Illegal Migrant Jose Ibarra Found Guilty Of All Charges In Murder Of Laken Riley, Judge Rules

Supporters of former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. Riley, a nursing student, has become the face of immigration reform after her murder allegedly by an illegal immigrant on February 22, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
Supporters of former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
8:55 AM – Wednesday, November 20, 2024

A judge found illegal migrant Jose Ibarra guilty on Wednesday of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, while she was running on the University of Georgia campus on February 22nd. 

The 26-year-old Ibarra was found guilty of murder by Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard and other charges that relate to Riley’s death. Ibarra had waived his right to a jury trial, which meant that it was ultimately up to Haggard to decide his fate. 

The trial began Friday, and prosecutors called over a dozen law enforcement officers, Riley’s roommates and a woman who lived in the same apartment as Ibarra. Defense attorneys called a police officer, a jogger and one of Ibarra’s neighbors on Tuesday and rested their case Wednesday morning.

Prosecutor Sheila Ross told the judge that Ibarra encountered Riley while she was out running on the University of Georgia campus on February 22nd and killed her during a struggle. 

Defense attorney Dustin Kirby stated that Riley’s death was a tragedy and that the evidence was graphic and disturbing in the case. However, he said there was not sufficient evidence to prove that Ibarra killed Riley.

He now faces life behind bars as the sentencing is set for 12:30 pm ET on Wednesday. 

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Los Angeles To Become ‘Sanctuary’ City

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stands at an encampment during an Inside Safe operation on September 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
6:00 PM – Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance in order to “protect” illegal migrants from being deported.  

On Tuesday, the council passed the ordinance on a 13-0 vote, which L.A. officials claim will codify the protection of migrants in municipal law.  

The vote follows President-elect Donald Trump’s recent vow to authorize the U.S. military or National Guard to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants as soon as he’s back in the White House.

Meanwhile, Councilmember Nithya Raman, who hails from India, had a few words to say in regards to Trump’s promise.

“Immigrants make up the very fabric of Los Angeles, and they deserve to feel safe and protected in the city they call home, no matter who is in power,” said Raman, whose family moved to the U.S. from India when she was six years old.

“I am who I am today because of immigrants—people like my parents, extended family, and the community who raised me,” said Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. “The same is true for Los Angeles, a city built on the dreams and labor of generations of immigrants. We will not allow hateful rhetoric or destructive policies to tear families apart or dim the light of their contributions.” Today, we declare to the nation that Los Angeles thrives because of immigrants, and we are better because of their work and contributions.”

Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, is home to an estimated 951,000 illegal immigrants, according to the Migration Policy Institute. However, some have disputed this number and believe that it is much higher.

Meanwhile, Republican leaders in Los Angeles condemned Tuesday’s vote, labeling it as misguided.

“So-called ‘sanctuary’ cities and states sound warm and fuzzy, but the protections they offer aren’t for abuelas getting ice cream, they’re for people who’ve entered the country illegally and committed additional crimes,” said Roxanne Hodge, communications director for the Republican Party of Los Angeles County. “Whether drunk driving, robbery, sexual violence, assault or murder, none of those should go unpunished. Perpetrators should definitely not be protected by the largesse taken from hard-working taxpayers.”

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved a “sanctuary city” resolution on Monday, coinciding with the City Council vote. The resolution directs LAUSD teachers and staff to receive training on how to respond if contacted by federal immigration officials.

On Monday, President-elect Trump recirculated a social media post implying that his administration would declare illegal immigration a national emergency while utilizing military resources to deport those who are here illegally.

While running for president, Trump promised deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law that allows for the summary detention and removal of any foreign national over the age of 14 who comes from a country at war with the U.S.

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Nancy Mace vs Sarah McBride (male to female transgender Delawarean Rep.-elect): GOP lawmaker proposes ban on transgenders using DC female restrooms

South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a measure Monday that would ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms and other facilities, like locker rooms, on Capitol Hill. The proposed legislation comes as the U.S. House is set to swear in the first openly transgender member of Congress, Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.

