Afterall, many illegal aliens residing in the USA are visa overstays.

 

US finalizes visa bond program aimed at reducing overstays

The permanent rule follows a pilot program launched in 2025.

By Nicholas Ballasy justthenews.com 8-1-26

The Trump administration is making permanent a visa bond requirement that could compel certain foreign visitors to put down thousands of dollars before entering the United States.

Under a State Department rule taking effect Aug. 3, consular officers will have the authority to require applicants from 50 countries, most of them in Africa, to post refundable bonds of as much as $20,000 when applying for B-1 business or B-2 tourist visas. The policy is intended to discourage travelers from remaining in the United States after their visas expire.

The permanent rule follows a pilot program launched in 2025. It raises the maximum bond amount from $15,000 to $20,000 and eliminates the previous $5,000 minimum bond option, Reuters reported.

Administration officials have argued that the bond requirement is an effective way to reduce visa overstays and strengthen immigration enforcement. Critics, however, contend the policy could make it prohibitively expensive for many legitimate travelers, particularly those seeking to visit family members, attend business meetings, or travel for tourism.

The visa bond is refundable if travelers comply with the terms of their visas and depart the United States as required. 

 

Take note America - the final paragraph says it all.

 

DSA Mission: Destroy the Republic

By Brian Mark Weber patriotpost.us 8-1-26

Eliminate the U.S. Senate, replace the Supreme Court, abolish ICE, shut down prisons, and turn ownership of corporations over to the government.

A nationwide movement is changing the dynamics of American politics. At the local, state, and national level, self-avowed socialists are winning races on radical platforms that would have disqualified them even five years ago.

Zohran Mamdani rose to prominence in New York City, winning the mayoral race in 2025 by promising to freeze rents, provide free childcare, and operate government-run grocery stores. He lashed out at capitalism, private property, and, of course, Donald Trump. It was a winning strategy, and now other socialists are riding the red wave.

As proud card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America, these upstart communists aren’t holding back. Rather than disguising their extremism, they boast about tearing down America’s political, legal, and cultural institutions.

To show just how audacious they are, DSA cochair Megan Romer recently admitted that the long-term plan is to eliminate the U.S. Senate, replace the Supreme Court, abolish ICE and give illegal aliens amnesty, keep America’s borders open, shut down prisons, turn ownership of corporations over to the government, and shutter the Pentagon. In other words, they want to burn it all down.

DSA defenders mock the supposed Red Scare emanating from the Right. Yet as Charles C.W. Cooke writes at National Review, “There is virtue in calling things by their names, and the appropriate name for the Democratic Socialists of America is ‘red.’ They are communists. They are Jacobins. They are wreckers and despoilers and iconoclasts, who, if left unchecked, would wipe the United States from the face of this earth. To be ‘scared’ by such figures is not only rational, it is imperative.”

Similarly, House Speaker Mike Johnson warned, “The barbarians are inside the gate — and Democrats are WELCOMING them in. Communism is no longer a far fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES.”

Another DSA plan is to give Congress the power to elect the president and choose members of the judiciary. “It’s important to understand how radical this is, essentially blowing up the Constitution’s separation of powers,” explains The Wall Street Journal editorial board. “Letting Congress choose the President means adopting the parliamentary system that prevails in Britain. It would essentially remove the presidential veto power that the Founders designed as a check on the legislative passions of the day. Ditto for ending an independent judiciary, which is a check against legislative and executive violation of individual rights. Third World dictators seek to make the judiciary subservient to the ruling party for this reason, as they did in Venezuela, and as Mexico’s Morena party is now attempting to do.”

As for abolishing the Senate, there’s only one reason why the DSA wants this branch of government gone: power. “The left loathes the Senate because it is also a restraint on temporary majorities,” adds the Journal. “The Senate’s design, with two Members from each state, gives an equal voice to small and large states. This prevents dominance by California, New York and Texas. And it buttresses the federalist principles at the core of the Constitution’s design, which preserves certain powers to the states as a check on Washington, D.C.‘s commandments.”

