‘Largest Single-State Worksite Enforcement Action’ in U.S. History Yields Almost 700 Immigration Arrests

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Federal authorities detained almost 700 illegal aliens after execution of a massive worksite immigration enforcement operation at seven different locations in Mississippi on Wednesday.

Reports from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security said that the worksite enforcement operation, which took place at multiple food processing locations, netted 680 arrests in what the DOJ described as the “largest single-state worksite enforcement action” in U.S. history. A report at Fox News details that around 600 ICE agents raided the various food processing plants as part of the operation.

“While we are a nation of immigrants,” U.S. attorney Mike Hurst said at a press conference about the raids, “more than that, we are first and foremost a nation of laws. And the rule of law is the bedrock, the very foundation of our great country.”

A statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi, says that those detained were “being interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed by ICE agents, processed for removal from the United States, and transported to an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana.” A separate ICE statement says that those in the group who already have received final removal orders are now being processed for removal from the country.

But what about the employers who hired illegal labor? ICE’s statement also says that federal law enforcement officials seized business records “pertaining to the ongoing federal criminal investigation.” At Wednesday’s press conference, Hurst said that he couldn’t comment on an ongoing matter when asked by a reporter whether or not those who knowingly employed the illegal aliens would face consequences.

The worksite enforcement is reminiscent of the George W. Bush administration, which regularly conducted large worksite enforcement raids. Some of the more famous examples were those at Pilgrim’s Pride facilities in 2008 and a massive raid at a kosher meat plant in the same year. Obama “avoided” such actions, the Associated Press explains, “limiting workplace immigration efforts to low-profile audits.” (For more from the author of “‘Largest Single-State Worksite Enforcement Action’ in U.S. History Yields Almost 700 Immigration Arrests” please click HERE)

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This Criminal Alien Is Accused of Smothering 19 Elderly Victims to Death. He Should Have Been Deported Long Ago

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Nobody in the GOP Senate or the White House is taking notice of what might be the worst and most heinous criminal alien crime committed in American history. We must discuss closing the multiple criminal alien loopholes that violate laws duly passed Congress.

At least 19 Texans were allegedly killed by someone who should never have been in the country, who had been in jail for other crimes and should have been deported. What if I told you that if we merely enforced and tightened existing laws, unvetted foreign nationals like this would never be able to commit subsequent crimes? “Do something!!,” you would say, right?

Well, not a single major elected official is even talking about this case, much less calling for emergency congressional action to deal with the loopholes. And unlike with El Paso, this crime was actually 100 percent avoidable through public policy, and the course of action would not implicate a fundamental right. After all, there is no right to immigrate, as there is a right for Americans to bear arms.

This man should never have been here

Billy Chemirmir, like many people who gamed out our immigration system, came to the United States on a tourist visa in 2003, only to indefinitely overstay his visa, according to Breitbart.com’s John Binder. That should have rendered him an illegal alien, and had our government fulfilled its promise in 1996 to construct a visa tracking exit-entry system, as later recommended by the 9/11 Commission, he would have been out of the country. Not only was he not deported, he wound up using a loophole to get a green card in 2007 by marrying an American citizen, according to Binder’s sources. He then racked up a significant criminal history, including two DWIs in 2011 and an assault on a girlfriend resulting in bodily injury in 2012.

Yet this criminal from another country, whose presence here was originally illegal and who should have been deported, continued to remain in the country.

That brings us to the present. Chemirmir is now charged with the murder of 12 senior citizens whom he is alleged to have killed by smothering them with pillows over the course of three years – 2016-2018 – long after he should have been deported.

Thanks to his attempted murder of others who survived to tell the horror tale, Chemirmir was finally arrested on March 20, 2018, and charged with the murder of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris that day. According to a timeline of events by the Dallas Morning News, the day before that arrest, Chemirmir allegedly smothered a 91-year-old Plano resident, but she survived and was able to help identify the suspect. However, it wasn’t until this May that police brought forward the murders of other seniors, now possibly totaling 19. He was charged with the murder of another 11 in May for smothering his victims with a pillow and has recently been linked to the murders in seven other civil lawsuits of plaintiffs against the Tradition-Prestonwood senior living facility.

