Democrats Demand Cameras For ICE Agents — But Voted Against Cameras To Secure The Border

The party responsible for 10 million+ invaders shouldn’t be lecturing on border security.

NATALIE WINTERS

FEB 20, 2026

Democrats want cameras on ICE agents but block border surveillance.

From the Democrats that brought you “walls don’t work,” these open border zealots have a new policy hill to die on: ICE wearing body cameras.

“Body cameras need to stay on,”demanded Senator Chuck Schumer.

But Democrats’ newfound endorsement ofcameras on ICE agents to prevent them from becoming- in the words of Schumer - “secret police”is curious.

For decades, the Democrat party has blocked cameras on the border, for border security, or immigration enforcement to get and keep illegals out.They only like cameras if they can keep illegals in.

1️ The Secure Fence Act of 2006 — When Border Surveillance Was on the Line

The Secure Fence Actexplicitly authorized surveillance equipment and advanced technology along the southern border including cameras, sensors, and monitoring systems.

When the House votedon September 14,2006(Roll Call 446), the bill passed 283–138. But amajority of House Democrats voted against it.One hundred and thirty-one Democrats voted no. Only 64 voted yes. (G. W. Bush was president he didn’t want walls either, because the Bush Cartel are major money Barons, they don’t care about the people.)

Nancy Pelosi, Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff were just some of the high-profile “nays.”

Two weeks later, the Senate passed the bill 80–19. Of those 19 no votes, 17 were Democrats. DickDurbin, JohnKerry, HarryReid, BobMenendez, PatLeahy, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer all voted against== authorizing surveillance technology at the border.

2️ The 2017 “Make America Secure Appropriations Act” (H.R. 3219)

More than a decade later, border enforcement funding returned to the floor.

In July 2017, the House voted on H.R. 3219 — aDHS appropriationsvehicle that included border infrastructure and enforcement funding, including technology components.

The bill passed 235–192.

Democratsvoted 187 no, 5 yes. Nearly the entire Democratic caucus opposed the package.

3️ The 2017–2019 DHS Appropriations Fights — The “Virtual Wall”

During the Trump administration, Republicans increasingly framedborder security not just in terms of physical barriers but what they called a “virtual wall.”

Integrated Fixed Towers. Remote video surveillance systems. Radar. Sensors. Technology-heavy border monitoring.

Democrats frequently insisted they preferred “smart technology” over physical walls. But when appropriations bills containing those technology investments came up — bundled with broader enforcement funding — Democratic opposition remained overwhelming.

The rhetorical position was technological modernization.

Thevoting behavior was resistance to enforcement expansion, even when that expansion relied heavily on cameras and sensors rather than steel.

4️ Opposition to Surveillance Expansion Beyond the Wall

The skepticism extended beyond border towers.

When Border Patrolexpanded license plate reader networks and predictive monitoring systems, Democratic lawmakerspublicly criticized the programs as invasive surveillance networksand demanded limitations and transparency. (Interestly, Antifa in the US in 2026, are using license plate readers to attack law enforcement and conservatives)

The objection was not limited to concrete barriers. It included digital surveillance tools as well.

The pattern suggests that when surveillance strengthens deterrence capacity,Democratic support becomes conditional at best.

5️ And Then 30% of the Cameras Went Dark

Recently, internal Border Patrol documentationrevealed that roughly 150 of the 500 cameras in the primary border surveillance system were broken— nearly one-third offline.

Thirty percent of the government’s border monitoring system was down.

There were no emergency hearings led by Democratic leadership demanding immediate restoration. No coordinated campaign declaring that operating blind across vast stretches of the southern border was unacceptable.

Cameras aside — we shouldn’t be taking immigration enforcement advice from the party that invited (at least) 10 million illegal aliens into our country over just four years.

