It’s election season in the state of Texas, and Governor Greg Abbott (R) is kicking it off by getting tough on the issues that Texans care about — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying it.

“Greg Abbott’s policy is basically shaped by licking his finger and putting it up in the air to determine which direction the wind is blowing, and then making the most politically advantageous call to him that he thinks he could make in that time,” Gonzales says, pointing out that he’s historically been soft on the Islamification of Texas.

But now, he’s publicly taking a stand against it.

“Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down,” Abbott wrote in a post on X.

“So, yes, that is good policy. Yes, it’s a great social media post. It racked up all of the likes and the views. A lot of people outside of Texas are like, ‘Wow, Governor Abbott is so conservative. This is huge,’” Gonzales comments.

“First of all, … CARE is now suing. So, we’ll see how that plays out. Of course, I do trust in our great attorney general, Ken Paxton, to be able to defend the state of Texas in these things. But it’s just, like, the biggest problem that I have is that we’re getting mixed messaging from Greg Abbott,” she continues.

Gonzales points out that while Abbott is saying he’s banning the Muslim Brotherhood from buying land in the state of Texas, he’s also helping fund the mosques and organizations that represent the Muslim Brotherhood with government grants.

“Explain to me how those things track. It’s almost like we’re in an election season, and in election seasons, we get real tough about the things that we hear people are really mad about, but we don’t actually care about — we don’t actually plan on following through,” Gonzales says.

“Because if you truly believe that these organizations are a problem, you will not only cut off all funding to any organization, any mosque, any association — I don’t care what it is. If it has ties to these organizations — Muslim Brotherhood, CARE, Hamas, and other organizations like it — you should not only cut off the funds; you should do literally everything within your power to shut these organizations down,” she continues.

And it’s not hard to see what these organizations are doing, as it’s happening “right in front of our faces.”

“They’re just doing it in broad daylight and expecting you to be too scared to say something for fear of being called an Islamophobe or a racist or a xenophobe,” Gonzales says.

“That’s what they’re expecting from you,” she adds.

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Three teenage girls were rescued by family members from a sex trafficking ring after they went missing from a sleepover in Connecticut, according to police.

The 14-year-old girls left the sleepover on May 1 with friends and ended up at a home in Hartford, where police said they were sexually assaulted by 19-year-old Donovan Dunn and four other men.

‘We can’t tell people how many of these cases start with grooming online.’

The girls were dropped off at another location and later ended up at a Super 8 motel, where they were allegedly sexually assaulted by two men, according to a criminal complaint.

Police said a 36-year-old man named Ahmad Compton later arrived at the motel and raped the girls. He told them he would get them business. That man took them to an apartment on Nelton Way.

The girls were given alcohol and drugs during the ordeal that lasted three days.

Families of the girls reported them missing and started canvassing the neighborhood looking for them.

A witness called them to tell them that he had seen one of the girls at the Nelton apartment, and the families were able to rescue them.

The girls were taken to the Connecticut Children’s hospital for evaluation.

Seven men were arrested for their alleged involvement in the sex trafficking of the underage girls. They were charged with numerous counts, including sexual assault, kidnapping, risk of injury to a minor, and illegal sexual contact with a minor.

One of the girls is said to have called the incident a “joyride gone bad.”

“This is a difficult crime that not only impacted these young girls, but also their families and the community, and it’s a reminder that human trafficking does occur and it’s devastating when it does,” said Hartford State’s Attorney Sharmese Walcott.

RELATED: Man said his granddaughter was kidnapped for human trafficking, but police say he left her with homeless woman to visit bar

Krystal Rich, executive director of the Connecticut Children’s Alliance, told WVIT-TV that families need to monitor carefully what their children are doing on social media and other online platforms.

“We can’t tell people how many of these cases start with grooming online,” Rich said. “It takes an entire community — be vigilant, come together, making sure you’re seeing the warning signs, reporting what you see, so that we can keep everyone safe.”

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Nearly 30 years ago, Congress recognized that the country could not litigate its way out of an immigration crisis.

As part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, bipartisan majorities created expedited removal for anyone who failed to prove two years of physical presence in the United States. Anticipating a cottage industry of defense attorneys forcing the government to prove duration of unlawful stay, Congress also stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to review expedited removal orders.

At some point, the executive must defend not only its own authority but Congress’ authority to restrain the courts.

Three decades passed with little enforcement. Now, after that long dormancy, federal judges have begun reviewing cases they have no statutory authority to hear and are attempting to block President Trump from using expedited removal nationwide.

Over the line

On November 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit refused the Justice Department’s request for a stay in Make the Road New York v. Noem. The case challenges Trump’s policy expanding expedited removal to illegal aliens apprehended anywhere in the country, provided they cannot prove two years of continuous presence. Administrations since the 1990s ignored the statute and limited expedited removal to aliens caught at or near the border.

A district judge, despite clear statutory limits, reviewed the case and issued an injunction against most uses of expedited removal. That move set the stage for this week’s order from the D.C. Circuit — another step in a long pattern of courts seizing authority Congress explicitly withheld.

A watershed moment

The Supreme Court recently upheld the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly remove alien gang members. That ruling helped, but it cannot resolve the broader problem: Most illegal entrants do not fall into the “enemy combatant” category. If every non-gang-member can exhaust layer after layer of due process after invading our country, immigration enforcement collapses under its own weight.

