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Facing an ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Biden administration is on the verge of making a very bad situation worse.

Travel restrictions that have been in place since the onset of the pandemic are set to expire next week. If they do, it means U.S. borders will open up to nonessential travel, reviving cross-border traffic at U.S. ports of entry along the southwest border.

In normal times, that would be a good thing. The economies of border communities that depend on cross-border travel and commerce, especially those in Texas, have suffered greatly as a result of these travel restrictions.But these are not normal times, and opening the border now, amid near-record levels of illegal immigration, could be a recipe for disaster.

Simply put, the federal agencies charged with policing the border are overwhelmed, and have been for months. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which manages the ports of entry and is charged with processing and transporting anyone caught crossing the border illegally, has had to divert its attention from the ports of entry to help deal with soaring numbers of families and unaccompanied children apprehended by Border Patrol and placed in CBP custody.

Indeed, the Biden administration was so overwhelmed with the volume of minors in federal custody in March, it called for volunteers from across the federal government to help process kids at the border and assist overwhelmed CBP officers in overcrowded border facilities. Even now, thousands of migrant children languish in unlicensed and often dangerous emergency shelters that the Biden administration authorized after revoking a host of Trump-era border restrictions.

One of the only Trump-era restrictions Biden retained is the authority to expel migrants under whats called Title 42, a public health order Trump invoked in the earlier days of the pandemic to prevent the spread of coronavirus in federal border facilities and among federal border officials. Under Trump, the vast majority of all illegal border-crossers, including families, were expelled back to Mexico, where those seeking asylum in the United States were required to wait for the adjudication of their cases under the Remain in Mexico policy.

Biden ended that policy but kept part of the Title 42 authority in place, which has allowed for the rapid expulsion of most single adults apprehended at the border since Biden took office in January.If Title 42 is scrapped as part of the lifting of travel restrictions, it will likely trigger a new and even larger surge in illegal immigration. One CBP official told CNN earlier this month, We dont have the manpower, and that is the reality.

How bad is the border crisis right now? One indication that its getting worse is that the corporate press has largely stopped covering it. Another is that two weeks into July, CBP still has not released the border numbers for June. Theres no good reason for this, unless border authorities are so overwhelmed they havent been able to process the people theyve apprehended or run basic background checks on them.

More likely, the Biden administration doesnt want the numbers to come out for political reasons. In May, federal authorities made more than 180,000 apprehensions at the southwest border, a record for that month. All told this fiscal year, excluding June, border apprehensions have nearly exceeded 930,000 a 20-year high.

Indeed, politics has largely driven Bidens response to a crisis of his own making. This week, Cuban-born Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seized on widespread protests against the communist regime in Cuba to threaten Cubans with deportation if they try to flee to the United States by sea.

Allow me to be clear. If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday. The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking.

This is a cowardly and politically motivated line from Mayorkas, whose own family came to the United States decades ago fleeing the very same communist regime. The only reason to make such a statement now, it seems, is to appear conciliatory toward the communists who control Cuba.

Whats more, of all the tens of thousands of people illegally crossing the border each month and claiming asylum in the United StatesCubans fleeing the communist dictatorship have among the best claims for asylum. And large numbers of Cubans have been doing just that for months now. As of May, more than 23,000 Cubans have been apprehended by CBP so far this fiscal year, with more than 2,700 apprehended in May alone (compared to just 539 in May of 2020).

But the way Bidens border policies might be shaking out, Cubans apprehended at sea would be turned away, while Cubans who walk across the border from Mexico would be allowed to stay and pursue their asylum claims in the United States.

All of it speaks to the Biden administrations haphazard, disorganized, and blatantly political approach to managing an increasingly chaotic border, which is about to get worse.

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As the summer rolls on, Jeopardy! ends its final five weeks of original episodes in season 37 with five new guest hosts. Last week, ABC News anchor and Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos took over from CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.

As guest host, Stephanopoulos designated Share Our Strengths campaign to end childhood hunger as the recipient of a donation the show gives in the amount of the contestants winnings.