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/democrats-demand-cameras-for-ice

>>24282317

If you notice everything she reported were the Democrats, approving of imposing severe danger and death to our people and countryAnd only for absolute power and rule to destroy America, so they can rule for ever, for money they steal

What’s one of the worst things the Democrats are doing is: causing more boarder control officers are in drastically more danger, more deaths of homeowners when crowds of illegals attack them, kill them, or they find the illegals dead on their property.There are numerous dangers to Americansfor Democrats to import their voters from South America, etc ,murders of innocent Americans mostly women because illegals are perverts and evil cartel workers, or just fucking crazy; not forgetting dems give aways to them, free money from American’s benefits, like welfare, disability etc, then they sign them up to vote,and seemingly really want illegals to replace and get rid of all Americans, so Dems can rule like thecartelsin Mexico, etc. Even if it means 100,000 to 300,000 Americans die annually.

The people that should be deported are the Democrat lawmakers to South America or other hellholes and see how they like it.

>>24281398 The Plot Against The President and Government GangstersPN

It’s a curious thing to possibly not understand Bannon maybe was undercover on Epstein and undercover on Wolfs book.

He has repeated he quit drinking many years ago.

And Bannon worked in a “secret mission, while he was in the Navy.

And all the years I’ve listened to the war room, he’s almost totally brought in conservatives. He with Allen introduced the dangers of AI 5+ years ago.

Based on his service I’ll reserve judgement on him, if somebody can prove he was infiltrated to get info for government or law enforcement. Of course Bannon would have to talk bad about Trump so Epstein would trust him, to get a huge amount of info. We will never get all the docs.

But one other thing, anyone that gets in politics in DC etc. All of them are grubbed up, not just democrats!

Just my thoughts

>>24281731 Thought police are active in Communist Australia, Pauline Hanson commentsPN

Australia and New Zealand are part of Five Eyes for years, including tracking terrorism.

Shouldn’t there be some serious reconsiderations on whether those two radical leaders of those countries, are welcoming to Muslims and punishing their own people.

The countries are spying on world terrorism including Muslim countries and gay faggots leaders in AUS and NZ countries are spying on their own people and cracking down on citizens rights? And punishing them because the people don’t want radical jihadi Muslims there.

There’s something very wrong here.

>>24282490

Australia calls it racism for not wanting Muslims, but it’s really ideological analysis, to understand the majority of them are dangerous. Its all bullshit, using racism as a crime.

>>24281839 Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald Trump in an effort to overthrow the U.S. government.PN

Here’s the video of Nunes and Maria discussing this

>>24282535

Anons, tell me who in the WH etc. knew and told Trump what was going on? Was it Cheyenne Mt. Military or Q?

Someone told him to retain the docs he was given. But more importantly he read them all when he received them. And he has a amazing memory.

Trump knew so much more than we’ll ever know.

Most importantly the FBI NEVER found the documents at Mar a Lago.

Do you know Trump can read faster than most people? He’s a voracious reader. Does he have an eidetic memory?

God bless the Patriots for protecting Trump!

Eidetic memory

Eidetic memory, also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for a brief period of time—after seeing it only once and without using a mnemonic device. Although the terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are popularly used interchangeably, they are also distinguished, with eidetic memory referring to the ability to see an object for a few minutes after it is no longer present and photographic memory referring to the ability to recall pages of text or numbers, or similar, in great detail

>>24281850 Federal prosecutors who are probing the weaponization of intelligence and law enforcement against President Donald Trump and his allies have sent a secret and rare request for evidence from the U.S. Senate regarding former CIA Director John Brennan.PN

According to others, Brennan and Obama were tracking Trump for years before he was President, I think 2013.

I can’t remember the guy that exposed Brennan years ago,he had something like a historical Time Machine, that could track and get all the data in the world on anyone.

So Brennan was doing that on Trump for years before he ran.

==Why did the House, Senate and agencies didn’t let him give testimony, submit his voluminous info? Or even talk about the machine.

Nor to my recollection they also wouldn’t take documents he wanted to submit?

Anons do you remember this? Can we find the posts and information?

If Trump can release all UFO info, he should be able to release info on a Time Machine.

How many centuries back were the Time Machine books and stories writren? The machines are obviously not new to Earth.

>>24281839 Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald Trump in an effort to overthrow the U.S. government.PN

PS: all the documents sent to Trump at the end of his term, his staff were trying to submit them to the archives. They kept refusing or delayed taking them; because of that they were sent to Mar A Lago with him.

He wouldn’t have had the documents at Mar A Lago if the Archive didn’t block him.

