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Pope Leo XIV clarified his stance on immigration. He said every country has the right to enforce immigration laws but says people must be treated humanely. Reporter: U.S. bishops made a very strong statement about the deportation of migrants… What do you think of it? Pope Leo: I think we have to look for ways […] The post Pope Leo Suggests We Can Deport People Here Under 10 Years appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago? He’s been the subject of premature political obituaries before—but Republicans are worried about signs that his gains with Hispanics are evaporating. Trump stunned pundits last year by very nearly winning the Hispanic vote outright. A constituency Democrats had come to take for granted suddenly seemed ready to realign with Republicans. But the numbers from the off-year elections earlier this month tell a different story. New Jersey townships with high proportions of Hispanic voters shifted heavily to the Democrats in the state’s race for governor, according to a New York Times analysis of exit polls: “Nine of the 10 townships that shifted the most toward Democrats from 2024 to 2025 had a Hispanic population of at least 60%.” There’s less data from Virginia on Hispanic voting, but the results there appear to tell the same story, while Hispanic communities in California backed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s referendum to redraw the Golden State’s congressional districts to give Democrats more seats. “[T]he county with the highest share of Hispanic residents, Imperial, voted 59% to 41%” for Newsom’s plan, according to the Times—though Trump won the Mexico-adjacent county last year. If this is a backlash against Trump’s immigration crackdown, the GOP is in a bind. The issue is integral to the MAGA agenda and nonnegotiable with the party’s base. It’s true that off-year elections have nothing like the massive turnout of presidential contests, and with fewer people voting, it takes far fewer people to produce a big swing. Hispanics moved to the Democrats by significantly bigger margins than other constituencies, but it’s possible that the most politically active Hispanics—the most likely to vote even in an off-year—are disproportionately Democrat. Trump is known for doing exceptionally well with “low-propensity” voters of all backgrounds, who often don’t turn up at all if Trump isn’t on the ballot. But it’s not only these election results that are sounding the alarm. Opinion polling of Hispanics also shows Trump’s support plummeting. (Though polls have been wrong about Trump before, of course.) The economic concerns weighing on all voters weigh on Hispanics as well, and as a heavily working-class demographic, Hispanics may be especially alarmed by the high price of beef and other staples at the supermarket. According to a survey by the polling firm Equis conducted before the elections this month, Hispanic support for Trump on “cost of living” is 40 points lower now than it was in 2024, the biggest change in his Hispanic approval levels. (He’s lost 24 points with them on immigration.) Nevertheless, the media spectacle of Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounding up Hispanic illegal immigrants or raiding Hispanic-owned bakeries and other small businesses adds to the strain on the winning coalition Trump built in 2024, even if Hispanic citizens also want to see stronger border enforcement and a crackdown on unlawful migration. The administration has to stand firm on immigration control without unnecessarily alienating the Hispanic voters Republican need—and who’ve already shown they’re willing to give Trump a chance. One way Trump can do this is by emphasizing that his exertions against illegal immigration aren’t only directed at those who come from Latin America. There’s also a need to prioritize—and publicize—the worst offenders, countering the media’s tendency to promote only the most sympathetic migrants’ stories. Beyond that, the administration should reinforce its ties to American Hispanics, particularly those who own small businesses. It’s wishful thinking when CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten says, “Latinos hate Donald Trump”—his overperformance with them, compared to what all analysts expected, is proof of that. What Trump and other Republicans have to do is show the relationship goes both ways, with Hispanic citizens a vital component of the GOP coalition. There’s no lack of prominent Hispanic leaders in the GOP—some of them, notably Sen. Ted Cruz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with presidential aspirations. But what came within a hair’s breadth of winning a majority of Hispanics for the Republican presidential ticket last year wasn’t running a Hispanic candidate. It was running a candidate who stood firmly for both immigration restriction and working-class opportunity—Donald Trump. What Trump did in 2024, the GOP can do again: MAGA is more compelling to Hispanics than the halfhearted compromises Republicans served up before Trump. But MAGA can’t afford to be tone deaf, and the Trump administration should take to heart the warnings polls and the latest election results are delivering. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump Hasn’t Lost Hispanics (Yet) appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Earlier this month, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement after nearly four decades of public service. As Democrats say goodbye to one of their last remaining operatives to actually effectuate change, the party is left directionless.The extent of Democratic leadership has now been reduced to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Both figures have repeatedly struggled to balance the progressives and the establishment moderates, with the most recent shutdown fiasco serving as a prime example. 'We all need to take a very big dose of humility.'Onlookers on both sides of the aisle largely agree that the undisciplined messaging and disorganized strategy would never have taken place when Pelosi held the gavel. With no obvious leader to follow in Pelosi's footsteps, the Democratic Party has become more undisciplined and rudderless than ever before. RELATED: 'Rebellion'? Democrat lawmakers urge federal agents to resist Trump agenda in cringe video Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images“She's an all-time great speaker because all other tools that speakers had to discipline or motivate legislators were not available to her," said Dheeraj Chand, a Democratic strategist and pollster with Siege Analytics, of Pelosi."She has no whip. She has no carrot. All that she has left is persuasive power, and she held that entire group of imbeciles together using nothing but persuasive power," Chand told Blaze News. "No small feat."The latest instance of intraparty insubordination took place when 23 House Democrats chose to rebuke one of their own. The unusual reprimand came after Democratic Rep. Chuy Garcia of Illinois was censured by nearly all Republicans and several Democrats, with Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington authoring the condemnation. Garcia, a retiring Democrat, was censured after he set up his chief of staff to be the lone Democrat on the primary ballot to succeed him in his deep-blue district, a move which Gluesenkamp Perez called "election subversion.""Both parties are finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to lead their respective caucuses in the traditional hierarchical manner," Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, told Blaze News. "We see the example with Representative Garcia as emblematic of the challenges that Democrats face with breakaway members, and we saw during the attenuated leadership tenure of Kevin McCarthy how virtually impossible it is for establishment Republicans to contain the Freedom Caucus.""When there's no leader, it's not only that there's no opinion, but there's nobody calling the shots," Chand told Blaze News. "When there's nobody calling the shots, it's hard to feel like you are playing for a team that can protect you."RELATED: Democrat lawmaker faces censure for 'colluding' with Epstein during congressional hearing Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesIn both cases, neither party had a political north star to follow. With former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, President Donald Trump's command of the party slipped away after former President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. In the case of Democrats today, the party is still on the back foot following the colossal electoral rebuke they endured in November 2024 after Kamala Harris stepped in to replace Biden at the top of the ticket. Some party moderates still believe that "a lot of Democratic voters didn't come out because they were appalled at the vice president just getting to step in for the president, even though that was her job! Another perceived coronation, from her eyes, is just going to exacerbate the brand problem," Chand suggested."Without a leader, every legislator is responding to what they think is the reason for the loss," he told Blaze News.“The Republican leadership chain is much more vertical and much more linear because the party is still led by Donald Trump," Foxwell told Blaze News. "It is still absolutely Donald Trump's party, and Mike Johnson toes the Donald Trump line, period full stop. It's easy when you have an outsized leader at the top to set the substance, the tone, and the stylistic direction of the party.""We don't have that, and we haven't had it in more than a decade, even with the four-year interim with Joe Biden," Foxwell added. "He was not what one would consider a strong party leader.” RELATED: Hakeem Jeffries' campaign allegedly solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesThe shortcomings of the directionless Democratic Party culminated on November 4, 2024, when Trump swept all seven swing states and secured impressive electoral gains across nearly every demographic. "Exit polls are something like tabular tarot cards — you see what you want to see in them. They reveal more about you than they do the world," Chand told Blaze News. "It's unreasonable to rely on them too much, but post-election surveys are very, very revealing. This kind of loss is a catastrophe that is decades in the making. It's bigger than one candidate in 100 days or one term. We lost share with everyone except affluent white people. That's a Reagan-level defeat [over Walter Mondale], for similar reasons.""Right now our party is in the midst of one of its periodic transitions in which the establishment wing is in a battle for primacy with its