Victor Avila
@VictorAvilaTX
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HSI-ICE Special Agent, Ret. Author. Father. Husband.
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I’m a former ICE Special Agent who took bullets for this nation. I’d like for the Democrats and RINOs to look me in the eye and explain to me why they refuse to secure our border. It’s possible to do. They just refuse to do it. See you in Congress in 2024. I won’t be backing.
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Tony Gonzales just went against the will of the American people and voted for Steve Scalise to be Speaker instead of Jim Jordan. I'm his opponent running against him in Texas' 23rd Congressional District. Gonzales' weak leadership has plagued our district for far too long. I'm
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The President of the United States has failed at his duty to protect our border. That’s an indisputable fact. Congress is failing to hold him accountable. I worked for years as an ICE Special Agent, even being shot by the cartels. That’s why I’m running for Congress. I can’t
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Let’s be clear: nothing about Operation Fast and Furious was fake. My partner was killed next to me by weapons provided to the Los Zetas Cartel by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Eric Holder. I still have a bullet in leg to prove it. Or do I need to show you the x-ray?.
death panels, smearing Shirley Sherrod, Obama birth certificate, Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, Benghazi, Jade Helm, emails etc etc etc. and lots of other made up or wildly-distorted BS that escapes my mind at the moment.
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My name is Victor Avila. I am a retired ICE Special Agent and US Diplomat. While on an assignment in Mexico, my partner, Jaime Zapata, and I were ambushed by Cartel hitmen. Jaime was killed next to me. And I was shot 3 times, surviving only by the grace of God. Now, I am a
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For the second day in a row, Tony Gonzales has refused to listen to the will of the American people and once again cast his vote AGAINST Jim Jordan for Speaker. This isn't a surprise, as his entire tenure in office has been marked with betrayals to the very people who voted for.
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I grew up in El Paso. Today it is unrecognizable. Joe Biden is destroying communities all along the Border.
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The Mexican cartels have hacked the CBP One app and found a way to request immigration appointments for anyone in the world. Anyone with half a brain saw this coming. So now, our border is officially being run by the cartels. Mayorkas should be thrown out of his position over.
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When I set out to run for TX-23, it was not out of personal ambition, but in response to so many individuals who shared their desire to replace a Washington sellout with real, conservative leadership. I still believe in that mission and urge conservatives throughout TX-23 to vote
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My opponent, Tony Gonzales, just voted for a third time against Jim Jordan to be Speaker. He does this as the government is about to shut down once again in less than thirty days. Completely irresponsible. I look forward to beating him in the primary!.
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As someone who worked along our Southern Border and beyond as an ICE Special Agent, let me tell you with certainty that child sex trafficking is not a conspiracy theory. Anyone telling you that it’s a conspiracy hasn’t seen the things I’ve seen because if they’ve seen it and can.
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I’m running for Congress in TX-23 to bring true Republican representation to our district and give power & a voice back to Texans. Donate to our campaign and let’s take this seat back & secure our border:
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The conservative Hispanic movement is real. Congratulations @MayraFlores2022 on your historical win! @elonmusk
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For the 3rd time this week, Republicans failed to give us a Speaker. This is concerning because WE THE PEOPLE told them who we want. We told them we want a Speaker who won’t bow down to the Democrats. We told them we want a Speaker who won’t keep giving money to Zelensky. We.
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Considering the Biden Crime Family has sold out everything they can think of in this country, I imagine that we'll see the White House up on Zillow before this is all over.
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Joe Biden won’t campaign. Joe Biden won’t give press conferences. Joe Biden won’t do a town hall. And now Joe Biden has fallen at least 5 times. AND THOSE ARE JUST THE TIMES WE KNOW ABOUT!. How can Democrats possibly be serious about running an incumbent who can’t walk.
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Americans should pay attention to what's going on in France. Imagine riots but now they are being fed machine guns… in a country supposedly with gun control. Europe as a whole is going to massively regret being bullied into allowing mass illegal migration by the globalists in.
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While last night’s result is not what we hoped, we nevertheless helped force the incumbent into a runoff. After months of effort, it was reassuring to see a significant majority of voters vote for new leadership in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. Though this chapter has come.
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Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm to interfere with the spending vote. This is a felony. He deserves much more than censure. He deserves arrest and prosecution. Oh right, he’s a Democrat, so no punishment is possible.
