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Fourteen states that currently provide health coverage to undocumented migrants are California, New York, Illinois, Washington, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont. Washington, D.C., does likewise. California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine, Colorado, and Oregon currently provide health insurance for adults, regardless of immigration status. Illinois and New York provide […] The post Democrats Pay for Illegal Immigrant Healthcare+ with Federal Tax Dollars appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

From Texas to Maine, this weekend will be icy and dicey for 230 million Americans. One of the country’s most notable meteorologists, The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore, explained to The Daily Wire the impact and consequences of this weekend’s forecasted winter storm and frigid temperatures. Much of the country will experience three different types of precipitation from this storm: snow, sleet, and freezing rain, according to Cantore. “In Dallas, they’re gonna have multiple precipitation types. They’re going to start to snow, maybe go to freezing rain, and then end with the snow again,” Cantore said. “Nashville starts to snow, sleet, freezing rain. Then ends as snow or freezing drizzle. Washington D.C. starts to snow, heavy snow, goes to sleet, then freezing rain, maybe even a little rain just east of D.C., and then back to cold behind this cold front.” The three types of precipitation are why Cantore says the forecast for the storm, officially named Winter Storm Fern, has fluctuated over the last week. “All those cities I just mentioned are going to have different precipitation types at different times,” Cantore explained. “Exactly how much time you spend in the sleet, the freezing rain, the snow, it’s hard to forecast that. But at the end of the day, if there’s a two-inch liquid equivalent of all of that, that’s the pie. So how you cut up that pie into sleet, freezing rain, snow, rain — sometimes you can’t do it until the day of the actual event.” Cantore says the worst part about the storm forecasted to cover more than half the country is that everyone affected will likely see ice, which can be the most dangerous form of precipitation. “An inch of freezing rain in parts of Northern Louisiana, maybe even North Texas, in Northern Mississippi is a disaster because timber is one of their major economic inputs. So they have huge amounts of timber in Mississippi, and now you’re talking about one inch or two of ice — so they’re gonna lose trees, they’re gonna lose power lines. Two inches of ice on a power line weighs about 2,250 pounds. Even if they get an inch and a half, that is bad enough. That’s still 800 to 1,300 pounds, a tremendous weight on those lines.” Cantore said it doesn’t take much ice to have severe consequences. “You can have power loss with a 1/4 inch of ice. You can get more extensive power loss with a 0.5-inch [of ice]. Severe widespread power loss with 3/4 of an inch, and once you get over one inch of ice, now you’re talking about bringing the lines down and trees down,” Cantore said. Areas affected by more than an inch of ice could be without power for more than a week, according to Cantore. The time frame to restore power depends on how quickly the ice thaws, which may not be immediate. The meteorologist explained that an arctic cold front follows Winter Storm Fern. For the South, Cantore estimates a thaw to begin sometime Tuesday or Wednesday. The unpredictability of the storm and cold front calls for preparedness. Friday is almost too late, according to Cantore, but he suggests getting a generator if one is available, having a gas grill for cooking if power goes out, and stocking up on blankets and firewood to stay warm. Cantore will ride out the storm in New York City, where the city could break its record for most consecutive days below freezing, which currently stands at 14. “This is a big deal. We will likely have hundreds of thousands of people without power because of this large area of freezing rain potential, and that is a huge concern,” Cantore said.

