Category: Race and Politics, Page 23
Democratic Senator Explains That ‘Undocumented Americans’ Are the People His Party ‘Care About Most’
American Renaissance - Feb 9th 2024 2:35pm ESTSenator Chris Murphy (D-CT) declared that “undocumented Americans” — presumably a reference to migrants in the country illegally — were “the people we [Democrats] care about most” in an appearance on All In With Chris Hayes Wednesday night. In a discussion about the now-defunct border and foreign aid bill rejected by congressional Republicans, Hayes teed Murphy up by noting that in […]
New Bill Would Legalize Deportation of Illegal Aliens to Sanctuary Cities
American Renaissance - Feb 9th 2024 2:35pm ESTA bill introduced last week in the West Virginia Legislature could legalize the deportation of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities located across the country. {snip} “This is my bill to deport any illegal aliens found in West Virginia to certified sanctuary cities,” Delegate Eric Brooks said of the legislation. “If these sanctuary cities want them, […]
1White House Says ICE Will Reduce Deportations, Detention Capacity If Republicans Don’t Pass Border Bill
American Renaissance - Feb 8th 2024 2:50pm ESTThe White House on Thursday announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon be “forced” to reduce operations at the southern border due to lack of funds. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that because Republicans have not passed the bipartisan border security agreement with funding for Israel and Ukraine, the administration is left with no […]
White House Officials to Visit Michigan to Meet with Muslim and Arab American Community Leaders
American Renaissance - Feb 8th 2024 2:50pm ESTSenior Biden administration aides will travel to Michigan on Thursday to hear directly from Muslim and Arab American community leaders on their top issues and concerns, including, most notably, the Israel-Hamas war and civilian casualties in Gaza. {snip} Biden has been under pressure to respond more aggressively to the civilian death toll in Gaza, which […]
House GOP Fails to Impeach Mayorkas over Border Handling
American Renaissance - Feb 7th 2024 6:36pm ESTHouse Republicans’ high-stakes gamble to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas just barely failed on Tuesday, an embarrassing political setback for an already embattled majority. The articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary failed in an 214-216 vote, after four Republicans sided with Democrats to oppose recommending Mayorkas be booted from office. But Republican lawmakers quickly predicted […]
The Elites Opened the Doors to Migrants — and Chaos
American Renaissance - Feb 7th 2024 2:35pm ESTOn the streets of New York, two police officers are beaten by a gang of eight migrant asylum seekers. Five of them are released without bail, one of them literally flipping the finger at the American public as he goes. The other three simply disappear. On the streets of London, a woman and her two […]
G.O.P. Backlash to Border Deal Reflects Vanishing Ground for a Compromise
American Renaissance - Feb 6th 2024 4:03pm ESTRepublicans in Congress who have spent months demanding that any aid to Ukraine be paired with a crackdown against migration into the United States got what they asked for when a bipartisan group of senators released a $118.3 billion agreement that would provide both. On Monday, many of them rejected it anyway. It was the […]
Musk Says Biden Opened Border Floodgates So Democrats Can Stay in Power
American Renaissance - Feb 6th 2024 4:03pm ESTElon Musk has again railed against President Biden’s approach to securing the southern border, arguing that the commander-in-chief is letting millions of people into the country on purpose, so the Democrats can permanently stay in power. Billionaire Musk, who has been a vocal critic of Biden’s border crisis, ripped into the president on X late Friday […]
A South Dakota Tribe Banned Gov. Kristi Noem From a Reservation Over Her US-Mexico Border Remarks
American Renaissance - Feb 5th 2024 7:14pm ESTA South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations. “Due to the safety of the Oyate, […]
Senate Releases Establishment’s Migration Bill
American Renaissance - Feb 5th 2024 2:19pm ESTThe Senate has released its long-awaited “border” bill that reportedly increases the inflow of legalized immigrants into Americans’ communities, workplaces, and schools. {snip} Breitbart News has highlighted many of the critical issues that will be carefully read before Schumer’s rush to a scheduled vote on Wednesday. Central Issues: Will the bill reduce the inflow of […]
150 House Democrats Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Alien Drunk Drivers
American Renaissance - Feb 2nd 2024 1:06pm ESTThe overwhelming majority of House Democrats voted against legislation this week that would make sure illegal alien drunk drivers are deported from the United States following their convictions. On Wednesday, 150 House Democrats voted against the “Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act” by Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) which would make drunk driving grounds for ineligibility to be […]
Minneapolis Council Meeting on Encampments Turns Heated
American Renaissance - Feb 2nd 2024 1:06pm ESTA Minneapolis council committee meeting over homeless encampments turned heated on Wednesday as council members argued with each other and activists in the crowd. The conflict started between council member LaTrisha Vetaw, who is not on the Public Health and Safety Committee but was sitting in on the meeting, and committee chair Jason Chavez, but […]
University of California Hits Pause on Plan to Hire Undocumented Students
