Getting It Done the Right Way — 14k Legal Immigrants Will Become Americans on Independence Day

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About 14,000 legal immigrants … officially [became] American citizens on Independence Day, participating in naturalization ceremonies at 27 different locations nationally.

“When oath ceremonies are tied to the Fourth of July, it’s a message that immigrants believe in this country,” Joshua Hoyt, executive director of National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), told ABC News. “It’s a beautiful and emotional thing.”

Hoyt added that NPNA supports naturalization as being “good for the immigrants, their communities, and our nation,” while contributing to “higher incomes” and “social cohesion,” according to ABC News.

The Fourth of July falls less than a month after multiple immigration-based incidents have occurred among policy changes. President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration has caused protests, online campaigns and even personal attacks on administration officials, even though Trump signed a June 20 executive order to keep families of illegal border-crossers together as they await prosecution.

Legal immigrants, however, after going through all the lawful motions to achieve citizenship, are able to participate in the patriotic ceremonies where new Americans are officially sworn in together. (Read more from “Getting It Done the Right Way — 14k Legal Immigrants Will Become Americans on Independence Day” HERE)

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School District Refuses to Permit Parents to See LGBT Videos Students Were Forced to Watch

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In a Pennsylvania school district, after roughly 2,800 students were forced to watch LGBT videos during LGBT “Unity Week” in April, parents and conservative activists asked the district to provide links to the videos so they could see what their children had watched. . .

As The Christian Post noted of Principal Kate Kieres of Emmaus High School, where the videos were shown, “Despite parents’ requests to see the videos, Kieres stated that the school board solicitor has advised that ‘these videos cannot be sent to you, because they are part of a student project.’”

In June, parents of students and the president of the state’s chapter of the American Family Association objected at a school board meeting. The religious freedom law firm Liberty Counsel sent a letter on June 22 to the superintendent of the East Penn School District asking for the links to the four videos the students saw at Emmaus High School. As The Christian Post noted, “The videos were part of activities organized for ‘Unity Week’ and the nationwide ‘Day of Silence’ sponsored by the national LGBT lobbying group GLSEN. The four videos that were shown to students were sponsored by the school’s Gay Straight Alliance club.”

In the June 22 letter, attorney Richard Mast threatened a lawsuit under the state’s “Right to Know” law if the school didn’t cough up the links to the videos and all emails sent to the principal or the school’s GSA adviser revolving around the issue. (Read more from “School District Refuses to Permit Parents to See LGBT Videos Students Were Forced to Watch” HERE)

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How Do Americans Truly Feel About Abolishing ICE?

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More bad polling news keeps streaming in for a Democratic Party increasingly embracing more radical left positions. Amid polls showing that the Democrats’ plan to block Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee doesn’t sit well with a majority of Americans, another poll on a hot button election year topic didn’t go the way the “future of the party” would’ve hoped.

The #AbolishICE movement, promoted by several high-profile Democrats, including rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is not something many Americans feel they can get behind. Though HuffPost hasn’t given up on the possibility that the movement might catch on, the outlet found in its new poll that “abolishing ICE isn’t very popular (yet).”

The radical hashtag movement, HuffPost explains, grew into “a key policy plank in the biggest political upset this election cycle” with the upset victory of Ocasio-Cortez, who says that we have a moral obligation to shut down the immigration enforcement agency. “Morally, we need to abolish ICE,” said the self-styled Democratic Socialist. “We are now at a moral crisis with the development of what’s going on at the border. Pushing for an immediate stop to that if we haven’t done it by November is absolutely a No. 1 priority.”

After witnessing her rather stunning victory over the incumbent many assumed would be “Nancy Pelosi’s successor,” many progressives have concluded that her radical call to end immigration enforcement as we know it might be the key to that longed-for “blue wave” in November. But how do Americans feel about the hashtag campaign-turned-progressives’ “No. 1 priority”? Not so great. HuffPost reports:

Opinions on ICE as an agency are mixed: Just 37 percent of those surveyed said they have a favorable opinion of the agency, and 39 percent said they have a negative opinion. But the public appears far from eager to get rid of the agency. Just 21 percent of respondents said they support abolishing ICE, while 44 percent said they oppose it, with 35 percent undecided. Nearly 3 in 10 Americans polled said they strongly oppose the idea.