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So proud of my daughter on her first publication and the courage to stand up and support our law enforcement. Your voice will be an inspiration to the silent majority. #BackTheBlue.
This young lady's voice needs to be heard. "In the words of Winston Churchill, I say to my generation, 'courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'".
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As the father of two college age children, I cannot imagine the pain her family must feel. The Biden Administration is directly responsible for her death. They allowed Venezuela to empty their prisons and flood our border with violent criminals. And now, yet another family had.
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The media tells us that the people who cross our border illegally are just tired and need help desperately. Here they are flattening the tires of Border Patrol vehicles. Don't listen to this narrative about how helpless they are. The media is lying.
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Can we just take a minute to realize that all the global chaos happening in the Biden Era is what the media claimed would happen during Trump Era? . We were lied to and now we're paying the price.
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I’ll be joining @michellemalkin to form this movement. It’s important to give our ICE Officers and Special Agents a voice and end their vilification. #StandWithICE.Get Off the Sidelines: #StandWithICE
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Mayorkas and Biden have turned Border Patrol and ICE into a welcoming party rather than law enforcement agencies. I served as an ICE-HSI Special Agent. The men and women of ICE want to do their jobs and get illegals out of this country. The policies that Biden & Mayorkas are.
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8 yrs ago today, Jaime Zapata and I were ambushed in MX #Highway57 by Los Zetas Cartel with weapons from a US gunwalking op like #FastAndFurious Watch @KatiePavlich documentary.@realDonaldTrump @SecNielsen @ICEgov @RepMcCaul We will never forget RIP Jaime.
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Border security and national security are the same thing. Because without a strictly enforced border, people who hate us will get in. And HAVE gotten in for almost 3 years now. And will soon be fulfilling their “Death to America” program right here. I am a retired ICE-HSI.
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A Harris County Judge here in Texas has suggested that all of the illegal aliens could receive universal basic income. Disregarding the fact that this proposal would be handing out American tax dollars to people who AREN'T Americans because that's already a problem. Has any.
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Human Smuggling continues, especially as illegals and cartels know that the border will soon be secured!
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My name is Victor Avila. I am a retired ICE-HSI Special Agent who survived a deadly 2011 ambush by Cartel hitmen. Now, I am running for Congress to finish the fight and take back our border. Learn more, and help power our campaign to victory, below 👇🏼.
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I’m on my way back from the border, and the Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 57 outside of Eagle Pass, TX was closed. This is a National Security and Public Safety issue.
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None of the money sent to Ukraine has been audited. It hasn’t be corruption-checked either. It just flows and goes. 3 questions:. 1- Where’s the oversight?. 2- How does this end?. 3- Why are Ukraine’s borders more important than our own?.
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I would say this is shocking, but it’s not. This is just Joe Biden’s latest slap in the face to border patrol, ICE, HSI, and Law Enforcement everywhere. He won’t visit the border. He won’t speak to the families. He won’t accept responsibility for the crisis he created.
Former ICE Officer @VictorAvilaTx told me his remarkable story of survival and the murder of his partner Jaime Zapata. He fought to get a law passed. So why did Biden snub them ?.Download:
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Ignoring the problem doesn’t make it go away. Sanctuary city policies will only continue to hurt our immigrant communities. @michellemalkin.
An outrage in which a Texas judge and prosecutor hermetically excluded from a murder trial all reference to a Mexican killer's illegal immigration status and repeated failures to deport him. Read about the whole mess in my column today @CIS_org:
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@CollinRugg This appears to be a prostitution sting as he was charged with solicitation. This is NOT human trafficking. It’s important to call it what it is for proper identification. Force, Fraud or Coercion (except for minors) must be used in order for it to be Human Trafficking.
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With the indictment of President Trump, the federal government has shown there is nothing they won’t do to stop the will of American people. This indictment is a message to everyone: you aren’t going to get your country back without a fight. I’m all in! Are you with me?.
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Since the beginning, Biden has sent more than $66 billion in American taxpayer dollars to Ukraine. He could have built a border wall nearly two times across the United States-Mexico border. He chose not to. And now 15,000,000 illegals are creating a massive drain on our.
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Deeply humbled by this honor. Thank you @NRA for the strides to protect everyone’s 2nd Amendment right.