Unlike the past guests, who hosted Jeopardy! for a fortnight (or six weeks, in the case of Ken Jennings), Stephanopoulos hosted only one weeks worth of shows. Because the program traditionally tapes the five shows that comprise a calendar week in a single tape day, Stephanopoulos had only one 12-hour period on-camera with which to master the game and potentially audition for the full-time job. (The guest hosts do get a day to rehearse with production staff prior to the cameras rolling.)

That said, the ABC anchor did a workmanlike job behind the lectern. Stephanopoulos kept the contestants appraised of their scores, ruled definitively when a contestant mispronounced the title of a book, and seemed at ease interviewing the players about their hobbies and interests. For some unknown reason, he also used his glasses as a prop, taking them off and waving them in his hand when he knew the camera was on him.

Like most of the other guest hosts, Stephanopoulos included more monologues than Alex Trebek. Between talking about the honor of hosting Jeopardy!, praising the late host Trebek, and plugging their charities, the guests seem not only to spend more time talking, but more time talking about themselves, which Trebek rarely did. Viewers anxious to test their trivia knowledge, or simply watch the contestants compete, might find themselves muttering at their televisions: Get on with it already!

In an interview promoting his appearance, Stephanopoulos disclosed a somewhat surprising fact: The Jeopardy! producers gave him the clues for his tapings ahead of time. At the end of his rehearsal, the writers handed him a spreadsheet with the next days clues to take back to his hotel and review.

By contrast, Trebek wrote years ago that he would normally receive an entire days worth of clues only on the morning of taping. And because Jeopardy! tapes five shows per day, that meant he would receive 306 clues when arriving at the studio.

Giving guest hosts like Stephanopoulos access to the clues the evening before taping allowed them more time to study and prepare, reducing the need to cram on the morning of taping. But it also presented a new level of security risk, if the guest host lost custody of material to be used in the next days gameplay. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the shows production staff instructed Stephanopoulos to keep the spreadsheets with the next days clues in his hotel safe.

Starting Monday, Robin Roberts will take over behind the Jeopardy! lectern. Interestingly, Stephanopoulos announced at the end of Fridays show that Roberts would replace him on Monday; heretofore, guest hosts have not announced their replacements, perhaps because Jeopardy! initially kept the identity of its guest hosts something bordering on a state secret.

Roberts, the former womens basketball star and ESPN sportscaster, works with Stephanopoulos in their day jobs, having co-hosted Good Morning America since 2005. Now the two may find themselves competing head-to-head for the Jeopardy! hosting gig.

One can only speculate how Stephanopouloswho reportedly would stay in the ABC anchor chair until 6:29 p.m. to prevent colleague David Muir from covering breaking news stories, and whose feuding with Muir prompted Disney Executive Chairman Robert Iger to fly across country during the pandemic to mediate the disputewould react if his colleague Roberts and not he receives the permanent hosting slot.

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Virginias Loudoun County Public Schools has emerged as a national representation of the critical race theory (CRT) clash between parents and administrators. A local school board recall effort is gaining traction. But aside from figures like Ian Prior at Fight for Schools or thinkers at The Heritage Foundation that sponsor events, what do normal Loudouners think?

I ventured out to Loudoun County to walk the streets of Leesburg and Ashburn and see who would talk to me about CRT. Most turned me down, understandably cautious about staking a political claim in media.

The owner of one clothing store instructed me to leave after I uttered the phrase critical race theory, questioning why anyone should care. A Taiwanese coffee store owner expressed a worry that his bipartisan customers would repudiate him. A woman who said she is a former public school teacher whispered to me in a Giant Food Store through a mask that she probably shouldnt talk, while her daughter nudged her to keep walking.

Here are five Loudouners who agreed to talk to me using their names, and heres what they had to say about CRT.

Suzanne Byers is a physical therapist at an outpatient clinic. She has kids in middle school and has lived in Loudoun off and on for the last 20 years.

Byers first became aware of CRT in Loudoun when her daughter came home from school, got in the car, and asked if her mother was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. I was like Wait, what. She was at a lesson in history, Byers told me. I asked her what she learned. She couldnt really tell me, and then I kind of joked, Well, you know Democrats started the KKK, right? She was like No.'