But the central issue in this dispute is not due process at all. The decisive point is that IRAIRA explicitly authorizes expedited removal anywhere in the country and explicitly bars the federal courts from issuing “declaratory, injunctive, or other equitable relief” in any action challenging an expedited removal order.

The lone exception applies to aliens who can prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that they possess a lawful right to remain — such as a granted asylum application. Even then, Congress set a firm 60-day window to bring such a claim. The plaintiffs in this case missed that deadline.

This challenge does not implicate the validity of an executive action. It represents a double violation of statute: courts ignoring the law that authorizes expedited removal and ignoring the law that strips them of jurisdiction to review it. Congress anticipated this exact scenario and barred it.

What Congress must do

Congress holds plenary authority over immigration and total authority over the structure and jurisdiction of federal courts. Only adjudication of a specific case lies beyond congressional reach. As Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in Patchak v. Zinke, “When Congress strips federal courts of jurisdiction, it exercises a valid legislative power no less than when it lays taxes, coins money, declares war, or invokes any other power that the Constitution grants it.”

If judges can decide every political question, define the scope of their own power, override Congress’ limits, and bind the executive even when Congress lawfully precludes them from hearing a case, the separation of powers collapses. At some point, the executive must defend not only its own authority but Congress’ authority to restrain the courts.

RELATED: The imperial judiciary strikes back

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Just say ‘no’

Many of us have called for broader statutes stripping courts of jurisdiction over deportation. But that effort means nothing if judges can simply declare those statutes unconstitutional. Judicial supremacism has no end when the executive enforces judicial usurpation against itself.

That dynamic played out again last week. A federal judge ruled that ICE may not arrest illegal aliens solely for being in the country unlawfully unless agents obtain a warrant or prove a specific flight risk — an order that contradicts decades of law. In another case, Judge Sunshine Suzanne Sykes in California certified a class granting relief to migrants who “have entered or will enter the United States without inspection” as well as those not initially detained after crossing the border.

A government that treats judicial decrees as binding even when Congress denies jurisdiction invites a permanent veto from judges over immigration enforcement. It won’t stop until the president simply says no.

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An official of the Los Angeles Unified School District says that thousands of students are not showing up for school out of fear of deportation operations.

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in a statement that enrollment decreased by 4% compared to last year.

‘We will continue to stand firmly with our immigrant communities and protect every student’s right to a welcoming, stable, and supportive education.’

As the district serves about 429,000 students, a 4% drop signifies more than 17,000 students.

“These declines reflect a climate of fear and instability created by ongoing immigration crackdowns, which disrupt family stability, housing, and mobility,” reads a statement from Carvalho.

He went on to list other conditions that brought down enrollment.

“These fears are now exacerbating pre-existing factors that were already driving statewide enrollment declines — including falling birth rates, rising housing costs, and broader economic pressures,” he added. “When families are afraid to be seen, or when they cannot afford to remain in their communities, they are less likely to enroll, re-enroll, or stay in public schools.”

He went on to say that if the state didn’t address the issues, it would “face long-term ramifications that will affect classrooms, staffing, programming, and the future of public education itself.”

Carvalho reiterated the district’s intention to support immigrants and did not distinguish between those who are illegally present in the U.S. from those who arrived legally.

RELATED: LA schools deny DHS welfare checks on migrant kids Biden lost, left exposed to trafficking

“Our responsibility is to ensure every child — regardless of where they were born — feels safe in our schools,” he added. “We will continue to stand firmly with our immigrant communities and protect every student’s right to a welcoming, stable, and supportive education.”

In June, Carvalho issued a statement opposing immigration enforcement operations conducted near schools. He also said that district officials were ready to oppose federal officers trying to enter schools with a judicial warrant.

“I think that would be a preposterous condition,” he said at the time. “But then again, we have seen preposterous actions taken recently by this administration. We are prepared for everything.”

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A Democratic politician’s attempt to blame the Trump administration for rising electricity costs blew up in her face when she posted it on social media.

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota posted a graph showing a large increase in power costs since 2022 on social media, where many responded with mockery and ridicule.

‘You must have blithering idiots for staff members running your social media!’

“Under President [Donald] Trump, electricity prices are surging — up 11%! — leaving millions behind on their utility bills, with past-due balances at an all-time high,” she wrote. “American families deserve better.”

Users quickly pointed out that the graph began in 2022, under the Biden administration, and nearly all of the increase happened during the years before President Trump took control of the Oval Office in Jan. 2025.

“Klobuchar out here dunking on Biden on Thanksgiving. Love it,” CNN commentator Scott Jennings replied.

“Why can none of you read a graph?” responded Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review.

“This chick is dumber than a bag of rocks,” another user replied.

“Good lord you Democrats are the biggest f’n liars — about everything! Your own chart shows electricity past due balances soaring under Biden — NOT Trump. You’re just too damn dumb to read a graph,” another detractor said.

“You might want to look at getting new comms staff,” one user replied.

“You must have blithering idiots for staff members running your social media!” actor Alan Sanders responded.

A community note further undermined her argument by pointing out that the graph was documenting the average overdue electricity bill in the U.S., not average power costs.

RELATED: Amy Klobuchar embarrassed by foreign policy question from Telemundo interviewer

The post went viral, with millions of views on the X social media platform.

A Blaze News request for comment to Klobuchar’s office was not immediately answered.

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