The alleged murders took place between May 2016 and March 2018 in Dallas and Collin Counties. He is accused of pretending to be a maintenance worker and gaining entry into several nursing home facilities as well as private homes in retirement communities, with the intent of murdering the helpless victims and stealing jewelry. Nine of the victims are alleged to have been residents of Tradition-Prestonwood.

Chemirmir is currently being held in the Dallas County jail on $11.6 million bond while authorities investigate 750 other deaths in the area to see if the same M.O. was present in any other cases where there is suspicion about the cause of death. Some of the bodies of those previously thought to have died of natural causes had to be exhumed during the investigation.

ICE initially placed a detainer on him when he was arrested in March 2018. But it was too little, too late. Thanks to the endless lack of enforcement of our foundational sovereignty laws, this man was allowed to remain in the country after multiple opportunities to remove him.

Why was this man able to remain in the country without raising questions?

“Obviously Chemirmir should never have received a visitor visa to begin with, and he was able to take advantage of the near complete lack of enforcement and near complete lack of deterrents to overstaying,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, who used to vet visa applicants as a foreign service officer with the State Department. “It’s not clear how he was able to secure employment for the four years that he was in the country illegally, and this should be investigated.”

While the main focus of local media is on malfeasance at the senior facilities, this is a much bigger national public policy issue, according to Vaughan. “Not only should authorities investigate suspicious deaths where he worked, but ICE should be looking at all of his employers and subject them to audits to see if they have knowingly engaged in illegal hiring or at least be required to clean up their hiring so as to avoid hiring illegal workers in the future.”

We are collectively wringing our hands as a nation trying to figure out how to prevent very tough cases of first-time mass shooters. But why is there no soul-searching about an alleged mass murderer, a criminal alien, on the multiple levels of breakdown in law enforcement? Where are the hearings, DHS investigations, and media inquiries into why he was given a green card, why he was given work before the green card, why he wasn’t on anyone’s radar after he committed more crimes, and whether Dallas’s lax immigration enforcement policies had anything to do with it?

Among the many foundational immigration laws that have been gutted by lawless executive action is section 212(a)(9)(b) of the INA, which bars anyone who “has been unlawfully present in the United States for one year or more” from returning to the country for 10 years. Rather than being offered a spousal visa in 2007, Chemirmir should have been removed and barred from entry for 10 years because he was in the country illegally for four years. Yet the executive branch has erroneously exempted visa overstays (as opposed to border-crossers) from the bar, even thought the law is clear that it applies to them: “An alien is deemed to be unlawfully present in the United States if the alien is present in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Attorney General or is present in the United States without being admitted or paroled.” There is discretionary waiver authority for “hardship,” but it has been abused by past administrations.

Why isn’t the Trump administration calling on DHS to change the regulation to comport with the 1996 law, which passed the Senate unanimously and was designed to completely end illegal immigration as we know it?

Then there is the next part of the criminal alien loophole. Even after he was given a green card, Chemirmir was allowed to remain in the country despite serving two prison sentences in Texas. He was first arrested in 2011 for two separate DWIs, then arrested for assault in 2012, then arrested for obstructing the police and criminal trespassing on June 18, 2016. The trespassing charge was when he was caught breaking into the Edgemere senior living facility. That was after two of the Edgemere victims were already allegedly killed by him – Phyllis Payne on May 14 and Phoebe Perry on June 5. Had he been flagged by DHS at this point, the murder of the others could have been avoided.

At this point on June 28, 2016, he pleaded no contest to the assault charge and was sentenced to 70 days, but only served about three weeks, according to Dallas County court records. That alone should have gotten him deported under the law. In addition, even though DWIs are not stand-alone deportable offenses for those with green cards, the DWIs when paired with the assault could constitute “two or more crimes involving moral turpitude,” making him deportable under 8 U.S Code § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii). But he was let out, and according to the civil lawsuit, he is accused of murdering Joyce Abramowitz at the Tradition-Prestonwood facility just a week after he was released in July.

