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President-elect Donald Trump and his newly chosen Border Czar Tom Homan have vowed to crack down on the open border practices instituted by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the policies that have allowed millions of illegal aliens including criminals and terrorists into the United States.

And, according to a report in the New York Post, agents for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are ready to pack up their desks and start marching border patrol.

Trump and Homan have vowed to "flood" sanctuary cities with officers in their effort, the report said.

The goal would be the arrests of millions of illegals who broke the law to enter the U.S. and have been roaming American streets.

The plan is that officers, thousands of them, who have been desk-bound making out paperwork for illegals for several years will be back on the streets.

"The federal agency has a total workforce of about 21,000 employees, which includes non-law enforcement personnel who handle administration work, according to a Department of Homeland Security budget overview," the report said.

It explained the number of personnel to be reassigned isn't clear yet, but what is clear is that Trump will have to work to rebuild the agency, and it has been depleted of manpower and funding under Joe Biden's regime.

The report cited estimates that about two-thirds of the officers now are working behind desks, but the rank-and-file are thrilled to be back at work "catching criminals that Biden let roam freely in the country for the last four years without any consequences."

In a recent interview with The Post Homan also put sanctuary cities, those regions protecting illegal aliens from federal law enforcement actions, on notice.

"If they're not willing to do it then get out of the way — we're coming," Homan said.

Sources told the publication there are dozens of vacancies in some of the ICE offices that will need to be funded and filled.

That's the result of the Biden-Harris agenda for open borders, the report explained.

Trump, whose first term was marked by border security, has seen a remarkable development since his election. Before he even takes office, there are confirmed reports that a migrant caravan of some 3,000, heading for the U.S. southern board had been cut in half by those no longer attempting to break into the U.S.

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Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune won a three-way race to lead Senate Republicans' 53-seat majority for the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

Thune defeated Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn in the second round of voting, with 29 senators supporting Thune and 24 voting for Cornyn. The vote was conducted by secret ballot and required the winning candidate to surpass a 27-vote threshold.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida received 13 votes in the first round — the least amount among the three hopefuls—and was eliminated before the second round of voting.

Thune's ascension to Senate Majority leader ends Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's 17-year tenure as the top-ranking Republican in the Senate. Thune, currently the second most powerful Republican in the Senate, has served as the Senate Republican whip since 2019 and is in his fourth Senate term.

Rounding out the Senate GOP's leadership team by order of rank is Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming as Senate minority whip, Tom Cotton of Arkansas as Republican conference chair, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia as Republican policy conference chair, James Lankford of Oklahoma as Republican conference vice-chair and Tim Scott of South Carolina as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Senate Republicans' campaign arm.

Scott netted eight endorsements, including Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ted Cruz of Texas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Marco Rubio of Florida.

Four senators publicly backed Thune, including Republican Sens. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the current NRSC head, also supported Thune's candidacy, Punchbowl News reported.

The only Republican senator to endorse Cornyn's bid was Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.

Trump did not back a candidate for Senate Republican leader, but he urged all three leadership hopefuls to agree to recess appointments, which would let Trump nominees bypass Senate confirmation.

"Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed promptly," Trump wrote on X on Nov. 10. "Sometimes the votes can take two years or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY! Additionally, no Judges should be approved during this period because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THANK YOU!"

All three candidates seeking to replace McConnell were receptive to Trump's request.

"We must act quickly and decisively to get the president's nominees in place as soon as possible, & all options are on the table to make that happen, including recess appointments. We cannot let Schumer and Senate Dems block the will of the American people," Thune wrote on X on Nov. 10.

Many influential figures in Trump's orbit, including Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., supported Scott's bid.

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Organized labor almost always has sided with Democrats on elections.

Rarely have unions, especially the majors, done anything but go left with their endorsements and financial support.

This year, however, it was different for the Teamsters, with no endorsement after internal polling showed most of the union's members supporting Trump.

Now, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien went one step – a huge leap – further. He said the time for Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "over."

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A leaked memo from the Aspen Skiing Company, which runs the Aspen Mountain ski resort, several other slopes near the exclusive enclave for the rich in Colorado's mountains, and multiple motels and restaurants, explains its views of Americans' election of President-elect Donald Trump – as a failure.

Further, the memo insists that perhaps more needs to be done to push the leftist agenda.

"Clearly, the approach of trying to model, speak aggressively, and 'teach' others is not sufficient," it warned in a memo to employees.

The comments were reported in the Substack column for Glenn K. Beaton, who said the ski company, owned by the Crown family of Chicago, now has joined "The Resistance."

That's a term used for opponents of Trump's Make America Great Again agenda who have pledged to do what they can to oppose the president during his coming four years in office.