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Abolish ICE Group Distances Self From Woman Who Scaled Statue of Liberty

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Authorities had to close and evacuate Liberty Island on Wednesday after a female protester scaled the Statue of Liberty. The woman, who was acting out against the White House policy of separating illegal immigrant families at the border, was eventually captured after a tense standoff with police. The ordeal lasted roughly four hours.

Before the protester’s climb, activists from a group called “Rise and Resist” hung a banner with a message about abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the statue. Six people were arrested after the stunt. . .

The Climber on the Statue of Liberty has no connection to our #abolishice action earlier today. @NYDailyNews @ABC

— Rise and Resist (@riseandresistny) July 4, 2018

Immigration activists continue to demand the Trump administration end its zero tolerance policy of separating illegal immigrant families at the border. The president signed an executive order to keep families together, but it does not reunite those families who had already been separated. (Read more from “Abolish ICE Group Distances Self From Woman Who Scaled Statue of Liberty” HERE)

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Here’s How One Restaurant Manager (And Its Corporation) Treated a Man in a MAGA Hat

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Last month, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at a Virginia restaurant because of her political ideology. This week, a Trump supporter in Canada received the same treatment.

The manager of a popular tourist restaurant in Vancouver reportedly told a customer wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat that he could either remove his red cap or leave. The man chose the latter. . .

When Darin Hodge, the floor manager on duty that night, saw the customer sitting on the restaurant’s patio with his MAGA hat on, he allegedly “took over the table” and demanded the customer remove the supposedly offensive cap.

The man answered back that he “had a right to wear it,” to which Hodge said, “If you don’t take the hat off, we won’t serve you.” The man got up an left—and he’s not only one who won’t be returning to the restaurant. . .

“[Hodge] was aware what he was doing was probably contrary to our values and our philosophy as a company in terms of hospitality and inclusiveness,” added Crimp. “We don’t discriminate against people based on political beliefs.” (Read more from “Here’s How One Restaurant Manager (And Its Corporation) Treated a Man in a MAGA Hat” HERE)

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Anti-American Facebook Censoring Patriotism on Independence Day

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Facebook Censoring Hits Overdrive

In its apparent zeal to ensure that no one like Trump is ever elected again, Facebook’s jihad against all things conservative has now gone into over-drive. Multiple musical artists are reporting that the social media giant has banned their patriotic music videos for unknown reasons, in advance of Independence Day.

Take, for example, Lloyd Marcus, a longtime friend of Joe Miller and contributor to Restoring Liberty. He posted this on Facebook just hours ago:

Facebook rejected [my] Pro-America Christian July 4 music video for “political content.”
PLEASE Share to your friends and groups.
“My fellow Americans my heart goes out for our country. We have fallen away from biblical principles and values which have made America the shining city on a hill. During your July4th Independence Day celebration, between eating burgers and hot-dogs, please gather your family to enjoy this new 4 minute music video reminding us of who we are as Americans. Happy Independence Day! Thanks and God Bless.”
Lloyd Marcus The Unhyphenated American
WE ARE AMERICANS 2018

And here’s his politically “offensive” video that was banned:

Pretty pathetic that Mark Zuckerberg would stoop to such a level. But this is nothing new, given his vicious assault on Facebook pages like Joe Miller’s where, with almost 47,000 followers, Facebook is trafficking Restoring Liberty’s posts to one or two hundred people, on average. Incredibly, traffic from Facebook to Restoring Liberty has fallen over 95% since Trump was elected president. And as you can see by the following story, Restoring Liberty and Lloyd Marcus aren’t the only conservative outlets targeted by Facebook.

If you’re disgusted by this type of Facebook censorship, Restoring Liberty recommends that you try Gab. Go to Gab.ai/joe-miller, start your free account, follow Joe Miller, and join a true free-speech environment. Yes, you’ll have to “mute” plenty of malcontents, but you won’t have to worry about the type of political blackballing experienced at Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Happy Independence Day!

