiro said.
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Yes, Martha&#39;s Vineyard is just like Auschwitz. You absolutely nailed it. Can&#39;t spot any differences. <a href="https://t.co/FSoUDYY4yx">https://t.co/FSoUDYY4yx</a> <a href="https://t.co/tl42F2n4jg">pic.twitter.com/tl42F2n4jg</a>
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DeSantis and fellow GOP governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, have been sending to blue states migrants that cross into their territory, or, in Florida’s case, <a href="//A7E62A80-7ACD-4AA2-9EA8-654C10087A85/I%20want%20to%20talk%20about%20inhumane.%20How%20about%20a%20border%20policy%20that%20incentivizes%20people%20to%20cross%20vast%20deserts%20and%20die%20in%20the%20desert%20of%20dehydration?%20How%20about%20a%20border%20policy%20that%20incentivizes%20people%20to%20give%20their%20life%20savings%20to%20a%20criminal%20coyote%20who%20puts%20them%20in%20the%20back%20of%20a%20truck%20and%20drives%20them%20across%20the%20border%20and%20then%20abandons%20them%20there%20to%20die,%20which%20seems%20more%20humane,%20inhumane%20to%20you?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">get flown there by the federal government</a>. Texas has sent nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants to New York City and Washington, including about 100 that were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence on Thursday.
Democrat leaders, including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who have all supported the administration’s border policies, have decried the busing tactic and said their cities and states cannot absorb the influx of migrants.
But the trip that ended on Martha’s Vineyard was a masterstroke for revealing the hypocrisy of the left and the problem of a Biden administration policy that has allowed an estimated 2 million migrants to pour into the U.S., Shapiro said.
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Martha’s Vineyard just kicked the 50 illegal immigrants off their island. Gonna have to update their virtue signaling sign. <a href="https://t.co/OX4fjqzjsA">pic.twitter.com/OX4fjqzjsA</a>
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“This has led to a dramatic narrative from the media and from the Democrats, which is that it&#8217;s the highest form of barbarism to put people on air-conditioned buses and planes to some of the popular, rich areas of the United States,” Shapiro said. “Awful. They should have to stay in super poor towns along the Texas border.”
Shapiro noted besieged U.S. border towns like Del Rio and McAllen, Texas, have been forced to absorb and care for tens of thousands of migrants the administration refuses to deport.
“The kind of numbers we&#8217;re talking about in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard are nothing, OK?” Shapiro said. “They&#8217;re really nothing, comparatively speaking, to the border towns here.”
Ultimately, Democrats can’t claim open borders are a good thing, then whine when the policy affects them directly, Shapiro said.
“They can&#8217;t have it both ways,” he said. “On the one hand, they say illegal immigration is a wondrous good for the United States. It shows the sympathy of the United States, shows our open arms. It shows that the slogans on the Statue of Liberty are the real Constitution.
“And on the other hand, if you show up at our house, man, are we going to be pissed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Let me tell you, then it&#8217;s an emergency.
“Well, well, well, if it isn&#8217;t the consequences of your own lawn sign.”

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Ben Shapiro Calls Out The Yard-Sign Hypocrisy Of Martha’s Vineyard

