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‘Reagan’ star Dennis Quaid rallies for Trump in Coachella, California: ‘Time to pick a side’

‘Reagan’ star Dennis Quaid rallies for Trump in Coachella, California: ‘Time to pick a side’

“Reagan” movie star Dennis Quaid rallied for former President Trump in Coachella, California, on Saturday, addressing a crowd in the deep blue state that was once Vice President Harris’ turf. “God bless you. God bless America. I’m here today to tell you that it’s time to pick a side,” Quaid said on stage. “Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Constitution? Or for TikTok? Are we going to be a nation of law and order? Or wide open borders? Which is it? Because it’s time to pick a side.”  Speaking in the desert city east of Los Angeles known for its namesake annual music festival, Quaid said he played President Ronald Reagan, his “favorite president of the 20th century,” in the 2024 biopic. The actor drew parallels between the political landscape when Reagan was first elected and the present. “It’s amazing how the issues of the 1980 election are very similar to what they are today,” he said, recalling the record high inflation back then, as well as the Iran hostages.  TRUMP TAKES DETOUR TO ULTRA-BLUE CALIFORNIA TO SPOTLIGHT HARRIS’ HOME TURF’S FAILED POLICIES: ‘PARADISE LOST’ “We were a nation in decline. That’s what they told us. Ronald Reagan came along and said, no, we’re not a nation in decline. We’re going there. And we followed him,” Quaid said, pointing upwards. “The same with Trump, with President Trump. My favorite president of the 21st century.”  The actor said that when he voted for Reagan decades ago, he went home to his roommate in Los Angeles at the time, who asked him who he voted for and told Quaid, “You are kicked out of the hippies.”  “I’m gonna ask you a question that Reagan asked America back then, and I think it’s the question that got him elected. Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Quaid said.  “Four years ago, under President Trump, we had energy,” he said. “We were an energy independent nation. We had cheap gas. We were actually exporting oil to our allies and our friends. Today, Putin is making money hand over fist, selling oil that he uses to pay for his Soviet-style comeback war that he has with Ukraine, and while we’re shutting down our pipelines over here and capping our wells, and begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to ‘pretty please, will you please sell us some oil? We’re kind of short right now.’”  WHY TRUMP IS HEADED INTO ‘THE BELLY OF THE BEAST’: THE STRATEGY BEHIND HIS BLUE STATE STOPS When Trump left office, Quaid said, inflation was low and there was “peace in the Middle East,” crediting Trump as having been “right on the verge of accomplishing the Abraham Accords,” making peace between Israel and Arab nations. The actor also said Trump was negotiating a withdrawal from Afghanistan with “honor and order,” recalling how the former Republican president said he threatened a Taliban leader with a satellite image of his house.  “Iran was bankrupt,” Quaid continued. “They weren’t able to give weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah. And look at where we are today. We basically funded that war. Four years ago, we had a secure border. We were on our way to even doing more and having a wall. That’s what a nation is. It has a wall.… But I guess it’s like voter I.D. you don’t need it in this country for some reason.”  The actor concluded with a personal story about his housekeeper, Josie, who he said was in the United States illegally for more than a decade and used her sister’s identification. When Trump was elected in 2016, Quaid said the housekeeper from Mexico “was in fear that she was going to be sent back to her country.”  “I told her, I said, ‘Josie, no, you’re not. That’s not what he’s talking about. He wants people to come here the right way, I’m going to become your sponsor,’” he said. “And so we started it. Right now she has her green card today, and she so wants to get her citizenship before so she can vote for Donald Trump.”  “So like I said, people, it’s time to pick a side. Who are you going to pick? God bless you,” Quaid added.

Oversight group sues for communications between Harris, CBP as Congress gets stonewalled

Oversight group sues for communications between Harris, CBP as Congress gets stonewalled

A conservative watchdog filed suit this week against the Department of Homeland Security, seeking to compel the agency to provide any communications between the executive office of Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Customs and Border Protection regarding the southwest border and illegal immigration. In September, the Oversight Project – a good-government group under the umbrella of the conservative Heritage Foundation – filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the communications. But the group deemed that DHS’ response failed to comply with federal law, and consequently they filed suit in federal court. HOUSE COMMITTEE RAMPS UP PRESSURE TO OBTAIN IMPORTANT DOCS ON HARRIS’ ROLE IN BORDER CRISIS The suit calls for DHS to be compelled to release its communications with Harris by Oct. 22. “Here, we are seeking communications between CBP and Vice President Harris’ office. She was appointed ‘border czar’, and the administration wants to say it was to look at root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle — You would assume, given the importance of that portfolio, and the fact that 10 million illegal aliens have entered the country under her watch, that there would be a lot of communications between CBP and her office.” Brosnan said the Oct. 22 timeframe aligns with public interest to understand a major party candidate’s record on a top issue in time for them to cast their ballot: “We are seeking our rights through FOIA to get those records. And, since immigration is such an important issue in the election, the use and the importance of the salience of the documents would be greatly diminished in terms of educating the public if we were to get them after the election.” PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS ALARMED BY HEATED POLITICAL RHETORIC That, he said, is the reason for the motion for preliminary injunction, which if approved, would force the government to accelerate document releases. According to the filing, obtained by Fox News Digital, CBP acknowledged receipt of the FOIA request on Sept. 18 – citing an email correspondence between CBP and Brosnan’s colleague Mike Howell.  CBP’s FOIA office later allegedly administratively closed the request without informing the plaintiffs, claiming there were “no documents sent” in the FOIA portal.  The Oversight Project followed up with CBP demanding the request be reopened, and was informed by the agency their request was insufficient and lacked specifics on which particular CBP employees’ emails they were to sift through, as well as the email domains related to Harris’ executive office to be included in the search. In the filing, Brosnan’s team pointed out “inconsistencies” between CBP’s response to the FOIA and a similarly-structured request from the House Oversight Committee. In September, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., wrote to the acting head of CBP, Troy Miller, repeating a request for documents relating to Harris’ handling of the border crisis: “It is important the committee and the American people understand Vice President Harris’ role as the border czar in the ongoing border crisis,” Comer said in the letter obtained by Fox News Digital. In an interview last week, Brosnan said the public must be aware of what Harris’ team was communicating with CBP in terms of border security if she was truly given a role to oversee such operations. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP He also cited what he called the media’s recent attempts to “rewrite” Harris’ record on the border as the reason the communications should come to light and paint the true picture – positive or negative. “The public must be informed as to what her office was working on and communicating with CBP in real time during the height of the crisis.” Fox News Digital reached out to Comer’s and Harris’ offices for comment but did not receive a response by press time. Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report.