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When Republican House Judiciary Committee Members Amplified White Nationalist Conspiracy Theories

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Most of the Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee have amplified white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories over the last few years. Their rhetoric is inexorably tied to the “Great Replacement Theory” and multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans over the last several years.  

This invasion and replacement conspiracy has repeatedly been the motivating inspiration for repeated acts of political violence and domestic terrorism. It was chanted in the streets of Charlottesville in 2017, posted online before a man murdered 11 in Pittsburgh in 2018, shared in racist screeds before the murder in Poway and the murder of 23 in El Paso in 2019, believed by those who attacked the Capitol in 2021, and copied by the gunman who killed ten people in Buffalo in May of this year. 

While many of the Republicans, including those in the House Judiciary Committee, have adopted rhetoric and versions of the “Great Replacement Theory” that are slightly less explicitly racist and anti-Semitic, their rhetoric furthers the same sort of dehumanization that paints non-white migrants as an existential threat.

The pervasiveness of this belief is not only concerning because of the violence it inspires but it is also a threat to American democracy. There is also a clear path between embracing ‘replacement’ lies and the lie of fraudulent elections. These twin lies often merge in a racist lie that Democrats are encouraging non-white migrants as an electoral ploy. 

Whether implicit or explicit, it is critical to note that from their positions of power in Congress, the Republicans on House Judiciary Committee employing this rhetoric are engaging in a form of stochastic terrorism – when public figures engage in dehumanizing rhetoric that points to an out-group as a serious threat and seemingly random but targeted violence is then directed at the targets of the dehumanization. The Republicans who push this invasion and replacement conspiracy and those who remain silent are in part responsible for that violence. As Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said “there are people who gin up an atmosphere in which other people act and if you don’t recognize that creating this atmosphere as part of what’s enabling it then you might think you are not guilty. We really need to find a way to convince the people who are creating this atmosphere that they are the one holding the gun and someone else is pulling the trigger.”

Dr. Heidi Beirich, Co-founder and Chief Strategist Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, an expert on extremism, provided context on the messaging adopted by GOP leaders: “The “Great Replacement” is one of the most dangerous white supremacist conspiracy theories that exists today. This lie has inspired mass murders around the world, including last year’s shooting in Buffalo, and also influences discriminatory and inhumane immigration policies. It’s incredibly irresponsible and dangerous for politicians and right-wing media to give a platform to these racist and anti-immigrant ideas that have propelled disastrous immigration policies.”

Two years ago, then GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy removed then Rep. Steve King (R-IA) from his committee assignments because of his use of white nationalist language. Now, it’s routine messaging for GOP members of key committees.

Outlined below is a running list of examples of Republican House Judiciary Committee Members engaging in this dangerous rhetoric followed by the list of Committee hearing witnesses who also amplified the white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy. 

Republican Judiciary Committee Members: 

 

    • Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH-04)
      • 1/4/22 – Twitter/Fox News Clip: “trying to let illegal immigrants vote and already doing that in some locales”
      • 1/21/22 –  Twitter: “The number of people waiting for immigration court decisions is greater than the population of Philadelphia.”
      • 1/25/22 – Twitter: “1.9 million illegal immigrants were apprehended at the southern border in 2021. That’s larger than the population of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Ohio combined.”
      • 1/26/22 – Twitter: “178,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in December 2021. That’s enough to fill up Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati nearly three times.”
      • 3/16/22 – Twitter: “There were 164,973 illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border in February. That’s more than the population of Dayton, Ohio.”
      • 4/6/22 – Twitter: “Border Patrol is averaging nearly 7000 illegal migrant encounters at the southern border per day. That’s over 200,000 per month, which is larger than the population of Akron, Ohio.
      • 4/21/22 – Twitter: “Border Patrol encountered 221,803 illegal migrants at the southern border in March. That’s more people than the population of Dayton, Ohio and Canton, Ohio. Combined.”
      •  4/28/22 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration released at least 800,000 illegal immigrants into the United States in the last 14 months.That’s larger than the populations of each of these states: North Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, and Alaska.”
      •  5/2/22 – Twitter: “As many as 18,000 illegal aliens could cross the southern border daily once Title 42 is lifted. That’s equates to roughly 6.5 million per year, which is more than the population of 33 states.”
      • 6/17/22 – Twitter: “Border Patrol encountered 239,416 illegal aliens along the southern border in May. The largest number EVER. And more than the entire population of Richmond, Virginia.”
      • 8/16/22 – Twitter: “Nearly 2 MILLION illegal aliens have crossed the southern border in FY2022. That’s more than the population of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Ohio combined.”
      • 9/21/22 – Twitter: “Two million illegal alien encounters at the southern border in FY 2022. That’s more than the population of Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio COMBINED.”
      •  9/6/22 – Campaign Email” “end the invasion”
      • 12/15/22 – Twitter: “Title 42 ends on December 20th. After that, expect nearly 14,000 illegal aliens to cross our border each day. That would equate to over 400,000 illegal aliens in a single month. That’s larger than the population of New Orleans.”
