It's Giving: Blame The Victim
What is happening at the border and how can we deport the bad guys at-large in our cities?
Happy Friday! We made it another week! Thank you so much for reading. If you feel so inclined, please pass this along to the other conservative women in your life who you feel could use a nice dose of sanity in their inbox every other Friday. :)
1 Thing to do today (if nothing else)
Wherever you find yourself today, take a moment to find peace in the ordinary. In my Bible Study Fellowship group, we are studying the book of John and I’ve found a lot of comfort in practicing finding joy and peace in the tough moments of life as instructed by Jesus. Let not your heart be troubled. He’s got you. There is a plan. John 14:27
Gut Check: Are these people serious?
Last week, 22-year-old UGA student Laken Riley was killed during a jog on campus. 26-year-old Venezuelan national Jose Ibarra has been arrested and charged with her murder. Per the wires, Ibarra, “Unlawfully crossed into the United States in 2022. It’s unclear whether he has applied for asylum.” Unlawfully crossed our border, but let’s wait to confirm whether this 26 year old able-bodied man who made the thousands of miles journey might be a political refugee like that makes a difference for the outcome of Laken Riley and her family!
So aside from being told above the fold that I should reserve my judgments of this man before I find out the full story of why he’s in our country illegally, it fails to mention his previous arrests while living here—including being charged with endangering a child then being let go, only to escalate his crimes to murder by bludgeoning.
A friend of The Slip and podcast, Mary Katharine Ham, has been my favorite person to follow on this news story. She’s a UGA grad herself and has been dropping fire condemnations of how this story is being reported and spun to change the narrative from: “Bad guy illegal immigrants are killing our citizens and no Democrats seem to want to do anything about it” to “solo female runners should be careful out there,” cue the tweet:
Annoyances with the Press aside, why aren't we deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S.? If we have the bad guys and they are convicted of a crime, should it not be an automatic deportation? Transfer to a prison in their country of origin? I realize this is complicated and it all comes down to the question of who is paying to remove or house said criminals but that brings me back to square one: Why aren’t we securing our Southern Border? Why can’t Congress get their act together? Why can’t Sleepy Joe and his woke friends wake up and enforce the law?
You can’t have law and order in a society that disregards the laws and rejects order.
As a candidate for South Carolina’s State Legislature, I am closely following the bills in my state and others aimed at solving this problem. What I believe gets lost in this debate is the point: if you are entering our Country unlawfully and then come into our communities and continue to commit crimes and disrupt the peace, you are out of here bud! We need to use plain language and quit negotiating with ourselves around semantics—the only way we solve this national security threat is by meeting crimes with punishment. Politicians need to do the right thing, the hard thing, and work together in a bipartisan coalition to protect American citizens from international threats to our homeland, our ways of life (I.e. solo female runners), and our tax dollars that fund the cleanup efforts because bureaucrats and career politicians failed us so disgracefully on this one.
You don’t get fêted in the smoke-filled rooms in DC, NYC, and in my case Columbia for going beyond the bumper sticker slogans. Everyone knows that in effect every neighborhood in America is a border-city now. So sad, someone should do something about it! Hey guys, how about we unpack the red tape here and streamline the proce—No that’s just not how it’s done. And we wonder why nothing changes. The people we elected to represent us rarely push back and those who do can’t amass enough help from their colleagues to do proper work before being sidelined or burnout.
I am going to leave you with this: please call, email, and write your local-state-federal officials. No form letters or anything like that just say, “What the heck is going on?” “Explain to me what you are doing about the problem of illegal/undocumented crimes.” “Why are bad guys being released back into our communities without being prosecuted?” And if they blame another branch of government as a way to deflect ask them flat out: “OK what is your office doing to put pressure on them to act?” “Are you in communication with [insert politican/agency] to explain the impact this malfeasance is having on your constituents?” “How vocal are you willing to be to bring this to the press’s attention?”
Make them do something. It’s their job to fix the problems and represent you. Make them do their jobs.
We are powerful women. Conservative women are the backbone of our Party and the movement. We are the grassroots organizers, the thinkers, the doers. We need to lead on this one because if not more men, women, and children will die and we’ll be forced to read think pieces disguised as reporting that calls into question whether anyone should leave their homes due to the threat of danger.
Solo female runner killed, should have been more careful. Sure reeks of: woman raped, should have worn longer skirt.
The problem isn’t women doing normal things in America. The problem is letting millions of illegal immigrants into our country and we have stopped prosecuting crimes.
Feminist Files
Last week we got a shout-out in The 19th regarding the 2024 Presidential race. Love her or hate her, you can’t argue the fact that millions of young conservative women have followed Nikki Haley’s career with excitement over the last decade plus. With growing concerns over the GOP’s appeal to women, you’d think we try to keep one of our best branded politicians in the family—calls of ‘RINO’ and ‘Democrat’ just telegraph to those voters that there isn’t a place for them here and that couldn’t be further from the truth. What Nikki Haley’s run means to Republican women who don’t love Trump | The 19th
Speaking of Conservative women with big clout, how much do you know about Susie Wiles? This is the woman who “lives rent-free” in Ron Desantis’s head according to Matt Gaetz. She’s a seasoned GOP operative and Florida politico who alongside Chris LaCivita is managing the Trump campaign. This is a must-read article about the woman running the behind-the-scenes of an unprecedented Presidential race. I stan Susie. 'She sits in a tough chair': Meet Susie Wiles, the operative trying to guide Trump through four indictments to the White House | NBC
Political Horse Race
Michiganders came out to vote for their preference for Presidential nominees earlier this week. Joe Biden and Donald Trump won decisively, surprising no one. But the story is in the uncommitted vote.
Joe Biden vs. Uncommitted in Michigan
Donald Trump vs. Nikki Haley
People in the media are making much of the Haley “protest” vote within the Republican Party as a cause for concern in general election prospects for DJT. The problem with this is the lack of context compared with President Biden’s own protest vote within his democratic base—and the raw turnout numbers at the polls.
DJT’s 68% of the Republican Primary vote in Michigan is 135,477 more votes than Biden’s 81% of the Democrat Primary vote. The alarm bells aren’t for the GOP, it’s for the Dems and their incumbent. The “enthusiasm vote” is what you need to look for throughout the rest of the year. 2024 is starting to feel a lot more like 2016 than 2020. Republicans are coming out to the ballot box because they are fired up. Good, they should be. I am. LFG!!!
Thank you for reading! We’ll see you in two weeks! -Sarah