Theres a lot of social justice they focus on in seventh grade, she continued. There was an email that went out from her history teacher that said Were going to be talking about a lot of sensitive subjects.'

Byers says shes attended recent school board meetings and spoken, but I dont feel like Im being heard. Like other parents Ive spoken to, she expressed frustration with the format and would prefer a town hall that is more conducive to free expression.

The last straw for Byers was when her daughter was told by her history teacher that 14 years old is a reasonable age to peacefully protest and be excused from school. Her public school was trying to turn her seventh-grader into a leftist activist without her knowledge.

I think its been in the schools [before], she said. But its been very quiet and suppressed and discreet behind the scenes. And now theyve been wide open with all of it.

Gunar Hawes, 30, says he has lived in Loudoun for his entire life. He builds custom log homes. As we spoke, he smoked a cigarette, with his other hand snug in his jeans pocket.

Hawes is a libertarian. He noted he cannot speak on behalf of all Loudouners on CRT, but said he and his friends all oppose what is going on in the public school system.

I believe it is a very racist agenda, he said about CRT, proposed by a very Marxist kind of view Im a very nice person. I dont have any problems with anybody of any different color. And I dont think its a subject that needs to be taught in schools.

Hawes said he believes in equality of opportunity but not equality of outcome, which critical race theorists often call equity. He told me has been outspoken on social media about what is going on in Loudoun County Public Schools, but has not participated in in-person activism like some of his peers.

When I asked if he wants to see CRT banned, he said no.

[We need] a free-market solution, he said. If it wants to be spoken about, those people should have the right to go into those classes if they would like but I do not believe it should be forced on children. They honestly dont know what in the world it is.

Hawes supports the school board recall effort.

An immigrant from Kenya, Fred Rege says he moved to America when he was four. His parents didnt have much money when they came to the United States. Now, hes a living and breathing testament to the American Dream.

Rege works as an IT engineer and has two daughters in middle school. He first noticed CRT during remote learning and recalled reading a slide on equity.

They are teaching them things about the way America is and the way America treats race that I dont necessarily agree with, Rege said. And so for a little over a year, I just said, Okay, I am going to just count on that theyre teaching this in schools, and then at the dinner table give my kids my version and everything.

But then, as this thing started picking up steam, and I started to see more and more about it in the news, I just started thinking about how there are other children in this county who dont have parents like myself that will counter the message, he also said. So I decided to get involved.

He recently signed a petition to recall Denise Corbo, the at-large member on the school board. He has been trying to get neighbors to sign petitions, with some people cursing him out. Rege has also gone to fundraisers and been attending school board meetings.

While he has joined the fight against CRT, many of his friends simply do not understand it all, he says. Most people dont know what it is, he said. And most people believe and think that the teachers and the education system have our kids best interests at heart.

Rege voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Because he also considers himself more libertarian-leaning, he also said CRT should not be banned.

I actually believe a free-market of ideas is the best choice and the best opportunity, he said. I dont think we would be successful in banning.

Bart Ecker works in health care, and he left it at that. He studied English language and literature at Susquehanna University and graduated in 1992. Hes a resident of Sterling.

Ecker has lived in Loudoun for 12 years and has four kids in the schools system: twins who are 12, and a 13- and- 16-year-old.

He is a former Republican who did not align with Trump in 2016. He told me he has been trying to understand critical race theory and what it really means. When asked about equity, he described why he favors equality.

I lean more toward equality of opportunity, he said. But then I see and talk to some people who are non-white, and they talk about their own personal experiences. Ive heard from colleagues who are non-white talk about kind of their experiences growing up in neighborhoods and what they faced.

Ecker noted that he does not believe America is systemically racist but seeks to understand how his minority colleagues think about race.

I dont think thats a fair assessment. And Ive been fortunate. With my experience and work experience, Ive traveled all over Africa and Europe frequently. I think people need to learn about identity, but at its core, the data you read shows America is falling behind. Companies I work with are struggling to find qualified people for engineering and science positions, he reflected.

Joseph Mineo, 18, showed up at the bar wearing a Trump 45 hat and an Enjoy Capitalism shirt. He ordered a Coke and showed me his white privilege card. His father Scott the founder of Parents Against Critical Race Theory got copies for the family as a Christmas present.

