[JustTheNews] Michelle Lujan Grisham is Texas' only neighbor who refused to respond to Abbott's call for help to secure Texas' border at the height of the border crisis.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently expressed outrage over "Texas' latest move" installing barriers in an area where they have been for nearly one year.
A KRQE News report claiming Texas Army National Guard troops were erecting concertina wire fencing along the Rio Grande River near El Paso "on the riverbank that faces not Mexico, but New Mexico west of El Paso."
A British publication reported, "Which Mexico are you? New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border."
Other news reports appear to have made similar claims.
Texas' OLS barriers bordering New Mexico aren't new. They've been there since October.
Soldiers have erected barriers through Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border security mission, Operation Lone Star. The area in question is near West Paisano Drive in El Paso, Texas, extending near the Anapra, N.M., bridge, which The Center Square observed last May.
"Texas has been so successful in securing our southern border, migrants are now illegally crossing into New Mexico, and then into Texas," Gov. Abbott's press secretary Andrew Mahaleris told The Center Square. "To be clear, Texas began installing barriers on the border of New Mexico last October. This barrier has proven to be effective in deterring migrants who illegally crossed into the United States."
Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, told The Independent, "Abbott's latest move was a 'political stunt' that will have 'will have no meaningful impact on our nation's broken immigration system'" and Abbott "seems to be pushing to make Texas its own country without regard for his neighbors."
She made the claim after Texas Department of Public Safety OLS officers took down a human smuggling ring tied to Mexican cartels, Nuevo Cartel De Juarez and La Linea Cartel, operating out of El Paso County and in Lujan Grisham's state in Sunland Park. They seized weapons, body armor, and ammunition and arrested alleged human smugglers, The Center Square reported.
The FBI has warned that the region near El Paso is a major human smuggling and kidnapping destination, located across the river from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where rival gangs and cartels are fighting for control of a multi-billion-dollar human and drug smuggling enterprise. The Santa Teresa, NM, CBP station is the busiest in the El Paso CBP sector, The Center Square reported. Texas DPS officers are also catching human smugglers and illegal border crossers after they enter New Mexico and then enter El Paso, OLS officials told The Center Square.
Lujan Grisham is Texas' only neighbor who refused to respond to Abbott's call for help to secure Texas' border at the height of the border crisis.
Her other neighbor, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, was among the first 12 governors to pledge support, The Center Square reported. He's also been calling for border security measures with Republican governors since September 2021.
In a joint statement, the first dozen governors participating in OLS said, "President Biden has abandoned his constitutional responsibility to secure the border... The illegal flow of criminals, drugs, and contraband moving across our border creates an untenable situation for all states … Republican governors are providing support where Biden failed."
Stitt deployed Oklahoma National Guard troops to Texas because it was "in the best interest of Oklahoma and the nation to take decisive action to address the federal government's utter failure to secure our southern border," he said.
Texas' other neighbor, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, agrees. One of his first acts after he was elected was to travel to Texas to see how he could help. In February, he asked the Louisiana legislature for their support to participate in OLS and got it, The Center Square reported. Receiving their support, Landry said, "is one of the proudest days I can even ever have imagined to see, all these great men and women here who are dedicated to public safety and to the security not only of the state of Louisiana but of the nation."
"Texas has always been a great neighbor to us," Landry continued. "If they're calling, we should heed that call," adding that legislative leaders "all agreed that we should do that."
Louisiana cities were combating crime "we can directly trace to a border that is wide open that is letting the cartel do as they please into this country. Because the federal government will not act, because the president will not do his job... then the states are going to act."
With the help of partnering states, Texas OLS operations began shutting down illegal border crossings, forcing cartel operations west into New Mexico, Arizona and California, The Center Square first reported.
Since March 2021, OLS officers have apprehended more than 520,600 illegal border crossers, made more than 47,000 criminal arrests, with more than 40,800 felony charges, and seized more than 543 million lethal doses of fentanyl—enough to kill everyone in the United States and Mexico combined, according to the latest data from Abbott's office.
"Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities" across America, Abbott argues. "With the support of half of America's governors, Texas continues to step up and deploy every tool and strategy to stop the unprecedented illegal immigration at our southern border."
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She represents Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, and Las Cruces of New Mexico. It's interesting that when DHS dumped a bus load of illegals in Santa Fe, she found money to bus them up to Denver. She's done nothing to secure the southern border of the state. A good portion of the state was part of Texas. The southern counties are red except for Las Cruces. She and the Left gerrymandered the one red district out of the state by realigning the districts lines north to south rather than the old west to east.
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One our States went missing decades ago. Poor New Mexico!
My first memory of the state was formed the day I moved there. I was turning in my UHaul to a outlet in the state in July 1975. The only employee there was obviously illiterate. I had to read the contract to him, running my finger along the lines.
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One of the few compensations here is that the Califorista crowd either stops in Arizona or move on to Texas, though some put roots up in Santa Fe/Taos. Fortunately, being a poor state, it can not afford all the lavish programs of its neighbors for new arrivals.
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Any group that gets upset about whether "chili" means a pepper or the mean red, isn't a serious one. It is a nice drive through the state but the people are weird.
[Washington Examiner] Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) voiced his concerns about the Georgia State Election Board ruling on Friday that will require ballots in Georgia to be hand-counted by election workers the night of the election in addition to the normal machine tallies that take place.
Speaking on Inside with Jen Psaki Sunday, Warnock said he is "very concerned" about this ruling, linking it to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to "find" votes in Georgia in 202
"I’m very concerned, Jen. All of us should remember that famous phone call, a man from Florida, calling in to Georgia saying he needed 11,780 votes. He didn’t get it. And apparently, these members of the state board of elections whom he calls pit bulls are out there doing his bidding and trying to create a scenario in which they can declare by fiat who the winner of Georgia is. ... This is how voter suppression happens, undermine votes a little bit here, a little bit there," he said.
The Georgia senator then claimed that this effort from the elections board is evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats are "winning" in Georgia.
"The news that Georgia voters ought to be paying attention to is this: The fact that they’re doing this means that they know we’re winning. They know that the momentum is with Kamala Harris, and this effort to turn the democracy on its head ... it won’t stand," Warnock said.
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If I understand this correctly, "hand-counting" means that after the paper ballots are tabulated by machine, the ballots themselves are counted to make sure the number of ballots run through the tabulators matches the total number of ballots cast.
When Hillary ran for Prez and lost, the City of Detroit tried to do a recount. This effort was abandoned because, for too many precincts, the number of actual ballots did not match the written count on the boxes they were stored in.
tl;dr: they are counting sheets of paper, not the votes *on* the paper.
Fulton County alone showed well over 17K more votes cast, than the number registered voters
That's obvious evidence of fraud/misfeasance/malfeasance/dumbfeasance. It should be a perpetual headline or leading paragraph whenever election integrity is talked about, but it isn't.
[NYPOST] The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator's probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
In a court filing, the SEC said the sanctions motion would seek an order to show cause for why Musk should not be held in civil contempt for waiting until just three hours before the scheduled Sept. 10 testimony to advise he would not appear.
Musk, whose businesses include electric car maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, went to Florida's Cape Canaveral that day to oversee the launch of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission.
Lawyers for Musk called sanctions ''drastic'' and unnecessary, saying his testimony has already been rescheduled for Oct. 3.
A front man for the SEC declined to comment.
The SEC is investigating whether Musk broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in Twitter, which he later renamed X.
It sued Musk last October after he refused to attend an interview for the probe. Musk has said the SEC was trying to ''harass'' him through subpoenas.
Trump splitting the Moslem vote in a state where that matters, as he already split the Jewish and Catholic votes. A necessary political evil.
[FoxNews] The mayor of a Muslim-majority city in Michigan says he is endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, calling the former commander-in-chief, "the right choice for this critical time."
Amer Ghalib,
…45, father of three, immigrant from Yemen with his family at age 17, certified nurse practitioner …
mayor of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced his endorsement of Trump in a Facebook post Sunday. While admitting he and Trump didn’t "agree on everything," he said he regarded the former commander-in-chief as "a man of principles."
