March 21, 2025

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New Poll Proves The American People Side With Trump On Deportation — Not The Activists Fighting for Illegals and Criminal Gangs

By Manzanita Miller

This has been a particularly harrowing week for the rule of law, border security, and protecting the American people from criminal foreign invaders, after President Trump’s effort to deport illegal criminals was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a federal judge determined to stop him.     

On Friday, March 15th, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg attempted to stop President Trump from sending planes containing enemy aliens and members of foreign gangs back to El Salvador, ordering the planes to be turned around and the criminals on board to be brought back to the United States.        

The planes landed in El Salvador days ago, where the illegals on board are being processed, but activist groups are doing everything in their power to stop Trump from continuing to remove illegal criminals. But while the ACLU and judge Boasberg are fighting to stop President Trump from ejecting illegal criminals, the American people consistently support the President’s border security and deportation efforts, proving that these activist groups and rogue judges are at odds with the American people.

A new YouGov survey taken March 6 through March 10 looking at the public response to Trump’s immigration and deportation strategies so far shows broad solidarity among the general public, including swing voters.

Americans support Trump’s approach to border security by nineteen points, 57 percent to 38 percent, with a full 39 percent of the public strongly approving of Trump’s immigration strategy. This includes independents, who support Trump’s border security strategy by eighteen points – 55 percent to 37 percent. Even one-in-five Harris voters support Trump’s immigration approach.

On deportation specifically, Americans support Trump’s deportation efforts by fifteen points, 54 percent to 39 percent. A full 36 percent of Americans strongly support the President’s approach to deporting those in the United States illegally. Independents support deportation by fourteen points, 51 percent to 37 percent.    

As for deporting criminals specifically, an AP-NORC poll from January found that an overwhelming majority of Americans support removing violent criminals who are inside the United States illegally.  

According to that poll, a full 83 percent of Americans favor deporting violent criminals from the United States back to their home countries, with 65 percent strongly favoring the move.  Democrats (79 percent) and independents (77 percent) favor deportation of violent criminals, as do the overwhelming majority of Republicans.

Judge Boasberg’s order was in direct opposition to President Trump’s classification of  Venezuelan drug-cartels as enemy aliens, which would allow the president to remove them from the United Stats under the 1798 Alien Enemy Act. This is what President Trump was in the process of doing when the judge ordered him to return the planes to the United States. 

Boasberg has also demanded that the Trump administration hand over flight details about the deportation flight times and details, showing a consistent desire to stop President Trump from removing illegal entrants into the United States.

President Trump is likely to take the case to the Supreme Court, considering the ACLU’s justification for stopping the removal of these groups rests on the theory that the modern immigration laws of 1952 and 1965 override a president’s ability to invoke the Alien Enemy Act, a precarious argument.  

According to anonymous sources, Axios reports that Trump’s team is gearing up to take the case to the Supreme Court, and hopes the Court will side with the administration and allow the administration to continue deporting illegals under the Alien Enemies Act — and he’s betting he will continue to have the support of the American people.  

For now, while activist groups such as the ACLU are chasing an ideological dream where illegal criminals are welcomed into the United States with open arms, the vast majority of Americans support President Trump’s efforts to remove illegal criminals from the country and restore the rule of law.  

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2025/03/new-poll-proves-the-american-people-side-with-trump-on-deportation-not-the-activists-fighting-for-illegals-and-criminal-gangs/

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Cartoon: Belly Of The Beast

By A.F. Branco

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To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2025/03/cartoon-belly-of-the-beast/ 

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Video: IMPERIAL JUDICIARY Commandeers The U.S. Military From PRESIDENT TRUMP! 

To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP6bPBKi3rE

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Inflation Remains Top Issue For Voters In Polls As Trump, Republicans In Race Against Time

By Robert Romano

Inflation remains the top issue for voters as President Donald Trump enters his third month in office, according to the latest data in a Fox News poll showing 27 percent saying inflation and prices are definitely still the top issue, a consistent result that was also seen in the 2024 election.

That cuts across party lines, with 32 percent of Republicans, 27 percent of independents and 21 percent of Democrats saying inflation was the top issue. And across almost every single ethnic and age demographic with few exceptions, inflation remains the top issue. 

After inflation, it’s the economy and jobs, at 16 percent.

The result comes as President Trump, although having his highest overall approval rating ever in a Fox poll at 49 percent, on inflation, 56 percent disapprove of Trump, by far his — and America’s — weakest issue, even as he inherited the mess from former President Joe Biden. That includes 20 percent disapproval among Republicans and 69 percent disapproval from independents. 

But Biden had problems when he was entering office, too, as the economy had just come out of the 2020 Covid economic lockdowns recession. He started positive, too, but was underwater in approval ratings by August 2021 prior to the botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan, thanks in large part to consumer inflation, which by that time had already reached an annual rate of 5.3 percent.

