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Sanctuary Policies And Trust Acts Only Sow Distrust


Legislators in New Jersey recently introduced Bill S-3672, known as the Immigrant Trust Act. If passed, the legislation would prohibit law enforcement officers from “stopping someone due to their perceived immigration status” and “forbid government agencies and hospitals from asking about someone’s immigration status—unless the information is needed to assess eligibility for benefits.”

Governments exist to protect the interests of their citizens, but the New Jersey Trust Act doesn’t protect the interests of Americans. It is merely another sanctuary policy that protects foreigners who have broken American immigration laws. That’s problematic, because when it comes to illegal immigration, there is a lot that Americans need to be protected from. Due to the Biden administration’s complete lack of immigration enforcement along the southern border, there are a stunning number of criminals, spies and terrorists making their way into the United States.

The number of Chinese nationals entering the U.S. as illegal aliens is up at least 7,000 percent since 2021. Make no mistake, nobody leaves China without the permission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And the government of China expects something in return from those who get permission to leave. The CCP keeps tabs on Chinese living overseas via a watchdog organization called the United Front Work Department and a network of at least 54 overseas “police stations” located in 21 different countries, including the U.S.

More than 1.7 million “special interest aliens” (SIAs) have crossed the southern border since Team Biden arrived in the White House. SIAs come from countries that either promote terrorism, protect terrorists or have conditions that allow terrorism to flourish. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believes SIAs pose a significant risk to the national security and public safety of the United States.

More than 250 aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been released into the United States. The terrorist watchlist includes both known and suspected terrorists. DHS has encountered watchlisted migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

Since the Biden administration effectively erased the border with Mexico, a disturbingly large number of street gang members have made their way into the U.S. The extremely violent Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela has now established a presence on both the east and west coasts of the United States. Meanwhile, MS-13 and other criminal gangs have seized upon the migration crisis to increase their foothold in America.

It’s bad enough that there are so many nefarious characters now posing a danger to America’s national security and public safety. What’s even worse is that these bad guys, along with all of the other illegal aliens hanging out in the U.S., are costing American taxpayers a fortune.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, American’s shell out approximately $150 billion each year to cover all the freebies given to our uninvited guests. And roughly $42 billion of that consists of medical expenses.

State political leaders inevitably say that they push laws like the New Jersey Trust Act because illegal aliens become members of local communities. If illegals are afraid that cops, doctors, or teachers will report them to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), then they won’t report crimes, seek medical treatment or send their kids to school. And those communities will become less safe.

The problem is that these arguments are both illogical and irresponsible. To begin with, there is zero evidence that illegal aliens forego any kinds of services because they’re afraid of ICE. As a matter of fact, over the last few decades illegal aliens have become utterly brazen in flaunting their unlawful status. Remember the DACA protesters in 2017 who publicly declared themselves “undocumented and unafraid?” It seems pretty obvious that illegal aliens in the United States aren’t particularly worried about being deported, even if they’re arrested while publicly declaring their willingness to break, and keep breaking, American immigration laws.

Moreover, “sanctuary” policies and “trust acts” don’t build unified communities, they sow division and distrust. And they do this in the most hypocritical way possible. Citizenship is a common bond that for millennia has been the glue holding civic units together. Men in combat may fight for king and country, but they’ll accomplish the impossible in an effort to preserve the lives of their fellow citizens.

But the sanctuary/trust act movement turns the classical model on its head. It recasts the longstanding legal distinction between citizens and non-citizens as an arbitrary and discriminatory one that must be abolished, while simultaneously claiming that non-citizens are to be accorded special privileges at the expense of citizens.

No matter how you dress them up, sanctuary policies and trust acts are nothing but willful efforts to inhibit federal immigration enforcement. These irresponsible policies keep cropping up only because state leaders trust that they’ll be shielded from consequences. But, if the U.S. wants to avoid future terror attacks and stay financially solvent, then state leaders who actively interfere with the enforcement of federal immigration laws must be held accountable. And the federal government needs to send a strong message to the states: No more sanctuary policies and no more trust acts!

