by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | Fox News
During the past four years of vast
that ignored and violated the laws of our country, more than 200,000 Americans have died from fentanyl poisoning. Numerous other precious lives have been stolen by savage criminal illegal alien violence.
I’m grateful to President
for signing into law the Laken Riley Act, which will mandate the incarceration of illegal immigrants who commit further crimes as they prey on citizens and businesses across the nation.
Had the Laken Riley Act been enacted and enforced in September 2023, Laken Riley’s murderer would have been detained and handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Of course, this is assuming sanctuary cities, like New York, complied with federal law and chose to be partners in removing the plague of criminal illegal aliens threatening our safety.
Sadly, rather than showing concern for victims of violent crime and support for upholding the most important responsibility of every government entity – the protection of its citizens – we are barraged with one radical politician after another, stepping over each other to “bravely” proclaim how their locale will resist enforcing the law while standing in
.
It’s not only far Left politicians in Boston, Chicago and California who are shielding criminal aliens. Unfortunately, we are seeing law enforcement officers and police chiefs openly state they will not work with ICE to turn over criminal aliens arrested in their jurisdictions. This is not just a dereliction of duty, this aberration of what a law enforcement officer should be doing is contributing to one of the most grave national security threats facing our country.
More Americans have been killed by illegal immigrant criminals, drug traffickers, human traffickers, cartels and violent alien gangs than any global terrorist organization. If local and state politicians or law enforcement agencies refuse to recognize this grim reality, then it is time to treat them as hostile toward the safety of our nation and our people.
has repeatedly stated that radical sanctuary ideology not only makes communities more dangerous, but makes the jobs of ICE and other participating agencies more dangerous as well. It is reprehensible that these “law enforcement officers” would endanger the brave men and women who are courageously putting their lives on the line to remove public safety threats.
We must directly confront this behavior, not only because it is making our country less safe, but because the American people have demanded that all levels of government work to secure the safety of our families and neighborhoods.
I know, firsthand, how successful, and beneficial, a relationship between local law enforcement and ICE can be for removing threats from a city. As a former councilwoman and mayor of a top 100 city, I helped start the City of Irving’s Criminal Alien Program, then known as CAP 24/7.
During the course of that program and through
, our local law enforcement was able to assist, during the normal course of their operations, in the apprehension and deportation of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants. Irving became the fifth-safest city in the United States, more businesses and families moved to Irving, and we enjoyed a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity.
Unlike what we hear from the protestations of Leftist politicians, the communities and neighborhoods that benefited the most from the removal of these criminal elements were immigrant and low-income populations. In fact, many of the calls for police assistance came from these very households and neighborhoods because they were sick of the violence and terrorism. Only through police intervention and federal deportation could they get relief from the same criminals who preyed on them, over and over again.
Now that we have a Trump administration that is mercifully enforcing our existing immigration laws and aggressively working to remove threats from our country, we need action in Congress to confront the national security threats posed by sanctuary policies. That is why I introduced the No Congressional Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act, H.R. 205, which will prohibit community project funding from being allocated to sanctuary cities that hinder immigration enforcement efforts.
We’re leveraging the power of the purse to give these
a choice: follow the law or relinquish your chance to receive congressional funds. These cities need to understand they cannot simply proclaim they will be a deterrent in enforcing duly enacted public safety laws. With my legislation, there will be consequences for their actions protecting criminal aliens, instead of the citizens they are sworn to keep safe.
The American people spoke with a loud and overwhelming voice this past November, demanding action to stop the threat from criminal illegal aliens. They demand our laws be followed, our borders be secured, and criminal aliens be removed from their communities.
This is a
of grave importance, which is why we must pass additional funding and support for ICE and Border Patrol operations, as well as deliver policies, like H.R. 205, which are a sharp rebuke to those who stand in the way of protecting the lives and livelihoods of all Americans.
by dap | Feb 6, 2025 | Fox News
Last week,
doubled down on his ambitions to purchase Greenland despite the fact that the idea was outright rejected by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a recent call between the two.
“I think we’re going to have it,” insisted our bombastic commander in chief when speaking with journalists on Air Force One last week.
Trump even insinuated in early January that he might be forced to compel Denmark to let the United States take possession of the autonomous island.
Last week, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) deployed two Air Force F-16s to Greenland from Alaska, “exercising its standard agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark to forward posture NORAD presence in the Arctic.”
Trump’s justification for wanting to make Greenland part of America is “the protection of the free world.” The United States is “the one that can provide the freedom.”
“They [Greenland and Denmark] can’t,” stressed Trump on board the presidential aircraft last week.
The rationale for The Donald’s insistence lies in space.
