Democrats just won the election, and wouldn't you know it, there's now a caravan of migrants headed toward the southern border.

In fact, some of them are on record expressing their hopes that the Democrats in office will, once again, open America’s borders and let them in. A 73-year-old Salvadoran man told Telemundo, "With Congress having changed, the border has to be open."

Apparently, some folks from other countries have a better understanding of the Democrats’ policies than American voters.

And, unfortunately, they’re right: Democrats will do everything in their power to reopen the border and defund ICE.

President Trump posted today that Mexico must stop the migrants now, and if it doesn't, the tariffs on Mexico will be immediately doubled. The caravan calls itself Dios con Nosotros, which means "God with us."

However, their claim that God is with them on this journey to the United States does not, in any way, mean that we have to accept them into our country.

There are a myriad of factors for a nation to think about when considering asylum requests. And I, for one, am tired of so many well-meaning people being so easily manipulated by this.

Our government should absolutely consider American safety, our immigration priorities, our sovereignty, and the legal immigrants these folks are trying to cut in front of for admission into the US.

God expects all people to follow the law, unless it directly violates one of His commandments.

National sovereignty is a real thing. And it is a biblically sound principle.

We need to quit being spiritually manipulated over these things.

The rules on this are in federal regulation 8 CFR 208.13, which covers who is eligible for asylum.

The burden of proof is on the person seeking asylum. They have to show past persecution, or a well-founded fear of it, because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.

Wanting a better job or a better life isn't on that list. Asylum is not a general pathway for people looking for economic opportunity. One can understand why people would want to come to America without necessarily concluding we are obligated to let them enter.

Officials are also supposed to consider whether the person could have safely relocated somewhere else inside their own country.

And the regulation's text counts it against an applicant who traveled through other countries without asking for protection there, or who spent more than 14 days in another country without asking for asylum there. Honduras. Guatemala. Mexico.

Asylum is for people facing genuine persecution and is not a free pass to enter a country simply because you desire to do so.

There are a host of reasons why I oppose socialism.

First, I believe in individual liberty. Socialists believe they, or the majority, should have the ultimate say on things. These two things are incompatible.

Second, socialism has a horrific track record, killing over 100,000,000 people in the 20th century alone.

Third, it is an immoral ideology built upon envy and greed. Believing you have a right to what someone else produces is about as envious and selfish as it gets.

Fourth, it is unbelievably expensive.

Les Rubin of Main Street Economics ran the numbers for The Federalist. Washington spent $7.4 trillion in fiscal year 2026. Citing a Cato Institute estimate, he says democratic socialist programs would add at least $8 trillion a year on top of that.

That would more than double our annual federal expenses. And it could be more. In fact, I would say it would likely be more. Probably even much more.

Here's how we'd have to pay for it. Rubin takes a worker making $70,000 a year, counting what the employer pays in taxes, and compares America to Sweden.

In Sweden, that worker's taxes add up to about $41,850. In the US, Social Security, Medicare, employer health insurance, income tax and state sales tax come to about $25,200.

Matching Sweden's programs would cost that worker about $16,650 more a year. The employer pays part of this, too, but the employer's share comes out of the employee's salary one way or another.

This means incomes would decrease while taxes dramatically increase. What could possibly go wrong?

Rubin's point is that a country can choose a model like Sweden's, but middle-income families deserve to know what it costs before they do.

As Rubin points out, there is no free lunch — regardless of what these modern socialists promise you.

The White House counsel sent the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee a letter about the constitutional limits on congressional investigations and subpoenas. I read and discuss it on today’s Toddcast.

I also get into what Congressman Robert Garcia said on stage at Crooked Con, the subpoena posts other Democrats put out the day after the election, and Garcia's response to the letter on MS NOW.

PBS NewsHour — the letter itself, posted in full, which is the one I read on the air.

Fox News — passages from the letter, the response from Congressman Garcia, and Representative Emily Randall's Bluesky post about passing out subpoenas like candy.

Reason — the "blatant criminality" passage and the two Supreme Court cases the letter cites, Watkins v. United States and Trump v. Mazars USA.

Breitbart — the MS NOW interview I ran out of time on, with the video of what Garcia said about the letter.

Fox News — Senator Ed Markey on subpoenaing big tech executives, including the post about planting new forests for all the paper.

Conservative Daily News — the "subpoenas like candy" and "Mardi Gras beads" posts from the day after the election, next to Hakeem Jeffries saying no Democrat has talked about impeachment.

Fox News — the James Carville clip I played earlier this week, where he says the Democratic base wants to humiliate President Trump more than anything else.

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