🎉Last night, patriots gathered at NRA's Botas Y Pistolas to celebrate Hispanic gun owners & honor heroes – @VicSurvivor11 & CBP Officer Roy Cantu. “Throughout NRA's 150 years, we’ve focused on an inclusive America that allows ALL OF US to defend ourselves” –NRA 1stVP @WillesLee
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Mexico is blocking the approval of work visas for DEA Agents assigned there. In other words, Mexico is refusing to allow DEA to investigate drug trafficking in their country. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are dying every year due to drugs pouring across our southern border.
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Thank you Katie for bringing attention to these gunwalking operations that remain with many unanswered questions and accountability. We will never forget Agent Brian Terry and Special Agent Jaime Zapata. @realDonaldTrump @DOJPH @DHSOIG @TuckerCarlson @DHSgov @ICEgov.
Very excited to announce my first documentary with @foxnation - Outgunned: The Fast & Furious Scandal. Available tomorrow —->
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Since April, Biden has sold off 81 steel square structural tubes from the unfinished border wall for a profit of $2 million. Which means under this administration, AMERICA is an open border country. This goes beyond impeachment and well into criminality. This poses a direct.
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In Democrat-run schools, our kids are being taught to:. Hate Israel.Hate America .Hate white people .Hate conservatives .Hate Christians. I’m old enough to remember when PRAYER was ordered out of the schools. How are we allowing negative indoctrination to replace it?.
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.@RepTonyGonzales says “Having SECURE borders is something we should all agree on.”. It is. But he hasn't done anything about them. We should also all agree that the Republicans NEED a speaker who won’t kowtow to the Democrats. One who won’t keep giving Zelensky OUR HARD.
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Bud Light. Target. Kohl's. 3 American companies whose main customers are everyday Americans. 3 American companies making the stupid marketing decision to accept the ESG agenda instead of catering to their Christian and working class customers. This hasn’t ended well for any of.
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Please join me in taking a moment to remember Special Agent Jaime Zapata who tragically lost his life in the line of duty while on assignment in Mexico on 2/15/2011. As a survivor of that attack, I will continue to fight for Texas and our Country to honor Jaime. RIP Jaime Jorge
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I want to bring back a time when our representatives didn’t think they were above us. There should be no political class. There should be only public servants. Members of Congress very much need to realize this!.
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I need your support to win this race. I’m not a member of the establishment or “elite”. I’m a retired ICE agent. If we are to win this campaign, it will be because of grassroots folks like you on X supporting me. Can I count on your contribution?.
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My name is Victor Avila. I’m a retired ICE Agent who fought the cartels. I took 3 bullets and my partner lost his life. I’m running for Texas Land Commissioner to secure our border and stop the flow of illegals into our country. Please retweet and follow my journey here. 🇺🇸.
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Congress needs to fix the border crisis. This isn’t some myth. I’m a former ICE Special Agent who took bullets for this nation. I’d like for Congress to explain to me why they can’t fix this situation. Why are they okay with the death and destruction?. Why are they okay with.
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Democrats impeached Donald Trump over a phone call. What Joe Biden is being accused of is much much worse. Bigger than Watergate. We’re talking about nearly $20,000,000 in bribes routed through shell companies. If we still have a legitimate political apparatus, this must be.
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Janet Yellen says the Inflation Reduction Act is the “turning point” in saving our planet. The average American family has to spend over $700 more than they did last year. 401ks are crashing. And more importantly, how does making Americans poorer fight climate change?. Yellin.
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A reported 32,000 street gangs are shooting up this country, but some democrats are still calling for “gun control.”. This is your daily reminder that it’s not the GUNS they want to control. It’s YOU and I. We need BORDER CONTROL if we really want to solve the illegal gun.
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The transgender movement went from “let me use what bathroom I feel like using” to “let me expose myself on the lawn of the White House” real quickly.
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I’ve taken on the cartels before, and now, I’m running for Texas Land Commissioner as a conservative outsider to stop the #BorderCrisis. I will secure the border. I will stand up to the cartels. And I will always put Texas first! . Learn more at
.@VictorAvilaTx former ICE officer survived a deadly cartel shooting that took the life of his partner. He announced that he's running for Texas Land Commissioner on #TheSaraCarterShow and why securing the border is a national security must! Download:.
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175,000 illegals in June alone. Even if those numbers are undercounted, it still signals the end of America as a safe and lawful country. Because we’re not VETTING anyone. And we’re not tracking them. And we have no room for them. And they won’t assimilate to our way of.