      • 2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – claimed that the border crisis is “intentional” which is an implicit reference to the replacement conspiracy. 3:36-3:37
      • 6/30/21 – Politico: “Since the administration is saying that they are unable to control this, then by definition, they’ve owned up to an invasion,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said. “They have been unable to meet their Constitutional requirement.”
      • 2/16/22 – Twitter: “President Biden has failed Coloradans, he has failed Americans, and he has failed our nation in his obligation to protect us against the invasion at the southern border.”
      • 7/7/22 – Ad: “Amnesty invites invasion”
      • 9/25/21 – Twitter: “Tucker Carlson is correct about replacement theory as he explains what is happening to America.”
      • 12/24/22 – Twitter: “The Christmas Invasion”
      •  8/7/22 – Twitter: “We are being invaded on our Southern Border. It is not enough just to finish the Wall. We have to deport the people who are not in our country LEGALLY.”
      • 5/11/21 – Twitter: “Invade everywhere, invite everyone.”
      •  1/9/23 – Rep. Bob Good’s Press Statement Close Biden’s Open Border Act: a bill co-sponsored by Gaetz
      • 2/1/23 – Press Conference: Attended a press conference calling for DHS Secretary Mayorkas to be impeached littered with “invasion” rhetoric.  
      • 5/22/22 – NPR: “We have a literal invasion of lawless masses flooding over our border from more than 160 countries.”
      • 4/29/22 – Hearing with DHS Secretary Mayorkas: The hearing quoted in NPR. 
      •  2/1/23 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – “Administration has been reversing the vast majority of the Trump administration’s successful border enforcement policies and they are systematically they are intentionally secretary mayorkas and and his uh his administration they’re dismantling immigration enforcement they are encouraging illegal immigration” 58:06-58:26
      • 2/2/23 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration has RELEASED 1.7 million illegal aliens into American communities. The catastrophe is INTENTIONAL. And our Democrat colleagues refuse to acknowledge the undeniable facts that everyone can plainly see.”
      • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
      • 10/31/22 – Email: “The Biden admin has refused to enforce our nation’s federal immigration laws amid a historic invasion…illegals, terrorists, sex traffickers, and drug cartels to invade this country.”
      • 10/24/22 – Email: “Do you want 10 mill more border invaders entering our country in the next 2 years?”
      • 10/3/22 – Ad: “Alien Invasion: A Documentary on the Biden Border Crisis”
      • 9/28/22 – Ad: “Alien Invasion: A Documentary on the Biden Border Crisis”
      • 7/23/21 – Fox News: “It’s an invasion quite frankly”
      •  3/3/22 – Twitter: “There’s an invasion happening on our own border, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have yet to pay it any real attention! Paying the border a visit could be good place to start!”
      • 6/1/22 – Twitter: “What’s occurring at our southern border is an outright invasion.” 
      • 6/7/22 – Twitter: “15K migrants are headed to our southern border right now. Biden is doing absolutely nothing to stop this invasion.”
      • 7/5/22 – Fox News: “Biden and the Democrats continue to spend billions of dollars to secure Ukraine’s border, but won’t do anything to secure our own southern border. What I just saw in Yuma, Arizona, can only be described as an invasion.”
      •  7/6/22 – Twitter: “There is an invasion occurring at our southern border.”
      • 7/6/22 – Fox News:  “Arizona must declare an invasion at its southern border. The definition of “”invasion”” in the Constitution is not limited to hostile foreign states, and can include “”hostile non-state actors.””
      •  7/13/22 –Twitter: “This is an invasion”
      •  7/15/22 – Twitter: “States have a constitutional right to defend themselves from an invasion and must use this right to obtain resources to close off the border.” 
      • 7/16/22 – Twitter:  “Since the Biden Admin refuses to act, states must use their invasion declaration rights.”
      •  7/22/22 – Twitter: “States constitutionally can and must declare an invasion because the federal government has vacated the field of border security.
      • 7/25/22 – Twitter: “This is an invasion.”
      • 7/27/22 – Twitter: “500,000+ known gotaways since Fiscal Year 2022 began. This constitutes an invasion.”
      • 9/15/22 – Twitter:  “Our nation is facing an invasion and it requires acknowledgment and action.”
      • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “States must declare an invasion at the southern border.”
      •  9/27/22 – Twitter: “My new border documentary, Alien Invasion, will premiere on Thursday.”
      • 9/29/22 – Twitter: “Alien invasion drops tomorrow. This invasion is organized and purposeful.” 
      • 9/30/22 – Twitter: “Alien Invasion comes out at Noon ET today.”
      • 9/30/22 –  Twitter: “Alien Invasion: A Documentary on the Biden Border Crisis”.
      • 9/30/22 – Twitter: “Alien Invasion: A Documentary on the Biden Border Crisis.”
      • 10/4/22 – Twitter: “My new documentary—Alien Invasion—is now available to watch.”
      • 10/5/22 – Twitter: “@SecMayorkas needs to take the risk of an open border more seriously. There is a full-scale invasion happening right now.”