progressive insurgent wing. It's taking on philosophical overtones, but also generational ones," Foxwell told Blaze News. "It's not just that the old-school leadership represented by Pelosi was perhaps philosophically out of sync with some of these younger, more progressive insurgents, but she also came from a different generation."While Republicans comfortably dominate the political landscape, Democrats are trying to find their own identity. New York progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani have emerged as rising stars in their party and as a rebuke to establishment figures like Schumer and even Pelosi. Other figures, like Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and even failed candidate Kamala Harris, seem to be scoping out the competition. Even with a range of politicians to choose from, the first step Democrats need to take is zoom out and understand their electoral failures. "Nobody sees this coming," Chand told Blaze News. "I think we're going to lose until we win. And when people figure out what it takes, we will win. I think we all need to take a very big dose of humility."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I’ve been titanically bearish on America for years. Sorry. I can do math.The United States owes more than $38 trillion. That alone makes the balance sheet hopeless. The debt is insurmountable.America’s GDP in 2024 was $29.2 trillion, meaning the debt exceeds 130% of what we produce in a year. If this were a business, every financial adviser would tell you to file Chapter 11 and salvage what you can.Washington keeps adding another trillion to the tab roughly every 100 days. As the debt climbs, interest payments climb faster. The country now spins in a debt spiral that ends only one way. Game over.The more the world moves away from the dollar, the more tens of trillions of unwanted dollars come flooding home. You haven’t seen anything like real devaluation yet.Then comes the $210 trillion in future unfunded liabilities — mostly Social Security and Medicare. Those numbers don’t pencil out in any universe.Underneath all of it sits a sinking currency. The dollar lost 87% of its value since we abandoned the gold standard in 1971. For decades, the petrodollar arrangement held the world in our system by forcing oil purchases through the U.S. currency. Saudi Arabia let that mandate expire last year. Global energy deals immediately began shifting to other currencies.The more the world moves away from the dollar, the more tens of trillions of unwanted dollars come flooding home. You haven’t seen anything like real devaluation yet.To fund our binge, Washington must keep selling treasuries. But foreign buyers are losing interest. Rates rise. The government buys its own debt just to keep markets from buckling. The Cayman Islands now holds $1.85 trillion — the largest single foreign share and rising fast. Treasury officials tried to obscure the numbers. None of it signals stability.Meanwhile, our economy rests on an absurdly fragile foundation: 70% consumption. Seven out of 10 dollars depend on Americans buying things they can no longer afford. Household debt hit a record $18.6 trillion — nearly two-thirds of GDP. Families now pay down debt instead of fueling growth.Shrinking consumption means a shrinking economy. Shrinking economy means shrinking tax revenue. Combine that with a weakening dollar and the picture becomes darker still.Enter artificial intelligence, the accelerant. AI threatens tens of millions of jobs within years, wiping out income and collapsing the consumption model even faster. A government facing falling revenue and exploding obligations cannot pretend to stay solvent.Some cling to fantasies like universal basic income. With what money? The same government already $210 trillion short on existing promises? Please.This all points toward an economic crash far larger than 2008. Washington froze that crisis with $29 trillion in bailouts — money it didn’t have then either. We conjured it and shoved it onto the national debt.That option is gone.Today the government sits too deep in debt, with a weaker dollar and fewer global buyers. And the next crisis won’t hit one sector. It hits everything:• Record mortgage debt: $13.1 trillion• Record credit-card debt: $1.2 trillion• Collapsing commercial real estate: $4.9 trillion• Big Tech borrowing hundreds of billions to inflate an AI bubbleOpenAI’s Sam Altman already expects an eventual government bailout for AI’s collapse.RELATED: When the AI bubble bursts, guess who pays Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesTotal U.S. debt — public and private — hit $102.2 trillion in 2024. Washington cannot rescue a single major sector, let alone all of them. The national debt was $10 trillion during bailout 2008. It’s four times that now. The dollar buys less. Foreign creditors show less patience.So who steps in next time? Who buys the treasuries? Who absorbs the losses?No one. Not abroad. Not at home. Nowhere on this planet.That leaves Washington with only one move: Print tens of trillions in new dollars and hand them to itself — more IOIs (as opposed to IOUs) stacked on a pile already ready to topple.And that printing wave will obliterate whatever value the dollar still holds.Think the dollar’s fallen far? You haven’t seen anything yet.

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