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Al Sharpton calls border crisis an 'invasion,' wants GOP senators pressured for 'allowing this to continue'
While bashing some Republicans for not getting on board with the Senate immigration bill unveiled over the weekend, MSNBC host Al Sharpton used the word “invasion” Monday to describe the border crisis, which some liberals found to be highly controversial.
President Biden and politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties have touted the deal as a bipartisan compromise to secure the border. However, many Republicans argue that not only is this deal insufficient, but Biden already has the necessary ability to take action to secure the border. One of their main critiques is that it would include Title 42-type authority that would only be mandated if numbers at the southern border exceeded 5,000 migrant encounters a day. Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla is so far the only Democratic senator to have publicly criticized the bill. He called the deal a “new version of a failed Trump-era immigration policy that will cause more chaos at the border, not less.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., went on “Morning Joe” to tout the bill he helped negotiate and Sharpton asked him what could be done to get voters to pressure their senators to support the bill.
Sharpton expressed urgency and channeled people “outraged” across the country at the “influx of migrants,” pointing the finger at senators who aren’t on board as the ones “allowing this to continue.”
MSNBC host referred to the migrant crisis at America’s southern border as an invasion. (MSNBC)
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“What is being done to get the public to really rise up in various states to say to their senators that they want to see the border issue resolved?” he asked. “I mean, you’re getting migrants beating up policemen in the streets of New York. You’re seeing an influx of migrants all over the country that, frankly, have people outraged. Couldn’t there be some kind of public pressure put in the next couple of days in some of these senators’ states saying, ‘Why are you allowing this to continue?’ Because at the end of the day, senators have to deal with their voters.”
After mentioning funding to Israel and Gaza, Sharpton went back to the border, referring to the migrant crisis as an “invasion,” a term that sparks outrage among immigration advocates and the left.
“But the border, I mean, we’re looking every day at the invasion of migrants, and they’re playing a time game with politics on this?” Sharpton asked. “Couldn’t the pressure be put to bear in their home states?”
Dec. 18, 2023: Migrants flood into Eagle Pass, Texas, waiting to be processed. (Fox News)
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HuffPost senior reporter Paul Blumenthal objected to the use of the term “invasion” to describe the massive influx of people who are coming across America’s southern border, in a Monday piece warning, “Texas Makes Absurd Argument That Immigration Is ‘Invasion.’”
“Once confined to the nativist far-right, this rhetoric of immigrant invasion has surged into the Republican Party mainstream since former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016,” Blumenthal wrote. He went on to say, “This rhetoric has been deployed throughout American history to fuel support for anti-immigration measures and most notably in the Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.”
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He went on to cite a quote from University of Baltimore School of Law professor Matthew Lindsay who argued that such rhetoric has “portrayed immigrants as faceless masses, who were racially incapable of assimilating into American conceptions of liberty, and would undermine the country’s system of free labor by taking work at exploitative wages.”
Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
Austin, TX — Dinosaur lovers of all ages can travel back millions of years during Dinosaur Day at the Texas Science & Natural History Museum on Saturday, July 11.
The family-friendly event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and features a full day of hands-on activities, opportunities to meet paleontologists and plenty of prehistoric discoveries.
One of the day’s biggest attractions gives visitors the chance to **bring their own fossils** for in-person identification by a paleontologist. Fossil identification sessions will be available from 10 a.m. to noon and again from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Guests can also:
Meet paleontologists who study dinosaurs
Participate in family-friendly educational and art activities
Complete a dinosaur-themed scavenger hunt
Attend a special story time for younger visitors
Pick up a free dinosaur poster while supplies last
Explore “Epic Encounters,” the museum’s newly reimagined paleontology gallery
Visit the hands-on Discovery Center
See a 33-foot cast replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton along with a variety of fossil specimens
Save 20% on select dinosaur-themed merchandise in the Museum Store
All Dinosaur Day activities are included with regular museum admission.
The Texas Science & Natural History Museum, located on the University of Texas campus, tells the story of Texas’ natural history—from the formation of the planet and the age of dinosaurs to the state’s modern-day ecosystems.
For more information and ticket details, visit the museum’s event page: https://sciencemuseum.utexas.edu/
We’re just about a month away from the beginning of fall camp. Alabama’s season opener against East Carolina is on September 5th, so fall camp should start somewhere around 30 days before the opener.
The offseason is nearly over. It’s about to get real.
Even after signing a contract extension, Kalen DeBoer is still facing a pivotal third season as the Alabama head coach, at least in terms of perception. The public perception is that Alabama isn’t what it was under Nick Saban and never will be again. The perception inside the Crimson Tide’s fanbase is split. Some are fully on board the DeBoer train, while some wrote him off the moment he lost to Vanderbilt on the road in 2024. Nothing short of a national title will get the latter group back on board.
