CBP’s July Apprehension Numbers Break Another Record as Border Crisis Continues

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced Customs and Border Protection U.S.-Mexico border apprehensions for the month of July while speaking at a press conference in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday.  In July, despite the extreme summer heat, CBP had 212,672 apprehensions, beating out June’s apprehensions, which totaled 188,829. Only 95,788 of the 212,672 encounters resulted…

Bye, Andrew

Every time we’d written about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political fate in the midst of his myriad scandals, we’ve expressed skepticism about the prospect of true accountability.  His approach has been shameless, his resistance to relinquishing power has been complete, and his party has appeared unwilling to force him out.  That combination, merged with New York’s deep blue…

CDC Shreds Its Own Narrative on Breakthrough Cases With Latest Data

Everyone must wear masks again, including the vaccinated. That’s the edict that is being reimposed in some parts of the country. The Delta variant doesn’t make you sicker and it’s not more lethal, but the unvaccinated are the biggest group impacted by the new spike. We have three vaccines that are effective, the latest studies on the Johnson…

Texas Border Town Reveals How Many COVID Positive Illegal Immigrants Were Released By Border Patrol

MCALLEN, Texas — The city leaders for the border town of McAllen declared a local state of disaster due to the continuing increase of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States and being released by Border Patrol within the city. In a statement sent out on Wednesday, the city of McAllen explained the respite center run…

Report: More Than 205,000 Illegal Immigrants Detained in July

The White House will not call this a crisis.  The administration tells us the border is closed and secure.  They wave away concerns about their glaring culpability, blaming the previous president (whose administration massively reduced this problem), “seasonal” migration patterns (an excuse getting pulverized in real time), and risible “root causes” (see more below).  The reality is that the Biden…

Busted: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Crafted Response to Governor Cuomo’s Scandal

New York Attorney General Letitia James James announced Tuesday New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo broke the law by sexually harassing eleven women, many of them aides. But Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal isn’t the only one detailed in the lengthy report. Documents included in the appendix show CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo was involved in managing the scandal…

The Biden Administration Is Suing Greg Abbott for Trying to Protect Texans from COVID Positive Immigrants

As Katie and I covered, Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday threatened Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) with legal action over an executive order he signed on Wednesday which stopped ground transportation of illegal immigrants who might test positive and which directed any vehicle suspected of such a violation to be stopped and turned back. After Gov. Abbott refused to back…

Classic: Cop Who Testified at Anti-Trump January 6 Witch Hunt Hearing Previously Defended Violent Protests

The anti-Trump January 6 circus is underway and yesterday did not disappoint. The Democrats called up police officers to testify. Nice move since who will attack cops, right? Well, they become agents for the Democratic Party—It’s fair game. One officer, Harry Dunn, gave a tearful recount of the racial epithets hurled at him and other…

Banks: Pelosi Doesn’t Want ‘Tough Questions’ Because She’s Responsible for Breakdown of Security on Jan. 6′

On Sunday morning, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) spoke to Martha MacCallum on “Fox News Sunday” about the select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. The congressman was one of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) five picks for the committee, though McCarthy pulled all five after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Throughout…

Clyburn Admits the ‘Voting Thing’ Is About Keeping Democrats in Power

President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia today. There, he will give a speech opposing efforts by Republican lawmakers to bolster voting integrity through voter identification requirements and bans on ballot harvesting. According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden will argue these efforts are the gravest threat to democracy since the Civil War.…

Abbott Has a Surprise for Democrats Who Left State in Protest of Elections When They Return

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the Democratic state lawmakers who flew to Washington, D.C. on Monday so the Legislature would not be able to vote on the Republicans’ elections reform bill can be arrested. Speaking to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday, Abbott said, “Once they step back into the state they will be arrested…

Texas Democrats Are Getting Roasted for Their Latest Stunt

Yesterday Texas Democrats abandoned their duties as state representatives, boarded private jets (without masking) and travelled to Washington D.C. to seek “refuge.” They left the state in order to block Republicans from obtaining quorum and passing a new voter integrity law. ON PLANE TO DC: Texas Democratic lawmakers are leaving state to break quorum to…

Donald Trump Returns to the CPAC Stage, with Crowds Chanting ‘Four More Years’

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump returned to the stage for CPAC, which was held over the weekend in Dallas. Trump also spoke at CPAC on February 28, held in Orlando.  While the former president has emphasized his signature “Make America Great Again Line” at the conclusion of his remarks, he did so in the beginning this…

Judge Blocks Biden Administration’s Racist Farm Relief Plan

The Biden administration’s plan to distribute post-pandemic farm loan relief to non-white farmers was hit with another legal defeat on Thursday. District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson of the Western District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction to halt the U.S. Department of Agriculture from moving forward with the loan payment plan that excluded white…

RNC, NRSC Team Up To Fight Biden DOJ’s Lawsuit Against Georgia Over Voting Law

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) are teaming up to fight the Biden administration’s lawsuit against the state of Georgia over its newly-enacted voting reform law. The Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, baselessly claimed that the Election Integrity Act denies voters of color access to…