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Cost of illegal immigrants per state in 2023:

Alabama: 596 million
Alaska: 130 million
Arizona: 3.19 billion
Arkansas: 356 million
California: 30.9 billion
Colorado: 1.94 billion
Connecticut: 1.28 billion
Delaware: 244 million
Florida: 8.04 billion
Georgia: 3.14 billion
Hawaii: 771 million
Idaho: 405 million
Illinois: 5.27 billion
Indiana: 886 million
Iowa: 405 million
Kansas: 603 million
Kentucky: 367 million
Louisiana: 604 million
Maine: 90.3 million
Maryland: 2.14 billion
Massachusetts: 2.16 billion
Michigan: 1.28 billion
Minnesota: 657 million
Mississippi: 100 million
Missouri: 657 million
Montana: 45 million
Nebraska: 136 million
Nevada: 1.47 billion
New Hampshire: 108 million
New Jersey: 5.27 billion
New Mexico: 174 million
New York: 9.95 billion
North Carolina: 3.14 billion
North Dakota: 43.25 million
Ohio: 332.4 million
Oklahoma: 273 million
Oregon: 1.47 billion
Pennsylvania: 1.64 billion
Rhode Island: 313 million
South Carolina: 746 million
South Dakota: 57 million
Tennessee: 341 million
Texas: 5.35 billion
Utah: 931 million
Vermont: 75 million
Virginia: 2.84 billion
Washington: 2.62 billion
West Virginia: 12.9 million
Wisconsin: 246 million
Wyoming: 18.1 million

This is not sustainable.

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Biden’s government opposed Netanyahu out loud, used the exact intermediaries and the exact playbook a bipartisan Senate panel already caught in 2015, and funneled taxpayer money to the protest infrastructure and to a charitable network that bleeds into terror and then, looked away when its own inspectors warned it.
This isn’t the first time. It happened under Obama.

In 2015 it already happened, and a bipartisan Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Portman-R, McCaskill-D) proved it.

The State Department gave the NGO OneVoice $349,000 “to support peace negotiations.” Soon after the grant period, OneVoice used the campaign infrastructure built partly with State Department funds a voter database, a social-media platform that doubled during the grant, and a network of activists recruited and trained under the grant to power V15, a campaign whose goal was to elect “anybody but Bibi.” 

Most damning: OneVoice told the State Department about its anti-Netanyahu plans during the grant period, and the State Department did nothing.

US consulting firm 270 Strategies founded by Jeremy Bird, Barack Obama’s 2012 national field director.

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The same agencies (USAID, State) funneled money to the same kind of intermediaries.

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Federal records show RPA received its money shortly before the protests began.

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They explicitly framed it as a counter-operation to the Monroe Doctrine and to Trump personally, coining the term “Donroe Doctrine.”

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Bylined Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Sourced entirely from anonymous officials.

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Zero named sources.

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“For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” - Romans 11:29

The complete biblical case against replacement theology.

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Scripture repeatedly declares that God does not change His mind, break His promises, or abandon His covenant commitments.

“God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?” (Numbers 23:19)

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The covenant God made with Abraham was unconditional because it depended totally on God’s faithfulness, not on Abraham’s or his descendants’ obedience. This is shown through both the content and the ratification of the covenant.

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• Everlasting covenant: “I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.” (Genesis 17:7)

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This covenant line continues through Jacob/Israel as an everlasting nation.

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And they are trying to do it before midterms hoping they can swing the election to the democrats.
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