Ben Shapiro Calls Out The Yard-Sign Hypocrisy Of Martha's Vineyard

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kanye-west" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kanye West</a> said he plans on terminating the deal between his Yeezy clothing brand and shoemaker Adidas, in part over the company&#8217;s ties to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>.
In an interview with CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Closing Bell&#8221; on Thursday, West, who also goes by the moniker Ye, discussed his decision to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/09/12/kanye-west-leaving-adidas-and-gap-partnerships-once-contracts-expire-he-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terminate</a> his partnership with the shoe brand over complaints that Adidas left him out of the development process and unfairly copied his ideas. The rapper and fashion designer also blasted Adidas for their ties to Chinese manufacturing, and said that he wants to manufacture his products in America.
&#8220;This is the day of liberation right here,&#8221; West said. &#8220;This is the day to not be just valued on my cash flow, to be valued on the equity that we bring. You know, we’ve seen the influence that we’ve had on two Fortune 500 companies. Also a lot of stuff they [Adidas] have commitments to China, and [we] wanted to do localized manufacturing, which is completely possible with some of the factories that I’m buying here in California, we can actually bring industry back to America.&#8221;
&#8220;I feel that in a lot of ways, Europe has been the head of prestige, with the luxury brands and luxury vehicles, and China has been the head of manufacturing,&#8221; Ye added. &#8220;But America, we invented rock and roll, we are the most inventive. We are the youngest startup ever, America itself, so, you know, we invented Apple, we invented Ford, and now we have Yeezy here.&#8221;
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&#8220;We did this shoe, this knit runner, I told them, &#8216;This needs to be a marathon shoe.&#8217; And it ended up being the most uncomfortable <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yeezy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Yeezy</a> ever.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kanyewest</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraEisen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SaraEisen</a> about his dissatisfaction with <a href="https://twitter.com/adidas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adidas</a>. <a href="https://t.co/JO9AeeJbRO">pic.twitter.com/JO9AeeJbRO</a>
— CNBC&#8217;s Closing Bell (@CNBCClosingBell) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNBCClosingBell/status/1570503504812470272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We invented rock n&#8217; roll. We are the most inventive. We are the youngest start-up ever, America itself. We invented <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$AAPL</a>. We invented <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24F&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$F</a>. And now we have <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yeezy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Yeezy</a>,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kanyewest</a>. <a href="https://t.co/XLsFvR2n4a">pic.twitter.com/XLsFvR2n4a</a>
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West has taken much more of an interest in manufacturing his apparel in the U.S. recently. His <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/adidas-yeezy-foam-runner-gets-153821635.html#:~:text=Both%20of%20the%20individuals%20also,is%20dressed%20with%20natural%20dyes.&amp;text=The%20Adidas%20Yeezy%20Foam%20Runner%20%E2%80%9CDesert%20Sand%E2%80%9D%20makeup%20will%20be,and%20at%20select%20Adidas%20retailers." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yeezy Foam Runner</a>, released earlier this year, is made of natural materials and is the first Yeezy shoe to be made in the United States.
Ye also expressed support for Texas-based San Antonio Shoemakers on Instagram in early September. In now-deleted Instagram posts, West complained about Adidas allegedly re-releasing old shoes, coloring and naming them without his permission, and stealing his designs, the <a href="https://www.kens5.com/article/money/business/kanye-san-antonio-shoemakers-ye-posts-sas-logo-instagram-after-saying-he-wants-control-of-shoe-company/273-f936a6ec-46e3-4a94-b2d1-c713f11fe34a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local news outlet KENS 5 reported</a>. West then posted screenshots of the SAS logo and Wikipedia page with the caption, &#8220;:),&#8221; prompting speculation that he may want to work with the San Antonio-based brand, which manufactures the overwhelming majority of its shoes at factories in San Antonio and Del Rio, Texas.
Elsewhere in the interview, West blasted both Adidas and clothing retailer <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/kanye-west-ye-yeezy-terminates-deal-with-gap-over-alleged-contract-violations.html?&amp;qsearchterm=kanye%20west" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gap</a> for alleged underhanded business dealing that cut him out of the development process. &#8220;They were doing color ways, they were naming things, they were sending guys in, telling me, &#8216;Don’t tell your audience you didn’t name that,’” West said of Adidas. &#8220;They were slowing down my allotments and then copying the ideas that — some things took us two years.&#8221;
&#8220;[They] priced my stuff at like $200 and above their whole price point normally, and then did the exact [same] shirt for $20,&#8221; he said of Gap. &#8220;In the contract, they said they were going to do stores and they just ignored us about building stores ... sometimes I would talk to the leaders and it was like I was on mute or something. &#8230; Everyone knows I’m the leader, I’m the king, right. So a king can’t live in someone else’s castle. A king has to make his own castle.&#8221;
In addition to wanting to sever ties with Adidas, earlier this week, West also said he plans on terminating his partnership with Gap.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill to stop Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the U.S. as the upcoming opening session of the United Nations General Assembly approaches.
Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined on Wednesday in the legislation by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Joni Ernst (R-IA), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith,&#8221; Cruz wrote in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-introduces-the-sever-act-to-ban-iranian-president-raisi-from-entering-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
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&#8220;Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of President Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions,&#8221; he added.
The Texas senator also noted that the <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sever_act.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, called the SEVER Act (Strengthening Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions Act of 2022), would also apply to a small number of other Iranians.
“The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should,&#8221; he wrote.
The legislation was introduced as the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to renew a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran appear to have stalled in recent weeks. The agreement was put into place under former President Barack Obama. However, the effort was ended in 2018 after then-President Donald Trump pulled out, citing Iran&#8217;s repeated violations of the agreement.
In a related piece of legislation, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is also working to solidify U.S. sanctions against Iran to increase pressure on its government as it continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The Solidify Iran Sanctions Act targets Iran&#8217;s energy needs to help thwart terrorist operations or missile development.
&#8220;From brutal abuses committed against its own people, to its never-ending threats towards free and democratic societies, the Iranian regime has proven time and again that they are a rogue state with no interest in preserving regional or global peace,&#8221; Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-gop-working-together-make-iran-sanctions-permanent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> regarding the House version of the bill.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-escalates-enrichment-at-underground-nuclear-facility-now-has-enough-material-for-weapon-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in June, Iran is reportedly continuing to escalate its enrichment of uranium at its underground Fordow nuclear facility. U.N. experts believe that the nation now has the materials necessary to build a nuclear weapon.
The development was revealed in a nuclear watchdog report from the U.N. that Reuters obtained.
“IAEA inspectors verified on Saturday that Iran was ready to feed uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, the material centrifuges enrich, into the second of two cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges installed at Fordow, a site dug into mountain,” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-prepares-enrichment-escalation-fordow-plant-iaea-report-shows-2022-06-20/">reported</a>. “Iran informed the IAEA on Monday that passivation of the cascade, a process that precedes enrichment and also involves feeding UF6 into the machines, had begun on Sunday.”

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