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How the US Government Turned on the People


The catastrophic mismanagement of Hurricane Helene relief is a showing sign to the American people that Washington is not only dysfunctional, but worse, it doesn’t even seem to be trying to serve the people.

Instead, the people serve it. Like livestock.

So how did we get here?

The Long March of Bureaucracy

As with the economy, the seeds of our political crisis began a hundred years ago in the Progressive era.

The Progressives big year for taking over the economy was 1913, with income tax and the Federal Reserve Acts.

But the political takeover was earlier — according to historian Murray Rothbard, it began precisely 30 years earlier with something called the Pendleton Act of 1883.

The Act made bureaucrats professionals who are independent of politicians. This was allegedly to fight corruption, but note that a bureaucracy that’s independent of politicians is also independent of voters.

After all, politicians are the only part of the government who answers to voters. So if bureaucrats don’t answer to them, then who do they answer to?

Simple: they answer to nobody. The government bureaucracy becomes a self-serving occupying army. By design.

Bureaucrats and Angels

Progressives did this because they’ve convinced themselves that government workers are omniscient angels — that the act of collecting a government paycheck is a kind of purifying bath that washes away the greed and malice of the unwashed masses over whom the government lords over as if the people are parasites.

This may sound goofy, but talk to a Progressive.

Of course, after Covid, anybody who thinks bureaucrats are omniscient angels needs a lobotomy.

The Union of Bureaucrats and Socialists

Once installed with Pendleton, this independent bureaucracy was, of course, captured by the left — socialists, because they both wanted the same thing: increased government control.

They began in the Progressive Era with widespread regulations that were billed as ‘reining in’ Big Business, but were of course, written by Big Business, marketed by their paid socialist activists, then implemented by bureaucrats whose funding came from politicians on the payroll — well, the donor lists — of Big Business.

And so was born our Corporatist system — of course, there’s another word for it that begins with F and ends in -ism, but then I’m not trying to get censored.

Socialism’s “Inevitability”

This capture is why it feels the world is grinding ever more socialist: the bureaucracy partners with socialists to a common end: government control over the people.

They then use government money — your money — to propagate the takeover through academia, media and corporations who are punished if they don’t toe the line. Elon Musk’s regulatory harassment being just one example.

It can feel intimidating: Covid showed us there is essentially no institution in the country that has not been infiltrated by this toxic combination of government money and intimidation.

The cartels call it plata o plombo. Silver or lead. And the socialist Deep State uses both.

Crisis and the Deep State

Over the past century, every crisis grew this Deep State: world wars, Great Depression. Even made-up crises like global warming and, of course, Covid.

Covid was their dream come true: total control.

The problem, of course, is that once a wild animal tastes human blood you can never trust it again.

That’s exactly what happened in a moment that I believe is very close to today: The wartime socialism of World War I.

The men who pushed World War I — men like Herbert Hoover — imposed Soviet-style economic and social control during the war.

Once the war ended, they were very reluctant to hand that power back, and they spent the rest of their careers trying to get it again.

Unfortunately, the stock market crash of 1929 was the excuse they needed. They used it to seize the commanding heights of the economy — the administrative state, and, 100 years later, they still run it.

So that all takes us to today: a totalitarian Deep State that progressively seizes economic, social, and political power. Enslaving us with debt, mandates, taxes, and surveillance.

The administrative state can be defeated, but not by fighting the hydra head by head. That only works with single head snakes and make no mistake about it, our government has no single head. Rather, you go to the source: the independent bureaucracy.

To end the totalitarian deep state, politicians must have the ability to fire and hire anybody they like. Because the people must have that power, and until we abolish governments, politicians are their only voice.

The only alternative is progressive enslavement by bureaucratic commissars until the people rise up and fix it by other means that few will enjoy.

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