Trump To Appoint Transition Team Co-Chair Howard Lutnick As Commerce Secretary

Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co-Chair of the Trump 2024 Transition Team speaks at a rally for former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co-Chair of the Trump 2024 Transition Team speaks at a rally for former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
10:28 AM – Tuesday, November 19, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly name Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, to the role of commerce secretary, according to multiple sources.

Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, was previously rumored to be a contender for the position of treasury secretary under the incoming Trump administration. Nevertheless, the position ended up going to hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.

As the new commerce secretary, Lutnick will play an important role in enacting Trump’s planned tariffs on imported goods. The rivalry for the treasury secretary position saw different groups of Trump allies pushing for their preferred candidate.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk came out in support of Lutnick over the past weekend, stating that he “will enact change,” while Bessent would be a “business-as-usual” choice.

“Lutnick, when he was out on the campaign trail with the 45th president, often touted his resilience in business and spoke about the tragedy of losing more than 650 employees — including his younger brother, Gary — in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks,” Musk stated.

Lutnick has been at Cantor Fitzgerald since the 1980s, after he graduated from Haverford College with an economics degree. Lutnick was also working at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York’s World Trade Center towers during the tragic 9/11 terrorist attacks. Hundreds of Cantor Fitzgerald employees, including Lutnick’s brother, were killed on that day.

After the historic attacks, Lutnick became an outspoken supporter of the business community as New York was rebuilding from the tragedy.

Lutnick’s pick was first reported by Punchbowl News.

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Manhattan DA Bragg Agrees To Postpone Trump’s Sentencing, But ‘Not Dropping’ Case

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
11:34 AM – Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to postpone President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his so-called “hush money” case. However, he has not dropped the case and maintains that he doesn’t plan to.

On Tuesday, Bragg stated in a letter to Judge Juan Merchan that Trump is not likely to be sentenced “until after the end of [the] Defendant’s upcoming presidential term.” However, he did assert that the felony conviction should stand, in his opinion.

“No current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution and that is based on official conduct for which the defendant is also not immune,” the district attorney’s office wrote.

A New York court found Trump guilty of 34 felonies related to allegedly manipulating business records pertaining to a $130,000 payment made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case and maintains that he never had sexual relations with Daniels.

Trump had been scheduled to be sentenced on November 26th, but last week, Merchan put all proceedings in the case on pause at the request of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

“Merchan can move to either delay Trump’s sentencing until after he leaves the White House, could dismiss the conviction outright, or could grant a sentence of unconditional discharge, which would leave the conviction intact but free Trump from any prison time, fines, or probation,” Fox News reported.

Prosecutors had asked for more time to consider the next steps in the case, citing the need to balance the “competing interests” between having the criminal case go forward and protecting the office of the incoming president-elect.

Meanwhile, Trump’s defense lawyers have urged the judge to dismiss the case due to the “unconstitutional impediments” to his ability to govern. 

He also argued that the conviction should be vacated and the charges dismissed because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in July that presidents cannot be prosecuted over their official acts, and that evidence of their official acts cannot be used in trials over personal behavior.

In a statement responding to Bragg’s decision, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung called the filing “a total and definitive victory for President Trump.”

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RFK Jr. Podcast: The Future of Food with Farming Pioneer Joel Salatin

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Public School Teachers Deliver Unhinged Rants Over Trump Victory

"I have a daughter and three nieces and he'd rape them, and people are voting for him.”

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/public-school-teachers-deliver-unhinged-rants-over-trump-victory; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

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Leftist indoctrination in our public K-12 classrooms has increasingly emerged as a pivotal issue in local and national politics, and the reaction of educators to Donald Trump’s victory in the election on November 5th has revealed that parents and taxpayers are right to be concerned. Trump’s win has unleashed a slew of unhinged ravings from radical leftist teachers who channeled their anger at the former, and now future, president into classroom tirades.

