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Sound Off: Jan. 28, 2025

It’s that easy

President Trump sends illegals back to Columbia, whose president says no. Trump tells President Petro what it is going to cost him, and Petro sends his personal plane to pick up illegals. That’s foreign policy, Democrats.

State of being

Illegal alien is the appropriate term for any person who has illegally entered the U.S. It is the term used in official immigration statutes. The minute one unlawfully enters the country, they have committed a federal violation punishable by immediate deportation that prevents their potential lawful re-entry for five years. It isn’t a verbal pejorative but a specific designation of status. Illegal and not a U.S. citizen. Alien as from another country. The nomenclature “undocumented worker or migrant” is intentionally used by liberals and others who want to obfuscate the law.

Firing IGs

Inspector Generals (IG) are an independent group of experts that protect taxpayers against fraud, waste and abuse in federal government spending. Late Friday night, President Trump illegally fired eleven key department IGs without cause and violated the law by not notifying Congress 30 days in advance with rationale for firing. Clearly, this is his way of replacing watchdogs with lapdogs, the acts of a dictator.

No mandate

President Trump received 78.6 million votes and Harris 76.3 million. According to the 2020 census, there are approximately 331 million adults in the United States. So, Trump’s serving only those who voted for him and the other 252 million be damned?

Red wave

America’s in a political wind of change. People have spoken to the Democratic party with a loud voice. They will remain the out-of-touch party.

DEI recipients

DEI is targeted as a black hiring practice, but it benefits Veterans with disabilities, women, poor people in red states who can’t afford an education. If you don’t want DEI, what you are advocating is hiring white heterosexual males without any disabilities.

All hail

Gee, maybe President Trump is the King. Did you see all those Democrat billionaires lined up to kiss his ring?

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