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Vice President JD Vance slammed FEMA for incompetence Monday in Damascus, Virginia, a town near the Tennessee border which was devastated by Hurricane Helene. Vance, standing alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., told the press, “Unfortunately, while actually the people have done an incredible job of rebuilding this community, they have not had a federal government that’s truly been on their side.”  In Vance’s view, the devastation in the region surrounding Damascus has not been sufficiently addressed by federal bureaucrats who have refused to distribute funds already earmarked by Congress. “The continuing resolution that was passed just a few weeks ago actually does have the resources to fill that gap, but only if the bureaucrats get out of the way and actually make sure people get the money that they’re entitled to,” said Vance. “I think the country has decided collectively that we want to help the regions of our country that were devastated by this flood, so why are the bureaucrats not doing the people’s will and frankly holding up some of the aid here?” ? JD Vance is ON THE GROUND in Virginia taking shots at FEMA for their obstruction of relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene. pic.twitter.com/DHicuY04mQ— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 27, 2025 Vance’s allegations of federal agencies dragging their feet while southern Appalachia remains battered echoes his remarks in his now viral interview with CBS’ Margaret Brennan. When pressed on Trump’s criticism of FEMA, Vance told Brennan, “We’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it the most. But let’s be honest, Margaret. You talk about the expertise from FEMA—FEMA in North Carolina, in California, in Florida with some of the hurricanes—has often been a disaster.” On the ground in Damascus, Vance told the press, “We’re putting people over bureaucrats. Bureaucracy has for too long stood in the way of people’s business. That’s gonna stop and we’re gonna fight to make sure it stops every single day.” The post Vance Slams FEMA in Virginia Town Devastated by Hurricane Helene appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and take action to secure the border.   Deportations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested more than 2,300 illegal aliens in the week since Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20.   In the immediate days after Trump’s inauguration, ICE arrested 538 illegal aliens on Thursday, 593 on Friday, 286 on Saturday, and 956 on Sunday. ICE has carried out those arrests in a number of U.S. cities, including Sacramento, California; Boston; and Chicago.   Over the weekend, the Trump administration directed ICE to ramp up daily arrests of criminal illegal aliens to 1,200 to 1,500 daily.  One of the criminal illegal aliens arrested was Juan Velasquez-Francisco, a Guatemalan national, “convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor,” according to ICE.   The Trump administration also granted the powers of an immigration officer to additional law enforcement agents to aid ICE in making arrests. Specifically, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals Service are working with ICE.   Current arrests are part of ICE’s “targeted enforcement operation,” and are “planned arrests of known criminal aliens who threaten national security or public safety,” according to ICE. While agents are focused on arresting criminals, illegal aliens who are found with those criminal illegal aliens are not excluded from arrest, according to border czar Tom Homan.   Repatriation flights began Thursday. Mexico was initially reported to be turning away deportation flights, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that Mexico had accepted four deportation flights. On Friday, multiple military aircraft filled with illegal aliens departed the U.S. for Guatemala. Colombia was not as quick to agree to receive its criminals back into its country.   Over the weekend, two U.S. military flights full of Colombian criminal illegal aliens tried to land in Colombia, but the Colombian government would not allow the flights to land.    Trump subsequently wrote on X that Colombia’s choice to turn those flights away “jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States.”    As a result, Trump announced new 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States from Colombia. He also slapped a travel ban on Colombian government officials and said the U.S. would revoke their visas. After Trump announced those and other sanctions, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, changed his tune. By Sunday night, Petro agreed that Colombia would accept all U.S. flights of Colombian illegal aliens “without limitation or delay.”   The White House said that Colombia’s capitulation “[makes] clear to the world that America is respected again,” adding: “President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation’s sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.”    Border Security On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring the situation at the border a national emergency. The order allows Trump to surge additional resources and personnel to the border, including military troops.   The Pentagon announced Wednesday it had begun sending 1,500 active-duty troops to the border.   