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From the irs it found that even before the pandemic blue states lost almost 400 000 taxpayers who took their 26 billion dollars worth of income over to red states and lastly two u.s senators just sent this letter right here to the u.s marshals requesting that they hand over
All documents related to trips taken by u.s supreme court justices over the last 10 years why well let’s go through that together This is your daily fax matter update and i’m your host roman from the epic times now let’s begin today’s discussion over in texas but just before we do as a quick aside over the weekend i will be publishing an exclusive episode detailing the looming election audit over in fulton county now fulton county
As you might remember is the same county in georgia where during the previous election cycle during the 2020 election cycle there were several boxes that were pulled out from underneath tables in the middle of the night and the ballots were counted pretty much without any supervision now of course independent
Fact checkers told us that that was not suspicious but regardless that same county is looking like they will be having an election audit very soon and there’s a ton of developments on that front however i do not feel comfortable discussing that topic here on youtube and so over the weekend i’ll be
Publishing an exclusive episode over on epic tv which is our brand new no censorship video platform where you can find all of the epic times programs like the larry elder show crossroads joshua phillip american thought leaders china infocus life and times and our show facts matter and again we’ll be
Publishing that exclusive episode on there over this weekend the link to will be right there at the top of the description box for you to check out and now let’s head on over to texas and despite the fact that you might not hear about it too much from the corporate
Media outlets in this country the situation at the u.s southern border has continued to deteriorate to start with last month which is may of 2021 the customs and border protection agency apprehended 180 000 people who illegally entered the united states that is by the way the highest number in a single month
Over the past 21 years now according to the agency they said that the majority of these people who are apprehended about 112 000 of them to be specific they were expelled from the country immediately under the title 42 emergency health provision and in case you don’t
Know what that is back in march of last year so march of 2020 president trump implemented what is known as title 42 which is the emergency health provision and it essentially closed the border to all non-essential travel that was of course when the pandemic first began and
Title 42 was what president trump used to close the border it allowed for border patrol agents to turn back and expel illegal border crossers almost immediately rather than have them come in be placed in custody and go through a longer deportation process however the biden administration they introduced an
Exemption to title 42 which allows unaccompanied children and most family units to stay in the country once they hit american soil and so right now it’s mostly family units as well as children who don’t get immediately deported and once they get accepted into america these individuals are released into the
Interior of the united states and are given one of two things they’re either given a notice to report meaning that they are obliged to report to a local ice office once they get settled or they’re given a notice to appear meaning that they have to appear in immigration court at a certain date
However according to ice the reality is that they are just not able to track all of the thousands of illegal immigrants who are being released into the united states every single week now human smugglers the cartels and the coyotes they know how our system works
And they know that the way to get in is by coming in as a family unit and so our reporter right now who is on the ground down in texas she has heard many accounts of people renting children in order to cross the border as a family
Unit in fact she was once told the story by a border patrol officer who told her that a woman an illegal immigrant woman was spitting into the mouth of a baby so that the border patrol agent would do a dna swab and match the results that’s the level that it’s gotten to
Down there and again just to reiterate last month 180 000 illegal crossers were apprehended which is the largest amount in the last 21 years however that is not the full picture because many border crossers made it through without being apprehended according to data that was released also from the border patrol
Agency besides the 180 000 people who are apprehended last month there was another 51 000 illegal border crossers that they detected but for one reason or another they were not able to capture now at this moment the biden administration is actually under pressure to end title 42 altogether and
They’ve actually hinted that they might be doing so however the current head of ice who is a man named ty johnson he said that removing title 42 is his biggest concern here’s specifically what he said title 42 is absolutely critical i don’t think it’s a situation where
It’s going to just be lifted electively we will be mandated through some sort of court order to lift it now kamala harris who was recently assigned to handle the crisis at the border she is currently traveling to mexico and to guatemala in order to address what she calls the root
Causes of so many illegal immigrants coming to the u.s here’s part of what she said in a speech in guatemala do not come do not come the united states will continue to enforce our laws and secure our borders however interestingly right before she arrived there in guatemala the guatemalan
President he criticized the biden administration for unclear messaging which he said contributed to the surge at the border here’s what he said during an interview with fox news you can see that humanitarian messages were used here by the coyotes in a distorted manner they said meaning the biden
Administration said that they were going to support family reunification so the coyotes came and took the children and teenagers to the united states and the borders filled up not only with people from guatemala but lots of people that’s why we have suggested that the messaging be clear so he said that before kamala
Harris’s speech however after kamala harris’s speech this guatemalan president he added this the vice president yesterday sent a very clear message because she said do not come because we won’t let you in that’s a clear message but if you have a lukewarm message it opens up the possibility that
There’s a bad interpretation of it you can say it in good faith but there are people who will misinterpret it and there are quite a few reports to that effect for instance back in april reuters interviewed about two dozen migrants and about a dozen people who identified themselves as smugglers and
They found that many people believe that they are welcome to cross the border for instance here’s what one guatemalan smuggler had to say there’s 100 days of free passage across the border meaning the 100 days of the biden administration another smuggler during that interview said supposedly the president is letting