“It’s disturbing to see Chemirmir’s long rap sheet, including multiple DWIs with jail sentences and violent assault charges, and hard to understand why he was not a candidate for deportation, despite having a green card,” said Jessica Vaughan. “The charges appear to have been frequent enough and serious enough that he could potentially have forfeited his green card. But did any immigration official even try? Certainly, ICE would have received alerts on his arrests, but this type of case was not a priority for any DHS agency at the time. That has to change. We need to adjust our laws and policies so that this kind of behavior is unequivocally disqualifying and so there are systems in place to make sure that it happens. Clearly ICE already has the ability to learn of these arrests, but should be empowered to take action.”

Indeed, under existing law, an assault is a deportable offense. As Vaughan noted, why don’t we have DHS officials monitoring every arrest of a foreign national? For foreign criminals, we have the ultimate ability to “do something” and remove them from the country, thereby precluding their criminal repeats. Unfortunately, DWIs alone are not deportable offenses for those with green cards, but all too often the worst of the worst, without green cards, could have been removed based on DWIs, not to mention the fact that the DWIs themselves are extremely dangerous. Why is there no clamor from the media, Congress, and the president to pass the Scott Gardner Act, mandating deportation of repeat drunk driving offenders?

All of his previous crime occurred before most of the 19 known murders began in 2016. That makes these murders 100 percent avoidable if we had simply enforced our sovereignty. Where are the two Texas senators or the governor calling for action, and why haven’t they been doing so since this story first came out in May?

In June, a Ukrainian national who had prior driving offenses and larceny convictions, killed seven bikers, including five former Marines, in New Hampshire in a car wreck induced by his intoxication on drugs and possibly alcohol.

There was no mention of that case, just like this Texas case, among any Republicans, nor was there any impetus to close the criminal alien loopholes.

“We have no shortage of good people who want to become immigrants,” said Vaughan. “There is no reason for us to let down our standards to accommodate people like Chemirmir. As a general rule, we should not reward illegal aliens with green cards, and we should reserve the right to remove anyone who has received a green card if they do not maintain our standards of good moral character. This monster has taught us a lesson, and now Congress needs to learn it and tighten our laws.” (For more from the author of “This Criminal Alien Is Accused of Smothering 19 Elderly Victims to Death. He Should Have Been Deported Long Ago” please click HERE)

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NRA Dismisses Calls for More Background Checks After Shootings as ‘Rhetoric for Billionaire Activists and Campaign Rallies’

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In a lengthy Twitter statement put out on Thursday, the National Rifle Association (NRA) responded to recent calls for new background check laws in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings as “rhetoric for billionaire activists and campaign rallies.”

In the statement, which can be found below, the pro-gun organization expresses “our deepest sympathies to the families and victims in El Paso and Dayton,” before addressing recent gun control proposals that have come up in the wake of the shooting.

“Real solutions save lives – televised, choreographed spectacles don’t,” the statement said. “In support of this goal, we appreciate the need for honest and open dialogue on how to stop these horrific murders.”

To the end of finding real solutions, the Second Amendment group said, “We must invest in law enforcement, demonstrating a real commitment to the job they do to protect us, and we must prosecute those who commit crimes with a gun under the federal gun laws to the fullest extent possible.”

However, in response to other gun control proposals, the group also added, “It is not enough anymore to simply say that ‘we need more background checks.’ Considering both suspects in El Paso and Dayton passed them, that is rhetoric for billionaire activists and campaign rallies – not a call for constructive progress.”

In recent days, congressional Democrats have called for the Senate to reconvene from its summer recess in order to take up a House-passed background check measure that was sent to the upper chamber earlier this year. On a recent trip to visit shooting victims and their families, President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of “bring[ing] up background checks like we’ve never had before.”

However, both suspects bought their firearms legally, indicating that the House-passed bill wouldn’t have done anything to prevent either of them from getting guns. As CR senior editor Daniel Horowitz explained earlier this week, “Basic criminology teaches that most murderers first build up a prior rap sheet before committing the ultimate offense. … Unfortunately, most of these mass murderers defy that trend.”