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Why do the people who complain about heatwaves and climate change never implement their plan to fix it, or even tell us what that plan is?. Newsflash: Taxing people doesn’t change the weather.
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I don't care about Hunter Biden's drug addiction or if someone else has or had one. I do care about him getting paid tens of millions to peddle influence and be the bag man for his clearly corrupt father. bUt BuT tRuMp. Blah blah I don't care. If they're doing it too, to.
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The border has been open for 28 months. That means it’s not a CRISIS anymore, it’s a policy directive. It’s a lifestyle choice made for us by a president who doesn’t care what we want. This is not your grandfather’s America anymore. It’s not even OUR America anymore.
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Testifying at sentencing hearing in US Court in DC. Seeking justice for Special Agent Zapata. Hope Judge sentences all defendants to Life!.
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Articles of impeachment were filed against Alejandro Mayorkas in 2021. Can anyone explain to me why they’ve not been taken up yet?. The GOP controls the House. We can begin proceedings anytime. Why do we accept this inaction from our leaders?.
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This in addition to the 14 killed?! (10 cartel terrorist and 4 police officers) Designation as FTO’s can’t come soon enough. MX will continue to do nothing.
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Why are these debate moderators still using the 11,000,000 illegal alien number?. We're up to way more than that now! Closer to 30,000,000. #GOPDebate.
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Tony Gonzales is now trying to act as though he cares about the border. The entire time he’s been in Congress he’s done nothing to actually help our border out. He’s nearly gone along with amnesty a few times. Now that re-election time is coming up, he’s brought Elon Musk to.
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Here is another video of the border that Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas insist is orderly and working just fine. Does this look like how a sovereign country handles immigration?
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Every elected official that wants to send young Americans to fight in Ukraine, should have their kids and family sent first. Then young people from their districts or states, so they have to defend destroying another generation with war profiteering. Middle class Americans are.
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We have illegal aliens sleeping in our airports, our police stations, and our schools. Many of them are EXPORTED CRIMINALS from the jails of many other countries. This is Joe Biden’s “beautiful vision” for our country. A dystopian socialist hellscape where our cities have more.
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11,000 illegals in a single day were apprehended at our border. The majority, of course, released. And that’s just the ones we know about. As a retired ICE agent, I can say with authority that there is absolutely no way our system can handle this.
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Democrats want to lower the voting age to 16. So to recap:. 18 to join the army. 21 to buy cigarettes. 21 to buy alcohol. But 16 to decide the fate of the entire country for 4 years. And not just any 16. A 16 who’s been indoctrinated into WOKE culture, and trained to put.
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Yesterday, ICE released an illegal alien on the terror watchlist in San Antonio. Just hours after the media outcry, that individual is back in custody. Don’t let Joe Biden or anyone tell you that they lack the power to enforce our laws. They clearly can. They just don’t want.
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Right there with you. Hoping we can all get answers in 2018. Stay strong.
Seven Years Later, Brian Terry's Family Still Looks for Justice
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Friendly reminder to not forget about how easily everybody jumped on board with the idea of segregating our society into 'vaxxed' and 'unvaxxed.'. They called for Americans to lose their jobs, be cut off from essential services, kicked out of their homes, and entirely shunned.
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The major takeaway from yesterday’s Mayorkas hearing is that Congress has become ineffective and toothless. Because this is Mayorkas 2nd or 3rd hearing and NOTHING HAPPENED. He still has his job. The border is still open. Illegal immigration is out of control. Our government.
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What good will vaccinating your children do, if the illegal migrant children sitting next to them in school don’t have to do it too?. And if THEY don’t need vaccines, why do our kids?. None of the answers to these questions are good.
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As you read this, there are 4,000 illegals under the bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas. In the past five days, we’ve had about 10,000 illegals cross our border per day. There is no sane person who can tell you that immigration is supposed to look like THIS!
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Trump-Russia Collusion has a paper trail leading to Hillary Clinton. Biden-China Collusion has a paper trail leading to Hunter Biden. Where is the paper trail of indictments?.