American Renaissance - Feb 2nd 2024 1:06pm ESTUniversity of California leaders backed away Thursday from a plan to allow people without legal immigration status to hold campus jobs after scrutinizing the legal ramifications of an effort that drew objections from the Biden administration. The governing UC Regents emerged from a closed-door meeting and voted to put the plan on hold for at […]
Utah Is the Latest State to Ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts on Campus and in Government
American Renaissance - Feb 1st 2024 6:47pm ESTUtah’s governor signed a bill into law Tuesday that makes the state the latest to prohibit diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government. The measure signed by Spencer Cox, a Republican who previously said he supported the idea, had cleared the state House and Senate by wide, party-line majorities. Headed […]
Democrats’ Next Crime Fight: Retail Theft
American Renaissance - Feb 1st 2024 6:47pm ESTDemocrats want to talk tough on crime in an election year. Their target — shoplifting. Successfully pursuing retail theft could rob the GOP of a winning message on criminal justice and give Democrats a national roadmap for addressing the issue. Now New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is waging her own war on shoplifters through a […]
Reparations Debate Looms in Colorado’s New Racial Equity Study Bill
American Renaissance - Feb 1st 2024 4:01pm ESTColorado’s Black lawmakers are united behind one bill this session: a high-profile study of the legacy of slavery and the state’s “track record of racial discrimination.” State of play: The two-year study, backed by the House leader and driven by a local nonprofit, seeks to quantify the economic repercussions on Black residents and put forward remedies, following in the footsteps of California and New […]
Nebraska Judge Orders Creation of Four Native American-Majority Voting Districts
American Renaissance - Jan 30th 2024 4:02pm ESTA year after two Native American tribes sued a county where they are both located over Voting Rights Act violations, a federal judged signed off Friday on re-drawn boundaries for county supervisor districts. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and nine individual members of the two tribes, said in their initial January […]
Why We Need to Talk About the Right’s Stupidity Problem
American Renaissance - Jan 29th 2024 7:02pm ESTAttributions of low intelligence are considered insults—something we lob at our enemies, not our friends. So why should I, who am committed to the defeat of leftism, say that my own side is the dumb one? I cannot shame my political allies into having higher IQs. Talking about the right’s intellectual limitations seems demoralizing and […]
Joe Biden Endorses Senate Deal to Expand Immigration
American Renaissance - Jan 29th 2024 3:39pm ESTPresident Joe Biden has endorsed a Senate deal to massively expand overall immigration to the United States negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) among others, saying he “will sign it” if it is passed through Congress. Lankford and Murphy have negotiated a deal to expand legal immigration levels by an additional 50,000 green […]
Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
American Renaissance - Jan 29th 2024 3:39pm ESTAs the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth month, a coalition of Black faith leaders is pressuring the Biden administration to push for a cease-fire — a campaign spurred in part by their parishioners, who are increasingly distressed by the suffering of Palestinians and critical of the president’s response to it. More than 1,000 Black pastors […]
Right-Wing Influencers Are Going Full Racist in Anti-DEI Rants
American Renaissance - Jan 28th 2024 3:08pm EST{snip} Elon Musk, the CEO of a car company whose vehicles have a tendency to catch fire, tweeted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE.” The obvious innuendo is that Black people are responsible for Boeing’s failures. Musk has also referred to […]
Senate Border Bill to Allow 5,000 Migrants a Day Before Title 42-Type Limit Starts
American Renaissance - Jan 25th 2024 12:12pm ESTA border proposal still being hammered out by Senate negotiators would include a Title 42-type authority that would only be mandated if numbers at the southern border exceeded 5,000 migrant encounters a day — part of a package already drawing fierce criticism from some conservatives in the chamber, with one GOP lawmaker branding it a “stinking […]
All-Female City Council Marks a ‘Turning Point’ for a Twin City
American Renaissance - Jan 22nd 2024 2:41pm ESTThere was a moment last summer when Nelsie Yang realized that she and six other women were on the verge of making history in St. Paul, Minn. The group of City Council candidates was knocking on doors to share their joint campaign message, one that could transform the makeup of the city’s governing body. “It […]
Put a Stop to Mass Migration – While We Still Can
American Renaissance - Jan 22nd 2024 2:41pm EST“The future belongs to those who show up.” So says the writer and commentator Mark Steyn, one of the few who warned early on about the demographic problems the rest of us are now beginning to discuss. But it is not just who shows up: whether we are having enough children. It is also where they show up. […]
Squad Member Jamaal Bowman on Slave Reparations – Says He Wants All 42 Million Black Americans to Get $333,000
American Renaissance - Jan 19th 2024 2:12pm ESTA New York lawmaker is calling for every black person in the US to receive $333,000 as reparations for slavery. Jamaal Bowman is among nine backers of federal bill H.R. 414, which states there is a ‘moral and legal obligation’ to make restitution to the descendants of slaves. The legislation would force the government to […]