Sarah Palin and rock legend Ted Nugent came to support the trucker convoy in Texas that wants to shame Biden into ending the migrant crisis. The pair joined the rally for the 'Take Our Border Back' movement in Dripping Springs, central Texas, yesterday alongside about a thousand attendees from all over the state. The former governor of Alaska and one-time vice presidential candidate, 59, condemned the immigration policies of the Biden administration as 'unconscionable.'
'It is treasonous what our own federal government is doing to us in actually sanctioning an invasion, a foreign invasion, of our country across that border,' she said. 'Every state now is a border state. Every state is affected,' the Austin American Statesman reported from the event. Conservative rocker Ted Nugent, 75, added in a scathing reference to Biden: 'This devil scum snake thinks he's the commander in chief of the United States of America.'
Nugent played the Star Spangled Banner on his guitar and told attendees: 'If you're here today and you've never registered to vote I want you to leave right now because you did this,' CBS Austin reports. Palin equally urged people at the rally to vote in the upcoming presidential election in November to 'stand up and fight for what's right'. The convoy of conservative activists, who call themselves 'God's Army', set off for the southern border on Monday to protest the numbers of migrants breaking into the United States and they will end near Eagle Pass on the Texas border on Saturday. Earlier this week, at the rally stop in Norfolk, Virginia, organizers slammed the Biden administration for leaving the U.S. frontiers 'wide open.'
Craig Hudgins, a former United Airlines pilot-turned-Christian activist, urged those eventually planning to travel to Eagle Pass in Texas to ignore calls made on social media to use violence to make their point. A handful of media outlets had seized on a string of inflammatory messages posted in the organizers' Telegram channel as proof that the protest was merely a front for far-right extremists. Many of the participants brandished U.S. flags and placards in support of those convicted for taking part in the January 6 riots.
'People are making up all kinds of stuff,' he said during an impromptu speech from the back of a pick-up truck as supporters gathered before starting their near-four-day journey to one of the nation's illegal migration hotspots. 'This is about being a peaceful demonstration. We do not want our National Guard guys to take the brunt of what is going on. 'I am hearing 40,000 truckers coming from all over the country,' he said before a fellow organizer led this morning's 40-strong group in prayer and then the Pledge of Allegiance. The first leg of this convoy's journey ended in Jacksonville, Florida, late on Monday evening before heading on to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
DailyMail.com saw at least 25 vehicles - but no trucks - by the time it hit the I-95, one of the main roads south from Virginia which winds through North and South Carolina, as well as Georgia. Similar demonstrations took place in 2022 in both the United States and Canada over opposition to Covid vaccination mandates. The week-long protest, which will also have a similar convoy traveling from California, focuses on what will be one of the top issues in this year's presidential election. Figures from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that more than 2.5 million people entered this country through its southwestern border.
Republican officials started the process to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis on Tuesday. Lawmakers in Congress are also r efusing to sign off on Joe Biden's aid packages for Ukraine and Israel without tougher anti-immigration measures. A deal currently being hammered out would require the federal government to shutter the border if 5,000 migrants sneak into the United States each day. It will also ban migrants from claiming asylum if they cross over illegally and they could be faced with deportation to Mexico or their home country. In December, federal agents recorded multiple days when more than 10,000 people made illicit crossings into this country.
Overworked border guards often release migrants immediately because they do not have the resources to screen everybody for asylum. If passed, it would represent the biggest bipartisan overhaul of U.S. immigration law in three decades. The migration row flared up again last after the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for federal authorities to remove barbed wire that encircles Texas's border wall. The Lone Star state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has vowed to fight any attempt to remove the fencing.
And in a clear sign of how that issue is resonating with U.S. voters, Take Our Border Back has racked up an incredible $130,000 in donations to help bankroll this week's rallies. Their fundraising page states the money will be used to finance transport, media support, and other expenses linked to holding those demonstrations. 'Our national security and families' safety at risk,' the page on popular crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo reads. Cherise Moser, a New York native joining the convoy, said it was unfair for asylum-seekers to be 'putting all the burden on American taxpayers.'
'I understand that we are a melting pot. I understand that immigration is part of it. Yes, we do need some labor,' she told DailyMail.com. 'But if you want to come here, you should come through the door not the windows. 'It's not fair on those people who come from other countries and do it the right way. They are committed to being and it shows a desire to do something really positive (in the United States).' Jarred Crook, a 24-year-old out-of-work insulation installer, said he was 'frustrated' watching footage on TV of asylum-seekers pouring over the border with Mexico. He claimed that American businesses were favoring those who entered the country illegally, rather than U.S. citizens who had been born and raised here.
'The company I used to work for, half of the staff were illegals,' he said. 'I would go to these job sites and they were just two percent white people. I'm not a racist or anything, but I can't help but notice. 'Basically, they were 90 percent Mexicans. The whole job site. Doing all the work. What happened to all the jobs? Why is it just illegal immigrants getting hired?' But many other nationalities are managing to enter the United States by crossing the border with the help of people-smuggling cartels in Mexico.
Illegal entries into this country are believed to be worth an estimated $12 billion each year to those gangs. DailyMail.com revealed in September how male migrants from Africa were snapping up seats at vastly inflated prices on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Bogota in Colombia. The would-be asylum-seekers then fly to Nicaragua via Ecuador so they can avoid the lawless jungle of the Darien Gap in Panama. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13036943/Sarah-Palin-arrives-support-Texas-trucker-convoy-wants-shame-Biden-ending-migrant-crisis-alongside-rock-legend-Ted-Nugent.html?ito=msngallery
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