Went to see the border in Cochise County, Arizona. Thank you to Sheriff Dannels and SGT Williams. Quick thread
Look at all the steel just sitting there on the right. On Jan 20, Biden ordered border wall construction stopped.

A little border patrol dark humor — these corridors are known as “kill zones” because when they stretch for miles, it exposes their vehicles to potential ambush
This is federal land, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronado_… in the Huachuca mountains. The federal park rangers, under Biden admin instruction, don’t enforce immigration law. Cartels have more or less free reign to move people and drugs through.
Border Patrol is spread too thin. They try but with limited resources and zero political support, it’s hard. Often they’re literally not allowed to do their jobs.

Sheriff’s deputies can detain illegals carrying drugs or weapons, but basically have to let everyone else go.
In the Tucson Sector alone, there have been 183,000 arrests of illegal aliens in 2021. (85% of them single adults, from more than 100 different countries, and most were released back into the U.S.) Plus 115,000 confirmed getaways. And obviously many more got through undetected.

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2 Oct
My poor staffer, I made him follow me up the mountain to where the wall ends. Don’t join my campaign if you don’t want to be fit!
Made it. It’s always just so stark and crazy to see where the wall ends.
This hilltop, about 100m into Mexico, is a cartel observation post. A scout peaked his head out to scope us out, but ducked away before I could get a photo.

From here, he can observe about 50 miles of border. He tells his drug and human smuggler buddies when to cross.
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23 Sep
The Arizona audit report comes out tomorrow. I’m very interested to read it.

But whatever the audit finds, we have to remember: even before Maricopa County started counting ballots, the cards were stacked against us.
First: COVID gave the left an excuse to change voting procedures. State election laws were ignored or altered, they flooded the zone with mail-in ballots (my colleague received 4 ballots, in multiple states), lowered sig verification standards, key deadlines, etc.
In August & Sept, you started to see news headlines warning us — you might say priming us — oh don’t expect results on election night! This election will take *weeks* to adjudicate. (Nevermind that in a first-world country, we ought to know results within 24 hours) ImageImage
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14 Sep
Well what a surprise. All it takes to see how a mail-in voter voted in the CA recall is to shine a weak cellphone flashlight through the back of the envelope.
Suppose you wanted to use this tiny flaw in an otherwise *perfect* election system to throw out the ballots of people who voted the wrong way. What would you do?
You would probably push hard to encourage voting by mail. You’d push to extend the voting period for weeks in advance of the election. And you’d push to allow ballots to come in for days afterwards (it’s 7 days in California!)
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21 Aug
A federal judge in Nevada just struck down the law that makes it a crime for deported illegal aliens to illegally reenter the country.

This is an obvious law that any self-respecting country should have, but the judge found it… you guessed it… racist!

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This is a case study in the intellectual sickness of America's ruling elite.

It goes without saying that the ruling is horrible. (It even calls itself "unprecedented"!) Read it: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2104…
The legal theory here is so bonkers even far-left Judge William Simon rejected it (Simon previously enjoined President Trump's immigration policies and gave the ACLU special riot passes in Portland). Worth a read, if you can look past the virtue-signaling. webshare.law.ucla.edu/CILP/Machic_de…
Read 13 tweets
2 Jul
Republicans are always celebrating small, often narrow legal wins as "MASSIVE VICTORIES."

Too much defense, not enough offense. This mentality ensures that, over time, the left wins.
Take yesterday's SCOTUS decision upholding AZ's ban on ballot harvesting. 100% the right result. It's good the AZ law was defended.

But it's purely defensive. If we lose a few state leg seats and get a Dem governor, boom: ballot harvesting is legal again in AZ.
This happens a lot with religious liberty cases.

Take the Bladensburg cross case, in 2019. Does a 40-foot WWI memorial cross on state land violate the 1st Amendment? No, SCOTUS said, 7-2, because... the cross is old and has a secular meaning. What? With victories like these...
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2 Dec 20
AZ isn’t Philly, but we do use Dominion voting machines, the Sec of State has the BLM hashtag in her bio, & she calls Trump supporters neo-nazis. Seems bad!

It's good to be skeptical (“scientific”!) about our procedures, *especially* if your instinct is to say they are perfect.
Easy improvement: get rid of proprietary election software.

Vote-counting is not a technical problem. We've known how to do it for centuries.

Counting should be open, transparent, prompt, and public — all obvious points, yet almost no jurisdiction delivers on them.
"But there’s no evidence that the system is insecure!”

OK. Half the country isn't buying that. First, there's lots of evidence (also noise), just no clear proof of outcome-changing fraud.

But of course: ballots are secret, once they're in the system... it's blind faith.
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