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Facebook Censoring Country Music Group’s Patriotic Song

By James Rogers. Facebook was slammed by the Wes Cook band Tuesday after it prevented the country group from using the social network’s paid tools to promote its song “I Stand for the Flag.”

The Nashville-based group released a video for “I Stand for the Flag” on Facebook Monday morning. They planned to promote the video using the paid promotion tools that the social network provides. The request was initially approved and then rejected by Facebook, which cited the video’s “political content,” according to the band. . .

The song features lyrics such as: “Don’t care if you’re black or white or who you love, I stand for the Flag and the Flag stands for all of us.”

Frontman Wes Cook argues that the song promotes a message of patriotism, not political division, as evidenced by the line “you ain’t gotta pick a side, you can love your fellow man and still have pride.”

“Our song bleeds unity and love of country. It doesn’t see race, color, religion, or political affiliation,” he said . . . (Read more from “Facebook Censoring Country Music Group” HERE)

Editor’s Note: Facebook recently reversed it’s decision on the Wes Cook’s band song. But, as of the date of this article, no such reversal has occurred for Lloyd Marcus.

Actress Tweets About an ICE Checkpoint and Accidentally Reveals Why Hollywood REALLY Cares About Illegal Immigration

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By Daily Wire. Hollywood actress (and Johnny Depp ex-wife) Amber Heard accidentally revealed exactly what Hollywood anti-immigration activists think of the people they’re “saving” when she tweeted Tuesday morning about an “ICE checkpoint” near her home in Los Angeles.

“Just heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in Hollywood, a few blocks from where I live” Heard tweeted. Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight.”

That’s . . . revelatory. And not just because it’s actually racist to assume all “illegal immigrants” are serving as domestics and in other unskilled jobs. It begs the question as to whom Hollywood immigration activists really believe they’re protecting by showing up fashionably late to immigration protests along the California border, but early enough to get their photo taken for Instagram.

Amber Heard, at least, seems to believe that an illegal immigrant underclass exists largely to serve her A-list and B-list kind as potentially underpaid, overworked, illegally hired servants, who have no recourse to the Occupation Safety and Health Administration, or state or federal authorities, if they’re mistreated or abused, lest they have to admit their lack of legal status and be deported. (Read more from “Amber Heard Tweets About an ICE Checkpoint and Accidentally Reveals Why Hollywood Really Cares About Illegal Immigration” HERE)

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Philadelphia ICE Protests Turn Violent as Police Clear out Demonstrators

By Fox News. Police got into violent scuffles with protesters in Philadelphia on Tuesday, reportedly hauling away at least a dozen people who had been blocking the front door of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.

Philadelphia Police started directing the protesters away from the Center City office around noon Tuesday, but some of the removals turned violent. Video footage broadcast on local news stations showed some of the protesters scuffling with police. The exact number of arrests was not immediately clear.

“You said if we took the tents down you would arrest nobody. But you still arrested people what the f— is wrong with you?” one of the protesters tells police in a video clip.

“You have no shame. You have no words. That’s why you are a f—— cop. That’s why you never finished high school,” the protester continued.

The demonstration came amid a national debate over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policies, and followed similar protests across the U.S. (Read more from “Philadelphia ICE Protests Turn Violent as Police Clear out Demonstrators” HERE)

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A U.S. Church Created This Controversial Display as a Protest Against Trump

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An Indiana church is using church imagery in order to protest against President Donald Trump and his immigration policies.

Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis, Indiana, posted a picture of the display meant to protest the separation and detention of migrant families by the department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump.

“So we have the holy family in a chain link enclosure, much like the detention facilities that are being prepared and currently exists for families being detained indefinitely,” explained Reverend Stephen Carlsen of Christ Church Cathedral.

“And we’re hoping to draw attention to the fact that indefinite family detention is wrong and that this holy family, that were refugees seeking asylum in Egypt,” he said, “are representative of every family in detention.” . . .

