Swiss Citizenship Model Would Supercharge
Trump's Immigration Agenda
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 12/17/2025 9:21:52 AM
As Americans have learned more about how much of their ta dollars go to welfare programs utilized by immigrants, both legal and illegal, some in D.C. may be asking if Switzerland has mastered the method of contouring immigration to its nation and de-incentivizing illegal immigration. (snip) Switzerland's naturalization process prioritizes successful integration into Swiss society, including financial self-sufficiency as a key indicator. Applicants for citizenship are generally required to demonstrate that they have not received social welfare benefits (known as social assistance) in the three years preceding their application, unless they have paid back any amounts received.
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As Americans have learned more about how much of their ta dollars go to welfare programs utilized by immigrants, both legal and illegal, some in D.C. may be asking if Switzerland has mastered the method of contouring immigration to its nation and de-incentivizing illegal immigration. (snip) Switzerland's naturalization process prioritizes successful integration into Swiss society, including financial self-sufficiency as a key indicator. Applicants for citizenship are generally required to demonstrate that they have not received social welfare benefits (known as social assistance) in the three years preceding their application, unless they have paid back any amounts received.
Syria has arrested five people suspected of having links to the shooting of US and Syrian troops in the central Syrian town of Palmyra yesterday, the Interior Ministry says. Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead. The Syrian Interior Ministry described the attacker as a member of the Syrian security forces suspected pf sympathizing with the Islamic State.
A First Nation reservation located in upstate New York and extends into Canada says it is grappling with transnational and illegal border crosser crime. One of its law enforcement chiefs came to Teas seeking help. (snip) His territory, which straddles the international border, has been the target of human, drug and weapons smuggling, along with other crimes. The territory borders the Cornwall Port of Entry, includes Cornwall Island and smaller islands on the St. Lawrence River, and a coastal region of Quebec. In the U.S., it borders Massena POE in upstate New York, and the northernmost points of Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties.
Nurses Seek To Stop CNN Reporter-Turned-Judge
From Forcing Them To Pay For Contraception
-- Again 0 replies
From Forcing Them To Pay For Contraception
-- Again 0 replies
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun," according to the book of Ecclesiastes. (snip) After SCOTUS reversed Beetlestone in 2020, the former journalist -- who serves concurrently as chancellor of the University of Liverpool -- put the case on hold at the request of the Biden administration, which proposed but never finalized a regulation that theoretically would have removed religious employers from any complicity in contraceptive access. Five years later, Beetlestone issued another nationwide injunction blocking the 2018 regulation (snip.)
FBI To Give Congress Bombshell Memos Warning
Biden DOJ Didn't Have Probable Cause To
Raid Trump Home 11 replies
Biden DOJ Didn't Have Probable Cause To
Raid Trump Home 11 replies
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are preparing to turn over to Congress bombshell emails showing the FBI warned the Biden Justice Department did not have probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's home at Mar-A-Lago, Just the News has learned. The memos are to be turned over as early as Tuesday to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, ahead of a planned deposition Wednesday from ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith (snip.) Ahead of Smith's appearance, House Democrats are trying to force the release of a classified version of his report. Trump's legal team has gone to court to try (sic.) block release.
On October 21, a commercial truck collided with an SUV along Interstate 10 a few miles east of Los Angeles. The dashcam footage immediately went viral: we witness the final moments of husband and wife Clarence and Lisa Nelson as their vehicle, stopped in traffic, is vaporized by the truck. Its driver? A 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India, Jashanpreet Singh, who hadn't stopped, or even attempted to slow down before impact. (snip) I've been trucking across North America for 25 years. For those of us in the industry, scenes like this are just another Tuesday.
The California State Auditor published a scalding report Friday that is an unvarnished indictment of Governor Gavin Newsom and his administration. The report should have everyone living in California horrified. The Auditor's report finds Gavin Newsom while in his final year as governor, has upended the state's financial structure, compromised public safety, and left the state's infrastructure in far worse condition. (snip) The auditor did not pull any punches, warning that the state is headed toward much worse economic and infrastructure trouble. The next governor will be saddled with Gavin Newsom's statewide catastrophe.