The first step to a strong 2026 season will be fall camp and sorting through several critical position battles. Today, we’ll take a look at five of them and where things stand before practice begins.
5 Alabama position battles that will be at the forefront of fall camp
5. Wide Receiver No. 3
It’s a foregone conclusion that two of Alabama’s starting wide receivers for this season will be Ryan Coleman-Williams and Lotzeir Brooks. They’ll make up one of the best tandems in the SEC. Coleman-Williams is a rising junior who looks to be on the precipice of a bounce-back junior campaign for the Crimson Tide. Brooks is a rising sophomore who had a strong freshman season that culminated in his breakout performance in the College Football Playoff against Oklahoma.
The No. 3 WR spot is up for grabs, though. It appeared that NC State transfer Noah Rogers had the inside track, but he suffered an injury during the A-Day scrimmage that will cost him the first part of the season. That leaves Alabama with a three-man race for the third starting spot at WR between redshirt sophomore Rico Scott, sophomore Derek Meadows, and true freshman Cederian Morgan.
Morgan has the highest ceiling of the trio, but Scott has the experience edge, and Meadows looked to be on the path to serious playing time as a freshman before suffering a concussion. It won’t be as pivotal as some of the other position battles, but that No. 3 WR spot will be one of the most intense.
4. Defensive Tackle
One of the biggest priorities of the offseason was bulking up the defensive line, and DeBoer and DC Kane Wommack did great work on paper. They added three experienced transfers out of the portal in USC’s Devan Thompkins, Oregon’s Terrance Green, and Mississippi State’s Kedrick Bingley-Jones. All three will see plenty of playing time next season.
Thompkins is the favorite to start at Bandit, replacing LT Overton. On the interior, Alabama will have a lot of options for two spots.
Right now, Green is probably the favorite at nose, and rising sophomore London Simmons is the likely starter at DT, but Alabama has a lot of options. Guys like Jeremiah Beaman, Bingley-Jones, Edric Hill, and Steve Bolo Mboumoua are all capable of earning one of the starting roles, however.
Regardless of who starts, all of those guys will be counted on for quality depth.
3. Linebacker
Virginia Tech transfer Caleb Woodson is projected to start at one of the linebacker spots. He was a standout during spring practice, and his veteran experience will be key for a young group.
But sorting through the options next to Woodson will be difficult. Guys like QB Reese, Luke Metz, Cayden Jones, and even true freshman Xavier Griffin will have opportunities to make a move during fall camp before the season opener.
Reese has the experience edge, but Metz, Jones, and even Griffin should be taken seriously in the competition.
2. Right side of the OL
The left side of the Tide’s offensive line appears to be sorted out. LT Jackson Lloyd and C Racin Delgatty are penciled in as starters. The expectation is that Will Sanders will slot in at LG during fall camp after missing spring practice with an injury.
The right side is a lot more unsettled.
The expectation was that sophomore Michael Carroll would remain at RT, but in the spring, he spent a lot of time at guard in the interest of finding the best five. Mississippi State transfer Jayvin James, who started 21 games across stints in Starkville and at Toledo, is the likely favorite at RT, but other transfers like Ethan Fields (Ole Miss) and Nick Brooks (Texas) will have opportunities in the fall to earn a starting role.
Carroll will start, but it remains to be seen whether that will be at guard or tackle in 2026.
1. Quarterback
Could it be anything else? All eyes will be on the QB competition once camp starts between redshirt junior Austin Mack and redshirt freshman Keelon Russell. There’s confidence in the building and the fanbase that whoever wins the job will do a quality job, and the offensive line and other areas will be the determining factors for how far Alabama goes.
Russell exited spring practice as the perceived favorite following an impressive A-Day scrimmage, but the competition is still wide open, and Mack will certainly make a strong push to try and earn the job.
Russell seems likely to have the higher ceiling, particularly with his legs that could add a different – and much-needed – dynamic to a beleaguered Tide ground game. But Mack’s experience can’t be discounted as he enters his fourth season under DeBoer.
It will be one of the most discussed position battles in the country, and it could last all the way into the season.
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Monday starts off quiet, but the cloud will grow this afternoon and thunderstorms will develop.
A couple isolated thunderstorms are possible by 2:00 p.m., but they will be more likely between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.. Thunderstorms will produce dangerous lightning, of course, and some may produce very strong wind gusts. Storms will carry into the evening, and should end in Central Arkansas by 10:00 p.m., but in South Arkansas they may last as late as Midnight.
Tuesday afternoon will bring a few more thunderstorms in the afternoon with the same threats. The rain and storm chance will drop even lower on Wednesday.
Then, with no rain or storms in the forecast for Thursday and Friday, it will be just plain old hot!
Rain and thunderstorm chances will return over the weekend.
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