7 AUG 26 SITREP

• President Trump signed two new executive orders restricting automatic U.S. citizenship after the Supreme Court struck down his first attempt in a June decision, with the new orders taking a narrower focus by targeting children of foreign diplomatic staff, children of people classified as alien enemies, children born in U.S. territories pending congressional action, and children born to mothers engaged in birth tourism.
• Running parallel to the citizenship crackdown, the Trump administration ordered every U.S. airport to hand over the names of all passengers to ICE, with the TSA feeding those lists to ICE multiple times per week and ICE cross-referencing every name against deportation databases, covering all travelers, not only suspects or individuals with active warrants.
• The reach of that airport surveillance operation became visible in late July when ICE agents detained Yasmin Suarez, a 45-year-old Venezuelan immigrant, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston; her fiancé, 75-year-old Houston businessman and lifelong Republican John Gannon, stated publicly he would not support Trump again after the detention.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the broader enforcement campaign by pointing to tangible economic effects, stating that rents have come down in every area where ICE has operated, with administration supporters arguing that pushing deportation rates to 5 to 10 million per year would reduce housing demand, drive rents lower, and push wages back up for American workers.

• New data released showed U.S. employers lost 23,000 jobs in July, falling well short of market expectations, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 4.1 percent.
• Bo French, candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner in the Republican primary, argued that between 50 million and 100 million foreign nationals, including illegal aliens, H-1B workers, and H-2B workers, have created downward pressure on wages by accepting 50 to 75 percent of what American workers require to survive, while government spending has simultaneously driven up prices across housing, food, and consumer goods.
• French warned that if the Democrats win they will raise taxes on oil and gas producers, impose Biden-era EPA regulations, and endanger roughly 2 million Texas jobs tied to an industry that produces nearly half of all U.S. oil and gas output.
• French also argued that the Texas Railroad Commission, which serves as the primary regulatory body over the state’s oil and gas industry, is a national security issue given that Texas produces nearly half of all U.S. oil and gas output, and that a regulatory framework making it easier and cheaper for producers to pump oil is the most direct lever available to bring gas prices down for working Americans.

• Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old Trump-endorsed congressional candidate in Wisconsin, is running on a platform of energy independence, deportation acceleration, tax relief for families, and eliminating federal student loan subsidies.
• Anti-Trump dark money-backed Republican opponents have attacked Alfonso by claiming he is not a true Wisconsin resident, pointing to a brief voter registration in Florida, a charge his wife Evita Duffy-Alfonso dismantled by pointing out the couple met in middle school, that Alfonso grew up in the north woods of Wisconsin, attended UW Madison, worked construction there his entire life, and spent only 14 months in Florida working for Dan Bongino before coming straight back home.
• The attacks escalated further when Republican opponents sent out a mailer attacking Alfonso for having a spray tan, which Evita Duffy-Alfonso dismissed outright, stating her husband has never spray tanned in his life and that his dark skin comes from spending long days outside doing parades, dairy breakfasts, and county fairs while campaigning harder than anyone else in the race.
• Evita Duffy-Alfonso also reported that The Daily Beast ran a hit piece on her the moment she gave birth calling her a nepo baby and the daughter of a Trump goon, and that Politico targeted her oldest son before he was even born, revealing a deliberate strategy by left-leaning media to go after the families of America First candidates when they cannot win on the issues.

• Jack Posobiec has floated a proposal calling for the elimination of federal income taxes for individuals earning up to $100,000 to $120,000 and married couples filing jointly earning up to $200,000 to $250,000, framing it as the next logical step after no tax on tips and the elimination of taxes on Social Security.
• The driving argument is straightforward: decades of unchecked government spending have driven up prices on everything while mass foreign labor has artificially suppressed wages, leaving working Americans, whether single, married, or single parents, with less purchasing power than ever and in desperate need of direct relief.
• Both French and Duffy-Alfonso agreed the policy must be paired with a child tax credit and full government withdrawal from childcare, healthcare, education, and housing sectors, pointing to federal student loan programs as the clearest example of how government involvement drives up costs and saddles an entire generation with crippling debt before they even start their lives.
• Jack argued this is the concrete economic promise Republicans need to take into the 2026 midterms, giving candidates at every level of government something real to offer voters directly instead of asking them to vote on abstract principles while the left keeps promising free everything to young people who are struggling and paying attention.