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<title><![CDATA[Brian Lonergan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/36526.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Brian Lonergan]]></description><category domain="36526">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Traffic Stop and the 'Noncriminal' Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-traffic-stop-that-exposed-the-noncriminal-myth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Homeland Security'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s summer arrests had crossed a line. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'For the first time this summer,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the majority of people that DHS arrested were people who pose absolutely no threat to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Calculated Betrayal of America's Working Families]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/a-calculated-betrayal-of-americas-working-families/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Look at your paycheck. Look at your rent or mortgage bill as it arrives every month. Look at the overcrowded classroom where your child sits, the emergency room wait times that stretch into hours, the grocery bill that climbs while your income stagnates. Then ask yourself a simple...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No English, No Problem--Until the Crash Happens]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/no-english-no-problem-until-the-crash-happens/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those who still insist, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, that allowing mass numbers of foreign nationals into the country with few restrictions is a good idea, it is time for them to account for what happened to Tobias '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Toby'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Forsythe.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Ramps Up War on the Birth Tourism Industry]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/trumps-war-on-the-birth-tourism-industry-ramps-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the millions who were demoralized by four years of the Biden administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s flagrant disregard for border security, the Trump 2.0 approach has been a much-needed return to common sense. Despite tremendous media blowback against the enforcement operations in Minnesota and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Workplace Raids Are Coming--and They're Essential]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/workplace-raids-are-coming-and-theyre-essential/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Trump administration enters its second year, border encounters have plummeted to historic lows, criminal illegal aliens are being removed in record numbers, and self-deportations are accelerating. Yet one critical front remains underexploited: the workplaces that actively recruit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Sanctuary Cities, American Lives Don't Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/in-sanctuary-cities-american-lives-dont-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sanctuary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' communities claim to possess higher levels of compassion for others, but the reality is that the measure of a human life in these places has quietly been assigned a hierarchical value based on immigration status. By the logic of sanctuary laws,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fake Moderate Narrative Kills Again]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-fake-moderate-narrative-kills-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just when it seemed the depravity of sanctuary politicians couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get worse, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger told citizens in the commonwealth to hold her beer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elites vs. Common Sense on Voter ID]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/elites-versus-ordinary-americans-on-voter-id/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s opponents, most of whom have never seen a local problem they didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think a national effort could solve, are suddenly proclaiming their devotion to the cause of federalism. This is in response to Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' suggestions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that he would like to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walz's Dream Act Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/walzs-dream-act-nightmare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the majority of Americans are calling for more immigration enforcement, left-wing politicians and their fellow travelers in academia carry on in denial of this reality and pretend their outdated ideas have popular support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Sanctuary Excuses Don't Add Up]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/governors-sanctuary-excuses-dont-add-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Testifying before a House committee, sanctuary city governors exposed their hypocrisy and false compassion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Cooked Books' Reveal Biden's Border Dishonesty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/article_ec90394e-3692-4b29-94dd-107237a5d7e0.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just in case Americans were beginning to feel blas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' about the record speed with which President Donald Trump has reestablished control of our borders, we were reminded of just how]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reality Defeats Sanctuary Utopianism]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/reality-finally-defeats-sanctuary-utopianism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing has been so thoroughly discredited during the Biden years as the policy of sanctuary cities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Cannot Afford an Unserious America]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-world-cannot-afford-an-unserious-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world, and U.S. citizens in particular, need a serious America. But thanks to our government's refusal to secure our border, the idea of America being a serious country is a relic of a bygone era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sanctuary Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/if-america-is-to-survive-the-sanctuary-delusion-must-go/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current immigration crisis has been called an invasion by many, but it is the result of a deluded sense of obligation to the rest of the world at the expense of our own families and communities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fraud of Sanctuary City Mayors]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/03/all-hail-greg-abbott-conqueror-of-woke-sanctuary-mayors/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever you might think of the Texas governor, he has performed a valuable service in exposing the fraud of sanctuary policies and the snake-oil salesmen who peddle them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Walls Are Closing In on Woke Prosecutors]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/02/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-woke-das/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media wants us to believe record crime spikes arriving on the heels of a series of rogue district attorneys getting into office must be pure coincidence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reality Check for Dems' Sanctuary City Mayors]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/14/lori-lightfoot-the-goat-of-hypocrite-sanctuary-mayors/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mayor is truly committed to her city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sanctuary status, then she should welcome arrivals from Texas without complaint.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America at the Intersection of Woke and Incompetent]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/17/america-at-the-intersection-of-woke-and-incompetent/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We may have never had such a poisonous combination of partisanship and incompetence at the highest levels of government as we do today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Sabotage by Illegal Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/23/national-sabotage-by-immigration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brian Lonergan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there is one truly existential issue for America in 2021 and beyond, it is immigration.]]></description>
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