The NRA’s statement also touched on recent “red flag” gun confiscation proposals, which have found support from the president and are currently being worked on in Congress.

“It is the NRA’s long-standing position that those who have been adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others should not have access to firearms and should be admitted for treatment,” the statement says. “But, there needs to be real evidence of danger – and we cannot sacrifice anyone’s constitutional rights without due process.”

Those who have been “adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to a mental institution” are already prohibited from purchase guns legally under federal law. (For more from the author of “NRA Dismisses Calls for More Background Checks After Shootings as ‘Rhetoric for Billionaire Activists and Campaign Rallies’” please click HERE)

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Criminal Illegal Alien Who Avoided Deportation in a CHURCH Has Now Allegedly Killed Father of Five

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An illegal alien with a criminal history was ordered deported from Colorado by an immigration judge last December. In January, he sought refuge in a church and played the sympathy card in the media as if he had an entitlement not to be deported and “separated” from his family. He wasn’t deported. Now, in the ultimate avoidable death, this illegal alien with a long arrest record allegedly killed Sean Buchanan last Friday in a reckless driving crash. Mr. Buchanan is now separated from his wife and five children, permanently, in the grave.

Miguel Ramirez Valiente had the prototypical rap sheet of a criminal alien and a habitual drunk driver, yet he was never deported and was allowed to cycle in and out of the criminal justice system as if he were an American for years. He is a Salvadoran national who has been here illegally for 14 years. Valiente was arrested for reckless endangerment in 2011 and domestic violence in 2016. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to DUI and had his license revoked, according to records obtained by Denver’s Channel 7 news.

According to that local ABC affiliate, “One day before the deadly crash, his probation for that DUI was extended because he had not completed alcohol therapy and community service.” One person who knew him described Valiente as “an alcoholic and an abuser.”

Sean Buchanan was riding his motorcycle between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock on Highway 83 last Friday in preparation for a family move to a new location when he was struck by Valiente’s truck when it veered into oncoming traffic. It’s not clear yet whether Valiente was driving drunk in this incident.

The question is, how could someone be so known to authorities as a habitual public danger and also an illegal alien, yet he was going to alcohol therapy? Why was he not going to alcohol therapy in El Salvador?

Here is where the details get maddening and implicate another corrupt loophole in our system never intended by Congress. Valiente was pulled over for a traffic stop in 2011 and would have been deported, but an immigration judge granted him relief and allowed him to apply for a U-visa as a victim of a crime. Many terrible criminal aliens have abused this loophole, which was originally designed for select few individuals.

The case was reopened against Valiente after he racked up more criminal arrests, and after he failed to appear in immigration court last year, he was ordered deported in December 2018. That’s when Valiente sought refuge in the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Colorado Springs along with other illegal aliens. In January, he held a press conference crying about the potential for him to be separated from his family, and it was widely reported in the national media. “I can’t be separated from them,” he said. “I have always worked hard to support my family, and they depend on me.”

Well, if only he had been “separated” and removed. Sean Buchanan would still be alive. Yet because we have the rule of virtue-signaling and not the rule of law, he wasn’t deported, and we are left with no virtue but only signals. A quick search shows that not a single national media outlet (and very few local ones) picked up on the tragic sequel to Valiente’s non-deportation.

It’s also the fault of DHS for not deporting him, knowing he was a drunk driver, which is a habitual crime and a massive public safety concern. The DHS has now allowed its own discretionary policies from the Obama administration to become law without ever changing course. It has publicly announced in a 2011 memo that personnel will not go into churches for enforcement actions, thus prospectively inviting alien fugitives to hang out there and thwart the law. Now even ones with criminal convictions are going there.

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church should not escape blame and needs to be shamed for its callous disregard for human life. How many others with criminal records are they harboring? Does Rev. Nori Rost still feel he is “honoring the country’s history of providing a safe haven for those fleeing violence”? Can they at least do a background check before thwarting the law of harboring illegal aliens?

