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Fed vs. State Showdown over Illegal Invasion Heats Up at the Border in Texas |
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Thursday, January 25, 2024 |
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Matt Margolis (Jan 25, 2024)
“The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’ constitutional authority to defend and protect itself…” -Governor Greg Abbott
The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration over Abbott earlier this week by voting to allow the removal of razor wire along the US southern border. Governor Abbott, taking a page out of Joe Biden’s playbook, decided to ignore the Supreme Court. “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States,” Abbott said in a statement Wednesday. “The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now. …Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them.” Abbott added that Texas has a constitutional right to self-defense. “The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’ constitutional authority to defend and protect itself,” Abbott added. “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.” Naturally, Democrats aren’t happy about this… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading Here.
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SMG News Wire (Jan 25, 2024)
“They put these kids who come through the border, and they belong to the cartels. Make no mistake, they’re not going to nice foster homes. And they take them, put them in the schools and they recruit our, our kids into their M-13 gangs. We have got to tell our elected officials we’re not okay with this.” -Noel Roberts of Take Our Border Back
Noel Roberts, of Take Our Border Back, said the rallies are peaceful protests meant to send a message to lawmakers that Americans are fed up with the illegal alien invasion. “Most importantly, peacefully and lawfully is our number one goal. We are working with local law enforcement. We are not some rogue group of people. We are just citizens in America who live near the border, who want to get our voices and use our First Amendment properly and lawfully and peacefully, honestly,” Roberts said on The Todd Starnes Radio Show. Rallies will be held in three border cities on Feb. 3 including Eagle Pass, Texas, Yuma, Arizona and San Ysidro, California. Click here for details. And the convoy will span from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Eagle Pass. Roberts said crime has become a significant issue in most border states including her home state of Arizona. “We also have gang members that go into the grade schools and middle schools in South Phoenix, and they actually infiltrate,” she said. “They put these kids who come through the border, and they belong to the cartels. Make no mistake, they’re not going to nice foster homes. And they take them, put them in the schools and they recruit our, our kids into their M-13 gangs.” “We have got to tell our elected officials we’re not okay with this,” she said. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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Warner Todd Huston (Jan 25, 2024)
[Breitbart.com] The city of Boston has begun housing hundreds of illegal border crossers at Logan International Airport, even in the face of Massport’s Interim CEO’s claims that the airport was “not an appropriate place” to house migrants. In November, Interim CEO Ed Freni insisted that the airport not be used for the purpose. “We have to emphasize that Logan is not an appropriate place to house people,” he said, according to WBZ-TV… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.
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Todd Starnes (Jan 25, 2024)
“They voted for open borders … I don’t think we’ve had a single person that said, ‘Hey, where’s the sign up sheet? Where can I sign up.’ They don’t want it in their neighborhood.” -Councilman Josh McBroom
“We are a deep, deep blue, affluent suburb,” McBroom said on the Todd Starnes Radio Show. “This is what people voted for. They voted for open borders. They advertise it in their front lawns with a sign that says ‘No human is illegal.'” There is pressure on the Chicago suburbs to do their part to take care of thousands of illegal aliens who have been bussed and flown to the Windy City courtesy of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In response, McBroom called on the rich, white liberals to “prove your virtue.” “Here’s a signup sheet,” he told citizens at a recent council meeting. “There’s a lot of big homes. A lot of affluent individuals who support this policy (open borders).” But so far not a single person has taken up the councilman’s recommendations. “I don’t think we’ve had a single person that said, ‘Hey, where’s the sign up sheet? Where can I sign up,'” he said. “They don’t want it in their neighborhood.”
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Tyler O’Neil (Jan 25, 2024)
“The Ohio Senate deserves to be commended today for its commitment to protecting women and children by overriding the governor’s veto of House Bill 68. The SAFE Act and Save Women’s Sports Act are the civil rights issues of our day, ensuring that children have the right to grow up intact and that women are no longer subject to men invading their spaces.” -Rep. Gary Click
The override passed the Senate 24-8 Wednesday, after passing the House of Representatives, 65-28, on Jan. 10. The clerk initially read the wrong number for the votes, 23-9. HB 68, the Enact Ohio Saving Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, will bar physicians from performing gender-reassignment surgery on a minor and from prescribing cross-sex hormones or drugs to block puberty for the purpose of gender transition. It also will enable students to sue if they are deprived of a fair playing field in sports due to gender activism and protect parents’ rights to raise their children according to their biological sex. DeWine, a Republican, vetoed the bill on Dec. 29 after it passed both houses by veto-proof majorities. DeWine framed his veto as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions are best for children. He insisted that a bureaucratic rulemaking process would be more likely to produce rules that would survive legal challenges. Similar laws restricting experimental gender interventions have faced court challenges, although many have survived legal scrutiny. The governor echoed pro-transgender activists who claim that minors with gender dysphoria (the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender other than their biological sex) will commit suicide if they can’t take hormones or undergo other “treatments” to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex. DeWine signed an “emergency” executive order one week after vetoing the bill. His order only banned sex-reassignment surgeries for minors, while the bill also bans cross-sex hormones and so-called puberty blockers for children. DeWine’s order also did not address males competing in women’s sports. “The Ohio Senate deserves to be commended today for its commitment to protecting women and children by overriding the governor’s veto of House Bill 68,” Rep. Gary Click, a Republican and the bill’s lead sponsor, said in a statement Wednesday. “The SAFE Act and Save Women’s Sports Act are the civil rights issues of our day, ensuring that children have the right to grow up intact and that women are no longer subject to men invading their spaces.” Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, praised the veto override. (Heritage Action for America is an independent, nonprofit organization affiliated with The Heritage Foundation, which is The Daily Signal’s parent organization.) “HB 68 reflects the values of a bipartisan majority of Americans who know that biological males do not belong in girls’ sports—and that dangerous cross-sex hormones and experimental surgeries have no business being administered to children,” Walker said. The pro-transgender group Human Rights Campaign condemned the override. “These politicians think they know trans youth better than their parents and doctors,” the organization posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “This is not the end of the fight. We will not stop until trans youth in Ohio and across the country have their rights protected and respected.” Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue, praised the Ohio Legislature for overriding the veto. “Up until the very last floor speech, opponents of HB 68 lied about the mutilation and sterilization that is happening to children in Ohio,” Baer told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “But Ohio lawmakers did what Gov DeWine couldn’t do: see through manipulation and stand up for kids.” As Brent Scher reported for The Daily Wire, the Cincinnati hospital’s Transgender Health Center revealed a strategy to hide minors’ gender transitions from parents who might not support them. Dr. Lee Ann Conard, the center’s director, lays out ways to progress a child toward “gender affirmation” without parental support. She suggests finding a therapist for a child without telling parents, and even putting young girls on “menstrual suppression” to stop their periods. “We see kids 3, 4, all the way up to the 25th birthday,” Conard says in the video. “We can refer a child for therapy without telling parents.” She also acknowledged, “We have a large number of patients who have dual diagnoses of eating disorders, autism spectrum disorder.” “Ohio legislators should be commended today for acting to protect children and families in their state from the awful consequences of gender ideology,” Terry Schilling, president of American Principles Project, said in a statement. “Most Americans agree that it is wrong to push children into permanent, bodily destructive procedures to ‘treat’ their mental distress. And they agree it is wrong to force women and girl athletes to compete against biological males in sports. The safeguards in this legislation are simple, common sense.” “There are only two sexes—male and female—and denying this basic truth only hurts the most vulnerable, our precious children,” Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp said in a statement on the override. “Now and always, young people deserve the loving embrace of family members who guide them toward this truth rather than be subjected to risky, often irreversible, and life-altering experimentation and drugs.” “These approaches are dangerous, as they block healthy puberty, alter hormonal balance, and remove healthy organs and body parts,” he added. “No one has the right to harm children, and, thankfully, states have the power—and duty—to protect them.” Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
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Doug Mainwaring (Jan 25, 2024)
“Ten million? Twenty Million? Thirty? No. No. No. A billion? No. This is not about money. This is about our country. I am not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run … If they’re pushing a globalist agenda, I can’t do that.” -Kari Lake, US Senate Candidate
Lake reportedly made the recording in March, 2023, when DeWit showed up on her doorstep with his offer, and has kept it private until now, just days before Arizona’s annual GOP meeting on Saturday where MAGA forces hope to unseat DeWit. In this abbreviated version of the recording, DeWit begins by asking, “Is there a number at which …” “…I can be bought?” asked candidate Lake, finishing his sentence for him. “That’s what it’s about.” “You can take a pause for a couple of years,” urges Dewit. “You can go right back to work again.” “No,” responded Lake. “Ten million? Twenty Million? Thirty? No. No. No. A billion? No,” said the resolute Lake. “This is not about money. This is about our country,” she explained to DeWit. “I am not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run.” “There are very powerful people that want to keep you out,” emphasized DeWit. “They’re willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way.” Lake said that the reason that some big GOP donors want her sidelined is because “They don’t own me.” “If they’re pushing a globalist agenda, I can’t do that,” she said. Lake continued: All these consultants don’t want their payday to end and I don’t want to make a deal with these kinds of people. This is a hill worth dying on. If they’re going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I’m not letting them do that. I owe it to the people of Arizona to carry their torch and their voice… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading, and listen to the leaked audio conversation Here.
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Tré Goins-Phillips (Jan 25, 2024)
It’s “completely humbling to be even in the same sentence as Jesus…” -Jonathan Roumie
Roumie—a devout Catholic from New York City—sees his work portraying Jesus on the hit Bible-based series “The Chosen” as ministry, he told CBN News. The 49-year-old actor made the comment during a brief interview from the Four Seasons Hotel at Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. He was relaxed but engaged, composing himself after learning seconds earlier his image—dressed in first-century clothing, of course—is one of the top results that appear in a Google search for “Jesus.” It’s no surprise Roumie’s face has, for many, become inextricably linked to their perception of their Savior—a complex phenomenon no doubt weighing heavily on the celebrity’s mind. But with a series that has been streamed more than 500 million times, the correlation was bound to happen. Snapped back to reality, where he was wearing a velvet fedora and blazer adorned with leopard spots, Roumie said it’s “completely humbling to be even in the same sentence as Jesus.” “But He kind of put me here,” Roumie said after exhaling his emotion. “So I can’t shy away from the association completely. There is, for me, a sense of mission about what I’m doing and it happens to be in the form of entertainment. And that’s the gifts that I was equipped with by God, I believe.” “I’m just kind of following where He’s leading me”… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading, and watch the video interview Here.
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