      • 10/10/22 – Twitter: “Our panel discussed the Biden Administration’s failure to stop the alien invasion into our country and common sense solutions to secure the border.” 
      • 10/11/22 – Twitter: “I just produced a new border documentary titled Alien Invasion.”
      • 10/13/22 – Fox News:  “Its new proposal abuses immigration parole and will encourage more illegal immigration into our country amid a historic invasion.” 
      • 10/14/22 – Twitter: “Congress must authorize states to act because the Biden Administration has refused to enforce our nation’s federal immigration laws amid a historic invasion.”
      • 10/18/22 – Twitter: “This is what an invasion looks like. We end this by:✅Building the wall.✅Reimplementing the “Remain in Mexico” program.✅Enforcing our existing immigration laws.”
      • 10/19/22 – Twitter: “My resolution to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas is to hold him accountable for facilitating the invasion of our country.”
      • 10/20/22 – Twitter: “They’re helping facilitate the invasion of our country and jeopardizing the lives of millions.”
      • 10/21/22 – Twitter: “I have multiple pieces of legislation that will end this invasion immediately but Democrats won’t get on board”
      • 10/22/22 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration quietly dropped its border figures for FY ‘22….This is an invasion.”
      • 10/25/22 – Twitter: “Congress must authorize states to act because the Biden Administration has refused to enforce our nation’s federal immigration laws amid a historic invasion.” 
      • 11/1/22 – Twitter: “Invasion.”
      • 11/15/22 – Twitter: “Since the Biden Administration won’t acknowledge our historic border crisis, states must take matters into their own hands. Arizona must also declare an invasion.” 
      • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “This is what an invasion looks like. I am leading a press conference tomorrow at the Capitol to call for @SecMayorkas’s impeachment.” 
      • 1/24/23 – Twitter: “There is an invasion occurring in Yuma, Arizona. Emergency rooms and maternity wards are filled to the brim with illegal aliens. U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for these services that they can’t even access anymore.”
      • 1/25/23 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration has blood on their hands. Their open border policies are incentivizing human trafficking, fentanyl surges, and cartel violence. The end result is the deaths of both Americans and illegal aliens.”
      • 2/1/23 – Press Conference: Attended a press conference calling for DHS Secretary Mayorkas to be impeached littered with “invasion” rhetoric.
      • 9/20/22 – Press Release: “If loss of territorial integrity is indicia of national disintegration, then the Biden team has strongly put forward evidence of its intention to attack the sovereignty and essence of the United States.”
      • 2/7/23 – Twitter: “Democrats believe that wanting a secure border is a “white nationalist conspiracy” theory. 🤡”
      • 2/9/23 – Twitter: “162 House Democrats just supported allowing illegal aliens to vote. The right to vote is the core of self-determination and U.S. citizenship. It’s unconscionable we have Members who disregard these principles.”
      • 2/16/23 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration is now legalizing the historic invasion at the southern border. Its new parole program and CBP One phone app are shuffling hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into our communities. The Admin should prevent illegal immigration—not facilitate it.”
      • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
      • 9/21/22 – Column: A Nation Without Borders Will Cease to be a Nation: “When I have asked what changes need to be made to our current laws to stop this invasion, these officers have said that it’s not a matter of changing law it is a matter of enforcing it. Trump did, and illegal crossings dropped precipitously.” 
      • 6/3/21 – Facebook: “600,000 illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. in 2021…From what I’ve seen, I believe this is a deliberate policy by the Biden admin to fundamentally change the culture, electorate, and founding principles of our country”.
      • 1/8/19 – Why our border matters (opinion): “America has traditionally welcomed the truly persecuted who have escaped to our shores, but what is unfolding today makes a mockery of our asylum laws. This is not a peaceful caravan of asylum seekers, as many have attempted to portray. A “caravan” is a group of people traveling legally and peacefully through a foreign land. An “invasion” is a group of people attempting to violate a nation’s border by force, whether by military or mob action.”
      • 4/7/21 – House Republicans Press Conference on Trip to Southern Border: “There were 100,000 total encounters with the border patrol in February. Folks, that is the population of the entire city of South Bend, Indiana. In March, that number grew to 170,000. That’s the entire population of Salem, Oregon. And that doesn’t include the 130,000 estimated got aways. That’s the entire population of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.”
      •  2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – “longer mattered we’ve seen 1.7 million illegal aliens deliberately admitted into this country and another 1.2 million known gotaways have entered while the while the border patrol has been overwhelmed changing diapers and taking names now that is an illegal alien population 2.9 Million that is the entire population of the state of Mississippi” 1:28:46-1:29:06
      • 1/26/23 – Twitter: “We promised the American people accountability for the #BidenBorderInvasion. And accountability is coming. The Biden administration will have to answer for their deliberate role in erasing American sovereignty while enriching drug cartels.”
      • 6/4/21 – Facebook Ad: “It’s now a border invasion”
      • 11/1/22 – Twitter: “This is an invasion.” 
      • 7/22/22 – Email: “More than 1.7 million illegal immigrants…that’s over 6 times the population of Madison.”  