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Thank you @michellemalkin and your team @CRTV for giving us a voice and bringing attention to our cause. Jaime’s death will not be in vain. Seeking the truth in 2018 via @HouseHomeland Committee @RepMcCaul and Senate Homeland Security @SenRonJohnson #gunwalking #highway57
Jaime Zapata's family and @VicSurvivor11 & family STILL fighting for answers and accountability==>.#borderdisorder
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Tony Gonzales is touring Elon Musk around Eagle Pass, Texas. He should mention that he could've helped to solve this problem but preferred to side with the amnesty-loving Democrats.
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It's about time that our representatives in DC stop lying to the voters about this debt deal being great. They're selling this as though it's some amazing bill. The voters would honestly respect it more if you guys told them it is absolute crap but you're voting for it anyway.
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Does this look like a border that is under control and going well?. These are new videos from the Brownsville Port of Entry. This is what Biden considers a humane and organized immigration system. I certainly don't see it that way.
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Sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago are sagging under the weight of Joe Biden’s illegals. Last year in New York, a $2.1 billion state fund paying unemployment and stimulus benefits to illegal aliens was exhausted in just three months. If America is.
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Every minute we waste fighting over who the speaker should be, is a minute we’re NOT working towards the impeachment of Joe Biden. Everything bad that is happening in this nation today is being ignored. America is still a serious constitutional republic and removing a President.
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First the Intelligence Community missed a coup in Niger. Then our ally Israel was caught by a surprise terrorist assault. By every consideration -constitutional, ethical, and practical- the IC needs to stop meddling in domestic politics and start focusing on their real job-.
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An enemy force has taken control of our border. They’re killing hundreds of thousands of Americans by trafficking guns, drugs and fentanyl into our country. Joe Biden enabled them to do that. Congress needs to get this under control immediately. They hold the wallet. They can.
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And it cost the lives of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata and countless Mexican citizens. @realDonaldTrump get us the answers we’ve been asking for and remove Obama’s executive privilege order. @terry_superman.
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I had an incredible time at Mar-a-Lago for the Border 911 Gala. It’s an honor to be part of this team of patriots committed to ending the border crisis and finally securing our southern border. Thank you to all those who joined us, including @realDonaldTrump, @VivekRamaswamy,
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96 people have died in Hawaii, and the property loss is absolutely devastating. Joe Biden says nothing. In fact, he’s on vacation again. How many times will this president fail us, before we impeach him from office and take America forward?.
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Some people try not to pick a side in this Middle East conflict. Too touchy. Too much history. Too much “POLITICS.”. It’s not really, it’s simple. Hamas woke up one day and decided to slaughter innocent Israelis and people from many other countries. They decided to kidnap.
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As a retired ICE Special Agent (Mexican-American ) who worked on the border and in Mexico, would welcome the opportunity to be on @CNN and @MSNBC to discuss border security, immigration, cartels etc. @ajcorchado @ioangrillo.
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The only part of Chris Christie’s Ukraine visit that is trending on Twitter is the nickname “White Lizzo”. That’s how you understand that the American people are truly fed up with this whole Ukraine song & dance. We want our tax dollars to be spent in America on securing our.
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Last night, Robert Card shot eighteen people to death. Today Joe Biden will do a speech designed to infringe on our 2nd amendment rights - AGAIN. This is just to remind you that Democrats could have banned whatever they wanted when they had the supermajority 3 TIMES in the past.
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Klaus Schwab and the rest of the globalists want to destroy American exceptionalism. They want to ruin our sovereignty, too!. We have to understand that and fight accordingly. We can never give up this great nation to their agenda.
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. @HouseGOP not sure why we need an impeachment “probe.” There is a caravan of 15,000 impeachable offenses heading to the border right now.
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The West Texas (El Paso) and Southern New Mexico region continue to be highly active with cartel activity; human smuggling and drug trafficking. We even found a fully loaded pistol magazine among the illegal’s abandoned items. @Border911Live
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8900 illegals arrested at the border in just ONE DAY. Yet the president who caused this crisis can't be bothered to visit or do anything to help the brave @CBP agents and law enforcement officers working to keep our communities safe and deadly drugs out. Joe Biden should be.
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It's official!. Earlier today I filed my candidacy to serve Texas' 23rd Congressional District as your next Representative. I am proud to have lived and served in our district for over 40 years. It is an honor to pursue this opportunity to continue serving you. #WeCanFixThis
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All 4 Republicans who refused to impeach Mayorkas have no business representing the American people. If we are not willing to stand against a foreign invasion, then what can we stand against?. This is why we need fighters in Congress. We need leaders willing to hold them.
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