Trump, in fact, won both the popular vote – by a wide margin – and the Electoral College – by a landslide – last week and is to be inaugurated on Jan. 20.

Beaton explained, "Your correspondent has reviewed a memo labelled 'For Internal Distribution Only' from the CEO of the company that owns and operates the skiing operations at Aspen and Snowmass (referred to locally as 'SkiCo'). It's a doozy."

He pointed out "SkiCo" during Trump's first term had opposed his enforcement of immigration laws, since they were "un-American" and "coincidentally … impacted SkiCo's supply of low-paid workers."

So the comments weren't a surprise, but were "worth noting, especially if you happen to be one of their customers," the report said.

In it, a company official complains that voters picked "a vision that can be viewed as openly at odds with some of the values [SkiCo] stands for."

Those, he specified, are, "Equality, democracy, civility, compassion, tolerance, sustainability, open-mindedness, gratitude, freedom, integrity, and justice."

"In short, in the public opinion of the CEO of SkiCo, the election represents a triumph of the opposite of all that. It represents a triumph of inequality, anti-democracy, incivility, unsustainability, close-mindedness, ingratitude, tyranny, and injustice," the report said.

"He fails to explain how an open election, in which a candidate won a majority of both the people and the Electoral College, is anti-democratic. Perhaps he meant anti-Democrat."

And, the report notes, there was the condemnation of "half the country with whose votes he disagrees are intolerant."

It noted that the company "does enjoy numerous leases of Forest Service lands owned by the government."

The point of the memo, the report said is that "the operator of Aspen and Snowmass considers you persona non grata if you're in the half+ of the country that voted for Donald Trump."

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Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election in a landslide, with President-elect Donald Trump getting 312 Electoral College votes to her 226.

He even won the popular vote – by many millions.

But in the aftermath of the disaster for Democrats, analysts are suggesting one factor played a role in the counts where she performed: Voter ID requirements.

The trend attracted the attention of Elon Musk:

It was a Daily Caller report that explained Harris won 19 states, and 18 of those "don't require voters to show photo identification to vote."

The details are from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Trump also won two states that lack such requirements.

The report said 36 states require "some form" of ID to cast a ballot. Of those 36, 12 do not require photo ID.

It's an issue because of the fact the noncitizens have been documented to have voted in American elections, a crime.

But with automatic voter registration programs in many locations, and the fact that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration opened the southern border to millions and millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and terrorists, the dispute is becoming more and more critical to America.

The report explained 12 of the 19 states Harris won, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Maryland – have no ID requirements.

Five other states she won request ID, but a photo ID is not required: Colorado, Washington, Delaware, Connecticut and Virginia.

The report said in three of those states, Delaware, Connecticut and Virginia, voters without ID may sign an affidavit and cast a ballot.

New Hampshire, which voted for Harris, has a plan allowing voters to cast a ballot, but they must sign an affidavit and then return it.

In Rhode Island, no-ID voters can cast provisional ballots and their signature then must be matched.

Nevada and Pennsylvania are the only no-ID states that Harris lost.

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Despite a landslide victory for Donald Trump and his "Make America Great Again" agenda last week, a ferocious battle has suddenly broken out in the U.S. Senate over who will be the chamber's new leader, with some saying outgoing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to thwart the plans of the president-elect.

"What the hell is going on in the U.S. Senate?" Tucker Carlson is asking on X. "Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the Senate.

"Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney's. The election is Wednesday, it's by secret ballot, and it will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds. Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump. Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott. Don't let McConnell get away with it again."

Besides Scott and Cornyn, the other senator whose name is in the mix for majority leader is John Thune of South Dakota.

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A new video has appeared online featuring President-elect Donald Trump and his new plan to attack and end Washington "corruption" by dismantling the "Deep State."

Primary is his intent to reissue his executive order from 2020 that provides presidential authority "to remove government employees" that actually are "rogue bureaucrats."

"We will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus," he said, as those organizations now appear to be targeting Christians, conservatives, and other perceived enemies.

A report at Conservative Brief noted his plan includes executive orders, reforms, and even structural changes inside government agency operations.

It emphasizes openness and responsibility.

Under the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, there were numerous instances of government actions apparently being weaponized against critics of the leftist agenda those two pushed onto Americans.

Especially Trump, who was targeted multiple times by court cases in which the facts were so manipulated that the weaponization appeared obvious, such as charges against him for his handling of government documents after his first presidency.

Joe Biden had, in fact, mishandled boxes and boxes of government documents from his time as senator and vice president, yet no charges were brought against him.