At Chino High School in Southern California, an English teacher couldn’t contain his rage when he saw a student wearing a Trump hat in class. “Just do the warm-up. I’m pissed,” the educator told his students. “People are voting for a freaking rapist and I’m pissed off. I don’t care, fire the hell out of me. I’m fighting for my daughter, my nieces, their rights.”

The rant, which was captured on video, continued for several minutes. “A child molester, huh? Vote for that freaking rapist,” he added. “I have a daughter, three nieces and he’d rape them, and people are voting for him. Christians are voting for him — bunch of losers, fake Christians.”

The teacher has been placed on leave, although hundreds of Chino High students have signed a petition and staged a walkout in his defense.

At Valley View High School, also located in Southern California, AP History teacher Maximiliano Perez treated his students to a similar diatribe about the horrors of Trump’s reelection.

“This shit [the election] is not a fucking game,” Perez said, explaining to his students that they could “end up in a concentration camp” and have “no human rights.”

The educator also complained that “black and brown men” didn’t vote for Kamala Harris, and posited that the reason they didn’t is due to internalized racism, since he knows “a lot of Latino men who wish they were white” — including the “fathers, uncles, and grandfathers” of his students.

“God, they wanna be White so bad but they never will be,” Perez says. “I hate that shit. I hate Latino men that oppress the women in their family, their own daughters. And then they turn around and vote for men who want to oppress them.”

Perez also attacked President-elect Trump directly, calling him “treasonous scum” and a “rapist, draft-dodging coward.” He implied that misogyny was responsible for Kamala Harris’s defeat, asking his class why people would vote for Joe Biden, a “geriatric, old Republican racist who’s running as a Democrat,” but would not cast ballots for Harris, who he described as having an “effective policy for the future” but also a “vagina,” a “uterus,” and “melanin.”

“Can you end up with no human rights? Yes. Will it happen to you? Most likely not. Which is a good thing, but has Donald Trump quoted Hitler? Yes. Does he embody some of Hitler’s ideas? Yes,” he told his students in the video.

Perez has also been placed on leave by his school district.

The impromptu classroom dissertations on Trump were not limited to the state of California.

On November 4th, the eve of the election, Courtney Lichtenwalner, a sixth grade ELA teacher at Lied STEM Academy in Clark County, Nevada, lectured her students about the flaws in Trump’s  “trickle-down” economic policies while giving “two thumbs up” to the economic policies of former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden. She also told her class that Trump called for Liz Cheney to be assassinated and repeated the lie that “[Trump] also said there should be seven barrels of a gun shot at Liz Cheney, a republican senator, because she doesn’t agree with him.”

Lichtenwalner went on to lecture her 11- and 12-year-old students on the issue of abortion, claiming that Trump has said that “Kamala wants to kill babies” and blaming Trump for the death of a woman in Texas who died from sepsis after suffering a miscarriage. The teacher continued to rant about transgender prisoners receiving surgery. The entire diatribe was captured by one of her sixth-grade students on their school-issued laptop.

In the state of Connecticut, a special education teacher at Chapman Elementary School was placed on leave and eventually resigned after she made a viral video threatening citizens who had voted for Trump. In the recorded video threat, the teacher, Annie Dunleavy (pictured above), states, “Just because you won doesn’t mean you’re in the clear…Just please, please don’t test your gangster on me because you will end up on a stretcher. Gone — forever. So serious. Nobody f**king talks to me unless they want to (fight).”

“If people of color, and poor people, and gay people, and all the people I care about aren’t going to be safe in America,” she added, “Neither the f**k are you.”

And these are only the examples that we know of so far. Undoubtedly, many more educators have made similar comments that students were too frightened to record or share with their parents.

The disturbing and frankly dangerous reactions of these educators to Trump’s victory only serve to reinforce the very valid concerns that parents have about leftist indoctrination in their children’s public school classrooms.

