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The Democrat governor of Illinois, who has so much blood on his hands from sanctuary policies, tried to claim that federal immigration officers need judicial warrants. The father of an illegal alien crime victim promptly set him straight.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) was on Fox News, where Bret Baier asked him if he thought “any illegal immigrant charged with or convicted of a felony should be deported.” Pritzker lied blatantly. “I think they ought to take the violent criminals and get them out of my state and get them out of the country,” he claimed. “I absolutely believe that, but that's not what they're doing. They say they were going after the worst...”

Baier then interrupted Pritzker: “You'll [not] help them, because you're a sanctuary state, right?” Pritzker then engaged in his deceptive propaganda: “No, we do. If you bring us a judicial warrant, we will bring you all kinds of help on the ground to go get the bad guys. That's what we want. We want the bad guys off the streets. What we don't want is for people to get racially profiled. That what's happening right now.” He’s full of garbage — he signed legislation last year deliberately to ban arrests of illegal aliens in numerous locations he had no authority to ban them from, so he could protect foreign criminals. But he is also deliberately lying about the powers that federal agents have.

Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie died in a crash caused by an illegal alien, replied, “‘Bring us a judicial warrant and we’ll remove criminals.’ That’s dishonesty by omission. A judicial warrant is not required for civil immigration enforcement."

He added, “Illinois law itself distinguishes civil immigration warrants from judicial warrants. Leaving that out isn’t harmless wordplay. Illinoisans like Katie can pay the price for policies defended with misleading words.”

For the federal law, 8 USC 1357 includes warrantless arrest powers for federal officers, among them ICE agents. These include interrogating known or suspected illegal aliens, as well as arresting them without a warrant when the statutory requirements for a warrantless arrest are met. ...

So here we go again with former Oklahoma resident-turned-Harvard professor-turned-U.S. senator putting something up on X that bears only the slightest resemblance to the truth:

“Among other agencies, Trump has gutted the Department of Education, weakened food safety protections, and hollowed out the IRS. The result?
Historic learning loss in our schools. More food safety crises. And tax cheats getting away with skirting the bill.”

Where do we start this time around? How about let’s compare how America’s graduating high school seniors scores in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in 1992 compared to 2024? Here’s what NAEP says:

Reading is the most basic skill our students must learn if they are to have even the remotest chance of succeeding as adults, and yet here we see — after the Department of Education (DoED) was formed in 1980 and had a decade to improve public schools — the results show continuous decline in student achievement.

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“The average reading score for twelfth-grade students in 2024 was lower by three points compared to 2019 and was lower by 10 points in comparison to the first reading assessment in 1992.
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“Compared to 1992, the 2024 reading scores for twelfth-grade students were lower for lower-, middle-, and higher-performing twelfth-grade students at all but the 90th percentile. Scores for twelfth-graders at the 10th and 25th percentiles were lower by 24 and 15 points, respectively. The score for twelfth-graders at the 50th percentile was 8 points lower and the score for students at the 75th percentile was 2 points lower in 2024 compared to 1992.”

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But look what Warren does, she points to Donald Trump, claiming his radical reduction of the DoED workforce from more than 4,000 highly paid federal bureaucrats to a little over 2,000 getting taxpayer-funded pay checks caused an “historic learning loss.”

But Trump’s DoED worforce(sic) cuts only began in 2025 and continue during the current year, yet DoED’s own data shows steadily growing failure on the most vital skill began more than three decades ago!/quote]

It took 12 years of Reagan and GHWB to create a framework that could measure and track what was happening in US PSs academically. So, allowing for the USDE to get organized and doing whatever they did, that's not knowing where the US started (ca. 1980) and not knowing 6-8 years of the results/consequences of USDE actions.

Fauxcahontas ASSumes that everything pre-Trump was great. It was not, as measured decline demonstrates. The USDE was never about improving education, it was always about funneling Federal $$$$$$ to the teachers unions, which include educrats along with actual teachers.

Um, who is Robin Morgan?

niyad (137,516) Posts

DAMN IT, GRIM!!! QUIT TAKING OUR WOMEN!!!

Just in the last couple of weeks: Shelley Fabares, Dolly Parton, Cassandra Wilson, Gloria Steinem, and now Robin Morgan..and possibly others we have not yet heard about. WTAFH is WRONG with you? Do you hate women? Why not take the men who are ruining our lives and our world, NOT the women who were trying to make things better and bring joy and beauty..

https://democraticunderground.com/100221488321

Wild hogs are an invasive species (David Ellis rocks!), but activists don't care about that or about the eeeee-vile farmers and ranchers whose crops get destroyed and land damaged.