President Trump is trying to remove another far left deep state slush fund, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). They use tax dollars to push globalist agendas abroad, while undermining America First at home. The National Endowment for Democracy has nothing to do with democracy. They were very involved in Biden’s hate-filled speech, The Soul […] The post President Trump Is Trying to Remove A Deep State Slush Fund appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

“Harry Potter” film director Chris Columbus cast doubt on the possibility of ever having a cast reunion — and suggested that author J.K. Rowling’s stance on the transgender issue was the primary reason such an event could never happen. Columbus, who directed the first two films in the franchise and produced the third, said that differences of opinion on certain political issues would prevent the whole group from ever working together again — and clearly hinted that Rowling was the odd one out on that score. The question came up during a recent interview with The Sunday Times, when Columbus said that he’d initially hoped to be able to bring the original cast back together for a film adaptation of the stage show “Harry Porter and the Cursed Child,” but that he’d ruled out such a project for “political” reasons. “It’s never going to happen. It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible,” he explained. “I haven’t spoken to Miss Rowling in a decade or so, so I have no idea what’s going on with her, but I keep very close contact with Daniel Radcliffe and I just spoke to him a few days ago. I still have a great relationship with all the kids in the cast.” Shortly after news of the interview and Columbus’ comments began circulating on social media, Rowling posted a vague response via X. “As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference,” Rowling began, asking, “Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?” End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms? That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres? That men don’t belong in women’s sport?” she continued. “That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders? That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?” Rowling’s list of questions went on at length as she added, “That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context? That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex? That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights? That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society? That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit? That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t? That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology? That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century? Let me have your thoughts.” Rowling has often found herself at odds with radical trans activists for her views on keeping private single sex spaces and protecting the sex-based rights of women, and has been labeled a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) on a number of occasions. Several members of the “Harry Potter” original cast, including Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, have spoken out against her views as well.

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Salvadoran citizen and “Maryland man” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has become the Joan of Arc of the American Left—their poster child for opposing President Donald Trump’s campaign of enforcing immigration laws. Why? At first glance, Abrego Garcia seems a lousy pick. Two immigration judges found it credible that he was a member of MS-13, the vicious Salvadoran gang. Indeed, when he finally got around to claiming protection against deportation, a decade after arriving, one of his arguments was that he feared persecution by a rival gang. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Abrego Garcia’s wife filed for a restraining order against him for domestic violence—twice. Then in November 2022, paragon “Maryland Dad” Abrego Garcia was caught speeding, without a valid driver’s license, by Tennessee state police. They looked inside his van, with tinted windows, and saw what they thought were nine illegal alien men. The logical inference was that Abrego Garcia was being paid to smuggle them from the border to Maryland, where they’d no doubt work illegally. The cops let him go and cut bait. They probably knew that if they called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in that Joe Biden era of open borders and mass illegal migration, no one would come. Even without the criminal allegations, Abrego Garcia would hardly be a model immigrant. After a decade in the U.S., presumably with several years in public schools, he can’t function in English. The mainstream media describes him as a construction worker, yet I seriously doubt if his lifetime contributions to federal and local taxes are anywhere near what he and his family took out in education, healthcare and other benefits. To understand why he’s championed by advocates who hold “Free Kilmar” rallies with handmade posters and banners, you have to grasp this: “abolition” is now the position of the American Left, and opposing all immigration enforcement is increasingly the mainstream view among Democrats.   “Abolition,” for these activists, means that no illegal immigrant should even be detained, let alone deported. No “process” is complete unless the alien wins. Abrego Garcia’s case is pretty simple, though clouded by all the litigation. He crossed the border illegally around 2012, ending up in Maryland. In April 2019, he was arrested while in the company of several members of MS-13. Abrego Garcia was then put into deportation proceedings—because he was an illegal alien. In October 2019, a Baltimore immigration judge denied Abrego Garcia’s asylum application, because he had not applied within a year of arrival as our law requires. (If you are fleeing for your life, this seems a small thing to ask to prove your bona fides.) The judge also denied his application under the Convention Against Torture—a Hail Mary play many illegal immigrants make when asylum fails.   The judge did grant him “statutory withholding of removal,” but only to El Salvador. DHS was free to send him anywhere else that would take him. Mistakenly—probably a cut-and-paste error—the judge wrote “Guatemala” instead. That didn’t help. The judge accepted that Abrego Garcia could be harmed because he was a member of a “particular social group”—incredibly, that was the “immediate family members of the Abrego family.” Abrego Garcia appealed the decision, but the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed it. In March 2025, ICE arrested him and a few days later sent him to El Salvador. That country’s president, Nayib Bukele, has crushed the gang problem and drastically lowered the murder rate through law enforcement and the creation of a giant new prison for gang members. In April, Abrego Garcia’s wife filed a complaint in Maryland, Kristi Noem et al. v Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia et al. In a series of decisions, Baltimore U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the government to bring him back, insisted that any removal proceedings begin in her jurisdiction, and required ICE to provide three days’ notice before starting removal proceedings against Abrego Garcia. Where that arbitrary new requirement comes from, I don’t know. Xinis is deep in uncharted waters. The Supreme Court partially upheld Xinis’ process decision and required the government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return and then continue his immigration process normally. The government brought him back. Abrego Garcia was then charged with alien smuggling in Tennessee, based on the November 2022 arrest, and detained there. Because Trump has declared MS-13 a foreign terrorist organization, the 2019 bar on sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador would no longer apply. But trying to send him there would surely get bogged down in lawsuits, so the U.S. is looking at other safe countries where he can go, such as Uganda. This is permissible under our law. Sometimes, it is the only way to ensure the removal of aliens when their home countries won’t take them back. In August, Abrego Garcia was released from jail in Tennessee and driven—by private security—to Maryland. Who is paying for that security, and all his lawyers? The immigration-activist complex, of course. Abrego Garcia represents everything they stand for: endless process until the alien gets to stay. For progressives, no one is ever deportable, whatever their criminal history, and whatever the imbalance between what they take and what they give to our society and economy. To prevent the law taking its course and Abrego Garcia being expelled, his lawyers continued pursuing litigation, filing a motion to dismiss his case, and alleging that the government is pursuing a “vindictive and selective prosecution.” The executive branch has authority in immigration cases, not federal courts. But as with so much else in our novel era, activist judges are going beyond mere due process to invent “new process”—in effect, to allow illegal aliens unlimited bites at the apple until they win. Abrego Garcia’s nine lives may finally run out. But there seems to be no shortage of money and legal muscle that the “abolitionist” lobby is willing to throw at keeping him here. How this plays out will set precedents, and establish norms, for the rest of the Trump presidency. Either the rule of law is re-established when it comes to immigration, or any alien with sufficient Non-Governmental Organization support can remain forever, whatever their background. Either way, Abrego Garcia will change the game. Originally published by Fox News. The post Who Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Why Does He Matter? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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