      • 7/18/22 – Twitter: “Another record-breaking month of the Biden administration’s incompetence as they deliberately allow the invasion at our southern border to continue.” 
      • 7/25/22 – Twitter: “The Biden administration is single-handedly responsible for this invasion.” 
      • 8/18/22 – Twitter: “❌ 40-year high inflation❌ High energy prices❌ Southern border invasion ❌ Surging crime wave”
      • 9/15/22 – Twitter: “Maybe the Border Czar will now find some time to see this invasion for herself?”
      • 11/1/22 – Twitter: “This is an invasion.”
      • 11/15/22 – Twitter: “The #BidenBorderCrisis is still an invasion. Pass it on.”
      • 12/7/22 – Twitter: “If Joe Biden stood with law enforcement, he would’ve visited the southern border yesterday to hear directly from our worn-down agents who are on the front lines of this invasion.”
      • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “This is no longer just a border crisis. It is a full-blown invasion. And President Biden isn’t lifting a finger to stop it”
      • 12/15/22 – Twitter: “@Heritage has tracked illegals who have made their way all the way up to Wisconsin’s 7th District. Joe Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, and NGOs must be held responsible for facilitating this invasion.” 
      • 4/24/22 – Twitter: “There is one person in Wisconsin who can stop the invasion–Senator Baldwin. If she joins a few of her Senate D colleagues like Kelly/Hassan/Tester, it will happen.”
      •  1/9/23 – Rep. Bob Good’s Press Statement Close Biden’s Open Border Act: Bob Good states invasion – co-sponsored by Tiffany
      • 1/3/23 – Twitter: “Democrats repeat the lie that the border is secure when our Border Patrol agents are literally UNDER ATTACK. We cannot allow this invasion to continue. Secure the southern border. End catch and release. Support Border Patrol.”
      • 1/26/23 – Twitter: “We promised the American people accountability for the #BidenBorderInvasion. And accountability is coming. The Biden administration will have to answer for their deliberate role in erasing American sovereignty while enriching drug cartels.”
      • 2/8/23 – Twitter: “Name me another world leader who would leave $7 billion worth of military equipment to the Taliban, deliberately erase their nation’s sovereignty, and allow Communist China to spy on their homeland. NAME ME ONE! NAME ME ONE!”
      • 2/13/23 – Twitter: “Over 5.8 MILLION illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since Joe Biden took office. That’s BIGGER than the population of LA. DOUBLE the population of Chicago. And MORE than the population in 29 states”
    • 10/9/22 – Email: “We have to force the Biden Regime to stop ignoring the invasion at our border”. 
    • 10/4/22 – Email: “The invasion at our border continues while border patrol has their hands tied.”
    • 9/28/22 – Email: “Chip’s border plan was recently embraced by Gov. Abbott. Now Chip is encouraging the governor to declare an Invasion.”
    • 8/12/22 – Email: “Designating drug cartels as terrorists will force the Biden Regime to stop ignoring the Invasion at our border”. 
    • 8/5/22 – Email: “Texas Republicans have voted ‘declaring an invasion’ a top legislative priority”. 
    • 8/1/22 – Email: “As many of you know, Governor Abbott sent illegal migrants captured in Texas on buses to Washington, D.C. as a way to send a message that the invasion at our border needs to be addressed.”
    • 7/31/22 – Email: “Now Chip is encouraging the governor to declare an Invasion”.
    • 7/19/22 – Email: “Congressman Chip Roy has laid out the case for declaring an invasion at our southern border in a succinct and hard-hitting op-ed in the Daily Caller”. 
    • 6/23/22 – Email: “Only real, concrete policy solutions with teeth will be able to solve this invasion crisis”
    • 7/13/22 – Email: “Yes! It’s a clear invasion and Texas has the right to put an end to it! No, it’s not an invasion when people, drugs, and violence enter our land illegally. Is there an invasion at our border? Vote”
    • 5/5/22 – Email: “So this is what he’s been doing while neglecting the invasion at the border?!?!”
    • 5/14/22 – Email: “Biden is blocking American energy production; and our “leaders” are intentionally ignoring the invasion at our border”
    • 5/2/22 – Fox News: “He’s carrying the water for a President who doesn’t care if our country is invaded, it’s an invasion”
    • 4/21/22 – Email: “you think free smart phones is going to de-incentivize the flow of this invasion?”
    • 3/25/22 – Twitter: “Your country is being invaded, cartels are empowered, & American are dying…”
    • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
    • 4/5/22 – Twitter: “We’re being invaded, and we should treat it as such”. 
    • 10/7/21 – Twitter: “This. Is. An. Invasion. Cartels are pushing people and narcotics for profit and it is harming Americans.”
    • 2/7/22 – Twitter: “This is a big deal. This is an opportunity for every state in the union to stand with Arizona – and hopefully Texas – to enforce our border. It’s time. #StopTheBorderInvasion” 
    • 2/17/22 – Twitter: “#ImpeachMayorkas #StatesStopInvasion” 
    • 2/23/22 – Twitter: “Met with @TxDPS getting an update on Operation Lone Star. State shouldn’t have to step into the breach of refusal of Biden & Mayorkas to enforce the law… but DPS is – every day – and and if we have, we should not allow ourselves to be held back… It’s an invasion.” 