A top Republican Senator has provided Just the News a timeline written by FBI investigators laying out the repeated obstruction those agents faced from their own bosses and the Justice Department during the 2016 election and beyond as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation. "Field agents were frustrated. But HQ will not let it go forward," the newly-released and lengthy investigative timeline reveals. "We were trying to review the [Clinton] Foundation, and we were told 'NO' by FBI HQ."
Hospital Quickly Reinstates Cardiologist
It Fired "Solely" For Chairing Vaccine
Panel: Wife 3 replies
It Fired "Solely" For Chairing Vaccine
Panel: Wife 3 replies
The hospital that allegedly fired a pediatric cardiologist in response to a "mob" who opposed his role in a federal vaccine advisory panel has "un-fired" him, according to his wife, citing the "intervention" of a trusted colleague. Kimberly Milhoan updated supporters of Kirk Milhoan, who has chaired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for less than two weeks but presided over its changed recommendations for hepatitis B inoculation, while the couple was on a layover coming back from a medical conference in Hong Kong.
Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
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President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic. Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly comments on Minnesota fifth district Rep. Ilhan Omar (D). (snip) "We oughta get her the hell out. She married her brother in order to get in, right? Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?" Omar is Somali fraud Exhibit A , and her district was the center of gravity in the massive Feeding Our Future scandal (snip.)
State policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER). The new report (snip) found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. (snip) IER's report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy -- per kilowatt hour -- are governed by Democrats. In contrast, 80% of the states with the most affordable electricity costs per kilowatt hour are "reliably red," according to IER.
I have been covering the "Paper or Plastic" game since George W. Bush was president. And it's only gotten more ridiculous. First California lawmakers banned paper bags because they "killed" trees -- the ultimate renewable resource. They replaced paper with plastic bags, which they are now banning to go back to tree-killing paper bags. Or you can carry your filthy multi-use cloth bags. (snip) The California legislature is stuck on stupid, and has been for a long time.
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Ilhan Omar lashes out at ‘sick’ Republicans
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to brother 27 replies
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Chuck Schumer Calls for More Gun Control
After Handgun Attack at Gun-Free Brown University 22 replies
After Handgun Attack at Gun-Free Brown University 22 replies
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President Donald Trump’s tasteless comments following the apparent murder of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner on Sunday showed that the president, at least on that occasion, had a speck in his eye.
Before criticizing Trump, however, liberals should make sure to remove the logs from their own eyes. (Matthew 7:3)
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President Trump defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in an exclusive interview with The Post Tuesday — saying she was right to tell Vanity Fair he has an “alcoholic’s personality” and that he has full faith in Wiles to continue in her role. Trump, 79, reiterated that he avoids alcohol, saying in the interview he has a “possessive and addictive type personality” and that he wasn’t offended by her word choice. “No, she meant that I’m — you see, I don’t drink alcohol. So everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic.
Ding-Dong! The Obamacare Subsidies Are Dead!
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Trump slaps BBC with eye-watering $10B
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suit for alleged defamatory editing of
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The Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking, but not at all surprising.
Some of the details were distinctive — an idyllic spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field; a father-son terror squad — but the basic picture of radicalized Muslim immigrants targeting a gathering of Jews was drearily familiar.
These events follow the same pattern because the fundamentalist version of Islam is, at its root, hostile to Jews.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that there was a refugee flow of Unitarians, and some proportion of those Unitarians were antagonistic to traditional Christians — such that they vandalized their businesses, harassed them in the streets,
The Somalization of North Dakota
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North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley insisted that there was ‘no evidence of political, racial or religious motivation’. “At this point it seems [no] more notable that he’s Muslim than I’m Lutheran,” he bafflingly argued. He also dismissed footage of Mohamad holding a Koran.
Mustapha Kharbouch: Brown University takes
down student's profile as search for suspect intensifies 13 replies
down student's profile as search for suspect intensifies 13 replies
After the Dec 13 Brown Univ shooting that killed two, FBI hunts a suspect as social media speculates over a removed student profile; no link confirmed… As the manhunt rages on, a move by Brown University caused a massive row, sparking speculation that it could be linked to Saturday's shooting. On Tuesday, users on social media noticed that the university had taken down the profile of a first-year student, Mustapha Kharbouch.
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America's immigration laws as written actually are close to the Swiss model. The "Biden" administration took provisions for limited exceptions to the law's requirements and stretched them far beyond their meaning and intent.