But Trump didn’t take them home. There are conspiracies he gave them to Cheyenne Mtn earlier in 2020. Who knows?

Fourth-quarter U.S. GDP up just 1.4%, badly missing estimate; inflation firms at 3%. 1/2

PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 20 20268:31 AM

KEY POINTS

• Gross domestic produce rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to the Commerce Department, well below the Dow Jones estimate for a 2.5% gain.

• The department estimated that the government shutdown, which ran through the first half of the quarter, probably took about 1 percentage point off economic growth.

• At the same time, inflation held firm in December, according to a gauge most closely watched by Fed officials that increased 3% from a year ago.

U.S. growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation metric showed high prices are still a factor for the economy, according to data released Friday.

Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to the Commerce Department, well below the Dow Jones estimate for a 2.5% gain. Consumer spending increased at a slower pace for the period while government spending tumbled sharply in a quarter marked by the record-length shutdown. The department estimated that the shutdown subtracted about 1 percentage point from growth, though it added that the exact impacts “cannot be quantified.”

For the full year in 2025, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.2% pace, down from the 2.8% increase in 2024.

“The Federal government shutdown clearly sent the economy careening off its strong growth path in the fourth quarter which is a one-off that won’t be repeated in early 2026,” said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at Fwdbonds.

Just before the data release, President Donald Trump warned that the GDP number would be soft, blaming it on the government shutdown that ended in November.

“The Democrat Shutdown cost the U.S.A. at least two points in GDP. That’s why they are doing it, in mini form, again. No Shutdowns!” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “Also, LOWER INTEREST RATES. ‘Two Late’ Powell is the WORST!!!”

The latter part of the post was a reference to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has repeatedly criticized for not lowering rates more aggressively.

While growth slowed, inflation held firm in December, according to the gauge most closely watched by Fed officials.

The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 3% in December, up 0.2 percentage point from November, according to a separate release. That matched the consensus forecast but kept the pivotal inflation measure well above the Fed’s 2% target.

On a headline basis, the PCE index accelerated 2.9%, or 0.1 percentage point higher than expected.

Both indexes rose 0.4% for the month, compared with the respective forecasts for 0.3%.

On a monthly basis, goods prices climbed 0.4% while services increased 0.3%, indicating that price pressures remained relatively broad-based rather than concentrated in any single category. Fed policymakers have been watching that balance closely to see whether inflation is being spurred by temporary tariff-related pressures that would hit goods, or more fundamental demand-driven factors that would show up in services.

The Fed cut its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point in late 2025 but has since signaled a more cautious approach as officials assess progress on inflation alongside risks to the labor market.

While Trump blamed the shutdown, the Commerce Department said the deceleration in GDP, which grew at a 4.4% rate in the third quarter, was the result in a pullback in consumer spending and exports, as well as the impact from the government closure that ran from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/pce-inflation-december-2025.html

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“The government shutdown hurt growth at the end of 2025. The economy will likely bounce back in early 2026, but it isn’t harmless to do prolonged shutdowns,” said Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. “Overall, the U.S. economy was resilient in 2025 despite many headwinds.

Solid consumption and the AI boom kept the economy growing.”

Personal consumption expenditures, a proxy for consumer outlays, rose 2.4% in the quarter, down from the 3.5% gain in the prior period. Exports fell 0.9% after surging 9.6% in Q3.

Though the headline GDP number looked weak, underlying signs of demand were strong.

Another key Fed metric, called final sales to private domestic purchasers, posted a 2.4% increase for the quarter, half a percentage point lower than the prior quarter but still indicative of solid underlying demand in the $31.5 trillion U.S. economy.

Also, gross private domestic investment rose 3.8% after being flat in Q3.

On the downside, government spending and investment slid 5.1%, slammed by a 16.6% tumble at the federal level that was only partially offset by a 2.4% increase from state and local entities.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/pce-inflation-december-2025.html

(Susan Rice’s rant was because Trump excelled at higher level in both terms, while Obama was a shit President and knew nothing about the economy, except stealing money from the country.)

TRUMP TARIFFS

Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president

The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.

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The ruling was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined by three liberal justices and two fellow conservatives, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, in the majority.