    • 4/30/22 – Twitter: “It’s an invasion. Texans & Americans across the country are suffering as a result. Biden refuses to honor constitutional duty to secure the border & defend the people. So, it is the right of Texans to defend our state & of course, like 1836, help from our friends is appreciated!”
    • 5/14/22 – Twitter: “Border life. #StateOfOurBorder #Invasion”
    • 5/23/22 – Twitter: “TX Primary run-offs! For ALL races, #GOVOTE tomorrow for candidates who’ll take IMMEDIATE action to fight teachers unions & empower parents, stop the border invasion, CUT property taxes, PROTECT COPS & secure our streets, & have proven respect for the rule of law, from DA to AG” 
    • 6/11/22 – Twitter: “Thx. We agree. Rider can & should be transparent. “None of this money can be used for x, without y.” Be specific – and pass only short term funding & then haul them in to answer… again & again. And Texas should declare an invasion.” 
    • 6/17/22 – Twitter: “This is good, but putting economic pressure on Mexico must continue to stop the flow. Disbanding is good – but we still have had 2000 a day known got-aways, untold fentanyl killing Texans, and damage to Texas property. #Invasion” 
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “To the ‘it’s not an invasion crowd,’ heavily armed Mexican cartels are pushing human beings & fentanyl for profit into America in violation of our sovereignty while expanding their reach into Texas at the expense, increased danger, & harm to Texans. #EndTheInvasion”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “I am on the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. Looks like group north of 400… almost all from Cuba, Venezuela, & Colombia. @CBP is overwhelmed processing & saving lives… leaving border open fir cartels / fentanyl / terrorist threats. #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “Just encountered another group on the Rio Grande – one guy struggling in the water… @CBP calls in boat to help… guess where that boat is not? Patrolling to stop the fentanyl traffic & dangerous individuals. #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “What @CBP & @ICEgov is increasingly reduced to – Processing center. Parole or NTA (Notice to Appear). People just come with their papers. Comes with TV, too… but cartels keep making thousands (direct from mouth of women from Cuba I asked 1 hour ago). #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/6/22 – Twitter: “Yesterday in Bracketville, TX:“(Texas) should declare an invasion. We should, as Texas, turn people away and do what is necessary to secure our communities.” #SecureOurBorder #EndTheInvasion #TX21”
    • 7/6/22 – Twitter: “End the Cartel Driven Invasion.”
    • 7/7/22 – Twitter: “Every day. And @cbp is then processing them to release them to NGO’s within 24-72 hours… leaving CBP off the line, exposing us to criminals, fentanyl, terrorists. It’s an invasion. cc: @BillHemmer”
    • 7/7/22 – Twitter: “One metric matters- stopping the flow. That requires 1) Mexico to stop it and/or 2) turn away / removal. #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/9/22 – Twitter: “End the Invasion, Secure the Border”
    • 7/10/22 – Twitter: “There is no pretense of enforcement. No pretense of even analyzing an asylum claim. Just catch and release – by the thousands… every day. While criminals and narcotics flow across our open border. #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/11/22 – Twitter: “If there’s a candidate from a party that mistreats immigrants and Mexicans, we’re going to ask our countrymen there that they don’t vote for that candidate or party,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters Friday.” #BorderInvasion
    • 7/11/22 – Twitter: “Coming up on @HARRISFAULKNER at 1015 CT #EndTheInvasion @FoxNews”
    • 7/11/22 – Twitter: “All true. All preventable. #BorderInvasion”
    • 7/13/22 – Twitter: “Restore the Rule of Law. End Cartel-Driven Invasion. Now.”