This case also demonstrates another growing dangerous trend in immigration policy. Illegal aliens are creating a special virtue-signaling exemption from the rule of law by saying that we are not allowed to have a sovereign nation if it results in their families being separated, even though they were the ones who forced themselves upon us. Not only are we refraining from prosecuting criminals at the border if it will result in a separation – a form of amnesty American criminals are not afforded – but there is this growing pressure in the media not to deport those with final orders because of separation from their kids.

Lawlessness begets lawlessness. One loophole never envisioned in statute begets another. Many illegal immigrants who never had consent to enter this country give birth to children because they are allowed to remain here longer than they should. Those children absolutely, positively are not American citizens, according to the Constitution, yet because our government wrongly views them as such, they use that against us not only to keep the children here but to then keep the parents here as well, including dangerous criminals. Imagine someone breaking into your house and unilaterally creating a rule that their kid gets to stay, and then when you at least try to push out the parent, they accuse you of separating them because they refuse to take their kid with them!

When will the Senate come back into session to fix the endless loopholes in immigration policy? When will our legislators finally ensure the laws are enforced on criminal aliens with multiple criminal offenses, as with the alleged murderer of 19 in Texas?

Friends of Sean Buchanan’s family have set up a GoFundMe account to help out the five children who have no father. Furthermore, as the account message notes, this illegal alien was driving on a revoked license and has no insurance. The family will not even be able to recover damages from the crash.

Why is Congress not doing anything about this? Why are legislators not enforcing various fines on illegal aliens written into law and using them to open an account for victims of illegal immigration? Do American families matter at all in a debate over the future sovereignty of their own country, or is it only the input of the lawbreakers and their lobbyists who matter?

Someone who cares about American victims should introduce a bill named after Sean Buchanan to enforce the fees levied upon those who fail to depart with a final deportation order (8 U.S. Code 1324d) and give those funds to American victims of illegal aliens. To the credit of the Trump administration, it has finally begun enforcing these fines. Now a member of Congress should pass a law setting aside the funds for the victims.

This case brings out the central principle behind the collapse of our sovereignty: the promise and solemn oath of protection from our government to American citizens is constantly yielding to the wants of illegal aliens. The involuntary separation of American victims by death is an acceptable casualty to our political class if it prevents temporary separation of illegal aliens who bring separation on themselves by breaking into our country. (For more from the author of “Criminal Illegal Alien Who Avoided Deportation in a Church Has Now Allegedly Killed Father of Five” please click HERE)

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Colorado Passed Law Allowing Illegals to Get Driver’s Licenses

By John Binder. In 2013, the state of Colorado passed a law that allows eligible illegal aliens to obtain state driver’s licenses.

Valiente’s criminal record dates back to 2011 when he was charged with reckless endangerment in Douglas County, Colorado. Then, in 2016 Valiente was charged with domestic violence in El Paso County, Colorado. In both of these cases, Denver ABC 7 reports, the charges were dropped against Valiente.

Last year, the illegal alien pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges from 2017. A day before the fatal accident, Valiente has his probation extended for failing to comply with alcohol therapy and community service requirements. (Read more about the illegal who avoided deportation HERE)

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CNN Painted Sympathetic Profile of Alleged Killer in January

By Chuck Ross. It is not clear if Ramirez Valiente was inebriated when he struck Buchanan, but a close acquaintance of Ramirez Valient’s says he has a history of alcohol abuse.

“He’s an alcoholic and an abuser,” the person told The Denver Channel.

“This family deserves to know who they’re dealing with,” the person said.

CNN did not cite Ramirez Valiente’s rap sheet when the network published a sympathetic profile of him in January, after he took refuge in a Colorado Springs church to avoid deportation. (Read more about the illegal who avoided deportation HERE)

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El Paso Suspect’s Mother Reportedly Called the Cops About Him. That Doesn’t Mean a ‘Red Flag’ Law Would Have Prevented It

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The following is an excerpt from Blaze Media’s daily Capitol Hill Brief email newsletter:

Attorneys for the El Paso shooting suspect’s family now say that his mother called police in the weeks leading up to the massacre because she was concerned about him owning his gun due to his age, maturity, and experience level.