"The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope," Roberts wrote. But the Trump administration "points to no statute" in which Congress has previously said that the language in IEEPA could apply to tariffs, he added.

As such, "we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs," Roberts wrote.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito dissented.

It is a rare setback for the administration at the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, since Trump began his second term in January.

The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs, leaving in place ones he imposed on steel and aluminum using different laws, for example. But it upends his tariffs in two categories. One is country-by-country or “reciprocal” tariffs, which range from 34% for China to a 10% baseline for the rest of the world. The other is a 25% tariff Trump imposed on some goods from Canada, China and Mexico for what the administration said was their failure to curb the flow of fentanyl.

Trump could seek to reimpose some tariffs, using other laws.

Companies that had to pay the tariffs may be able to seek a refund from the Treasury Department. Hundreds havealready sued.

The court did not directly address that issue, but Kavanaugh, in dissent, said the effect on the U.S. Treasury could be significant.

"The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers," he wrote.

Kavanaugh also noted that the ruling "is not likely to greatly restrict Presidential tariff authority going forward," outside of the IEEPA context.

As recently as Thursday, Trump bemoaned the possibility of the tariffs being struck down.

"Without tariffs, this country would be in such trouble right now," he said.

We Pay the Tariffs, a group of small businesses that oppose Trump's tariffs, immediately called for a "full, fast and automatic" refund process.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-trumps-tariffs-major-blow-president-rcna244827

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"Small businesses cannot afford to wait months or years while bureaucratic delays play out, nor can they afford expensive litigation just to recover money that was unlawfully collected from them in the first place," Dan Anthony, the group's executive director, said in a statement.

The Constitution says the power to set tariffs is assigned to Congress. But Trump used IEEPA, which does not specifically mention tariffs but allows the president to “regulate” imports and exports when he deems there to be an emergency due to an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the nation.

Before Trump, no president had ever used that law to tariff imports. Lower courts ruled against the Trump administration in two related cases that were consolidated, with both sides asking the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling.

The high-stakes case put the spotlight on a court that was skeptical of President Joe Biden’s unilateral use of executive power, including his attempt to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt. The court blocked that proposal, citing what has been called the “major questions doctrine,” which holds that Congress must explicitly authorize policies that have a major nationwide impact.

Multiple businesses sued over the tariffs, including V.O.S. Selections Inc., a wine and spirits importer, Plastic Services and Products, a pipe and fittings company, and two companies that sell educational toys. A coalition of states led by Oregon also sued.

As of the middle of December, IEEPA tariffs had raised about $130 billion, according to the latest data available from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Trump has touted much higher numbers, up to $3 trillion, taking into account trade deals his administration has negotiated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-trumps-tariffs-major-blow-president-rcna244827

(Sorry, but fuck the SC! But they might be correct slightly. But now countries around the world will try to get tariffs back. Shit.)

>>24282835

Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito dissented. Quote

When these three disagree the SC radicals lied and misinterpreted the words, to not only defeat Trump but also America

Many laws do not specifically note what the law would specifically cover..

Read the laws Congress are passing today, no one knows what it covers and what it says. I bet the dissent of the three above agree.

For God’s sake this law the liberal court says doesn’t allow tarrifs “is called”: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Economic Power is money and how it’s used to bolster the economy,so it can be interpreted as using tariffs against countries ripping us off, to protect our Economic power, and stop stealing from us!

The justices, divided 6-3, held that Trump's aggressive approach to tariffs on products entering the United States from across the world was not permitted under a1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

"The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope," Roberts wrote.

But the Trump administration "points to no statute" in which Congress has previously said that the language in IEEPA could apply to tariffs, he added.

(We all know laws are used even when things are not specific in them.It’s far behind time to get Roberts off the court, did he ever meet Epstein? KEK )

As such, "we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs," Roberts wrote.

>>24282929

You are right Trump and Voight said they have another plan, but it will not be as easy or effective.

Trump and team now needs to renegotiate with all countries. What a waste of time.

But if they can’t use tariffs they will use all kinds of fees to make up for tariffs.

U.S. law is filled with extra fees, fines, etc

Can a supreme courts decision be challenged or appealed? The court has changed laws they made before. How to appeal it is the tricky part.