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With friends like these, who needs enemies?
On Thursday night, ten House Republicans crossed the floor and voted with the Democrats to keep 350,000 Haitians in the US, in opposition to President Trump’s attempts to remove their Temporary Protected Status and deport them.
The bill, led by Democrat Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Laura Gillen and advanced by means of a discharge manoeuvre, passed.
It’s dead in the Senate, of course, but that’s not really the point.
Now for the roll-call of shame. The ten Republicans are, in no particular order: Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lawler, Don Bacon, Maria Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, Nicole Malliotakis, Rich McCormick, Mike Turner, Mike Carey and Mario Diaz-Balert.
Remember those names. Write them down. If one of them is your representative and their behaviour upsets you, give them a phone call and let them know how you feel. Tell them what you really think of them.
Amazingly, one of these ten Judases, Mike Turner, represents parts of Springfield, Ohio. Yes, that’s the same Springfield, Ohio where Haitians were eating dogs and cats—and probably are still eating dogs and cats right now.
A big fat ginger cat—an old lady’s pride and joy, a little child’s best friend—roasting on a spit. A tiny chihuahua chopped up and grilled to fill a flatbread—barely.
Perhaps more than any other issue during the 2024 election, and any other meme, the dog-and-cat-eating Haitians of Springfield, Ohio underlined the insane evil of President Biden’s border policy, if simply unlocking the gate and leaving it wide open could be dignified as a “policy.” More importantly, it galvanized public support for President Trump’s ambitious promise to deport 20 million illegals over the course of a second term.
Dragging and dropping tens of thousands of Haitians into a rundown little city in the Rust Belt, a place that had known only hard times for decades—the loss of manufacturing and then the Opioid Crisis—was like the final globalist reductio ad absurdum. Instead of investment, support, jobs and real hope, the people of Springfield, Ohio were simply to be replaced by people so alien they might as well have come from the Dark Side of the Moon or one of the rings of Saturn.
This was exactly the kind of America-last politics Donald Trump was elected three times to put down forever.
During the Biden Presidency, close to a million people ended up being shielded by Temporary Protected Status, which, in the words of Texas Representative Brandon Gill, became a “permanent amnesty program for unvetted foreigners.” The status just kept on being renewed and then extended. There was no intention of ever making them leave.
Biden’s handlers created new legal pathways for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the US, including the imaginatively titled CHNV Program (bet you can’t guess what that stands for). The program allowed up to 30,000 people from those four countries to enter the US EVERY MONTH, so long as they had a US sponsor. The US government actually flew these people into the US on its own planes—to Fort Lauderdale and Denver and Dayton—and gave them work authorizations for two years.
It’s easy to forget how crazy things really were under the puppet President Joe Biden, but we shouldn’t.
Like I said earlier, Thursday’s defection probably won’t really amount to much. The bill won’t be put forward in the Senate, and the issue of Temporary Protected Status will be decided soon by the Supreme Court, which will, I hope, strike it down and allow the Haitians to be deported; although after the decision on Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, I wouldn’t like to be a betting man. Amy Coney Barrett adopted two Moon children herself and bears some kind of inexplicable grudge against Trump for nominating her that only a woman could really understand. These days it seems like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett “Kegs” Kavanaugh are the only ones who can be relied upon to do the based thing. Anyway, we’ll see.
The real lesson here is that, as much as Donald Trump has revolutionized the Republican Party and remade it in his own image, it’s still not a fully America First party. Given the chance, and maybe sensing weakness (the Iran War?), significant numbers of Republican lawmakers can still be expected to vote in the most egregious manner possible against America’s best interests.
The globalism that prefers to use illegal migration to suppress wages, driving healthcare and housing shortages and tearing great holes in federal safety nets, is alive and well, in both parties.
It’s a depressing thought, and also a reminder that there’s still a huge amount of work to be done to save the Republican Party and, more importantly, to save America. In the end, maybe those two goals are incompatible. Again, we’ll see.
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