Mineo is headed to Liberty University next year, having just graduated from Stone Bridge High School. He attended Academies of Loudoun, which specializes in pre-professional programs like criminal justice. He recently attended a Zoom class where he learned about marginalization, and how he can improve so-called equity in school.

He has been going to school board meetings with his father lately, too: Its getting more and more crowded, with people showing up and supporting [the cause].

When asked if his friends are anti-CRT, he said it depends. His favorite outlet is The Daily Wire, where he recently put in an internship application.

Well, they either have no idea what it is, or they think its completely crazy, Mineo said. For the most part, they have. Theres not really many who support it. Those that are kind of on the schools side us versus them are just saying Oh, [CRT] is not here at all.

Unlike Hawes and Rege, the student thinks CRT should be banned.

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I am always wary of those who purport to speak for their respective generation, and a recent New York Post op-ed by a self-espoused libertarian student at New York University put on full display exactly what the Republican Party must abandon in the years ahead.

In close to 700 words, writer Rikki Schlott calls for the GOP to compromise on social and environmental issues and stand up to leftist extremism, ignoring that these two are different sides of the same strategic coin. Schlott concedes a talking point that merely assists the left in its campaign to smear Republicans especially those in Gen Z as operating in extremist fringes who need to be like their predecessors and champion old neoconservatism.

As the GOP rebrands in the post-Trump, post-pandemic era, it has a huge opportunity to make inroads with this new, open-minded contingent, she writes. But appealing to Gen Z will require significant modernization and compromise. Calls for progress are coming from young voters of every political persuasion. In fact, while Gen Z Democrats are almost politically identical to their older counterparts, generationaldifferences among Republicans are far more stark.

Even if we are to submit to polling that finds Gen Z is driven by anti-Trump backlash and more Independent than categorically conservative appealing to Gen Z and its supposed more moderate nature should be far from the primary, secondary, or tertiary objective of the Trump-shifted GOP. As Evita Duffy pointed out in The Federalist last year, polling indicates Gen Z, even while in their likely most liberal youthful years, are significantly more socially moderate than millennials.

Thus, the idea that appealing to Gen Z will require significant modernization and compromise is ill-supported, and a losing strategy. Conservatives who wish to target the lefts institutional monopoly and overhaul of morally shared principles would lay themselves a booby trap by continuing to compromise with the radically left Democratic Party of today.

The GOP ought to instead focus on reinforcing social conservatismas advantageous. Not doing so is a naive rejection of the last four years, which proved there is a massive constituency for taking on the culture war rather than conceding it. Republicans in the past have neglected these voters in favor of the same old fiscal promises that never materialize.

If the GOP can deliver viable, free-market alternatives to the restrictive environmental policies coming from the left, their appeal to Gen Z would skyrocket, Schlott argues. Pushing for innovation and offering economic incentives to businesses fighting climate change is just one way the GOP could show its on team green.

The very last thing Republicans should be doing is keeping governments dead hand on the scale to push one scientific understanding of climate change and its effects, which Democrats have universally campaigned on as a means to expand government and harm the American worker. Worse, Schlott also claims it would be wise for the GOP to join this effort to destabilize the energy industry and provide more opportunities for corporations to yield even more power. In making this claim, the writer cites John Olds, the president of the essentially liberal group Gen Z GOP.

Olds says, If the GOP were to reshuffle its priorities a little bit to address generational issues and present conservative solutions, they would make huge progress with Generation Z, producing a blanket statement all too familiar from the work Gen Z GOP does.

As Saagar Enjeti rightly pointed out last summer upon the group releasing a promotional video, Gen Z GOP is basically Bidenism-lite and a product of the corporate elites who have run the Republican Party for far too long. More than just playing the old game of conservative defense, Schlott and Olds essentially call for Republicans to not be conservative at all. In all this, one wonders as always what is the point of being Republican if it is, as Phyllis Schlafly once said, merely an echo of Democrats rather than offering voters a clearly different political choice.