These aren’t new ideas. Socialists have tried for more than a century to abolish our system of checks and balances and replace it with a unicameral legislature or remove other obstacles limiting political power. More than a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson strongly criticized the Constitution and its checks and balances as outdated for a modern, industrial nation. He was just as wrong then as the socialists who draw inspiration from him are today.

No matter the time or the spokesperson, the goal is always unfettered power. Sure, getting anything passed through Congress is a complex and frustrating process, but giving powerful politicians the ability to pass legislation with bare majorities is why democracies die out as quickly as they’re born. It also paves the way for authoritarian regimes that crush any opposition.

That’s the future envisioned by current DSA members such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Mamdani. Add dozens more to the list who are winning elections at all levels and drumming up support across the nation.

Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey writes, “The DSA and its candidates are not just an incremental iteration of the Bernie Bros; they are a radical and revolutionary party whose agenda and platform can only be implemented by force. The US Constitution and the federalist system have too many safeguards against radical change, which leaves only force and revolution for these changes.”

The sudden appeal of socialism isn’t hard to figure out. Educators either can’t or don’t articulate why our system has generated more freedom and prosperity than any nation on Earth for more than two centuries. Beyond that, a generation of young people is being lured by slick TikTok marketing that promises a panacea if they only give up their freedom and power to the likes of Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez. And the Republican Party, despite its promises, hasn’t offered sufficient solutions for issues that ail us.

Heading into the fall elections, Americans are naturally feeling unsettled about the failure of the political class to address so-called kitchen-table issues. But turning to socialism would turn these challenges into a nightmare that would dismantle the very institutions that have sustained us for 250 years.

 

Only US Citizens are authorized to vote! Thank heaven for the actions of Judicial Watch!

 

Judicial Watch action results in removal of 6,531 noncitizen registrations from voter rolls in Va.

“It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. Judicial Watch is demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said

By Just the News staff  7-31-26 justthenews.com

Judicial Watch announced Thursday that the commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Elections shows that over 6,000 “declared noncitizen” voter registrations were cancelled between June 2024 and June 2026. 

The records were produced in response to a request by Judicial Watch, a conservative, educational foundation and legal watchdog that has long pursued government transparency and accountability, as well as election integrity. 

“It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. Judicial Watch is demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis.”

The records were produced in response to a June 2026 Judicial Watch request, according to the organization. 

 

When it comes to 'immigration' - it seems 'anything can happen' - and it does.

 

The ‘No Borders’ People Can’t Understand Why An Islamist Ran The Queers Down With His Car

Islam, unlike Christianity, isn’t into accommodating lifestyles it considers immoral.

Thom Nickels | July 30, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

In the aftermath of the Islamic terrorist attack on Berlin’s July 25 Christopher Street Pride festival, in which one woman was killed and 29 people injured, a gay Turkish belly dancer — according to the AP — opted to turn “grief into joy.”

Haidar Darwish, a professional belly dancer and artist, took center stage at a Berlin museum where he went through with his performance despite the tragedy. No doubt he prepped for a long time for his twenty minutes of fame and wasn’t going to let that opportunity go.

The show — his show! — must go on despite the cancellation of the festival. And so, the hairy-chested Darwish mesmerized audiences dressed in a hoop skirt and a red fez hat as he worked his belly button into a zillion undulations.

“Yesterday there was an attack and a hate crime on our community in Berlin during the Pride Parade,” he told AP. (Said under his breath: “But at least I got to preform!”)

Ironically, the former Syrian refugee was on stage with a group called Queens Against Borders, a performance group described by the press as “created to build solidarity with refugees, migrants, and immigrants from the LGBTQ+ community.”

“Without borders” are the key words here, because it is precisely this concept — nations should have no borders and everyone, even those from cesspool countries, should be welcome — that led to the Berlin terrorist attack.

