After the economy, illegal immigration ranks highest among voters’ concerns. President Trump has spoken of “mass deportations” of the more than ten million illegal aliens who have flooded our country under Biden-Harris. That’s appealing political rhetoric to the base, but he needs to build policy muscle upon the rhetorical bones.
Recent migrant scandals force us to consider who, how, and how much.
Political campaigns are symbolic ventures, designed to drive attention to certain issues and to marshal facts, language, and emotion to deliver a material advantage. From Cicero’s campaign for the consulship to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s campaigns for the presidency, it has always been thus.
This is a useful lens through which to view the current immigration debate. For several weeks, two migrant-related stories have dominated national attention: Venezuelan gang members apparently seizing apartments in Aurora, Colorado, and tensions resulting from large-scale Haitian migration in Springfield, Ohio. Beneath the surface of their rhetorical heat, the controversies point to three key questions of immigration policy: who, how, and how much.
This is extremely curious: “Prosecutors had to prove Alissa was sane….The defense did not have to provide any evidence and did not present any experts to say that Alissa was insane.”
H/T kiki9
The Commission on the National Defense Strategy recently released a report warning that the United States faces the most severe and pressing defense challenges since 1945. The report not only emphasizes the potential for a near-term major war but also underscores the urgent need for action, making the gravity of the situation clear.
The commission, having meticulously reviewed both public and classified information, has identified China and Russia as major adversaries seeking to undermine the United States’ global influence. However, the commission’s greatest concern lies with China. Its report reveals that “in many ways, China is outpacing the United States and has largely negated the U.S. military advantage in the Western Pacific through two decades of focused military investment,” which is a cause for grave concern.
The breakdown at the border has at once become a symbol of our polarization and an accelerant of it.
In raising the issue of immigration during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump repeated online allegations that migrants were eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. Those claims and the media response to them have overshadowed the bigger policy picture. While some anti-border control activists portray immigration as being like the tides and thus immune to human interventions, the past few years have demonstrated how much policymakers’ choices can influence immigration rates. This is especially the case with the executive branch, charged with enforcing and administering immigration law.
As U.S. election day approaches in just seven weeks, it’s looking like the Canadian economy might be caught between a rock and a hard place — regardless of the outcome.
Experts say a Donald Trump presidency and his proposed 10 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports would hurt Canada’s economy, but Kamala Harris could also be problematic — especially if
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre becomes Prime Minister.
Shortly after the U.S. election, talks around the Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, referred to as CUSMA, will ramp up as it is set for review on July 1, 2026.
Kamala is a genuine worry given she is a fool and a Deep State puppet.
A reformed Chicago gangster sounds the alarm on what’s brewing in the Windy City: a metropolis “up in flames” and a bloody turf war of “blacks” versus “migrants.”
Tyrone Muhammad was once a Chiraq gangbanger whose life changed after he spent twenty years in a state prison for a murder conviction. Since his release, he’s devoted his energy to street patrols and violence prevention, starting a group known as Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, and he’s warning the public about what he sees as a very real possibility if the Biden-Harris illegal aliens continue to be given the free rein on our tax dollars and in our nation.
Donald Trump doesn’t know how to stop the war in Ukraine, despite claiming he could end it on his first day as US president, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
In his harshest criticism yet of the Republican presidential nominee, the Ukrainian president also described Trump’s running mate JD Vance as “dangerous” and “too radical”.
“His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice,” Mr Zelensky said of Mr Vance in an interview with the New Yorker magazine before he flew to the US to present his “Victory Plan” to the White House this week. “But I believe that we have shielded America from total war.”
This will not win Hearts and Minds.
Traumatised America doesn’t care anymore
Barely 24 hours after an armed man was found within several hundred yards of Donald Trump on his golf course in Florida, my local newspaper ran a piece with the following headline: “Would-be assassin soured on Trump: Who did he want as presidential and VP candidates?”
Great question. What, for that matter, did the wannabe killer, Ryan Routh think of the impending match-up on Monday Night Football? What were his thoughts on electric vehicles, school choice, weight loss drugs and parenting?
At the country’s southern border, U.S. Border Patrol agents have been on the lookout for members of a notorious Venezuelan gang. In the nation’s heartland, police officers from Denver to Chicago have made dozens of arrests for alleged crimes linked to the group, from retail theft to murder and prostitution.
And in New York City, police detectives have spent months interviewing informants — including confessed gang members — to identify gang leaders and gather information on robbery patterns and recruitment efforts.
The gang in question is Tren de Aragua, which sprang from a Venezuelan prison and developed into a feared criminal organization focused on sex trafficking, human smuggling and the drug trade.
There’s a brief, delicious little vignette at the beginning of military historian Tim Cook’s latest book that neatly captures the essence of Canada’s decades-long national security and defence relationship with the United States.
Speaking in Kingston, Ont. with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his side, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that “the people of the United States would not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire.”
Seizing territory, having boots on the ground will never fall out of war’s fashion but how they are fought in the coming age of AI may determine the necessity of allies.
The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y.
The outline echoes another age along these borderlands when runners moved contraband liquor from Canada south across this stretch of land between Quebec and New York state during prohibition.
Now a different type of traffic is moving through Oliver’s farm: people.
After Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, it wasn’t just his campaign that came to a halt — the illusion that he was running the country evaporated as well. Instead of governing, he spent more time at the beach than in the White House. The façade that Joe Biden is still in charge took another blow on Friday during the first cabinet meeting in nearly a year, where a visibly exhausted Biden made brief remarks before passing control of the meeting to his wife, Jill Biden.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported an unprecedented number of migrant encounters at the border between Canada and the United States from last October through July of this year.
There were 19,498 migrant encounters recorded between border posts along the northern border for the 10-month period between October 2023 and July 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.
The little town of Springfield, Ohio, is certainly not the town I remember from my youth. It has been transformed into not just a hotspot for the issues of immigration and a governmental autocracy but a national symbol for such things. It has become a lightning rod and a case study for the core issues of the upcoming election, and the Left, as per its usual modus operandi, has carefully avoided the crisis there to fan the flames of anti-conservative animus. It is a safe bet to say that the influence and connections of those who wish to consolidate and increase Progressive power are deep and diverse. Which makes this social media post from a Springfield resident concerning.