Meanwhile, Gen Z Republicans say society does not do enough to accept gender non-conforming people at a rate three times higher than some older Republican generations, Schlott writes. Many Gen Z voters imagine Republicans as rigid, evangelizing traditionalists. By adopting a more live-and-let-live philosophy in favor of cultural conservatism, the GOP would appeal to more young people.

A live-and-let-live philosophy is exactly what propelled America into the mess we find ourselves in today. While American jobs got shipped overseas, leftists manipulated language, sexual anarchy took over the country, and Big Tech and Big Business grew into oligarchies, Republicans pushed tax cuts and never seriously cut federal spending.

If appealing to more young people means forfeiting a moral society in favor of worshiping the application of market activities through open borders, the killing of the unborn, and allowing critical race theory to hijack the education system, you can count me out. If a free market means putting the force of law behind constituencies that demand bake the cake, bigot, its clear once again that libertarian slogans are being deceitfully deployed to destroy historic American freedoms.

In short, the GOP should work on rebranding as the modern, reasonable, solutions-oriented party, Schlott concludes. If Republicans succeed in crafting this new identity, it will make enormous strides with young voters and secure its future.

Schlott is operating on a very different definition about what is modern and reasonable than those seeking a GOP that works for more than just Wall Street. The way to solve Americas issues and connect with conservative voters is not to parrot libertarian talking points.

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki continued to rewrite history to fit the Democrat administrations agenda during her Monday press briefing by doubling down on her claims that Republicans were the ones who wanted to defund the police.

Cedric Richmond, he said Republicans defunded the police by not supporting the American Rescue Plan but how is it that that is an argument to be made when the president never mentioned needing money for police to stop the crime wave when he was selling the American Rescue Plan? Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked.

Instead of disputing the presidents senior advisers comments, Psaki overlooked months of activism from the leftists who advocated to defund and disarm cops to boost the false narrative.

The president did mention that the American Rescue Plan, state local funding something that was supported by the president, she insisted.

Psaki then went on to claim that Democrats supported the $1.9 trillion COVID spending bill to ensure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country.

As you know, didnt receive a single Republican vote, Psaki said. That funding has been used to keep cops on the beat.

When Doocy mentioned that the focus of funding in that bill was to help during a pandemic-related budget shortfall instead of focusing on combatting a massive crime wave, Psaki once again brushed off his concerns.

I think that any local department would argue that keeping cops on the beat to keep communities safe when they had to, because of budget shortfalls, fire police is something that helps them address crime in their local communities, Psaki continued.

Doocy continued to push back on the White Houses massive spin by pointing out the crux of the COVID act was to send more stimulus and fund vaccination campaigns, but Psaki indignantly concluded that it was a pretty good bill and piece of legislation.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Republicans are banding together to orient policy and directives aimed at undermining critical race theory by engaging the culture war.

In a new memo, Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks urged more than 150 RSC members to reject the Democrats revolutionary posture and lean into the culture war. The RSC is the largest conservative caucus on Capitol Hill.

We are in a culture war. On one side, Republicans are working to renew American patriotism and rebuild our country, Banks wrote. On the other, Democrats have embraced and given platform to a radical element who want to tear America down.

One of the first ways the GOP can interject itself into the cultural battles facing American society is to reject the racism essentialism that Critical Race Theory teaches, the memo suggests.

We believe that individuals should be judged based on the contents of their character, not their skin. And we believe that Americas institutions should be colorblind, just as our Constitution is colorblind. This is the same vision shared by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., Banks noted.

The backlash against the racist curriculum, the memo continues, is evident in the communities that legislators represent which is why they suggest Republicans act quickly.

As House conservatives, we should be sending a signal to these concerned parents. We have your back, Banks wrote.

GOP governors and state legislatures have begun to introduce and pass policies dedicated to fighting the indoctrination of children with racist curriculum and Democrat talking points.

Change is also happening on the federal level. Just this week Texas Sen.Ted Cruz introduced a measure to prohibit federal funding of critical race theory trainings. A month earlier, Utah Rep. Burgess Owens introduced a similar bill in the House

The federal government has no right to force a political agenda onto Americans, especially one that aims to tear down our institutions and divide us based on race, Cruz said. Critical Race Theory originated out of the critical race studies movement. It is a Marxist ideology that sees the world as a battle, not between the classes as classical Marxism does but between the races. This is inherently bigoted.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to his conference Sunday night pledging an alternative framework for reining in Silicon Valleys empire to the bipartisan package unveiled earlier this month.