The evasive, milquetoast reaction of many in the LGBTQ world to the Berlin attack shows that LGBT activists and progressives are still in denial when it comes to Islam. Many LGBT outlets downplayed the killer’s ties to ISIS and generalized the attack as generic homophobia, stating: “This is why Pride is necessary!”, rather than state, “Hey, I think we ought to rethink this whole ‘Queers for Palestine’ thing!”

Liberal progressives, especially women, even confessed on social media they were sorry the attacker was not Christian. Convoluted logic went even farther when a few even expressed sympathies for the attacker while blaming Christians for the tragedy.

Years ago, the big threat at Pride events in Philadelphia and elsewhere was the presence of Christian fundamentalist groups with bullhorns and placards quoting Scripture condemning homosexuality.

These groups never threw bombs or drove cars into the festivals; they never produced a surprise machete to cut people up.  And yet Christians who opposed homosexuality were framed as the biggest threat to the LGBT movement since the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1953.

Islam, which is really more of a political system than a religion, doesn’t play around. Love and pray for your enemies?  Turn the other cheek?

Progressives were shocked when the news broke that the Berlin attacker was not a fundamentalist Christian or a rightwing white supremacist. Having to admit the attack came from an “intersectional” family member was deeply troubling for many activists, as well it should have been.

The attack clearly showed that some cultures are simply not compatible with Western culture. Why? Because many immigrants from the Middle East never fully assimilate into the culture that invited them in but stand in opposition to that culture while attempting to overpower and infuse that culture with its own values and standards.

The Berlin of 2026 is not the Berlin of Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, or the hit Broadway play, “Cabaret.”

The cultural and political devastation wrought by the Nazis thankfully ended with the obliteration of that world, but can the same be said for the slow Islamization of Germany?

Immigration in Germany began in massive waves in the 1970s. Under former Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015, asylum seekers from Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, and Bangladesh piled into the country in great numbers. In two months’ time, asylum seekers in Germany jumped from 76,000 to 170,000, as Chancellor Merkel encouraged the rush with statements like, “We can do it!”

This is nothing less than suicidal empathy, since even predominately Muslim countries refused the type of migrant Western European countries like Germany invited in.

Today, Islam is the largest minority religion in Germany.

Germany’s coddling of terrorist Abdul Ballout (the suspect in the attack), a 21-year-old Lebanese who tried to join ISIS in 2025 when he traveled to Lebanon, meant that he was allowed to roam free while under a court order to attend a deradicalization program for high-risk offenders.

Ballout was even scheduled to meet with the deradicalization staff after the Berlin Pride festival for his third and final evaluation.

While researching this essay, I came across a reference to Hamtramck, Michigan, a town where the entire city council is Muslim.

In 1970, Hamtramck was 90% Polish, but over the years its population became increasingly politically progressive as the old Poles died off.  Hamtramck became a hard-core pro-LGBT town, solidly Democrat, pro BLM, pro-abortion, pro-DEI, with residents supporting Zohran Mamdani-like policies.

Hamtramck was so progressive it was the first town in the U.S. to legalize the Muslim call to prayer in the morning.

But progressives there were shocked when the new mayor, a Muslim, and the full Muslim city council, banned the flying of the Pride flag on city property. They felt betrayed (some in city government quit their jobs), especially when the city maintained that flying the Pride flag would disrespect the religious freedom of others.

How did these stupid progressives not know that Islam, unlike Christianity, isn’t into accommodating lifestyles it considers immoral?

And why were those gender-queer furry idiots in Berlin shocked that the Berlin Christopher Street festival was attacked by an Islamic terrorist and not a so-called far-right Christian?

One final word about Hamtramck: In 2023, the all-Muslim city council there enacted an animal sacrifice option whereby it became legal in that town — a first in the U.S. — to sacrifice animals on private residential properties.