Greenland’s strategic significance to the United States and Europe lies in the fact that it houses an important U.S. military base, Pituffik, operated by the Space Force, a whole new branch of service Trump established in 2019.
With Greenland providing the shortest route between North America and Europe and geographically sitting at the top of the world in the Arctic, the Pituffik Space Base carries out the critical function of enabling space superiority, which is the centerpiece of the U.S. war-fighting doctrine. Due to its unique geographic position on the world map, the base is a vital hub for early threat detection achieved through missile warning and space surveillance during peacetime and satellite command and control during both peace and war.
During my service in the Defense Intelligence Agency, I specialized in space warfare and participated in war games simulating an armed conflict in space. Space already underpins every aspect of our way of war as our satellites – 8,530 space birds in orbit at the unclassified level, the most of any country – enable communications among the troops, synchronizing operations, missile warning, navigation, intelligence collection, targeting of our weapons and precision strikes.
Space is undoubtedly the next frontier of any future armed conflict, and both
are gearing up for space warfare. Recognizing Greenland and the Arctic’s geostrategic value, America’s top two opponents have conducted joint military drills in the Arctic. Russia and China plan to disrupt or destroy our satellites in wartime or in the run-up to a conflict in order to disable our “kill chain,” preventing our weapons from reaching their targets. Both Moscow and Beijing are beefing up their commercial and military presence in the Arctic. Russia already has more military bases in the Arctic than the U.S. and NATO combined. Russia has 57, while NATO has 32 among Canada, Denmark, Norway and the U.S.
By acquiring Greenland, President Trump likely seeks to establish the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, to keep U.S. adversaries farther away from the U.S. sphere of strategic interests and to beef up our space superiority. Denmark is not investing in Greenland’s security, as admitted by Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen in early January.
Trump likely wants to have autonomy over this strategic island so he doesn’t have to depend on Danish authorities for national security decisions in which space forces and the space base figure prominently due to their mission. Much of this mission is related to U.S. counter-space operations against our adversaries and is highly classified. Fast operational decision-making is critical during wartime, especially because some of our adversaries have preemptive doctrines when it comes to space warfare. It would give U.S. forces the strategic initiative and increase their ability to deter or win wars.
During World War II, after Germany’s invasion of Denmark in 1940, the United States secured Greenland under the Monroe Doctrine by signing a “Defense of Greenland” agreement with the Danish ambassador.
It is hardly surprising that Russian President
isn’t pleased with Trump’s efforts to strong-arm Denmark into letting the U.S. own Greenland.
“We are watching the rather dramatic development of the situation very closely, but so far, thank God, at the level of statements,” said Putin’s press secretary, Dmitriy Peskov, in early January. Peskov declared that the Arctic was in Russia’s “sphere of national and strategic interests, and it is interested in peace and stability there.”
President Trump has excellent geostrategic and geopolitical instincts, which will likely have a positive impact on U.S. military strategy. Trump is the first president to recognize the strategic value of space as a war-fighting domain and to prioritize America’s superiority in space. To that end, Trump established the U.S. Space Force in 2019, 18 years after Putin established Russia’s. He was mocked for it by Jen Psaki, a former State Department spokesperson, and many other former Obama-era officials.
It is my assessment as a former intelligence officer specializing in space warfare that Trump’s goal to acquire Greenland is a smart move from a national security standpoint.
by dap | Feb 5, 2025 | Fox News
Since President Trump’s re-election, we’ve seen the most momentous first two weeks of any presidential tenure. But even by Trump’s standards, this
with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu can’t be considered anything but historic.
In his first term, their discussions produced the lauded Abraham Accords.
This time, President Trump came out and said what no American leader has had the courage to say since the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023: The United States is willing to step up and play a leadership role in the Middle East to prevent such an attack from happening again.
But the only way to ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself is by breaking the paradigm of failure that has been repeated for half a century and creating a new mold.
with Netanyahu suggests that he intends to do just that.
For those 50 years, America and others have failed due to the insistence that the Palestinians are something they’re not: a nation-state. Without the durable institutions of a state in place, such efforts prove futile at best, a fact evidenced in the long-term inability to achieve the so-called “two-state solution” despite the insistence over generations that it must be so.
Now President Trump is taking a new tack. He recognizes that the situation in
is untenable. In his joint news conference with Netanyahu last night, he announced his intention to initiate a U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip, temporarily relocate Palestinians, and develop the war-torn region into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
In doing so, President Trump provided what the international community (and many Americans on the political left) have been clamoring for since the beginning of the war: a plan for the “day after” the war in Gaza. Instead of hysterically rejecting this plan out of hand, the very people who demanded it should either propose one of their own or engage with it.
