I voted to extend TPS for Haitians because I cannot, in good conscience, send people who were lawfully granted protection here, followed our laws, and built lives under our rules back to rape, murder, and chaos in a lawless Haiti. This is completely separate from amnesty or illegal immigration. Conflating the two is dangerous.
🚨🇺🇸 NICK SHIRLEY: CARTEL SMUGGLING DIDN'T DISAPPEAR WHEN BORDER OPENED, IT JUST CHANGED HANDS
The government started doing what the cartels used to charge for.
Nick Shirley shared what he learned from a former cartel member about how migrant smuggling transformed when the border effectively opened during the Biden administration.
The old system:
"Before all this open border stuff happened, they would smuggle the migrants through secret entry points.
From there they'd pay a fee to be taken to another city.
They'd have cartel members here in the United States take them to a safe house, and then the safe house people would help them get on a bus to like New York City or something like that."
What changed wasn't the destination.
It was who ran the operation.
Under open border policies, the secret crossings became official processing centers.
The paid transport became taxpayer-funded flights and buses.
The cartel safe houses became NGO shelters.
The final destination? Still New York City.
Migrants still paid cartels to get to the border.
But once they cross, American taxpayers picked up the tab for everything the cartels used to charge for on this side.
Source: @juliandorey@nickshirleyy
@DerrickEvans4WV She represents the intellectually honest part of the republican party that dares to acknowledge that Trump doesn't get to be right 100% of the time and we shouldn't be Israel first. Trump worshipers, meanwhile, are left cheering for Uniparty stuff.
@BlueskyLibs If you believe Christianity to be true, you must want your spouse to also believe. That’s only complkcated for those pretending to be dim.
@theblaze Key point being that Paul votes no for a good reason (spending idiotic amounts of money) vs democrats voting no because not enough money is being spent.
Dear MAGA,
Nothing will lose libertarian support for Republicans like Trump taking uncalled for shots at Constitutional Conservatives like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie while supporting Lindsey Graham and Fauci.
That might not be as big as the incentive is to take Miriam Adelson and assorted Epstein client list billionaire money…
But the swamp needs to be drained, not fertilized.
Trump won’t be President forever.
Some of you MAGA loyalists are going to feel bad for selling your soul to the cult of personality when his term is up.
At some point “he’s better than Kamala and Biden” isn’t going to matter.
You want smaller government?
You want a balanced budget?
You want less taxes?
You want to end foreign aid and put America First?
You want to end the Fed?
You want to abolish the IRS?
You want to abolish the Department of Education?
Support the people who are putting the bills up instead of letting a big spending New York liberal convince you that they are “grandstanders”
You have to hold him accountable if you playing the long game to 2028