Todays Big Tech behemoths were once the gold standard of entrepreneurism and innovation, McCarthy wrote. They took on incumbents, created new services, and transformed what our economy looks like today. Innovation and competition is what makes a free economy stronger, and ultimately, our lives better. But Big Techs idea of competition today is corrupted.

McCarthy emphasized tackling online censorship as the focal point of the new package with a focus on three primary areas: accountability, transparency, and anti-trust review. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who serves as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Cathy Rodgers, as the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, will spearhead the effort.

Framework proposals include Section 230 reform of the 1996 Communications Decency Act to limit liability protections and mandated transparency among big tech platforms to publicly disclose reasons for censorship. Had the latter been in place in October, Facebook may have been forced to share the alleged reasons it suppressed blockbuster reporting from the New York Post that implicated Joe Biden in his sons potentially criminal business activities weeks before the November election. To this day, the company has yet to reveal the fact-checker findings supposedly tasked to verify the Posts claims in the story, which have since been heavily corroborated.

The new framework from GOP leadership stands in stark contrast to whats been proposed by members of the House Judiciary Committee led by Rhode Island Democrat Rep. David Cicilline and Colorado Republican Ken Buck, who respectively serve as chair and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.

Bucks legislative package is the product of an 18-month probe by the subcommittee and has drawn endorsements stretching the political spectrum from former House Democrat impeachment managers to Republicans Matt Gaetz of Florida and Burgess Owens of Utah. Absence of censorship addressed in the series of five bills introduced, however, has drawn the ire of McCarthy and Jordan, who in turn have now released plans to unveil their own alternative framework.

Bucks proposals center on implementing new antitrust laws and empowering the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) with authority to crack down on corporate tech monopolies. In an interview with The Federalist, Buck justified the absence of new rules on censorship claiming the breakup of monopoly power is a prerequisite to dealing with viewpoint discrimination.

In my view, the only way to address censorship is by breaking up monopolies, Buck told The Federalist last week.

Yet Jordan branded Bucks legislation as a trap to foster collusion between the Silicon Valley elite and Washington bureaucrats who share sympathy for maintaining a monopoly on what people believe is truth through anti-conservative censorship.

This is going to let big tech companies collude with big tech companies to do further harm to conservatives, Jordan told The Federalist in a separate interview last week, arguing effective legislation must address suppression of dissident views.

The framework rolled out by McCarthy is not devoid of antitrust reform, which stands as the third pillar of the impending legislation.

Our framework also recognizes that the status quo and bureaucratic delays are not acceptable when it comes to bringing long-overdue antitrust scrutiny to Big Tech, McCarthy wrote. We will provide an expedited court process with direct appeal to the Supreme Court and empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up.

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President Joe Biden used the widely unpopular term Latinx and insinuated that all Latinos in the United States are illegal immigrants, when the vast majority of Latinos in America, more than 60 million, are U.S. citizens.

Its awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated, Biden said during a Thursday speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Why? Theyre worried theyll be vaccinated and deported.

It does not occur to Joe Biden that tens of millions of Latinos are American citizens, tweeted former Trump 2020 campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.

A study by the Pew Research Center found that only one-fourth of people living in the United States who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain have heard of the term Latinx, a gender-inclusive word for Hispanic and Latino. And only 3 percent use the term Latinx, a percentage similar across all major demographic subgroups. Many Latinos criticize the name for ignor[ing] the Spanish language and its gendered form.

What is Latinx??? one Twitter user asked. I would appreciate you stop calling us that. Its offensive. Im a #Latino and my wife is a #Latina. Somos #Latinos. Please get that straight!

According to Pew, the only people who really use Latinx are celebrities, politicians and grassroots organizations. Additionally, academic centers at community colleges, public universities and Ivy League universities are jumping on the politically correct bandwagon and rebranding Latino programs with new Latinx-focused names, despite actual Latinos rejecting the term.