Children in and furthermore we here at the epic times we did some digging of our own and we found that these smugglers are openly advertising their illegal border crossing services on facebook such as this post here which reads want to cross to the united states we pick them up in this city in
Guatemala to houston texas all over mexico by bus all they ask for is 93 000 and as you can imagine where all of this is being felt the strongest is in the states that actually border mexico such as texas texas is feeling the full brunt force of this border crisis for instance
In laredo border patrol agents just arrested over 160 illegal immigrants who were packed inside of two tractor-trailers elsewhere texas ranchers have to fear encounters with illegal aliens and armed smugglers on a daily basis and generally human smuggling is leading to pursuits with the police car crashes school lockdowns
And so on and by the way take a look at that crazy photo at the top of the article that was taken by our reporter and it shows the moment that a sheriff opens up the trunk of a car and finds a guatemalan illegal immigrant inside who
Was trying to get through that car by the way was filled with seven illegal immigrants in total and so feeling like they are not getting much help from the federal government the governor of texas is deciding to take matters into his own hands to start with 10 days ago governor greg abbott he
Issued a declaration of disaster at the southern border which now allows him to allocate additional resources down there second of all several counties in texas have begun charging illegal aliens with trespassing evading arrest on foot and child endangerment thirdly they’ve asked other states to deploy available police or law enforcement to the southern
Border in order to assist border patrol agents in order to deal with the surge of illegal immigrants and lastly just yesterday governor greg abbott announced a major border security plan which among several other things involves texas building their own barrier along the mexico border and arresting illegal immigrants who enter the state during
That announcement governor abbott said that he will sign new state budgets that will appropriate more than one billion dollars to increase border security and that texas will be expanding their border barrier however he did not elaborate further on that as of yet and he said that more details will be coming
Next week here’s what specifically governor abbott said in a statement while securing the border is the federal government’s responsibility texas will not sit idly by as this crisis grows the state is working collaboratively with communities impacted by the crisis to arrest and detain individuals coming into texas illegally he then further
Elaborated on his main point by writing this on twitter we’re going to start making arrests sending a message to anyone thinking about coming here you’re not getting a free pass you’re getting a straight pass to a jail cell now as to whether this new strategy will ultimately work and more specifically
Whether the federal government will allow texas to do this unabated well that is yet to be determined because although texas is accusing the federal government of pretty much abdicating their duty to protect the nation and now they’re taking things into their own hands well technically the federal government could argue that they are
Overstepping their bounds and we’ll just have to wait and see what ultimately happens now if you would like to read anything that we’ve discussed about the southern border thus far or about this new plan in texas all those links will be in the description box below this
Video for you to check out and also if you have a twitter account i would highly highly recommend that you follow our reporter charlotte who is right now down in texas doing on the ground reporting such as by shadowing sheriffs as they’re doing their duties right there on the border she has some
Unbelievable footage and photos coming out pretty much on a weekly basis that pretty much shows an authentic representation of what is happening down there at the u.s southern border i’ll put a link in the description box as well to her twitter account and now before we move on over and discuss how
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Episode now roman in the studio back to you and now let’s talk about mass migration within america’s borders now for the last several years stretching back even before the pandemic and before the lockdowns hundreds of thousands of americans were leaving blue states and moving themselves and their families to
Red states and with them they took their taxable incomes in fact according to data from the irs which tracks state to state migration it showed that blue states had an outflow of nearly 400 000 taxpayers who took with them over 26 billion dollars in taxable gross income
To red state and this irs migration data by the way is the most recent that we have access to and it spans from 2017 to 2018. so i really want to highlight this does not even include the pandemic and all of the lockdowns however this data it shows that during
This one year time span between 2017 and 2018 close to 400 000 taxpayers and their dependents which by the way represents about one percent of the us population the up and left blue states in favor of red states and just for reference the definition of a blue state
At least in this context is one in which both the state house and the state senate are controlled by democrats and when you comb through this data from the irs you find that the losers the big losers in this migration are california which lost about 167 000 people new york
Which lost about 153 000 people and illinois which lost about 82 000 people california new york and illinois with those states accounting for the bulk of people leaving followed by new jersey massachusetts and maryland and then in terms of the winners it looks like texas was the biggest beneficiary of this
Outflow they had a net gain of over 114 000 taxpayers which equated to about 4 billion more dollars in new taxable income which i guess as we discussed in the previous story they can now use to build their own border wall now one question that’s worth considering is exactly why are people
Leaving blue states in such high numbers right now a lot of people are saying that it’s because of the lockdowns however this data the one that we’re reviewing from the irs it came from 2017 to 2018 which is two full years before the pandemic and so in order to get an
Idea of what’s actually going on let’s do a case study of just one state of california in total california saw the biggest loss of any single state during this period they lost over 165 000 taxpayers which accounted for 8.8 billion dollars in gross income that just left the state and it’s not just
The tax revenue that they are losing by the way california has had so many people leave over the last decade that they even lost a congressional seat in the u.s house of representatives now according to brandon ristof who is an analyst with the california policy center he told media that this exodus
