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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Biden Announces Executive Order Granting Mass Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants

National Review: The Biden administration announced on Tuesday sweeping executive action to provide legal protections to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. The order, touted by the White House as an effort to “keep families together,” protects the spouses of American citizens from deportation and provides them with work permits if they have lived in the country for at least a decade. An estimated 1.1 million illegal immigrants are married to U.S. citizens and Biden’s new program, referred to as “parole in place,” could benefit nearly 500,000 people. Under the program, eligible individuals will have three years to apply for permanent citizenship (National Review). Spencer Brown: The Trump campaign blasted the policy. In a statement from National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the former president’s campaign highlighted how “this week, we learned an illegal alien from El Salvador who Crooked Joe Biden allowed into our country murdered a mother of five while she was on a run in Maryland, and we learned an illegal alien from Ecuador tied up and raped a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint in broad daylight.” “But Biden doesn’t care about the American lives that will forever be destroyed by the illegal criminals he is importing; and Biden doesn’t care that law-abiding taxpayers, crushed by inflation, are forced to pay for free food, housing, and healthcare for illegals,” Leavitt continued (Townhall).

Donald Trump’s Gag Order Still Enforced After Trial

CNBC: New York’s highest court on Tuesday dismissed former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the gag order in his criminal hush money trial. The New York Court of Appeals in a brief decision declined to hear Trump’s bid “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved.” The decision means Trump’s gag order, which bars him from speaking about jurors, witnesses and other parties involved in the Manhattan Supreme Court case, remains in effect. Trump’s attorneys have also asked Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, to terminate the gag order because the trial is over (CNBC). Fox News: Trump was fined $10,000 for violating the gag order during the trial. Merchan also threatened Trump with jail time for further alleged violations (Fox News).

Israel Moves Forward With Plan to Strike Hezbollah in Lebanon

Spencer Brown: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Tuesday that operational plans had been approved for an offensive in Lebanon where Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists have been launching escalating attacks on Israel that began after the Hamas assault from the Gaza Strip on October 7. According to the IDF, the Northern Command’s Commanding Officer MG Ori Gordin and Head of the Operations Directorate MG Oded Basiuk approved the operational plans after holding a “joint situational assessment” in the Northern Command on Tuesday (Townhall). Israel-Alma: Hezbollah claimed responsibility for forty-one attacks against Israel using high-trajectory fire (including Grad and heavy Burkan rockets, anti-tank missiles, suicide UAVs, and anti-aircraft missiles. Read the full daily update here (X).

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Takes Executive Action to Create a Reparations Task Force

National Review: Johnson’s tenure to date as Chicago’s mayor has been defined by his competence and commitment to soberly and directly addressing the city’s many problems — as in, he is ruinously incompetent and demonstrates all the commitment and seriousness of purpose of a fentanyl addict stumbling repetitively in circles around the Bean in Millennium Park. The city’s voters recently rejected his proposed property-sales-tax increase — a stunner in blue Chicago — and the Chicago city council then voted to block his attempt to rid the city of ShotSpotter, an anti-crime technology he and his activist cadre oppose on purely ideological grounds. Johnson’s on the ropes, and we haven’t even gotten to the true dog days of summer yet. But before his attention gets diverted from matters by all that unfortunate rioting due in late August, he has acted boldly to heal Chicago’s racial divides: He has signed an executive order setting up a “Reparations Task Force” with the ultimate goal of developing a “reparations plan” for the city (National Review).

Vladimir Putin Meets With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un

Hill: Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday for his nation’s support in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and vowed to work together against U.S.-led sanctions. Putin said he appreciated North Korea’s firm support of the war with Ukraine and said the countries would continue to “resolutely oppose” Western attempts to “hinder the establishment of a multipolar world order based on justice, mutual respect of sovereignty, considering each other’s interests.” His visit raises concerns as North Korea supplies Russia with military equipment in exchange for economic assistance and technology transfers including materials that can boost Pyongyang’s missile and space satellite sectors. Iran has also provided explosive drones, and the U.S. says China has given technology to support Russia (Hill). Washington Examiner: John Kirby, U.S. National Security Council spokesman, said the deepening relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang is concerning “not just because of the impacts it’s going to have on the Ukrainian people, because we know North Korean ballistic missiles are still being used to hit Ukrainian targets, but because there could be some reciprocity here that could affect security on the Korean Peninsula” (Washington Examiner).

