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Mamdani’s one-word border answer said it all

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Mamdani’s one-word border answer said it all

"Have you ever been to the U.S.-Mexico border?” “No.”One word. That may have been the most revealing moment of New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent interview with the New York Times.Sanctuary policies are easy to defend from a podium at New York City Hall. They are much harder to defend before communities that have already paid the price.Mamdani defended his city’s sanctuary policies, which he reinforced after taking office by signing an executive order reaffirming them.The problem is not so much that Mamdani has never visited the border. It is that he seems unwilling to understand why communities that lived through the border crisis reached a very different conclusion.That lesson is visible far beyond the Rio Grande.Consider Goliad County in South Texas. The rural county has about 7,000 residents and sits roughly 160 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Sheriff Roy Boyd described how the crisis transformed the community he serves.Boyd’s office averaged 77 arrests a year during the five years before 2021. From 2021 through 2024, that average jumped to 413. Deputies discovered 16 cartel stash houses, and pursuits involving suspected human smugglers became routine.Residents began hearing voices and movement on remote properties after dark. Many no longer felt safe alone in their own homes.Those facts expose what Mamdani’s answer overlooks. The border crisis did not remain at the border. Cartel activity and illegal immigration reached inland communities that lacked the personnel and equipment to confront them. Former Border Patrol agent and Texas Public Policy Foundation senior fellow Ammon Blair calls cartels “hybrid threats.”As Blair puts it, “Cartels don’t just smuggle. They destabilize.” Boyd has described them as “contractors and subcontractors” in a network moving migrants and drugs from the border into Texas’ largest cities.That reality changed Texas’ response. In 2021, as illegal crossings surged under President Joe Biden, Goliad became one of the first inland counties to declare a local disaster. Boyd suggested giving local law-enforcement agencies flexible grants for overtime, new officers, patrol vehicles, and other equipment.Those grants became part of Operation Lone Star.According to Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, Operation Lone Star has produced more than 535,700 apprehensions and referrals, 57,400 criminal arrests, and 47,500 felony charges. Texas law enforcement has also intercepted more than 779 million lethal doses of fentanyl.RELATED: The revolution will not be televised — it will be livestreamed in 4K Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty ImagesBoyd later launched the Operation Lone Star Task Force, which allows local agencies to share deputies, intelligence, and resources across jurisdictional lines while targeting human smuggling, cartel activity, and organized crime.New York has felt the downstream effects too. Former Mayor Eric Adams warned that the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City.” Mamdani nevertheless continues to defend sanctuary policies that impede cooperation with federal immigration authorities.Goliad’s experience carries a national lesson. Criminal organizations do not recognize state boundaries. The same networks that move people across the border traffic drugs, weapons, and money into communities nationwide. They exploit ports of entry, the northern border, and weaknesses far from either frontier.The farther those networks spread, the more Americans discover that border security is not someone else’s problem.Mamdani may be proud of New York City’s sanctuary stance.His one-word answer showed more than where he has never been. It revealed what he refuses to see.Sanctuary policies are easy to defend from a podium at city hall. They are much harder to defend before communities that have already paid the price.

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'Planemaxxing': report finds U.S. blew classified cash on fancy and unsafe Trump jet

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'Planemaxxing': report finds U.S. blew classified cash on fancy and unsafe Trump jet

The U.S. government quietly spent hundreds of millions of dollars so President Donald Trump could fly in an unsafe plane with a chandelier, according to a new report. The $400 million jet donated by the Qatari royal family was recently grounded after security measures — which Trump himself approved — proved unable to withstand a credible threat from Irani proxy forces, the New York Times reported Saturday."The reversal exposes the potential risks that the government took to satisfy Mr. Trump’s demand for an aircraft befitting the grandeur he believes should accompany his office," the Times reported. Trump was reportedly entranced by the double-decker jet's luxurious features, namely a bedroom bedecked in leather and a lounge with sued seats and a chandelier, the Times reported. His desire to fly in luxury meant the 747-8 plane was overhauled in just about eight months — while experts told the Times it should have taken several years. "Trump was personally engaged in making decisions about the retrofitting of the donated plane," sources told the Times, "giving the final approval on the features and security measures that would be included."That tight deadline bumped up the price tag, the Times reported. The government was forced to spend "hundreds of millions of dollars" on top of publicly acknowledged $400 million to buy training equipment in time for pilots to fly the 747-8 plane, according to the report. "The Pentagon has tried to mask the total price tag — including from Congress — by taking the funds from a classified budget for nuclear modernization," the Times reported. The rushed effort caught up with Trump in Turkey earlier this month when the Secret Service identified a credible threat from which the new Air Force One plan could not protect him, the Times previously reported.The White House earlier this week announced that the Qatari jet would be taken out of service for what the White House declared to be “PLANEMAXXING."

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10 states checked their voter rolls with a DHS database to find startling info

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10 states checked their voter rolls with a DHS database to find startling info

'Are serious about ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections'

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After Backlash From Radical Left — Sophie Cunningham Doubles Down on Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports: “I Said What I Said”

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After Backlash From Radical Left — Sophie Cunningham Doubles Down on Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports: “I Said What I Said”

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is refusing to back down. The post After Backlash From Radical Left — Sophie Cunningham Doubles Down on Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports: “I Said What I Said” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Sanctuary California: Biden-Released Illegal Alien Accused of Raping 6-Year-Old Girl at Daycare

An illegal alien released into the U.S. by the Biden administration is now accused of raping a 6-year-old girl at a daycare in California. The post Sanctuary California: Biden-Released Illegal Alien Accused of Raping 6-Year-Old Girl at Daycare appeared first on Breitbart.

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ICE, FBI Agents Arrest Illegal Alien Accused of Attempting to Rape Girl in Indiana

ICE and the FBI arrested an illegal alien accused of attempting to rape an underage girl in Fishers, Indiana, two years ago. The post ICE, FBI Agents Arrest Illegal Alien Accused of Attempting to Rape Girl in Indiana appeared first on Breitbart.

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PATHETIC NON-APOLOGY: Unhinged USA Today Columnist Issues Weak “Apology” After Claiming Caitlin Clark Endangers “Black and Queer” Women by Inspiring “White Nationalists” to “Lynch” Blacks

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PATHETIC NON-APOLOGY: Unhinged USA Today Columnist Issues Weak “Apology” After Claiming Caitlin Clark Endangers “Black and Queer” Women by Inspiring “White Nationalists” to “Lynch” Blacks

USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour issued a pathetic non-apology Thursday after facing fierce backlash for invoking the lynching of Emmett Till in a deranged column attacking WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark. The post PATHETIC NON-APOLOGY: Unhinged USA Today Columnist Issues Weak “Apology” After Claiming Caitlin Clark Endangers “Black and Queer” Women by Inspiring “White Nationalists” to “Lynch” Blacks appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Mamdani, Who Said Israel ‘Not a Place,’ Gets Roasted for Wishing Jewish NYCers ‘Peaceful’ Holiday That’s Definitely About Israel Being a Place

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Mamdani, Who Said Israel ‘Not a Place,’ Gets Roasted for Wishing Jewish NYCers ‘Peaceful’ Holiday That’s Definitely About Israel Being a Place

It's been a busy week for Zohran Mamdani in regard to his favorite legal jurisdiction. The post Mamdani, Who Said Israel ‘Not a Place,’ Gets Roasted for Wishing Jewish NYCers ‘Peaceful’ Holiday That’s Definitely About Israel Being a Place appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Sophie Cunningham’s unapologetic courage inspires girls to find their voices: ‘I said what I said’

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