From california is driven by the states bad policies on the economy education and more california used to be a place where everyone wanted to live but now california has become a place where people want to leave now getting anecdotal data about why people are leaving california is fairly simple i
Mean if you just type why i left california into the youtube search bar you’ll find a fair bit of videos with people citing the rise in homeless encampments people doing hard drugs in plain sight the rise in violent crime the streets being filled with poop taxes going through the roof rolling blackouts
And so on likewise if you go on twitter you can find many posts about why people are leaving the state such as this one here to register a 2021 toyota 4runner in idaho 32 for two years to register the same vehicle in california 627 for just one year roads in idaho are
Ranked in the top three best in the country roads in california are ranked second worst in the country now these types of posts are quite telling about the state of things over in california however outside of this anecdotal data there are some more concrete sources of data that we can
Look at to see why people are leaving the state for example the census bureau routinely conducts surveys where they ask people who recently moved why they did so and according to the results of their most recent survey which was again prior to the pandemic they found that the top answers were because people
Wanted a newer better or larger house or apartment had a new job or job transfer wanted to establish their own household other family reasons wanted to own their own home rather than rent and wanted cheaper housing now again note that was before the pandemic and also notice that
The census bureau does not ask specifically about taxes however according to the cato institute which is a libertarian think tank they released an analysis which made the argument that taxes do heavily influence migration and they also further said that tax related motivations could actually be inferred from some of the responses in that
Census bureau data that we just looked at here’s what they said in their analysis the census bureau does not ask movers about taxes but some of the 19 choices may reflect the influence of taxes for example people moving for housing reasons may consider the level of property taxes since those taxes are a
Standard item listed on housing sale notices similarly people moving for new jobs may consider the effect of income taxes if they are for example moving between a high tax state such as california and a state with no income tax such as nevada now if you would like
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And now let’s talk a little bit about the supreme court there has been a bit of a battle going on behind the scenes over the last few years now over how much transparency is required from the supreme court because while it’s expected that members of congress are
Members of the executive branch like the president and the vice president it’s expected that they offer a certain level of transparency however it does not seem to apply as much to the u.s supreme court likely because they are pointed to lifetime terms and so generally they are not as accountable to
Voters as the other branches however two u.s senators are working to change that that’s because these two senators recently asked the u.s marshals for all documents related to trips taken by u.s supreme court justices over the last decade now these two senators by the way come from both parties one is sheldon
Whitehouse who is a democrat from rhode island while the other is john kennedy who is a republican from louisiana and here’s what they wrote in this joint letter that they sent over to the us marshal service it says quote congress is currently reevaluating financial disclosure standards for the receipts of
Gifts travel and other emoluments by senior government officials including the justices of the u.s supreme court and other judicial officers these statutes require senior government officials to disclose outside income gifts and reimbursements on an annual basis the letter then goes on to say that while the legislative and the executive
Branches of our government have already set up regulations around disclosing gifts the guidelines surrounding the judicial branch are significantly less stringent here’s what the letter goes on to say the justices of our highest court are subject to the lowest standards of transparency of any senior officials across the federal government they then
Go on to ask the us marshal service for all documents from the past decade related to trips that were taken by u.s supreme court justices when they left washington dc now according to a statement from these senators these documents will help us assess how disclosures by members of the court
Accord with the judicial branch’s disclosure standards and to improve the consistency of disclosure standards across the three branches for a reference by the way when the supreme court justices are in washington dc they are protected by the supreme court police however when they travel outside of washington they typically request
Security from the u.s marshals which is why this letter is addressed to them in order to get these documents and furthermore this is not actually the first time that these types of travel records have been requested for example back in february so about four months ago these same two senators sent a
Letter over to john roberts who is the supreme chief justice of the u.s supreme court and in that previous letter much like in this new letter that we just reviewed they asked john roberts to to bring judicial financial disclosure requirements in line with other branches of government following passage of the
Ethics reform act of 1989 congress and the executive branch implemented strong disclosure requirements for officials outside income gifts and reimbursements the judiciary for its part has adopted significantly less stringent guidelines and has failed to make information on judicial branch disclosures readily available to the public however according to the senators justice john
Roberts never responded to that earlier letter which might be why these two senators sent this letter directly to the u.s marshals and circumvented the u.s supreme court altogether now one interesting thing to note here the last thing i want to note is that about 10 years ago there was a similar push to
Get the supreme court to adopt a code of ethics however back then justice john roberts he actually came out and he said that congress does not have the constitutional authority to impose an ethics code on the supreme court and he added that the court has no reason to adopt the code of conduct
As its definitive source of ethical guidance and so we’ll keep an eye out for whether the u.s marshals actually get back to the senators with these documents and if so we’ll let you know what they say and until then if you’d like to read more about this letter if
You’d like to actually read the full text of this letter or all the details surrounding it those links will be in the description box below this video for you to check out and lastly as we already discussed in several previous episodes on the very same day that joe biden was sworn into office
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