This news will probably be used by proponents of “red flag” confiscation laws, because this information supposedly shows the suspect as a known threat before the fact. But the reasons why the suspect’s mother reportedly called police don’t get anywhere close to showing a grave or extreme safety risk (which is what these laws are supposed to be for) and wouldn’t merit stripping someone of rights and property via court order. One of the attorneys even told CNN, “It’s not like alarm bells were going off.”

But as the renewed push for new background check laws in Washington has already reminded us, when the emotion-driven calls to “do something” get loud enough, facts take a back seat to politics. (For more from the author of “El Paso Suspect’s Mother Reportedly Called the Cops About Him. That Doesn’t Mean a ‘Red Flag’ Law Would Have Prevented It” please click HERE)

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Conservatives Mobilize Against Republicans Supporting ‘Red Flag’ Gun Confiscation Law

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Pro-gun activists are launching a nationwide pressure campaign to stop a proposed “red flag” bill announced in the U.S. Congress by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Donald Trump has called for a condemnation of white supremacism, stronger background checks, and reform of mental health laws, among other measures. Washington lawmakers are looking to harness the national outrage over the shootings to pass a federal red flag bill.

The activists hope that Trump will eventually reject such a bill, which would likely create financial incentives from the federal government for states to install broadly written programs for gun confiscation. This kind of program, which is already active in 17 states and Washington, allows gun owners’ relatives, police, and possibly members of the community to petition to remove firearms from gun owners who are perceived to be an imminent threat to themselves or others.

‘Scary Precedent’

“People need to be able to defend themselves,” said former South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright as a grassroots movement develops in the state to block Graham and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) from passing the bill.

“I wish they were leading in the direction of liberty, and not infringing on the Second Amendment. Anytime something like this happens, the Left uses this as an opportunity to take away people’s rights. I wish my senators would lead in the right direction. I always considered Tim Scott a friend, but we have to respectfully disagree on this issue.”

Former Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey told The Epoch Times: “You wouldn’t even know you were being targeted until government agents were knocking on your door.

“Earlier this year, Maine people by the thousands told our state politicians to reject red flag gun confiscation. Senator [Susan] Collins and Senator King should think twice about supporting this unconstitutional gun control proposal against the Maine people,” said Brakey, who ran against U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) in 2018.

In Mississippi, state Rep. Dana Criswell is urging his state’s U.S. senators to influence party leadership on the issue.

“If they were standing in front of me right now, I would say please you’ve got to stand against the red flag laws,” Criswell told The Epoch Times, referring to Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.).

“They are undermining our Constitution. When someone can report you at random and the police show up and want to confiscate your guns—even if they say it’s just temporary—that is a dangerous scary precedent. I beg them to fight against it. I hope that they will see the error in this and appeal to the president and say, ‘We’ve got to find another way.’”

“I would beg them to stop this now, by speaking out vocally against it. Speak out very loudly against this. The people of Mississippi do not want this,” Criswell said.

Thune a Target

“Every single red flag gun confiscation law passed at the state level is a rights-shredding, due process-violating abomination,” Dudley Brown, president of the National Association for Gun Rights, told The Epoch Times, predicting a massive activist campaign to stop the red flag effort by focusing primarily on South Dakota’s Sen. John Thune and other Republicans.

“The fact that Sen. Thune wants the federal government to dole out millions of dollars to state coffers in order to bribe them into passing gun confiscation won’t sit well with his constituents in South Dakota,” Brown said. “Thune is finally showing his true colors. He’ll give up your gun rights to appease the D.C. Swamp and left-wing media.”

In South Dakota, activist Shad Olson, state Sen. Stace Nelson, Bennett County commissioner Judd Schomp, and Oglala Sioux Tribe official Bruce Whalen are pressing Thune to urge him to reject the red flag program. More South Dakota lawmakers were expected to join the effort.

“It is with great disappointment and even greater sense of urgency that the undersigned legislative and civic leaders from your home state of South Dakota stringently urge you to reconsider your vocalized support for Red Flag Gun Confiscation laws, in any form, and reconsider your stated intention of pushing such legislation in the United States Senate,” according to a letter, obtained by The Epoch Times, to Thune from the South Dakotans.