Further, part of the program was a state case against him over his business operations. A leftist judge ruled he was guilty of fraud and announced a fine of nearly half a billion dollars – for actions that the supposed "victims" said in court they lost no money, and in fact, would be happy to do business with Trump again.

Business experts told the court that Trump's dealings were standard in the industry – to no avail.

Trump also cited the need to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts, which allow spying on Americans.

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The 2024 election was held in America in the shadow of months, even years, of Democrats making wild claims about how democracy would die under a Donald Trump presidency.

How he'd never leave office, how he'd become a dictator, how he'd use the government and military against his political enemies, much like the Democrats weaponized government against him when they were in office.

But an expert is pointing out that the election actually provided a new period of protection for one of the critical components of America's representative government, which actually is a republic.

The looming threat to that "democracy" actually was Democrat plans to destroy the Supreme Court in its present form, and establish something that rubber-stamps leftist ideologies at will.

Democrats had proposed "packing" the court with more leftist justices to provide a Democrat majority, and other changes. Even dissolving it.

"The election means that court-packing schemes are now effectively scuttled despite the support of Democratic senators like Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.). Given Kamala Harris's reported support, the Supreme Court dodged one of the greatest threats to its integrity in its history," explained constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.

"In this way, the election may prove the key moment in ending one of the most threatening periods of the court's existence. With the loss of the control of the Senate, the push for new limits on the court and calls for investigations of conservative justices will subside for now."

The election, especially the new Republican majority in the Senate, means "the court will remain unchanged institutionally for at least a decade," he said.

Leftists have been enraged in recent years over the several decisions, including the one by the court that the faulty Roe v. Wade case that created out of thin air the federal "right" to an abortion was wrongly decided.

The decision returned regulation of the nation's lucrative abortion industry to the states.

Turley explained, "The expectation is that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas could use this perfect time to retire and ensure that his seat will be filled with a fellow conservative jurist. Justice Samuel Alito may also consider this a good time for a safe harbor departure. They have a couple of years before they reach the redline for nominations before the next election."

He said the election results' impact on the law also will "be pronounced."

"A younger generation will grow up in a country where the voters of each state are allowed to determine what limits to place on abortions. Likewise, gun rights and religious rights will continue to be robustly protected. The checks on the administrative state are also likely to be strengthened. Pushes for wealth taxes and other measures will likely receive an even more skeptical court," he said.

He noted liberals previously had pushed for leftist Sonia Sotomayor to retire, giving way for a younger leftist replacement, and he opposed that idea.

But that effort, along with the "end the filibuster" campaign, he said, likely ended "around 2:30 am on Tuesday night."

He pointed out that the three justices previously appointed by Trump "are extraordinary jurists who have already created considerable legacies."

The left will continue to abuse Trump nominees during confirmation hearings, as happened for his previous choices, "but they will have a reliable Senate majority for confirmation," he said.

"In this way, the election may prove the key moment in ending one of the most threatening periods of the court's existence. With the loss of the control of the Senate, the push for new limits on the court and calls for investigations of conservative justices will subside for now," he said.

The "rage" among media and academia, however, will only likely grow.

They probably will "become more activist and aggressive" since voters declined to follow their agenda, instead choosing to "reject panic politics and radical agendas."

He said for how, the Supreme Court "will remain the key stabilizing institution in the most successful constitutional system in history."

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In U.S. elections, all the rhetoric in the world cannot defeat the actual numbers recording the vote.

And 2024's result, with President-elect Donald Trump set to become the 47th chief executive of the U.S. in January while Vice President Kamala Harris goes home, reveals a stark trend.

D-exit, as one report labeled it.

Or departures from the Democratic Party.

It was the Evening Standard in the United Kingdom that noted that Harris, the Democrat, got less support from a long list of typically Democrat-supporting groups, than previous Democrat candidates.

Trump, the Republican, took those votes.

The report noted Harris got 54% of the votes from women, but that was down from the 57% Joe Biden got.

And while Harris led among black voters, her numbers were down from previous Democrat campaigns.

In swing state North Carolina, for example, one in five black men supported Trump, double what Trump had gotten in the 2020 election.

Further, Trump's support within the Hispanic demographic was up more than 10 points since then.

"Trump has gained 18 points more support from male Latino voters than he did in 2020," the report noted.

Among "younger" voters, Democrat support had been at the 61% level. For Harris, it was only 46%.

It is a report from Just the News that suggested the D-exit label for the movement.

The report noted, "Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech, and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere."

This result, the report noted, came after years of Democrat and media lawfare and attacks, as he was "impeached and acquitted twice, indicted four times, facing two assassination attempts and enduring an avalanche of lawfare unparalleled in the nation's history."

But the bigger shock, the report said, was how "he peeled away long-rooted constituencies from the Democrat Party."

