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🚨The new Senate border bill is out () and we are evaluating it, but here are TEN things you should know to start with (there are more).

In sum, it appears to be WORSE THAN the current law.

Read this 🧵and decide for yourself.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
1. It does not end catch and release. Instead, it facilitates catch and release for certain populations. This should be a MAJOR red flag for all. Image
2. It exempts UAC from the new "break glass" removal authority. Which means it is worthless, as UAC remain a gaping loophole, and we have seen the largest child smuggling operation in history during the Biden Administration. For context, more than 476,000 UAC have come during the Biden Admin. None of them ever go home.Image
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3. It does nothing to end perpetual settlement agreements like Flores, which have undermined border security for decades. Image
4. The bill effectively codifies the Administration's absurd "asylum officer rule" that dozens of state Attorneys General are currently challenging in court. They might as well call this the "Asylum Officer Empowerment Act," meaning more and more aliens will get asylum based on lax adjudications. And asylum = path to a green card and citizenship.
5. The new "break glass" emergency authority is a disaster. The Secretary "may" use it if there are 4,000 or more aliens encountered each day (28k per week, 121k a month, 1.46 mil a year). But he "must" use it when there are more than 5,000 a day over a week or 8,500 in a single day. Those are insane numbers and totally unacceptable to the American people.Image
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6. And Non-Mexican UAC are NOT counted in the total that triggers the emergency authority. Image
7. But if that wasn't bad enough, there is a provision that allows the Biden team to essentially opt anyone out from the new supposedly expedited proceedings. Image
8. And if that weren't bad enough, it allows Biden to SUSPEND the new authority if he wants to, rendering it meaningless: Image
9. Oh, and the authority is limited in time duration, going down each subsequent year, making it even more worthless: Image
10. The bill wastes a ton of taxpayer money.

Billions here and billions there for more "processing." Including $1.4 BILLION for more FEMA grants that provide shelter and other services to illegal aliens.

There are even nuggets like $36 million to provide attorneys for "incompetent" adult aliens.Image
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/1🚨UVA’s Board of Visitors voted to dismantle its DEI infrastructure.

Instead, UVA just rebranded.

When it failed to comply, DOJ demanded proof.

So AFL investigated — and found the truth:

Same people.
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Same agenda.
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We’ve got the receipts.🧵 Image
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/2 Christian West was UVA Darden’s “Senior Director of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Recruiting.”

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Leverages the same DEI “partnerships.”
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Now she’s “Associate Director, Global Recruitment.”

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May 24
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just sent a letter to DOJ exposing how the University of Virginia is disguising its discriminatory DEI infrastructure under a new lexicon of euphemisms to evade federal law.

The law is clear — and UVA is on notice.

DOJ is watching — and so are we.

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UVA didn’t comply.

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The names changed — but the substance didn’t.

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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just moved to intervene in a major lawsuit to overturn an unlawful, decades-old, and race-based consent decree — and restore merit-based hiring in the federal government. Image
/2 For 44 years, a race-based consent decree has prohibited the federal government from using a standardized, merit-based exam to hire civil servants.

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Since then, OPM has failed to identify any test that satisfies the decree’s race-based requirements.
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These activist judges are abusing the judicial power and usurping the will of the people to sabotage the President’s America First mandate.

Here’s how 🧵 Image
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Now, it’s happening again. 

This isn’t a normal judicial process — it’s a full-scale judicial power grab to thwart the results of a valid election. Image
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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just filed a judicial complaint against Judge John McConnell, the federal judge blocking President Trump’s spending freeze.

He led a nonprofit set to gain millions from his ruling — a blatant conflict of interest and ethics violation.

He must be investigated. Image
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Now, AFL’s investigation has uncovered even more deeply concerning details…
/3 Judge McConnell is presiding over New York v. Trump, a lawsuit brought by 21 states and D.C. challenging President Trump’s temporary freeze on federal funding.

In February, he ordered taxpayer money to continue flowing to the states, including to Crossroads Rhode Island, where he served as a board member and board chairman over a span of nearly 20 years.Image
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has joined AFL’s lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom to end California’s illegal sanctuary policies. Image
/2 AFL and the City of Huntington Beach filed the lawsuit against Governor Newsom and the State of California earlier this year.
/3 AFL is pleased that Sheriff Bianco has joined this effort challenging California’s illegal sanctuary policies.
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