The current DNC is not your Grandpa's DNC - it has been totally transformed!

 

Dems Embrace Radical Left’s Anti-ICE Platform

Thomas Gallatin patriotpost.us 8-19-26

The Democratic National Committee voted to adopt a platform calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee recently adopted a resolution in its party platform calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This was a change from its previous position, which had only called for reforming ICE.

Despite Americans’ frustration with Joe Biden’s de facto open-border policy, which resulted in a massive influx of illegal immigrants and helped Donald Trump secure a second presidential term, the DNC has effectively decided to double down.

The DNC’s apparent problem is the surging Democratic Socialists of America, which threatens to take over the Democrat Party. Interestingly, rather than differentiate and expunge the DSA from its party ranks, the DNC has done the opposite, placating the DSA. At the same time, establishment Democrat leaders like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reject the group’s most radical leftist ideas.

As an example of DSA radicalism, New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier says that “all deportation is wrong” and argues for “a world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”

Put simply, Democrats and the DSA both embrace globalism — it’s just that the DSA’s version is more direct and more Marxist.

This trajectory was entirely predictable. The Democrat Party adopted a leftist progressivist identity and agenda long ago. How, then, can establishment Democrats argue against increasingly radical demands when they are the logical result of the party’s chosen “progressive” course?

Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu serves as an example of this dynamic. Self-declared as a “sanctuary city,” it’s not enough for Wu that Boston’s police force is barred from working with federal immigration enforcement. Wu is now warning that the city will come after any property owners who lease to ICE.

“We as a city will be filing another FOIA request for any responses that have come in from the Boston area so that we know what information they may be sifting through,” Wu explained in a recent interview with the Boston Herald. “We strongly oppose any expansion of their efforts here and would encourage and will be reaching out to property owners to try to make sure that they’re not adding to a surge of unlawful and dangerous activity.”

While she acknowledged that the city “can’t block private property [owners],” she threatened that city officials can contact them to tell them “this is not a way to make our community safer.” So very inclusive of them. “We look to find as much information as possible about what their plans are, what information they might be looking at in order to have the best possible response and protect our communities,” she added.

Obviously, Wu is not acting in the best interest of Boston’s legal residents. Instead, she, like the DNC, has just voted in favor of — and is openly expressing — a globalist worldview in which no one is “illegal.” This view is pervasive across many college campuses.

ICE responded to Wu’s comments via a post on X: “If PRIVATE citizens want to allow federal law enforcement onto their OWN property, they should be allowed to do so. They should not face threats from their radical mayor who shamelessly compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group.”

The silver lining here is that the DNC is publicly admitting its alignment with leftist anti-American radicals.

 

For decades, illegal aliens have abused taxpayer benefits! This must end - now!

 

Treasury chief Bessent declares illegal immigrants should not receive certain tax credit refunds

Ruling impacts adoption tax credit, the Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit for undergraduate education costs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

By Thérèse Boudreaux | The Center Square justthenews.com 8-20-26

The Trump administration unveiled a proposed rule clarifying that hundreds of thousands of noncitizen taxpayers are ineligible for refunds from four individual income tax credits. The move could save the U.S. up to $2.6 billion in 2026.

The Treasury Department and IRS said Wednesday that the refundable portions of the adoption tax credit, the Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit for undergraduate education costs, and the Earned Income Tax Credit qualify as “federal public benefits” under the pending rule.

That means only U.S. citizens and “qualified aliens” could claim the refundable portion of those tax credits, which an estimated 29 million taxpayers receive each year.

“Under President Trump, the days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. The federal law is clear, and Treasury is enforcing it,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

“American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them. These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.”

If enacted, the rule would disqualify 200,000 to 700,000 noncitizens from claiming the credit refunds, saving anywhere from $700 million to $2.6 billion in 2026, the rule draft estimates.