“Red Flag Gun Laws are a violation of due process under Constitutional jurisprudence and a clear infringement on the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms of all law abiding American citizens who are now being targeted by political opportunism and the most tyrannical threat to gun rights thus far seen in America’s embattled struggle to preserve our Bill of Rights,” the letter states.

“Beyond these blatantly catastrophic connotations, unintended consequences of such an abandonment of Constitutional liberty include disproportionate impacts on our brave combat veterans who will be deprived of defending themselves after defending our nation courageously and at great cost, as well as potential avenues of personal and vindictive retaliation against law enforcement officers and first responders via reports made by the very violent criminals they protect our communities against,” the letter states.

“We urge you, Senator Thune, and the rest of your U.S. Senate colleagues, in the most serious possible language, to abandon what would be a disastrous course of manipulated destruction of the 2nd Amendment and erasure of due process and the crucial American assumption of innocence until proven guilty,” the letter states.

Alaska and Alabama

Conservatives elsewhere in the country are activating.

“Alaskans won’t tolerate having either of their senators vote for any Constitution-destroying red flag legislation,” former Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, a Republican, told The Epoch Times.

“With one of the highest levels of gun ownership in the United States, and the highest percentage of veterans, Alaskans understand that their rights are on the line. They will not submit to any irrational, knee-jerk gun control efforts that undercut their Second Amendment rights,” Miller said.

In Alabama, conservative U.S. Senate candidate and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is fighting the federal bill.

“Liberals never let a crisis go to waste. Red Flag bills allowing weapons to be seized merely upon the complaint of another without due process of law are unconstitutional under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. What’s next after Red Flag bills? Your car or perhaps the person itself? Red Flag bills should receive a red flag,” Moore said in a statement.

Like ‘Minority Report’

Gun expert John Lott told The Epoch Times that the red flag federal proposal is a dangerous mistake for Republicans.

“Everyone wants to stop mass shooting, but let’s do something that’ll work. Red flag laws will cause more problems than they’ll solve,” Lott said. “I know a woman whose husband was murdered in front of her. She was being stalked, and her husband was killed by her stalker. She was depressed. If she knew that speaking to relatives could result in informing on her, she wouldn’t speak to anyone.”

“Police officers are frequently depressed because of horrors they see on the job. Do we really want to be in a position that LEOs [law enforcement officers] don’t want to talk about what they see on the job because they can lose their jobs and their guns as a result? This is like ‘Minority Report’ without the psychics,” Lott said, referring to the Hollywood movie about a system in which the government enforces “pre-crime.”

“The president focuses on mental illness, but ERPOs [Extreme Risk Protection Orders] don’t focus on mental illness,” Lott said. “The big thing here is to predict who’s going to commit crime. Criminal history. Male. Age,” Lott said. “In the past, you’ve had to have a criminal record for courts to remove your gun rights. Red flag laws stop rights with merely a complaint.”

Kris Kobach, a Kansas U.S. Senate candidate and close informal adviser to Trump, told The Epoch Times that “red flag laws that have been passed at the state level deny due process in multiple ways to the targets of individual gun confiscation complaints.”

Kobach said that under many existing red flag state laws, any person who has lived in a target’s house—including ex-girlfriends or boyfriends—can be considered a family member for purposes of lodging gun confiscation complaints.

“The standard of proof is very low. They have a hearing where they seize the person’s guns right away without even being told,” Kobach said. “The standard for disarming the individual is very low, it’s not a beyond reasonable doubt standard.”

Kobach said that “reckless storage of a firearm” could be used to disarm people who sleep with their guns near their beds. He noted that while it’s not impossible for Congress to pass a red flag bill that avoids due process concerns, the state laws on the books “are not good.”

Kobach said he hasn’t yet spoken to Trump on this issue, but if given the opportunity, would advise the president on the potential danger of a federal red flag bill. (For more from the author of “Conservatives Mobilize Against Republicans Supporting ‘Red Flag’ Gun Confiscation Law” please click HERE)

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EXPLOSIVE CLAIM: Boy Scouts of America Have a ‘Pedophile Epidemic’ and Are Hiding Hundreds in Its Ranks

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The Boy Scouts of America are continuing to cover-up a “pedophilia epidemic within their organization,” a group of lawyers alleged Tuesday in a new lawsuit.