Michigan Woman Awarded $12 Million After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Shot

Michigan Woman Awarded  Million After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Shot

A former Blue Cross Blue Shield employee was recently awarded $12 million by a federal jury in Detroit when she sued the insurance company for religious discrimination. Lisa Domski had worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield for almost 40 years when she was denied a religious exemption to the employee COVID-19 shot mandate.1 2

Although Domski informed her employer that her Catholic faith prevented her from complying with the vaccine mandate, Blue Cross Blue Shield never followed up with her or her priest to confirm her devout religious beliefs.3 The insurance company refused to grant her any accommodations as required under Title VII and fired her.

Shots Required for Employees Working from Home

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, protects employees from religious discrimination in the workplace. Employees who inform their employer that their sincerely held religious beliefs prevent them from complying with a mandatory work requirement are protected from discrimination and retaliation in the workplace under Title VII. Employers have an affirmative obligation to seriously consider the request, enter into good faith talks and offer appropriate accommodations.4

In this case, Domski, an IT specialist, worked remotely 75 percent of the time prior to 2020 and 100 percent of the time during the pandemic. Rather than allowing Domski to continue to work remotely 100 percent of the time, the insurance refused to provide her any accommodations for her religious beliefs and fired her.

Jon Marko, Domanski’s attorney, explained:

This was a woman who was working from home in her basement office who wasn’t a threat to anybody and had been completely fulfilling all of her job obligations for 38 years.5

Blue Cross Blue Shield denied any religious discrimination and questioned the sincerity of Domski’s religious beliefs. The jury awarded Domski $10 million in punitive damages together with $1.7 million in lost wages and $1 million in non-economic damages.6
Blue Cross Blue Shield’s statement in response to the extraordinary verdict read:

Throughout the pandemic, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, together with its employees, worked to promote the health and safety of our colleagues, stakeholders, and communities.7

Jon Marko said:

Our forefathers fought and died for the freedom for each American to practice his or her own religion. Neither the government nor a corporation has a right to force an individual to choose between his or her career and conscience. Lisa refused to renounce her faith and beliefs and was wrongfully terminated from the only job she had ever known. The jury’s verdict today shows BCBSM that religious discrimination has no place in America and affirms each person’s right to religious freedom.8

More Religious Discrimination Lawsuits to Follow for Blue Cross Blue Shield

Tanja Benton, another remote employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield, was also recently awarded $700,000 by a federal court in Tennessee after being fired by the insurance company for refusing to comply with their COVID shot mandate due to her religious beliefs. Jon Marko shared that he is representing 170 other plaintiffs in wrongful termination cases against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.9


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1 Adeosum A. Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million. Newsweek, Nov. 10, 2024.
2 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
3 Adeosum A. Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million. Newsweek, Nov. 10, 2024.
4 Hendler C. 1964 Civil rights Act protects Some healthcare Workers with Religious Objections to employer Flu Shot Mandates. National Vaccine Information Center Aug. 22, 2019.
5 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
6 Ibid.
7 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.
8 Booth-Singleton D. Former Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employee who refused COVID-19 vaccine awarded $13 million. CBS News, Nov. 8, 2024.
9 Halon Y. Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court. Fox News Nov. 11, 2024.

Boston Mayor Highlights City’s ‘Sanctuary’ Status, Says She Won’t Cooperate With Deportation Of Illegals

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at the Public Mass Meeting of the 114th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 29, 2023. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff Brooke Mallory

5:32 PM – Monday, November 18, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/boston-mayor-highlights-citys-sanctuary-status-says-she-wont-cooperate-with-deportation-of-illegals/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Over the weekend, Boston’s sanctuary city designation was highlighted by Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu, as Donald Trump, the incoming president, intensifies his plans to deport large numbers of illegal immigrants shortly after he enters his second term.

“The last thing we want is for people who are part of our economy, part of our school system, part of our community and the fabric of our city, to feel that all of a sudden they have to retreat into the shadows,” Wu said during an interview on Sunday, speaking about illegal aliens living in Boston.

