Illegal Immigration

Perhaps in five years, or 10, Americans will look back on the period from 2020 to 2024 the same way we look at the Salem witch trials of the 1690s. “How could they have been so nuts?” we might ask. During the Biden presidency, all manner of irrational and frankly insane practices became “new normal.” 

Sterilizing children with puberty blockers and telling boys that, yes, they are girls born in the wrong body, became “normal.” Allowing rioters with Black Lives Matter and Antifa to torch government buildings and shut down cities causing billions of dollars in damage (with no prosecution) became “normal.” 

Guess what else has become normal? In the Big Apple it’s letting people who are not citizens vote. But it’s not just that, which is mental enough. The state is actually fighting in court to keep allowing it. A New York City law went on the books in 2022 that would allow so-called “documented non-citizens” to vote in city elections. It is important to note that the law does not allow illegal aliens to vote. But in practice, it’s obvious that illegals would be waved through without much checking, and it’s highly likely that they’re already doing so. A city that thinks it’s normal and reasonable to let foreign nationals vote in a U.S. city isn’t motivated to check papers carefully. 

And quite obviously, they’re motivated not to check carefully. The Democrats have been pushing for “non-citizen voting,” and they’ve objected to securing the country’s borders, because they want votes from all the non-U.S. people pouring in. We don’t need to do some deep investigation to prove this. The census that occurs every 10 years counts everyone in the U.S., including illegal foreigners. That total number is used for “apportionment,” which is the process of redrawing Congressional districts to reflect changes in population. The Census Bureau is very upfront about this. 

It’s easy to see why New York is fighting in court to keep its non-citizen voting ordinance in effect. According to Politico, 800,000 to 1 million non-U.S.-citizen New Yorkers would suddenly have the right to vote in city elections. What Democrat could resist? 

Elon Musk highlighted the problem with a clip from Fox News. Anchor Brian Kilmeade seemed stunned that the issue was even in question. 

Musk himself is an immigrant, but he’s a legal immigrant, and he has no love for those who sneak through the border evading the legal process. Reactions to his post on X/Twitter are pretty much what you would expect; Americans are outraged at the electoral shenanigans leftists have pulled right out in the open for years. 

This user points out how everyone really knew all along what was happening, but no one who objected was taken seriously. 

Devon probably speaks for most of us. 

Turns out that Democrats can’t openly flout the law forever and suffer zero consequences. Who knew? For years it has certainly seemed like the laws of the land simply didn’t apply to anyone on Team Blue. Don’t like healthy children? Well, just “transition” them by poisoning them with chemicals and cutting off their health body parts, right? It’s not abuse when the left does it, right? 

Don’t like the fact that the U.S. has laws about how to legally enter and reside inside America? Well, just be a Democrat Governor like New Jersey’s Phil Murphy and go on the air taunting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement by saying you’re hiding an illegal in your garage apartment and that you dare ICE to come and get her. 

Here’s what Murphy said: “I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there’s someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to And we said: ‘You know what? Let’s have her live above our house, above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.’”

A person can only be this confident in bragging about breaking immigration law if he believes that he is untouchable. Democrats, unfortunately, are right to be this confident. They have been untouchable and above the law for years. While screeching that Donald Trump was a “Russian asset” and impeaching him based on bought-and-paid-for lies, the blue team has been able to flout immigration, child abuse, and women’s rights laws anywhere they saw fit with no legal consequences. 

That’s changing right now under newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi. She has called the blue states’ bluff in a way that hasn’t been done in years. On February 5, Bondi announced that she is freezing all federal Department of Justice money to so-called “sanctuary cities.” These are Democrat-Progressive-led cities that simply decided that they were going to hide illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement. Cities like Minneapolis and San Francisco, just two among hundreds, have brazenly declared that they will fight their own federal government to protect illegal aliens from being deported. Trump warned them that if they kept this up, he was going to take action, and that action came today. 

AG Bondi has made good on Trump’s promise, ordering her Department of Justice to shut off any federal dollars to cities that defy federal immigration law. 

Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants, Fox News Digital first reported.

She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary,” the outlet wrote.

Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023, according to the think tank Center for Immigration Studies.

When asked about the impact of the Justice Department’s directive, a New York City Hall spokesperson told The Independent in a statement that Mayor Eric Adams “has been clear that New York City is committed to working with our federal partners to fix our broken immigration system and collaborating with ICE to remove people who are entering our localities and committing violent crimes. We are currently evaluating the directive.”

Commentator Benny Johnson was practically giddy to share the news:

From the responses, it looks like most people are pretty excited about it.