    • 7/13/22 – Twitter: “This will continue. It will continue until the @HouseGOP & @SenateGOP stop business as usual. Voting this week for the #NDAA – or voting in September for government funding – without demanding change is business as usual… #EndBorderInvasion”
    • 7/13/22 – Twitter: “Daily battle. Cartels are exploiting open borders for profit and political power in Mexico… endangering and causing the death and trafficking of both Americans and migrants. #EndBorderInvasion #DesignateCartelsFTO”
    • 7/13/22 – Twitter: “8,000 apprehensions a day, so passing up the population of the town you grew up in (36,000) in about 4 DAYS.” on @DLoesch today 1.5 MILLION Apprehensions in FY22 to date; about the population of San Antonio #TX21 #EndTheInvasion”
    • 7/15/22 – Twitter: “Enough. #EndBorderInvasion”
    • 7/18/22 – Twitter: “End the Invasion. ROY: Biden Twiddles His Thumbs While Our Southern Border Is Under Siege https://t.co/aPPRiuiG2J via @dailycaller”
    • 10/23/22 – Twitter: “Approximately 72,000 Americans died last year from fentanyl poisonings. There were 58,193 American casualties over the 20 years of the Vietnam War. #BorderInvasion #StandUpForAmerica”
    • 10/24/22 – Twitter: “Turns out “brown people” (the left’s term) don’t like fentanyl, cartel empowerment, crime, and a total lack of security – all in the left’s false mantra of compassion at our border. #BorderInvasion #StandUpForAmerica”
    • 12/6/22 – Twitter: “Dear #TxLege – 1) Empower parents / choice – & actually end CRT in schools, 2) Cut Property Taxes, 3) Add only reliable power to grid, 4) Take criminals off streets / stand with cops, 5) Act to stop border invasion. In DC – we’ll fight to back you up. #StandUpForTexas”
    • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “Hey #TxLege: 1) Empower parents w/ school choice – & FULLY end CRT in schools, 2) Add ONLY reliable power to grid, 3) Cut property taxes, 4) Take criminals off streets & stand w/ cops, 5) Act to stop border invasion. In DC – we owe you support. See: #TxBorderPlan #StandUpForTexas”
    • 12/13/22 – Twitter: “Tx Rancher: “I’m getting seriously concerned about T42 ending. We’ve had 5 groups on us in past 7 days, 6 groups… last 10 days. 2 groups yesterday… it’s a really bad sign. And no one (sheriff or DPS) is able to respond. What am I suppose to do?” #Invasion #StandUpForAmerica”
    • 5/21/22 – Twitter: “The record 1300 lbs of illicit fentanyl seized at the border in APRIL ALONE is enough to kill 294,835,000 people, nearly the entire population of the United States.“Operational Control”? @AliMayorkas@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris”
    • 11/21/22 – Twitter: “When Title 42 ends we could see 15,000 – 17,000 crossings a day – more than the entire population of Martha’s Vineyard Border Patrol is completely overwhelmed and the Biden Administration needs to be held accountable #ImpeachMayorkas #StandUpForAmerica” 
    • 2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – asked Judge Samaniego “you testify there’s no invasion”. “Caravans isn’t just materializing out of the ether it’s  just the most recent wave of an invasion that is being aided and abetted by liberal activists who believe that subverting United States law is the best way to achieve their radical policy objectives. “working for the border patrol in Laredo Texas and Hispanic a Texan it’s racist for that Hispanic American to say that it is an invasion that his border patrol Personnel are overwhelmed” 1:40:48-1:49:29
    • Ben Cline (R-VA-06)
        • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “As Texas counties now officially declare an “invasion” at the border, I recently wrote in the Roanoke Times about what CBP, Texas state law enforcement, and local authorities told members of the Budget Committee is needed to extinguish this border crisis.”
        • 7/26/21 – Twitter: “In just the past seven months, over one million illegal aliens have crossed the border. To put that into perspective, that’s more people than the population of six U.S. states. #BidensBorderCrisis”
        • 2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – argued against Judge Samaniego about his “testimony there’s no invasion of migrants…how is that not the case” 2:13:24 – 2:13:50
    • Lance Gooden (R-TX-05)
        • 7/12/22 – Email: “My colleagues and I are discussing impeaching Sec. Mayorkas for his role in facilitating the invasion at our southern border.”
        • 5/20/22 – Facebook Ad: “When Biden lets Title 42 expire, hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal aliens are expected to flood into our country. Sign my petition demanding Joe Bidne end the invasion at our southern border!”
        • 4/11/22 – Email: “The immigration policies of this administration are despicable and nothing short of allowing a mass invasion of our country.”
        • 4/1/22 – Twitter: “What’s going on at the southern border is not immigration. It’s an invasion”. 
        • 11/19/21 – Email: “These organizations receive federal dollars and are working in coordination with the Biden Administration, meaning taxpayer dollars and our own government are facilitating this state-sanctioned invasion.”
        • 10/27/21 – Twitter: 1,151,796 illegal immigrants crossed into Texas last fiscal year. 1,347,120 people currently live in Dallas, Texas. This is what an Invasion looks like! 
        • 2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – argues against Judge Samaniego “you said there is no invasion of migrants in our country saying as such continues a false racist narrative…I would advise you to watch your words and be careful when you’re talking about people like Mr Dunn who are voicing a very serious issue migrants are absolutely invading this country” 4:17:24 – 4:17:43
        • 1/5/23 – Twitter: “Five actions that would help secure the border: 1. Declare an invasion 2. Fire DHS Secretary Mayorkas 3. Restart border wall construction 4. Investigate NGOs that aid illegal immigration 5. End catch and release Joe Biden’s speech mentioned zero of these.”
        • 2/1/23 – Twitter: “Two things Joe Biden should do today: End the COVID-19 national emergency. Declare an invasion at the southern border.”
    • Troy Nehls, (R-TX-22)
        • 9/29/22 – Twitter: “For reference: -19,000 soldiers in the Texas National Guard. -1,400 Border Patrol agents stationed in Texas. There is an invasion, and we are overwhelmed.”
        • 9/13/22 – Twitter: “The entire United States military has 1,300,000 active duty personnel. It’s time for Joe Biden to uphold his constitutional duty and protect our borders. This is an invasion.” 