When the city passed the Trust Act, which forbids Boston police from questioning, detaining, or arresting someone for non-criminal immigration enforcement purposes, Wu was a city councilor. Nevertheless, when the act was first enacted in 2014 and when it was updated in 2019, she backed it.

“The ordinance does allow police to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement on criminal investigations, like human trafficking and drug trafficking,” according to WBUR, a local Boston outlet.

Boston’s sanctuary status, according to Wu, is crucial to ensuring that undocumented immigrants in the city feel at ease and are thriving.

“We want immigrants to know that it is safe for everyone, to be able to feel comfortable reaching out for emergency services, to report a crime, to ask for help, and generally to be part of our community,” she said.

Trump’s deportation plans have also been resisted by other Massachusetts politicians.

According to Democrat Governor Maura Healey, Massachusetts police will “absolutely not” help with immigration enforcement. Attorney General Andrea Campbell informed reporters that she and other Democratic attorneys general nationwide are ready to file litigation against the next administration. During her tenure as attorney general, Healey filed around 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration.

Wu added more context to her view on the situation.

“Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and a city, no individual city, can reverse or override some parts of that,” she claimed. “But what we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way, and that we are not cooperating with those efforts that threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and and having a large scale economic impact.”

Many illegal immigrants have been arrested by ICE in the Boston region in the last few years, being charged with crimes such as child sex offenses, and then released back into society.

This month, ICE declared that it had detained an illegal immigrant from Colombia who had been charged with luring a minor under the age of sixteen, distributing obscene pornographic material, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude. According to the agency, ICE’s detainer request against him was disregarded.

ICE officers in Boston also made five arrests in March, including four suspected child rapists and a member of MS-13, a group of potentially dangerous criminals the officers claim were released due to local sanctuary policies that rejected detainer requests.

But it is unlikely that the Trump administration will be deterred by those states’ and localities’ lack of cooperation. President-elect Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, had a message for those jurisdictions this month.

“If you don’t want to work with us, then get the hell out all the way. We’re going to do it. What that means is, rather than sending 100 people to Boston, we’re going to send 200 agents to Boston. We’re going to get the job done,” Homan said.

Meanwhile, conservative social media users highlighted the clear “double standard,” arguing that Democrat detractors of illegal immigration deportation are hypocritical.

“Democrats say we should hate Trump and shouldn’t have voted for him since he’s a ‘criminal,’ talking about his lawfare court cases, yet when it’s a foreigner breaking the law who’s a REAL criminal and doesn’t respect the system enough to come here legally, they want to support, feed, and house them?? Make it make sense,” posted one Truth Social user.

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Pennsylvania’s Senate Recount Expected To Cost $1M

Poll workers demonstrate how ballots are are received, processed, scanned, and securely stored on Election Day at the Philadelphia Election Warehouse during a press tour by the Philadelphia City Commissioners on October 25, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unverified claims of ballot tampering have already been made in Pennsylvania and other states ahead of the November 5th general election. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)
Poll workers demonstrate how ballots are are received, processed, scanned, and securely stored on Election Day at the Philadelphia Election Warehouse during a press tour by the Philadelphia City Commissioners on October 25, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unverified claims of ballot tampering have already been made in Pennsylvania and other states ahead of the November 5th general election. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
4:35 PM – Monday, November 18, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pennsylvanias-senate-recount-expected-to-cost-1m/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

The cost of Pennsylvania’s Senate recount is expected to cost around $1 million in federal funds.  

Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said that statewide recounts are triggered if the votes are within a 0.5% margin. 

Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Senate-elect David McCormick (R-Pa.) were separated by 0.43% votes, with a maximum of 80,000 provisional and mail-in ballots still left to be counted.

According to the Department of State, as of 4 p.m. local time on November 14th, Casey received 48.53% of the vote with 3,359,086 votes, and McCormick had 48.90% with 3,385,115. 