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday he was sending 400 troops from the Texas Tactical Border Force to work “side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents to stop illegal immigrants from entering our country and to enforce immigration laws.”   The Texas Tactical Border Force will be joining thousands of Texas National Guard troops that are already at the border.  Abbott is also sending helicopters and C-130 aircraft to the border to assist the federal government in its border security efforts.   Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the border.To support that mission, I deployed the Texas Tactical Border Force to work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents.We finally have a federal government working with Texas to end this crisis. pic.twitter.com/86tuh6us6C— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 27, 2025 Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will work to carry out the Trump administration’s executive orders aimed at securing the border and removing criminal illegal aliens from the country.   “[Trump] made it very clear there’s an emergency at the—at the southern border, that the sovereign—the protection of the sovereign territory of the United States is the job of the Defense Department, and the cartels are foreign terrorist organizations,” Hegseth told reporters outside the Pentagon on Monday.    “As a result, this Pentagon snapped-to last week,” he added. “We helped move forward troops, put in more barriers, and also to ensure mass deportations—support of mass deportations, in support of the president’s objective. That is something the Defense Department absolutely will continue to do.”   In addition, Trump has ended “catch and release,” reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” policy, directed border wall construction to begin again, and shut down the CBP One app, which the Biden administration used to mass-parole illegal aliens into the U.S.  The post Trump’s Border Crackdown: Week 1 In Review   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Mexican President Doesn't Want Her Citizens Back Because They Contribute So Much to Our Economy

With the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States behind us and the early fulfillment of his promises on immigration underway, we can take a look back at the hopes that Spanish-language media placed on President Joe Biden opening up the border.  But first, a reminder that Spanish-language media remains a client of the Democrat party on immigration. It has been our long-held thesis at MRC Latino that Spanish-language media renew their viewer pool through immigration, as opposed to the renewal of ABC, CBS, NBC et. al viewers through natural birth. This is a thesis subsequently confirmed by none other than Jorge Ramos (click “expand” to view transcript):     JORGE RAMOS: I think the future of Spanish-language media is assured for decades, simply, for a very simple reason: Despite of the fact that the majority of the growth within the Hispanic community is coming from people being born here, we still have one to two million immigrants, legally and illegally coming in every single year. Most of them speak Spanish. So, therefore, we have a market that is growing and growing. And I think we can assure you that in the next few decades, you'll see Spanish-language media. That's another topic completely, but the Latino community is keeping so many elements from their country of origin, including Spanish- 9 out of 10 Latinos speak Spanish...speak Spanish at home- that- and we're doing things that Italians didn't do, or Russians, or Eastern Europeans didn't do- and the closeness to our countries of origin and the communications that we have are keeping Spanish-language media alive. And thanks to that, it's a new power that other immigrant communities didn't have in the past.  By having their audience always look back to countries of origin as opposed to forward in America, mass Spanish-language media then becomes an instrument of cultural alienation, and boxing-in of Latinos into a permanent alien status- forever alienated from the American mainstream and the fullness of American citizenship. Key to that strategy is a continuous open border. On January 20th, 2021, Spanish-language media was unanimous in pining for Biden to open the borders, or at least push to enact some version of “comprehensive immigration reform.” These hopes were stated openly and often. Here is but a tiny compendium (click “expand” to view transcript): ANTONIO TEXEIRA: On his first day in office, there is hope for millions of undocumented immigrants because Biden will offer immigration reform with pathways to citizenship, protections for Dreamers and for the construction of the border wall- to end it. MARTÍN BERLANGA: In fact, the news of immigration reform is something that many of us Hispanic journalists have been waiting to report on for decades. KARLA MARTINEZ: But for our people, what concerns them most is the immigration issue. He has promised, that in his first days of campaigning, his first 100 days, that he will try to grant the longed-for immigration reform. JUAN JOSÉ GUTIERREZ, ACTIVIST: The president, the actual president, not president-elect, Joseph Biden, will send a legislative proposal to Congress to legalize all undocumented workers and their families. CRISTINA LONDOÑO: Promises that were made to immigrants are already being kept, with executive orders and the filing of an immigration reform plan. NICOLE SUAREZ: And more than one was surprised that Joe Biden