In a video address to thousands of pro-life advocates gathered at the nation’s Capitol on Friday for the 53rd annual March for Life, President Donald Trump said his administration was bringing back faith in America. Trump, who spoke at the March for Life back in 2020, submitted a taped message for march attendees this year that highlighted his appointment of Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v. Wade and his push to end taxpayer funding for abortion. The president also noted his support for religious liberty protections and bringing faith back into the public square. “Now, the work to rebuild a culture that supports life continues in every state, every community, and every part of our beautiful land,” Trump told attendees. “This is a battle that must be fought, must be won, not only in the corridors of power, but above all, in the hearts and souls of the people. That is why under the Trump administration, we’re strongly defending religious liberty. We’re bringing back faith in America. We’re bringing back God.” President Trump to the March for Life: “For 53 years, students, families, patriots and believers have come to Washington from every corner of the country to defend the infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life … this is a battle that must be fought, must be won,… pic.twitter.com/EAk4idSVWI — March for Life (@March_for_Life) January 23, 2026 Trump’s address comes as his administration has faced some criticism over its handling of abortion pill regulations and comments the president made on Republicans being flexible with the Hyde Amendment, a provision that bans taxpayer funding of abortion. In his speech and in a White House proclamation issued on Friday, Trump promised to continue fighting for “the eternal truth that every child is a gift from God.” After Trump’s message played, Vice President JD Vance spoke to the crowd, highlighting multiple major pro-life policy announcements the administration rolled out this week. “Building a culture of life requires persuasion, and that’s what’s so different about this moment compared to the moment that was dominated by the Supreme Court for 50 years,” Vance said. “We’re not trying to argue to the Supreme Court anymore. We are trying to argue to our fellow citizens, and we must build up that culture of life.” Vance said that changing the culture would take a lot of time, energy, and money. He also said it would mean embracing policies that make it easier for Americans to have families. In the lead-up to the march, the Trump administration announced multiple major pro-life policies including expanding the Mexico City policy to cut off funding for non-governmental groups that fund abortion, launching a review of whether Planned Parenthood illegally took tens of millions in COVID loans, ending funding for fetal tissue research, and taking action to protect the rights of medical professionals in Illinois to not refer for abortions. The vice president also addressed criticism from some pro-life groups about the administration’s actions on the issue of abortion. “I must address an elephant in the room,” Vance said, which he described as “a fear that some of you have that not enough progress has been made, that not enough has happened in the political arena, that we’re not going fast enough, that our politics have failed to answer the clarion call to life.” Vance said that despite “debates within this movement,” there would be “open conversations about how best to use our political system to advance life, how prudential we must be in the cause of advancing human life.” In recent months, some pro-life advocates have criticized the Trump administration for keeping in place Biden-era Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations that allow for the abortion drug mifepristone to be shipped through the mail. This policy has allowed thousands of pills to be shipped into states where medication abortions are technically illegal. The FDA has promised to conduct a safety study of the drug and review its approval.

Amid all of the chaos regarding the immigration situation in Minneapolis, members of the legacy media and the Left have simply started to tell lies. The latest lie being told is that federal agents seized a five-year-old boy in an effort to bait his father. “Columbia school officials say a 5-year-old boy was used as ‘bait’ for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain him and his father,” Fox News reported. This was treated by the legacy media as a major story. This story was apparently first reported by the New York Times, which stated in an article titled, “Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis”: A 5-year-old boy wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversized hat was detained with his father by immigration authorities on Tuesday, one of four students who have been apprehended in a suburban Minneapolis school district during the past two weeks, school officials said. The prekindergarten pupil, Liam Conejo Ramos, is pictured in a photo released by the school system as he stands next to a vehicle with an adult’s hand on his backpack. His father is not in sight. The image prompted outrage in the Twin Cities area, where many people have been angered since mid-December by the Trump administration’s surge in deportation operations. “Why detain a 5-year-old?” Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of schools in Columbia Heights, Minn., asked at a news conference about the episode on Wednesday. Buried in the fifth paragraph of the article was this admission: “The boy and his father were taken to Dilley, Texas, outside of San Antonio, where they are being held at an immigration detention center, according to Marc Prokosch, a lawyer working with the family.” The image of the child in custody prompted an outcry. But what exactly happened? According to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, when the agents sought to detain the father, he fled on foot and left Liam behind in the vehicle, which is a bit of a different story. If you’re detained alongside your five-year-old child and you take off, that might say something about your parenting style, to say the very least. Stenvik stated, “Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child, and was refused. Instead, the agent took the child out of the still-running car, led him to the door, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a five-year-old as bait.” Presumably, one of the reasons they refused to simply allow an adult staying in the home to take care of the boy is they didn’t know who the adult was. This has raised hackles because there is widespread debate over what sort of warrant is necessary — an administrative warrant or a judge-signed warrant — in order to enter a home where there’s probable cause to believe illegal immigrants are residing. The fact of the matter is, we have a serious problem on our hands, and it dates back decades. A consent agreement known as the Flores agreement prevented the federal government from holding children and parents together in custody after they crossed the border. Thus, children were released into the interior of the country. This caused the Biden administration, among other administrations, to release the parents as well, to reunify the family. Now the idea is you can’t deport anyone because they might have children. What exactly are immigration agents supposed to do? This, of course, makes everything unworkable, which I believe is the point.

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