Congressional Budget Office Says Deficit to be $400 Billion Over Previous Estimate, Will Exceed $50 Trillion by 2034

National Review: The Congressional Budget Office now expects deficits to be $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2024 — up $400 billion from the previous forecast in February. In a new analysis released on Tuesday, CBO explained that the bulk of the changes came from an increase in spending on student loans thanks to President Biden’s debt-forgiveness order, the foreign-aid bill, higher than expected spending on Medicaid, and the increased cost of running the FDIC. Over the course of the decade from 2025 to 2034, CBO now projects cumulative deficits of $22.1 trillion, which is $2.1 trillion higher than previously expected because of a combination of policy changes and a gloomier than previously projected economic forecast (National Review). Washington Post: The deficit will swell to $1.9 trillion this fiscal year and keep growing until the overall national debt hits $50.7 trillion a decade from now, Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper said in its latest report. The group revised its forecast from four months ago, when it projected that the debt would reach $48.3 trillion in 2034, and 116 percent of economic output (Washington Post).

Protests on College Campuses Organized by Pro-Terror Groups

Washington Examiner: The pro-Palestinian protests and encampments that wreaked havoc over universities across the country this spring are connected to professional activism networks and terrorist organizations, according to a new report. The report from Restoration News, a project of conservative Restoration of America PAC, connected the dots between encampments, national organizations pushing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, sympathetic faculty, and designated terrorist organizations. “The astroturf movements have their roots in Big Philanthropy, the same leftist organizations that have funded anti-free speech demonstrations, incoherent riots in our cities, and cancel culture that attempts to remove ‘Wrongthink’ from our society in the form of sponsor boycotts and protests at people’s homes and places of business,” the organization said in the report. Many of the same groups behind other major disruptions, such as the 2020 riots following George Floyd’s death and 2011’s Occupy Wall Street movement, were also backing the encampments. One such protester, Lisa Fithian, who has worked as a “protest consultant” since the 1970s was seen aiding the protests at Columbia University, largely considered the beginning of the nationwide encampments (Washington Examiner).

Activist Judges in Baltimore Allow Illegal Immigrants Found Guilty of Crimes to Walk

Townhall: An illegal alien from Guatemala was convicted of heinous sex crimes against a minor in Maryland, but a Baltimore County judge suspended the pedophile’s six-year prison sentence, and the so-called “sanctuary city” jailing the Guatemalan freed him in disregard of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment request. Now, the deep-blue county is walking back its “sanctuary” policy following widespread backlash. Like its neighboring counties, Baltimore County is a “sanctuary” jurisdiction, meaning authorities aren’t allowed to keep an illegal alien incarcerated, even if they’re criminally charged, on behalf of civil immigration officials. Furthermore, Baltimore County police are prohibited from arresting illegal aliens based solely on illegal immigration status (Townhall). Libs of TikTok: This is Raul Calderon-Interiano. He’s a convicted child s*x offender who’s in our country illegally. ICE requested to detain him but woke judge Jan Marshall Alexander decided to suspend his prison sentence and free him. About 70% of detainers were ignored by Baltimore County in 2023. Thanks to activist judges, we have convicted pedos freely roaming our country (X).

Hillary Clinton Claims Justice Samuel Alito is “Scary” Because of His Christian Faith

Daily Wire: Hillary Clinton attacked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on his Christian faith in a recent interview, calling the conservative justice “scary” and “a fanatic” for his religious views. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks in April during a podcast interview with Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias. A clip from that discussion resurfaced on social media over the weekend (Daily Wire). Democracy Docket: “Alito struck me almost immediately…as a radical, as a fanatic, about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society and his religion…And I found him scary.” Hillary Clinton explains how she views the current Supreme Court (X).

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GOP Halts Efforts by Democrats to Ban Bump Stocks on Guns

NBC: Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of his party, effectively stalling the bill. Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought “unanimous consent” to pass his BUMP Act that would prohibit the devices, which modify semi-automatic weapons to fire bullets more quickly (NBC). Hill: Where the legislative effort goes from here, though, is unclear. Schumer declined to say whether he would bring it up for a full vote on the floor, saying only that he hoped Republicans would “see the light” and not block Heinrich’s bill (Hill).