announced, even before arriving at the White House, his immigration reform plan that aims to legalize more than 11 million undocumented, and provide them with a pathway to U.S. citizenship. BERLANGA: What Biden and Harris have said is that their proposal would restore humanity to the U.S. immigration system. DANNY VARGAS: I believe that the will is there, that it should be done in this first year, we have many issues, but immigration reform is definitely something that is pending and that is urgent. VANESSA HAUC: Our community is now breathing with great hope Dan, because Biden has said that he will send this immigration reform bill (to Congress)... STACHA PRETTO: ... on his first day in office. There’s the list. Among these is an immigrartion reform plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented. ALAN TACHER: But today there is great expectation because right after Joe Biden's oath of office, he is expected to file his proposal for immigration reform. JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: And the incoming administration will file a bill today, a proposal for immigration reform. KARLA MARTINEZ: Well, we were thrilled to hear the news of an immigration reform proposal that incoming President Joe Biden would file today, but there is already talk about a delay if Congress goes through with another impeachment trial for Donald Trump. Unfortunately, we now know what happened. Shortly after swearing in, President Biden would sign executive orders that effectively unraveled the border protections left in place by President Donald Trump. Tens of millions of illegal migrants raced north to take advantage of the “benefits” being offered by the Biden administration.   Subsequently, our cities were overwhelmed with migrants. Crime would spike in cities such as New York and Denver. In Aurora, a nearby suburb, the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang seized control of several apartment complexes. In Georgia, a TdA member murdered fifth-year nursing student Laken Riley. In Houston, TdA members murdered Jocelyn Nungaray. The nation became horrified by these and many other cases. It turns out that Spanish-language media got what they wanted, with catastrophic results. It will take years to revert the damage done by the politicians that these institutions put in place. It is up to us to remember.  

Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III plans to push for a pardon from President Donald J. Trump after Rhodes’ Jan. 6 trial judge issued a ruling that Rhodes said could leave him at risk of unjust rearrest. In an eight-page order on Jan. 27, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rescinded his Jan. 24 order to ban nine Oath Keepers with presidential commutations from the District of Columbia and the U.S. Capitol. Mehta issued the order two days after the newly freed Rhodes appeared at the D.C. jail and on Capitol Hill to advocate the release of Oath Keeper Jeremy Brown. The nine Oath Keepers-related defendants who received presidential commutations are Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, David Moerschel, Roberto Minuta, Edward Vallejo, Joseph Hackett, and Thomas Caldwell. 'The President’s act of clemency did not alter this court’s original sentences.' Oath Keepers who took plea deals and testified against Rhodes and his co-defendants received pardons, even for convictions of seditious conspiracy. “I've got to get an application for pardon in front of President Trump as soon as possible,” Rhodes told Blaze News. “I'm going to start working on it today.” On Jan. 20, President Trump said the 14 commutation cases will be examined further. “We are looking at different things, but the commutations would be the ones that we’ll take a look, and maybe it’ll stay that way or it’ll go to ... a full pardon.” Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III speaks to media at the District of Columbia jail on Jan. 24, 2025, advocating the release of pardoned Oath Keeper Jeremy Brown.Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Rhodes said a commutation leaves him a felon exposed to possible arrest if someone just claims he was seen with a firearm or even if he is simply in a building where a firearm is found. After his conviction for seditious conspiracy following a 2022 trial, Rhodes is not allowed to possess firearms. “If you’re a felon in this country, you’re already a target,” Rhodes said. Mehta’s ruling took some issue with the motion filed Jan. 24 by Edward Martin, the new U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “The defendants, however, are no longer subject to the terms of supervised release and probation, as the Executive Order ‘commute(d) the sentences’ of these defendants,” Martin wrote in his motion. “As the terms of supervised release and probation are included in the ‘sentences’ of the defendants, the Court may not modify the terms of supervised release; the term is no longer active by effect of the Executive Order.” Mehta said his original sentences cannot be dismissed. “Insofar as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to ‘dismiss’ defendants’ supervised release terms, the request is denied,” Mehta wrote. “The President’s act of clemency did not alter this court’s original sentences, which remain ‘intact.’ … Further, by virtue of the President’s commutation order, the court acknowledges that its conditions of supervision will not be enforced.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!