Consumer inflation reached 7.5 percent by Jan. 2022 before Russia invaded Ukraine, and peaked at 9.1 percent in June 2022. By then Biden’s average disapproval rating was over 56 percent. 

Biden never recovered. It was a majority killer, and proved fatal to his own reelection bid as he left the race, with former Vice President Kamala Harris running in his stead, but to no avail, as Trump was able to ride dissatisfaction with Democrats to victory in November 2024. 

The lesson is every election is always a referendum of the incumbents. Whatever took down Biden could take down Trump and his party, too. Just ask Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, whose parties all suffered similar fates.

One difference is that being in his second term, Trump cannot run for office again, but the impacts politically of the economy will almost certainly be felt by Congressional Republicans in the 2026 midterms and then again when Republicans name a successor to Trump in 2028 for president.

The good news for Trump and Republicans is that while during Biden’s term inflation was already outpacing average weekly earnings by April 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, a condition that persisted all the way until June 2023 — two years is an eternity in politics, and by then, Biden’s fate as a one-term president had already likely been sealed — so far during the first two months of Trump’s second term, earnings are still outpacing inflation, with consumer prices appearing to continue cooling. 

Over time, therefore, as purchasing power continues to increase, public attitudes should continue to improve. Given enough time, it is possible Biden and Democrats could have pulled out of the tail spin, too, but we’ll never know the counterfactual. 

For now, Trump is more or less even in approval, but that won’t last forever. He is burning through a lot of political capital at the moment and taking a beating not just in the press but also on social media. Voters are holding strong on key Trump issues like the border and immigration, but the political phalanx is not impervious. 

Any disapproval on the broader economy will be determinative, and here, the actual economic numbers matter — a lot. 

Another plus side to all this, although it might appear counterintuitive. President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs go into effect on April 2, the announcements of which have led to shaky equities markets that are moving into correction as the U.S. dollar has strengthened. But so too are commodities markets and prices — which feed into producer and ultimately consumer prices — are also cooling. 

Although prices are marked differently on stock markets as a function of market caps whereas commodities are more so driven by supply and demand, commodities prices over history have proven to be just as sensitive to overall economic conditions and any cooling in overall capital markets. In recent years, sometimes run-ups in commodities prices were preceded by big stock market booms, and drops in commodities prices were preceded by big market selloffs. 

In short, for a variety of reasons — trade partners tend to weaken their currencies as a competitive devaluation to boost exports, leading to a relatively stronger U.S. dollar, which usually results in capital shifting from stocks to bonds — President Trump’s tariffs appear to bringing prices down, not up.

The timing could be impeccable, insofar as a recession might have been on the way ever since peak inflation in 2022, which would also bring prices down. Democrats’ assumption that tariffs make prices go up seems to have a fundamental flaw in that core prices are still being set on the publicly traded exchanges. If tariffs have a near-term spooking effect, that will feedback ultimately into commodities prices that set producer and consumer prices. 

Now an overall economic slowdown or recession obviously carries its own set of issues including rising unemployment, but those storms have been weathered by White House incumbents before: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all had recessions either start or were ongoing in their first terms, and all four went on to get reelected relatively easily. 

The lesson there could be to just rip the band-aid off. Killing inflation is job number one, Mr. President.

Robert Romano is the Executive Director of Americans for Limited Government Foundation. 

To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2025/03/inflation-remains-top-issue-for-voters-in-polls-as-trump-republicans-in-race-against-time/ 

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ALG Urges Congress To Limit Jurisdiction Of U.S. District And Circuit Courts

March 19, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging Congress to invoke Article III, Sec. 2 and to pass laws curtailing federal courts’ jurisdiction from hearing cases on political questions:

“Article III, Sec. 2 of the Constitution provides Congress with the power to create exceptions to federal courts’ jurisdiction. Since district courts are taking it upon themselves to commandeer core presidential executive powers under Article II of the Constitution, Congress could use its own power to limit the inferior courts’ jurisdiction to, for example, exclude any cases on the exercise of core Article II presidential executive powers including the Commander-in-Chief clause and directing military actions, the discourse with foreign nations including but not limited to treaty and trade matters, and appointments and firings, while still leaving a direct route to the Supreme Court when needed. This would apply to all future presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike. Or just eliminate courts that keep getting overturned.

“These nationwide injunctions have gone far enough. If lower courts’ will not limit themselves to only justiciable questions, then Congress can define what those are for them by establishing what are the long agreed-upon political questions that courts should not be involved with. They can also reduce the number of courts. Congress has a voice in this process, too. This wouldn’t be necessary if long-established precedents on the separation of powers were being followed by courts. They clearly are not.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2025/03/alg-urges-congress-to-limit-jurisdiction-of-u-s-district-and-circuit-courts/