…Hamtramck is where the Moslem residents won by vote fraud even more massive than the Progressive Democrat natives indulged in, and now the native Democrats are upset that the Moslems are shutting down all the Progressive initiatives they’d voted themselves. Life is tough when you’re stupid.
"Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time," Ghalib wrote in Arabic
…in Arabic? The times, they are a-changing…
on his Facebook page. "I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next president of the United States, Donald Trump."
Trump reposted Ghalib’s message on his Truth Social account.
Ghalib told The Detroit News that Trump "knew a lot about me before the meeting."
"We talked about various topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistics of votes in Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans in particular. We also talked about the situation in Yemen," Ghalib said.
Hamtramck is the only U.S. city governed entirely by Muslims, with more than 40% of the city’s population foreign-born.
[FOX] Social media users warned that a major IRS-affiliated union’s recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris is a serious red flag.
The National Treasury Employees Union, a union that represents various federal agents — including those of the Internal Revenue Service — put out a statement this week praising Harris for increasing the IRS’ budget and endorsing her for president. X users saw it as more proof she should get nowhere near the White House.
"The IRS Agents Union just endorsed Kamala Harris. That should tell you all what her plans are for us. Get ready to be taxed to death. VOTE TRUMP!" conservative commentator Joey Mannarino announced on X on Saturday morning.
[NYPOST] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... is known as a reliably liberal city to most of America, but a Los Angeles Times editor believes there are signs that the City by the Bay has swung to the center, as voters are sick of rising crime rates and ramped-up drug use and remain shaken from COVID-era shutdowns.
San Francisco’s center is still far to the left of most of the country. So is that of the Los Angeles Times.
The L.A. Times published a piece on Thursday headlined, ''San Francisco has shifted to the center. Can a progressive still compete there?'' Times audience engagement editor Defne Karabatur kicked off the piece by asking, ''Has famously liberal San Francisco moved too far right to embrace an old-school progressive for mayor?''
The L.A. paper noted the presidential election will be here soon and that ''outrage over the progressive agenda is playing out in an unlikely place: The San Francisco mayoral race.''
''My colleague Hannah Wiley looked into the race this week and found that only one of the race's five candidates, San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin, is running on a progressive agenda. And he's the underdog,'' Karabatur wrote before fretting, ''What does it all mean? Is San Francisco no longer a bastion of progressive politics? What even is progressivism?''
Aaron Peskin, seen as the most progressive of the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... to enter the mayor's contest, is seen as an ''underdog'' compared to incumbent Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed, former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie and S.F. Board of Supervisors member Ahsha Safa , according to the Times.
[Epoch Times] The U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 20 voted to overturn a Biden administration rule that sets tougher emissions standards for car manufacturers. The resolution says the rule would artificially constrain consumer vehicle choice and weaken U.S. manufacturing and energy security.
The joint resolution that passed in a 215—191 vote—with eight Democrats in support and one Republican in opposition—would nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new restrictions on emissions from cars, light trucks, pick-ups, and vans for model years 2027 to 2032.
Yes, make the Democrats go on record defending their destructive stupidity, knowing that the Senate and President Biden will ignore it. Something to tee up again next term, assuming either President Trump wins and the Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress or the Republicans win veto-proof majorities in both House and Senate to overcome President Harris.
Although the rule does not explicitly impose an electric vehicle (EV) mandate, it is expected to force manufacturers to electrify more of their fleets to comply.
The resolution passed with the support of Democrat Reps. Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Texas, Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, and Mary Sattler Peltola of Alaska.
One Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzgerald (R-Pa.), voted against the measure.
Ahead of the vote, the White House announced its opposition to the resolution, contending that it would prompt uncertainty in the U.S. auto market and supply chains and cede the electric vehicle and battery markets to China.
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[FOX] Social media users warned that a major IRS-affiliated union’s recent endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris is a serious red flag.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
The joint resolution that passed in a 215—191 vote—with eight Democrats in support and one Republican in opposition—would nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new restrictions on emissions from cars, light trucks, pick-ups, and vans for model years 2027 to 2032.