The term “qualified aliens” includes permanent residents; asylees; refugees; migrants residing in the U.S. on parole for at least one year; migrants whose deportation is withheld due to the dangers of returning to their home country; and certain Cuban, Haitian, and Pacific Islander migrants.

That means many migrants who illegally entered the U.S. and were admitted on parole under the Biden administration would still be eligible for the tax credit refunds. The rule also specifies that only one spouse on joint tax returns must be a U.S. citizen or “qualified alien” in order to claim the four tax credit refunds.

 

Great news, ending TPS! TPS means temporary.

 

Trump immigration crackdown hits another milestone

Court ruling marks 13th country with TPS status to be terminated in President Donald Trump’s second term.

By Sarah Roderick-Fitch | The Center Square justthenews.com 8-20-26

A hurdle to adding the final country to the list of temporary protected status terminations has been eliminated as the Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration, with refugee numbers at a record low.

A Boston judge, Brian Murphy, lifted a final administrative stay, ending TPS for over 5,000 Ethiopians in the U.S. under the program, marking the 13th country with TPS status to be terminated in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Those countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security argued in a social media post that the program “was used as a defacto amnesty program,” adding “those days are over” as the agency warns those with terminated TPS status are now in the country “illegally” and “they must leave now or be swiftly deported.”

The news comes as the Pew Research Center released a new report showing that the U.S. government has admitted the fewest refugees, potentially eclipsing COVID-era figures.

During the first 10 months of fiscal year 2026, the government has admitted 10,258 refugees: 10,255 from South Africa and three from Afghanistan. It’s down from 38,102 in fiscal year 2025 and 100,034 in fiscal year 2024. In fiscal year 2025, the majority of refugees were from Afghanistan; in 2024, the majority came from the Congo, followed by Afghanistan.

In addition to the lower numbers. The Trump administration has lowered the ceiling set for admissions to 17,500, meaning the administration could still admit over 7,000 refugees before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Pew notes the “ceiling is the lowest that the U.S. government has had since at least the turn of the century.”

Pew added that the U.S. has been the world leader in accepting refugees since World War II, with the U.S. “consistently ranked among the world’s top two countries for resettling refugees.”

However, the U.S. now admits fewer refugees than Canada and Australia, according to Pew, citing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to a 2018 report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, at the time, the annual cost to taxpayers was $1.8 billion, ballooning to $8.8 billion over five years, attributing those numbers to refugees’ access to welfare and other government assistance programs, estimating the cost per refugee coming under $79,600 during their first five years as a refugee in the U.S.

The Center Square previously reported that many refugees qualified for over a dozen costly federal benefits, highlighting that hundreds of thousands of refugees admitted during the Biden administration from countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia resulted in skyrocketing funding for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance programs.

The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump’s first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year – the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration. The influx of Afghan refugees contributed significantly to the substantial increase in refugee funding.

The benefits refugees are eligible to receive include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), HUD Public Housing and Section 8 housing vouchers, emergency Medicaid, Affordable Care Act health plans and subsidies, full-scope Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), federal student aid and Pell grants, REAL ID, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act services, refugee resettlement programs through the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center.

For those who didn’t qualify for SSI or TANF, refugees were eligible for up to 12 months of Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) through the ORR.

In addition, many refugees qualified for employment assistance through Refugee Support Services, which included: childcare, transportation, “employability services,” job training and preparation, job search assistance, placement and retention, English language training, translation and interpreter services, and case management, according to the Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The ORR also noted that “some clients may be eligible for specialized programs such as health services, technical assistance for small business start-ups and financial savings.” Many refugees also qualified for “immigration-related legal assistance” to assist them “on their pathway to obtaining a permanent status.”

 

"Time does not magically transform illegal presence into a legal right".

 

When Illegal Immigrants Believe America Owes Them Citizenship

Samantha Koch patriotpost.us 8-18-26

It’s not that America owes migrants something simply because they arrived here. It’s that America offers something worth coming here for.