Sexton Fred Andrews said that they hope the display will influence people at the ballot box when they vote.

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FAKE NEWS ALERT: Presidential Candidate From Mexico Did Not Advocate for a Migrant ‘Invasion’ to U.S.

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Can you say, “Fake News”? An article has been making its way around social media claiming that the new Mexican presidential candidate has called for a mass migration to the United States. A “news site” by the name of wesupportDonaldTrump.com published the article and caused an uproar on Facebook. . .

The presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was not calling for a flood of illegal immigrants to cross the border to the U.S. His actual quote is translated as, “Soon, very soon, after the victory of our movement, we will defend all migrants all over the American continent. And the migrants of the world, who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States.” Lopez Obrador was simply mentioning that he would support those that found it necessary to cross the border in order to survive. His quote was taken wildly out of context. . .

On today’s episode of “The News and Why It Matters,” Pat Gray brought up this Facebook hoax. “He’s just saying that because of the way they live, that they need to cross the border for their families,” Pat said.

The other hosts — Stu Burguiere, Jason Buttrill, and Sara Gonzales — were confused with López Obrador’s logic. The candidate blatantly called migration to the United States “a human right we will defend.” Stu was especially annoyed with this reasoning. (Read more from “Fake News Alert: Presidential Candidate From Mexico Did Not Advocate for a Migrant ‘Invasion’ to U.S.” HERE)

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY: Trump Celebrates 6 Months of ‘New Jobs, Bigger Paychecks, and Keeping More of Your Hard-Earned Money’

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President Donald Trump called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act an “economic miracle” as he marked the reform package’s six-month anniversary during a White House event…

“At last, our country finally has a tax system that is pro-job, pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-American,” Trump said.

The $1.5 trillion tax reform law cut the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35 percent, the highest in the world, to 21 percent, in line with other developed nations. It also lowered the top individual rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, eliminated brackets, and closed loopholes.

“It’s my great honor to welcome you back to the White House to celebrate six months of new jobs, bigger paychecks, and keeping more of your hard-earned money where it belongs: in your pocket or wherever else you want to spend it,” Trump said.

uring his remarks, Trump recognized Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James and others in the audience for helping push what so far has been his signature legislative achievement through Congress in late 2017.

Trump pointed out not a single Democrat voted for the reform. He also said deregulation might have had as much to do with growing the economy $7 trillion.

“The typical family of four earning $75,000 will see an income tax cut of more than $2,000, and in some cases much more, slashing their tax bill in half,” Trump said. “We cut taxes for businesses of all sizes to make this the best place on earth to start a business, to invest. We have billions and billions of additional revenue coming in.”

Trump asserted more than 100 utility companies cut prices as a result of the tax cut, “saving Americans $3 billion on their utility bills.”

Trump again noted unemployment claims are at a more than four-decade low, and again cited historic low unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics, a frequent theme in his speeches.

He added women are about to join that historic category.

“Unemployment for women, if you listened to my speech two weeks ago, you would have heard me say it’s the lowest in 21 years,” Trump said. “Now I’m saying it’s the lowest in 65 years and soon will be the lowest in history.”

The economy appears to be doing very well, said Adam Michel, tax policy analyst with The Heritage Foundation, noting some of the same employment numbers as the president.

“Even more impressive is that in the first quarter of 2018, investment—the bedrock of economic growth—increased by more than 21 percent among companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, compared with the same quarter in 2017,” Michel told The Daily Signal. “The good economic news only accounts for some small part of tax reform’s benefits, there is much more to come as businesses and individuals start to realize how the new law allows them to expand, hire, and invest even more.”

Trump also framed these changes as part of his larger reform agenda.

“Commonsense is being restored in Washington once again because hardworking Americans are in charge of their government once again. Washington tried to change us,” Trump said. “That’s not going to happen. Instead, we’re changing Washington and we are changing it quickly and for the better.” (For more from the author of “Trump Celebrates 6 Months of ‘New Jobs, Bigger Paychecks, and Keeping More of Your Hard-Earned Money’” please click HERE)

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