Schmidt stated that the last recount in the state between McCormick and cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet Oz, known on television as Dr. Oz, cost Pennsylvania taxpayers $1.053 million. 

In this case, about 7 million ballots will be subject to recount, and counties will begin counting on November 20th and must finish by November 26th at noon.  They also must report their data to Schmidt by November 27th at 12 p.m. 

During the recount, Schmidt said that counties will use “a different method or different equipment to tabulate the results” than they used in the initial tally to identify any potential issues. 

Schmidt also noted that the results of the recount will be published online on November 27th, the day before Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, the state website’s election returns page will be updated as counties update their unofficial vote tallies from the original count. These updates are separate from the recount.

Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Bryan Cutler slammed Casey for declining to waive the costly recount.

“Throughout his entire career, Sen. Casey has publicly called for the enforcement of the rule of law and the upholding of judicial norms,” said Cutler. “The facts and the law are clear: The election was free and fair; Dave McCormick is our new U.S. senator; a costly, statewide recount is unnecessary and duplicative; and Democrat-controlled counties are now openly defying the courts and the plain language of the election law to try and overturn a legal election result.”

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Trump Confirms Illegal Alien Deportation Plan: ‘Largest Deportation Program In American History’

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
12:59 PM – Monday, November 18, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-confirms-illegal-alien-deportation-plan-largest-deportation-program-in-american-history/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that he plans on declaring a national emergency while utilizing “military assets” to enact a mass deportation campaign, reversing the flood of millions of illegal migrants who exploited the relaxed border policies under the Biden administration.

Trump’s confirmation was made apparent in a Truth Social post on Monday, in response to a report from conservative activist Tom Fitton.

“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration is prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Fitton wrote, to which Trump responded, “TRUE!!!”

Trump has also previously detailed his plans to initiate a mass deportation campaign “On Day 1.”

“On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out,” Trump previously stated at a Madison Square Garden rally prior to Election Day. “I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.”

However, political analysts have noted that the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 could possibly present a roadblock for Trump’s plan, as the act limits the federal government’s ability to utilize the military to enforce domestic policy.

Nevertheless, the U.S. National Guard could also be a loophole that Trump utilizes, as the 1878 act doesn’t prohibit the National Guard from filling in and enforcing Trump’s executive action.

“If the incoming administration were to pursue such a strategy, it might involve deploying National Guard units or other military resources under different legal frameworks, potentially framing it as a public safety or humanitarian effort. However, this approach would most certainly provoke considerable backlash from civil rights groups and the public,” stated an anonymous ICE source, according to the New York Post.

Military defense attorney David Younts revealed that the military could be involved in more of a “support role,” providing logistics, security at detention centers and drone surveillance, even if it wouldn’t be allowed to detain illegal immigrants.

“When I worked with the National Guard, we would do things with the FBI, ATF or DEA. We would be doing a large bust and we would provide overwatch from helicopters, we would provide drone support, we would do all of those things,” Younts added.

Meanwhile, Trump’s appointed “border czar,” former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan, explained that he will work to remove illegal immigrants from every city, regardless of their “sanctuary” status.

“I’ve been clear. President Trump’s been clear. Public safety and national security threats will be a priority because they have to be, they pose the most danger to this country,” Homan recently stated. “If they’re not willing to do it, then get out of the way – we’re coming.”

The American Immigration Council estimates that there are currently 11 million illegals residing in the United States, and the process of removing them could end up costing billions of dollars annually. However, other groups have disputed that number and have highlighted that this is a national security issue that needs to be dealt with immediately.

“Steven Camarota, the center’s research director, recently provided PolitiFact with a preliminary estimate of 14 million people in the country illegally as of March 2024,” according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Meanwhile, social media users chimed in and commented on the news of Trump’s confirmation.

“Sounds good to me and if there’s any opposition [and we know there will be] remember – Clinton deported, Obummer deported,Bush deported illegals – where was the uproar then???!” posted an online user on Truth Social.

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