Many were quick to point out (yet again) that Biden is imposing Latinx on Latinos who do not use or like the term. I cant imagine a scenario where its ok to impose an unpopular label on minorities, Texas media strategist Giancarlo Sopo wrote on Twitter.

Joe Bidens comments explain why Democrats lost so much ground with Hispanics, he said.

In the 2020 election, Trump expanded his support not only in southern Florida, but also among Latinos in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Starr County, Texas, an area that is roughly 96 percent Latinos, with 79 percent of the vote. By contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden won by only 5 points, a swing to Republicans of more than 25 points. In nearby Zapata County, Texas, which is 85 percent Latino and historically reliably blue, the county turned red, the first time since Reconstruction that a Republican presidential candidate won Zapata County, according to the Washington Post.

Despite hoping to win over Latinos in larger margins in the future, Joe Biden and other white, left-wing elites are insistent on stereotyping all Latinos as illegal immigrants and ignoring their desire not to sacrifice the Spanish language at the woke altar.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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In case you thought it was only morally deficient journalists acting like critical race theory (CRT) is nonexistent, think again. A high school English teacher whose school was slammed by Fox News host Tucker Carlson has joined the smear parade and in no place more suitable than NBC News.

In about 800 words, educator Anne Lutz Fernandez, a former marketer and author who teaches at a prestigious public school in Connecticut, calls bluff on Americans concerned about curricula that has become influenced by neo-Marxist CRT (which curiously is not mentioned verbatim in the entire article).

The title of Fernandezs op-ed is Americas school teachers arent the Marxist cabal Fox News keeps depicting, with the skeptical subtitle, Evidence abounds that educators tend to avoid rather than dive into politically hot topics. And such hesitancy has consequences.

Fernandez works at Darien Public School District in Darien, Connecticut, a town that in 2018 was profiled as the wealthiest place in the country. She laments Carlsons prior reporting on how the district called for an increase in the race-conscious education of our students after the death of George Floyd and sent a letter singling out White Staff and White community members, a factoid Fernandez conveniently neglects to mention.

Americas K-12 schools, like the high school I teach in, are no hubs of radical indoctrination, though right-leaning newsertainment might convince you otherwise, the teacher writes. Now a rash of legislation in mostly red states seeks to restrict instruction and curriculum around divisive concepts through laws largely meant to curtail teaching about systemic racism. If that doesnt read as chilling, it should. Put another way, politicians are dictating how the public learns about history and the history those politicians are making.

If this description of why conservatives are discontent with what they view as the indoctrination of children seems familiar, it is because it is. Just like left-leaning writers in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and so on, Fernandez either misconstrues or misunderstands the situation in U.S. public schools. One can only hope it is unintentional.

Not only do schools often function as government-holding cells monopolized by well-paid consulting groups and teachers unions, but the dogma Fernandez refers to does not solely end in systemic racism training. In curricula, CRT communicates to students that they are nothing more than their identity and are responsible for all actions done by people of their same physical appearance.

Some kids are not only taught that they are inherently oppressed by their skin color, but also that some are inherently biased and racist. Buzzwords like diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism are all predicated on the intersectional hierarchy of alleged privilege.

The left denies all this even though its right there in the books and teaching materials theyre pushing. As Fernandez does, they respond that critics are oddly opposed to diversity and sensitivity training. Charles Blow phrased it this way in The New York Times, declaring CRT is supposedly just based on [i]dentifying and challenging racism, nothing more. This is false. As Christopher Rufo articulated to The Federalist earlier this week, It is a language war.

What people are opposed to, plain and simple, is racism. People oppose treating individuals differently because of the color of their skin. Thats it. Its not about sensitivity or diversity, but the use of these labels to sneak in government-endorsed racism.

While claiming that teachers avoid topics like these, Fernandez also tacitly admits that teachers do in fact bring their worldview and values into their teaching and of course they do. Teaching is not only about imparting facts, but the moral formation and shaping of a child. Like a corrupt media that claims they are objective while being horribly biased to the point of fabricating falsehoods, the teaching profession also claims a false veneer of impartiality while in fact deliberately shaping childrens attitudes and beliefs.