        • 5/19/22 – Twitter: “Stop the invasion Today, I sent a letter with over 30 of my @HouseGOP colleagues to @JoeBiden to demand he curb the invasion coming through our Southern Border. America is under attack, and if Joe Biden truly is President then he needs to step up and protect Americans.”
        • 12/14/22 – Twitter: “Title 42 is one of the last defense measures used to prevent illegal immigration, and it expires next week. 14,000 illegal aliens a day are expected to pour over our southern border. That’s 5.1 million a year. We no longer have a crisis. It’s a full-scale invasion.
        • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “There is an invasion at our southern border. What happens when they come to your neighborhood?”
        • 11/15/22 –  Twitter: “ BREAKING: Governor Abbott declares an invasion at the southern border. God bless Texas!”
        • 9/9/22-  Twitter: “Nearly 2 MILLION illegals have crossed our borders since Joe Biden took office. When will the White House declare this an invasion?”
        • 8/17/22 –  Twitter: “2 MILLION illegals and criminals have been encountered at our southern border this year so far. We’re on track to surpass the population of Houston, TX. This is an invasion. A day of reckoning is coming, President Biden.”
        • 7/6/22 – Twitter: “The invasion happening at our southern border is rupturing communities and taking lives. Yet Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas are nowhere to be found.”
        • 7/5/22 –  Twitter: “There is an INVASION at our southern border. The Constitution makes it clear that the Executive Branch MUST protect states from an invasion, but where is Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas? Why are they abandoning Texas and the AMERICAN people?”
        • 6/28/22 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration has incentivized this border invasion since day one, yet they continue to lie saying the border is “closed.” There is blood on their hands.”
        • 6/16/22 – Twitter: “40-year Inflation High + $5 Gas + Food Shortages + Border Invasion = Televised January 6th hearings. Democrat math makes zero sense.”
        • 4/22/22 – Twitter: “How is 7,000 illegals crossing our border PER DAY in March not an invasion?”
        • 4/11/22 – Twitter: “SIX MILLION. This is an invasion.”
        • 2/17/22 – Twitter: “🚨Invasion at our Southern Border🚨@DHSgov reported that 153,941 illegal immigrants were arrested this January. They also reported that 62,573 of those illegals were released into the U.S.But what about the remaining 91,368 illegals that were also arrested? Where are they?”
        • 11/6/22 – Twitter: “FAIR has determined that 5.5 million illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. border since Biden became President. That’s larger than the population of Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio combined.”
        • 8/17/22 – Twitter: “2 MILLION illegals and criminals have been encountered at our southern border this year so far. We’re on track to surpass the population of Houston, TX. This is an invasion. A day of reckoning is coming, President Biden.”
        • 2/1/23 – Press release: “Secretary Mayorkas is the chief architect of the migration and drug invasion at our southern border. 
        • 2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – argues against Judge Samaniego “you stated there is no invasion… I would like to ask you this question do you believe that these illegal migrants are coming into our communities harming the American citizens” 4:30:51 – 4:31:49
    • Barry Moore, (R-AL-02)
      • 4/26/22 – Twitter: “A secure border is a compassionate border. Under President Biden’s failed policies, drug & human traffickers are overrunning our border. Our communities are being invaded, and Biden is complicit.” 
      • 5/26/21 – Twitter: “Last month, 100,441 illegal immigrants entered the southern border. To put that alarming number in perspective, that’s more than the population of Dothan, Wetumpka and Andalusia combined… Keep reading my latest ‘The Moore You Know’ column below “
      • 4/11/22 – Twitter: “We told Biden: If you defund the police, you’re going to see rising crime. If you do away with the border wall, you’re going to see an invasion issue. If you print money, you’re going to see inflation. If you rely on foreign oil, you’re going to see a rise in gas prices.”
      • 1/30/23 – Twitter: “The number of illegal alien encounters in ONE MONTH at our southern border exceeded the population of the largest city in Alabama by OVER 40,000.”
      • 2/1/23 – Twitter: ““The chaos on our southern border IS NOT AN ACCIDENT. “It’s INTENTIONAL.” —@Jim_Jordan
      • 2/7/23 – Twitter: “Democrats think anyone supporting a secure border, safe communities, and fair elections is a “white supremacist.” What does Real America think?”
      • 2/9/23 – Twitter: “The D.C. City Council shouldn’t be allowed to shred the Constitution and pass a bill that allows illegal immigrants to vote in local elections.  See my statement on keeping elections in D.C. free and fair.
      • Harriet Hageman, (R-WY-AT)
        • 4/12/22 – Twitter: “The Biden Administration’s plan to revoke Title 42 in the midst of the worst border crisis in history is reckless and will only worsen the drug and human trafficking catastrophe and overall crime wave caused by this invasion. The Democrats own this man-made disaster.”