This proposal reflects Trump’s determination not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. Currently, Gaza lacks the institutions to make a two-state solution viable. Pretending that they exist will only lead to failure – which is unacceptable in an area critical to Israel’s security that has already cost American taxpayers many billions of dollars.
President Trump’s position illustrates his understanding of this, as well as his ability to recognize a valuable piece of real estate when he sees one, especially one falling so far below its potential.
Critics are already arguing President Trump’s plan simply parrots talking points out of a right-wing Israeli playbook, and that it marks an “alarming escalation in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
But this isn’t at all what the president proposed. Rather, his goal is to rebuild
as a place that’s no longer a launching pad for terror attacks – something that will make it a better and safer place for Palestinians to live if they chose to make this their future rather than remain mired by Hamas in perpetual victimhood.
Tellingly, these critics are some of the same people who prophesied a virtual apocalypse when
announced the U.S. embassy’s move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2017. With a similar certainty to what they are claiming now, they proclaimed that the move would inflame the Arab street, and Israel’s neighbors would be compelled to attack the Jewish state whether they wanted to or not. Obviously, their claims didn’t hold true then, and there’s no reason to assume they will now.
Nor, in that case, did President Trump’s decision prove to be mere talking points from the Israeli far right. Rather, the clarity the move brought to the region about the U.S. position secured peace in Jerusalem, on the way to the broader peace of the Abraham accords.
Today, President Trump extends that pattern further by offering Palestinians what he has always offered: peace through prosperity. It’s theirs to take.
by dap | Feb 5, 2025 | Fox News
Common sense is making a big comeback, especially today, with President Trump signing another executive order to ensure that
meant for female athletes actually are for women. The order states men are barred from participating in women’s athletic divisions and that entities that “maintain policies, practices, rules, or regulations that permit biological males to compete against biological females or vice-versa in athletic activities violate Title IX and are subject to enforcement action which could include the loss of federal funding.”
It’s amazing that such an
is necessary, but it is. The Biden administration, in concert with Democrats in Congress and across the country, has been waging an all-out war against female athletes. Around the country, male athletes have been gaining access to competitions that were meant for females.
I experienced this first hand when the NCAA allowed Lia Thomas—formerly Will Thomas—to swim at the Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving National Championships. Three years prior, he had competed on the men’s team at the same university. Not only did Lia Thomas win a women’s DI national title, robbing that honor from many female Olympians and American record holders, but he was allowed to dress and undress in the women’s locker rooms. The female athletes did not consent to undressing alongside a fully intact male exposing his male genitalia, but the comfort and safety of women were not high up on the NCAA’s priority list.
We female swimmers were told not to complain and to step aside to make way for the male swimmer celebrating his new female “identity.”
Our dreams, our desire for privacy, our voices didn’t matter to the university administrators or the athletic associations. It didn’t matter to the laughably named Women’s Sports Foundation, which has fought to enable men to enter and predictably dominate women’s sports. And it certainly didn’t matter to President Biden or Vice President Harris.
Fortunately, female athletes did matter to
across the country. In fact, brave women and men started speaking out against the injustice that was being done to women. Independent Women spearheaded the creation of the largest and most ideologically diverse women’s movement of our time, called “Our Bodies, Our Sports.” We had dedicated allies who are on the political Left and Right, alongside independents and everything in between. This summer, we traveled across the country, hearing from parents and young female athletes and encouraging them to stand up for their rights and to speak out.
That cross-country trip showed that the people—American voters—were with us. They recognized that what we were asking for—fair competition and recognition of biological reality—was simple common sense. Normal people around the country know what a woman is and why we need women’s sports leagues in the first place: Men and women are biologically different, and those differences have consequences for fairness and safety.
They were horrified to hear about women like my friend Payton McNabb, who as a high school volleyball player, was spiked in the head so hard by a male player that she has permanent brain damage and partial paralysis. They were disgusted to hear hard-working female athletes were having to forfeit games and championships to avoid a competition that was inherently unfair, and even dangerous.
Fortunately, this blindness to
is at an end. President Trump is standing up for women and female athletes when coaches, college administrators, and sports governing bodies have refused to. He knew it was absurd, unfair, and dangerous to force women to compete against men. He spoke about it consistently on the campaign trail, and pledged to do something about it. Voters heard it and supported him.
And now, just days after taking office, he has made good on this promise. He has told female athletes that their dreams matter. Young girls don’t have to wonder if they are wasting their time training and will be forced into competitions they are doomed to lose because of their sex. They now can feel confident that they will have leagues and rights of their own. On behalf of all these girls, thank you, President Trump, for standing with us.