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Alabama

Alabama’s Britt blasts Biden on economy, immigration in GOP State of the Union reply • Idaho Capital Sun | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

First-term U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, and laid blame on Biden for a host of national and international crises — what she said is chaos at the border, in cities, in the economy and among U.S. allies. Britt panned […]

Arkansas

Arkansas National Guard deploying 40 members to assist Texas at southern U.S. border • Arkansas Advocate

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will again send members of the Arkansas National Guard to the southern U.S. border in Texas to assist state authorities working to curb illegal immigration. Roughly 40 Arkansas guardsmen and women will deploy from April 1 to May 30 to Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the governor’s office. The deployment of […]

Alabama

Katie Britt and the folly of fake fearmongering | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

If someone had told Katie Britt on election night 2022 that she would someday by portrayed by megastar Scarlett Johansson, the newly elected Alabama Republican senator undoubtedly would have been thrilled. What Britt, of course, would not have known is that the actress would be appearing on “Saturday Night Live,” mocking Britt’s delivery of the […]

Alabama

Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman’s sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration. Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered her party’s […]

Mayor

Activists, volunteers call on mayor to extend migrant removal deadline from city shelters

Activists held a rally Saturday to urge city officials and Mayor Brandon Johnson to reverse its plans to push out potentially thousands of migrants from temporary shelters next week, calling evictions “traumatic” and “damaging.” Migrants who have stayed longer than 60 days at shelters are scheduled to be evicted on March 16, a policy that […]

Alabama

Katie Britt is giving GOP’s State of the Union rebuttal | #elections | #alabama

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two days after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that threatened fertility clinics in the state, Sen. Katie Britt placed a call to former President Donald Trump. Britt wanted Trump, then on a plane headed to South Carolina, to understand the significance of what had happened. The court’s ruling that frozen embryos can […]

Mayor

San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg joins President Biden, other South Texas mayors in Brownsville

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg met with President Joe Biden Thursday in Brownsville in what he called a show of support. Biden was joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during his four-hour visit to the border. The two met with Border Patrol agents, law enforcement and local leaders like Nirenberg. […]

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Georgia mayor faces protesters amid fallout from Laken Riley’s killing

A mayor in Athens-Clarke County, Ga., was confronted by protesters at a press conference Wednesday as the community grapples with the killing of 22-year-old student Laken Riley. Mayor Kelly Girtz (D) was met with heckling protesters at a press conference to address safety in the community surrounding the University of Georgia, where Riley was found […]

Arkansas

Borderline insane: Political theater overwhelms real solutions to immigration crisis

Our nation’s immigration system is a doddering mess, especially at the southwestern border. Many say it’s broken. So why isn’t our government doing something about it? I think we know why, but let me run down some of what’s happened recently to bring some perspective. After months of negotiations, a trio of U.S. senators (Republican, […]

Alabama

Senate supplemental receives frosty reception from some members | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

A bill that would unlock tens of billions of dollars in national security supplemental funding and overhaul U.S. immigration policy at the southern border received a frosty reception from lawmakers in both chambers and across the political spectrum on Monday, casting doubts over the legislation’s future. The $118.3 billion package would direct some of the […]