"The electoral movement may soon be known as D-Exit, the American equivalent of Great Britain's Brexit departure from the European Union as black males, Hispanic voters, and young voters showed up more strongly from Trump and less fervently for Harris compared to Joe Biden or Barack Obama. Arabs and Muslims also underperformed for Harris," Just the News reported.

"The shifts were small but compelling, crumbling a coalition born in the Kennedy-Johnson era and key to the Obama-Biden dynasty that dominated 12 of the last 16 years."

The shifts could bring even more radical results in the future, should the trends continue, the report noted, as Trump cut the Democrat margin for victory in New York "one of America's darkest blue states," by one-half.

And Trump removed the "battleground state" status for Florida, the scene of the 2020 fight over hanging chads, completely.

Republicans also won the Senate and were poised to retain the majority in the House, though multiple races still were outstanding.

"Perhaps most painful of all to blue America, Trump was in a position to win the popular vote, something Democrats have long used as a cudgel to delegitimize earlier GOP victories, including Trump's in 2016," the report said.

Trump was winning the popular vote 51% to 47.5%, or 72 million votes to 67 million.

Just the News quoted Mark Penn, a strategist behind the Clinton political machine, "The Trump edge is turning into a Trump trifecta. It looks like despite a good effort in a short period, Harris is falling short, especially with young people and turnout in core urban areas. Black and especially Latino voters showed some shifts."

Trump's "new coalition," he said, resulted because Trump talked "directly to constituencies Republicans often ignored in the past, and that Democrats long took for granted. He did it by inviting recovering Democrats or stubborn independents to his big stage: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, ex-Rep and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, and podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan to name a few."

Just the News reported Trump "went to places like the Bronx and Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in New York to signal he wanted to be all Americans' president. And (while) Democrats talked about ethereal ideological terms like ESG, CRT, and DEI, Trump talked about the kitchen table, the grocery cart, and the gas tank."

Even the Democrats' "switcheroo" when they dumped Joe Biden and adopted Kamala Harris didn't make a difference.

"Trump chose the issues of insecurity, inflation, and insanity and Democrats offered few specifics to counter. In the end, Trump's prior record of economic growth in his first term seemed preferable to Harris' vagaries," the report said.

Then in victory, Trump "didn't needle Democrats, rather he offered a magnanimous call for unity in a long-divided nation. He said he believed he had engineered a 'historic realignment for citizens of all backgrounds.'"

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When Democrats at the White House and in the Department of Justice assembled part of their lawfare campaign against President Donald Trump, a coordinated legal barrage involving multiple jurisdictions, many civil counts and a long list of alleged criminal actions, in one situation they simply picked a private lawyer and told him to go to it.

Since then Jack Smith repeatedly has assaulted Trump with claims of criminal actions, even to the point of making an attempt to work around a recent Supreme Court ruling that Trump has immunity for some acts by charging that Trump was acting "as an individual" while in office.

One court already has ruled that he was not properly appointed, and threw out the case he brought in that jurisdiction.

Now that fight is pending before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The American Center for Law and Justice reveals it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief that calls for Smith's disqualification from his legal campaign against Trump.

"We have fought back against Jack Smith's unlawful prosecutions before. We filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court, urging the high court to recognize that presidents are entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts in office. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution's structure entitles the president to presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts. In that case, Justice Thomas also wrote a scathing concurring opinion in which he questioned the validity of Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel: 'If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people,'" the legal team explained.

It was in a Florida case that Judge Aileen Cannonruled Smith was improperly appointed. She then dismissed it, but Smith has gone back to court demanding that the charges be restored.

At that time, the ACLJ argued, "We welcome Judge Cannon's decision limiting the attorney general's authority to appoint a private citizen who has not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Such appointments must go through the confirmation process."

Cannon's ruling now is pending before the 11 Circuit, and the ACLJ explained he was never confirmed by Congress.

The brief makes several arguments, including that as special counsel, Smith is a principal officer of the United States, "which would require presidential appointment and Senate confirmation."

"Unlike inferior officers, principal officers must undergo presidential nomination and Senate confirmation – a process Smith has not completed."

The filing said that's because Smith "can only be removed for good cause, not at will," which limits the attorney general's authority, and he lacks meaningful supervision. Further, he has broad decision-making authority.

"Because of the level of authority that he has been given, special counsel Smith could only have been appointed by the president. He was not. Merely having a nominal superior does not automatically make someone an inferior officer, especially given the extensive independence granted to Smith."

Further, the ACLJ explained that Smith has been unable to identify "any statutory authority" that would allow AG Merrick Garland to hand him the power he says he has.