The Abused in Scouting lawyers said they’ve identified 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers who allegedly preyed on boys — and whose names were not known to law enforcement or in the BSA’s internal database, which critics have called “perversion files.”

“You can’t look at these files and not come to the conclusion that this was a massive problem that was hidden,” attorney Tim Kosnoff said at a press conference.

“We know that when a pedophile abuses a victim, it’s not just one,” added attorney Stewart Eisenberg. “So each of the 350 abusers have dozens of other victims who have not come forward.”

The revelation that the lawyers had identified a small army who they claim are previously unknown scout sex abusers was contained in the lawsuit filed Monday in Philadelphia by a Pennsylvania man identified only as “S.D.” who claims he was assaulted “hundreds” of times over a span of four years in the 1970s. (Read more from “Explosive Claim: Boy Scouts of America Have a ‘Pedophile Epidemic’ and Are Hiding Hundreds in Its Ranks” HERE)

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Three Charged After Aunt Allegedly Forced Teen to Drink Turpentine to Abort Baby

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Three people in West Virginia have been charged in the case of a sexually abused teen whose aunt allegedly forced her to drink turpentine in an attempt to abort her unborn baby.

The 15-year-old girl was hospitalized and is now in the care of the state says a state police criminal complaint, reported by the Associated Press.

The complaint states the girl was living with her mother and Daniel Atwell, 24, whom the mother reportedly gave permission to have sex with her minor daughter.

When the girl became pregnant, the mother reportedly gave her daughter a morning-after abortion pill, but the drug did not terminate the pregnancy.

The girl said her aunt, Sherry Kirk, then forced her to drink turpentine to attempt an abortion. (Read more from “Three Charged After Aunt Allegedly Forced Teen to Drink Turpentine to Abort Baby” HERE)

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WATCH: Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for Sport by Liberals

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Kathy Griffin claims she can’t get work following her photoshoot with a decapitated and bloody Trump head, but don’t let that fool you. Hollywood clearly still likes the idea of promoting violence against people who aren’t good and obedient leftists, because Universal Pictures is set to release a thriller called The Hunt on September 27, which features left-wing “elites” hunting Trump supporters for sport.

In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film.

“Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?” one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: “At least The Hunt’s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”

In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.

[Warning: video contains explicit content]

The original title for the film was Red State Vs. Blue State, so the political themes of the movie are clearly important to the plot. THR says that The Hunt “made some executives at Universal skittish back in May 2018, when film chief Donna Langley acquired the script and fast-tracked it at a modest $18 million budget,” but several studios “did not pursue it because of the explosive premise.” One studio executive reportedly didn’t even bother reading the script because “The idea seemed crazy.” The movie was produced by Jason Blum, who also produced other well-known horror flicks like The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and Get Out. (Read more from “Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for Sport by Liberals” HERE)

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Threat? Rep Warns Potential Trump Donors They’d Better ‘Think Twice’ Before Supporting the President

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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) doubled down Wednesday on his decision to doxx 44 San Antonio area Trump donors on Twitter, saying it was simply a “lament” that will hopefully lead Trump supporters (and others around the country) to “think twice” about donating to the president’s reelection campaign. . .

In his tweet Monday night, Castro wrote: “Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of @BillMillerBarBQ, owner of the Historic Pearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc. Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”

Although Castro claimed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that his tweet was merely a “lament” to address his disappointment that these San Antonians were funding a campaign of hate, most on the right believe its real purpose was to disseminate an enemies list for leftists inside and outside of government to harass and bully the president’s donors.

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At this point, Castro, while using eliminationist rhetoric meant to demonize President Trump and his supporters, gave the game away.

“And I hope that these donors in San Antonio and donors throughout the country, unless you support the white nationalism and racism Donald Trump is paying for and fueling, then I hope you as a person of good conscience will think twice about contributing to his campaign,” he explained. (Read more from “Threat? Rep Warns Potential Trump Donors They’d Better ‘Think Twice’ Before Supporting the President” HERE)

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