There is something deeply backward about entering a country illegally, remaining there for decades, making little effort to assimilate, and then demanding citizenship simply because you managed to avoid removal long enough. Time does not magically transform illegal presence into a legal right. Yet that increasingly seems to be the argument: I’ve been here a long time, therefore America owes me the right to stay here.

A recent case perfectly captures the problem. At an August 11 Democrat press conference, a Spanish-speaking woman took the podium to argue that she should not be deported because she has lived in the United States for nearly four decades — reportedly illegally since 1989. Yet after all that time in a predominantly English-speaking country, she still relied on an interpreter while declaring, “We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least seven years in this country.”

Well, there is already a pathway to citizenship — one that was available to her the entire time and arguably would have been easier had she pursued it years ago. But the real question remains the same: Why does America owe her citizenship simply because of the length of time she, or anyone else, has been here?

Living somewhere illegally for several decades does not give someone a greater claim to citizenship than living there illegally for several minutes. As Hot Air’s Beege Welborn put it rather bluntly, “It’s so much easier to demand something you haven’t earned, isn’t it?”

The contrast with legal immigrants couldn’t be greater.

In a video highlighted by Not the Bee, a legal immigrant explained why she chose America and expressed the kind of gratitude for this country that even many native-born Americans seem to have forgotten. The message was not that America owed her something simply because she arrived here. It was that America offered something worth coming here for.

That distinction is everything.

Another young woman, who immigrated legally from India with her family, described that mindset in a Fox News column. Her father arrived with $80, scrubbed toilets, and worked night shifts while building a life here. The family filed the paperwork, paid the fees, attended interviews, took the citizenship test, and eventually swore allegiance to the United States.

She summarized the difference perfectly: “We waited, worked, and learned English. We assimilated.”

She also described citizenship as “a sacred commitment to defend the Constitution, uphold the law, and give more than you take.”

That is a radically different attitude from believing that years spent violating immigration law eventually become a down payment on citizenship.

And assimilation does not mean immigrants must erase their past. The woman from India proudly maintains her Indian heritage, as America has always welcomed people from different cultures, religions, and corners of the world. Becoming American does not require forgetting your grandparents, abandoning your traditions, or pretending your birthplace never existed.

It does, however, mean becoming part of something.

National Review’s Dan McLaughlin framed the question well: “If America is an idea, rather than a people, does that mean we should welcome into the country people who don’t share the idea?”

Obviously not.

America’s attraction is not an accident. People do not travel thousands of miles to get here because America is interchangeable with every other country. They come because something exists here that remains remarkably rare: constitutional government, individual liberty, economic opportunity, and the belief that our fundamental rights come from God rather than being gifts handed down by those in positions of power.

The American experiment says your beginning does not have to determine your ending. You can arrive poor and build a business. Your parents can have very little, and their children can become doctors, entrepreneurs, or elected officials. America has never perfectly delivered that promise to everyone, but few societies have made upward mobility so central to their national identity.

That identity is worth protecting.

As The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson argues, “Being an American doesn’t mean just being physically present in the United States. … It means joining, and being adopted into, an existing people — a people with a shared past and a common future and a distinct heritage and cultural patrimony.”

Whatever disagreements we have about immigration levels or policy, a nation cannot survive indefinitely if citizenship becomes nothing more than paperwork handed out after someone has remained inside its borders long enough.

Legal immigrants understand this better than most because many actually made significant sacrifices for the privilege — because to them, becoming an American in every way was worth it. They waited. They learned the language. They studied our government. They obeyed immigration laws. They raised their hands and pledged allegiance to their new country.

America should continue welcoming immigrants from around the world. But immigration should strengthen America, not gradually erase what makes America worth immigrating to. We should welcome people who want to join the American story, share its basic ideals, and help preserve it for the next generation.

Citizenship isn’t a participation trophy awarded for successfully running out the clock.

It is an invitation to become an American.