Fernandez describes this very dynamic in her article:

Teachers I interviewed for my book Schooled see their mission as developing skills and delivering content but also helping shape future adults; some envision their grown students as empowered citizens or global innovators, others as family-focused traditionalists. Because education is value-driven, the profession is inescapably political. Some teachers definitely embrace this by updating curriculum to reflect the concerns of their students and the nation. Today, as ever, these often involve issues of race and gender. But the profession is hardly a leftist cabal.

After claiming teachers keep politics out of the classroom while providing evidence of exactly the opposite, Fernandez also cites a 2017 Atlantic op-ed titled The Case for Contentious Curricula that states [t]eachers should not shy away from addressing controversial issues in the classroom and [t]he question is whether teachers will be empowered to address them.

So, after paragraphs of ranting about the conspiracy theorist right needlessly worried about divisive concepts, she alludes to evidence of the left seeking to undermine the system through political motivation. This is evidence either of complete lack of self-awareness or of an intent to deceive.

Healthy debate and essential education will be stunted by divisive concepts legislation, the teacher writes. While political pressure has long silenced teachers, these laws and the likely further silencing they will produce is especially dangerous in a time when the very fact of a violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol is disputed and deemed political.

For someone incessantly mocking the right as out-of-touch and living in an alternate reality, Fernandez sure comes off as doing the same.She employs an all-too-familiar tactic: Protect your radical tribe by any means necessary.

If it means deliberate deception, so be it. If it means spinning truth to protect those in power, so be it. That is, after all, what teaching children means isnt it?

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High School Teacher's NBC Op-Ed Tries To Hide What's Wrong With CRT - The Federalist

Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced on Tuesday that law enforcement will not be doing much enforcing at all.

Police officers in Portland have been told to stand down when it comes to low-level classified traffic infractions, which include broken headlights and expired plates, unless officers have determined a threat. When an officer pulls over a civilian, the policeman is now required to capture a video of consent prior to searching the vehicle, and the person may refuse.

I know we have a lot more work to do, but these changes constitute significant progress in our work to reimagine our public safety system for the better and to continue operationalizing our city core values of anti-racism, communication, collaboration, equity, transparency, and fiscal responsibility, Wheeler said. The goal of these two changes is to make our safety safer and more equitable.

Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell participated in the conference with Wheeler, which took place over video. Lovell said the department is operating on limited resources and were trying to direct those resources most appropriately, a result of failed Democrat policies that have led to shorthanded precincts and unfettered crime.

Portland emerged as one of the first cities nationwide to defund the police, slashing the budget by $16 million in June 2020. Riots ravaged Portland for 100 days straight, as Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets.

But given the resources that we have and the limited time officers have to do this type of enforcement, Im directing our sworn personnel to focus on safety violations and enforcement and high crash corridors, Wheeler said. Stops of nonmoving violations or lower-level infractions are still allowed, but with an emphasis on safety and have actionable investigative factor to them.

Dru Draper, communications director for the Oregon Senate GOP, told The Federalist Wheeler is going against basic data. He also indicated Democrats in the legislature are gearing up to pass a budget that only bolsters the number of Oregon State Police Troopers by 28 officers.

These traffic stops often lead to stopping larger crimes, Draper said. Over the weekend, Oregon State Police made a traffic stop and found nearly 60 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl which are poisoning our communities. Democrats will stop at nothing to dismantle the police and render them completely ineffective at keeping Oregonians safe. They deserve better.

Since July 1, 2020, at least 130 officers have ceased to work at the department, 75 of which resigned, according to The Oregonian. While the department can employ a total of 916 officers, it now has only 812. Lovell said last week that its tough to move forward when youre really dealing with a lot of setbacks, though he seems to have given into Wheelers politically motivated move to target police.

This insane assault on cops ability to do their jobs has got to stop, Nate Hochman, a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a Portland native told The Federalist. The Portland riots, the breakdown of order, the burgeoning homelessness crisis, and the refusal from city leaders like Ted Wheeler to enforce basic laws in the city has done serious, lasting damage to the community.

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Dem Mayor Tells Portland Police To Stop Doing Their Job Because 'Equity' - The Federalist