        •  2/1/22 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – “the number of people crossing the southern border last year dwarfs the number of people who live in the state of Wyoming since Biden took office over 10 times the Wyoming population has crossed the southern border illegally statistics from the Wyoming Department of criminal investigation show a significant increase in fentanyl seizures within the state” 4:53:27- 4:53:36
      • Wesley Hunt, (R-TX-38)
          • 3/29/22-  Facebook Ad: The adults are back in charge and here’s what we got: defunded police, looted businesses, crimewave, border invasion, afghanistan disaster…”
          • 3/30/22 – Ad: “The adults are back…border invasion”
          • 7/20/22 – Twitter: Real problems Joe Biden won’t declare an emergency to fix: Record Inflation Record Gas Prices Southern Border Invasion Rising Crime A depleted military The rise of China
          • 3/30/22 – Twitter: “The invasion of our country continues while the Biden Administration sits on their hands and does nothing to stop it.”
          • 11/4/21 – Twitter: “Has Biden learned nothing from Tuesday’s elections? The country is being crippled by a broken supply chain, hyperinflation and a border invasion and his response is to push forward with an unconstitutional vaccine mandate.”
          • 11/1/21 – Twitter: “Makes one wonder what else Joe Biden has been sleeping through during his presidency? Afghanistan withdrawal, border invasion, inflation, supply chain collapse, COVID, China, shall I continue?”
          • 5/27/22 – Twitter: “3+ million illegal crossings since Biden took office – larger than the population of 18 states. I’d say Kamala Harris has abandoned her role as “Border Czar,” except for the fact that she never did it in the first place.”
          • 2/1/23 – “The Biden Border Crisis I” Judiciary Committee Hearing – argues against Judge Samaniego “you did say that there’s no Invasion here…I would say five million people constitutes a large number or things and I would say enough fentanyl imported to our country to kill the American five times is is a thing I would consider that to be the direct definition of the word invasion…but this is actually not about race this is actually an issue of Public Safety and if I call this an invasion sir I’m not racist.  I could assure you I’m not racist what I can assure you is that I want to make sure that fentanyl doesn’t indiscriminately kill any race religion color or Creed because fentanyl doesn’t care where you’re from fentanyl doesn’t care about race” 4:38:51 – 4:40:12. “that we’ve heard a lot of talk today about the 5 million people illegal people that have that have entered this country and that’s a fact there’s just absolutely no getting around that five million people have entered our country illegally that’s the equivalent to seven congressional districts” 4:37:52-4:38:06
          • 2/1/23 – Twitter: “Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time. Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything. -WPH”
      • Russell Fry, (R-SC-07)
          • 1/24/23 – Twitter: “Last month over 8,100 illegal immigrants crossed our southern border EVERY SINGLE DAY. That is TWICE the population of my hometown of Surfside Beach. We have to close the border and hold Joe Biden accountable.”
        • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
        • 9/19/22 – Twitter: “That’s more than twice the population of Charlotte, NC. In less than one year.”
        • 10/25/22 – Twitter: “The invasion at our southern border is no accident. The Biden administration wants our border wide open.”
        • 12/19/22 – Twitter: “El Paso has declared a state of emergency – 84,000 illegal aliens have entered the city in less than 4 months. Not one place in the US has the resources to handle this invasion. With Title 42 expiring, it’s about to get much worse.”
        • 7/14/22 – Twitter: “We’re facing an invasion at the southern border, and ICE is running out of money – all while we’re funneling billions of dollars to Ukraine. Insane.”
        • 10/3/22 – Twitter: “More than the entire population of Charlotte, NC. And those are just the ones we know about. #Invasion”
        • 4/27/19 – Facebook Ad: “Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and the rest of “Wrong Dan” McCready’s crazy friends in Washington want open borders, sanctuary cities, amnesty and voting rights for illegal aliens.”
        • 9/30/22 – Press Release: “I cannot support any bill that kicks the can down the road to a lame-duck Democrat Congress. Biden and the Democrats have refused any and all opportunities to address the invasion at our southern border, and have continued spending at a breakneck pace despite the disastrous impacts on our economy.” 

Republican Judiciary Committee Witnesses:

 

  • February 1, 2023 witness – Sheriff Mark Dannels, Cochise County, AZ
      • Sheriff  Mark Dannels is a “Constitutional Sheriff” close to the Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) which falsely asserts that Sheriffs are the highest authority in the land and do not have to follow federal law. CSPOA has close ties with the Oath Keepers and has endorsed the white nationalist “invasion” conspiracy theory. And Dannels is also close with FAIR and repeatedly pushed the “invasion” conspiracy. 
      • 5/12/21 – interview: “What they do see is the trafficking, the invasion to their way of life, the trespass, the pursuits. I worry about that, the horrific event that is looming out there. A citizen or law enforcement is going to get killed,”
      • 2/1/23 – Dannels submitted testimony made several references to the “invasion” conspiracy. 
  • February 1, 2023 witness – Judge Dale Lynn Carruthers, Terrell County, TX
    • Judge Dale Lynn Carruthers was one of the first local officials in Texas who declared an “invasion.”  She is also close with the hate group FAIR. 
    • 6/5/22 – In the press conference announcing the declaration invoked the dehumanizing language of an “invasion” over a dozen times.
    • 2/1/23 –  Carruthers submitted testimony “The invasion of illegals trespassing on their property flows from the countryside right into our communities and straight into yours.”