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According to new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data released this week, more than 221,000 illegal aliens crossed our southern border.  If you are not keeping track, here’s a quick breakdown of the number of lawbreakers that crossed our southern border JUST THIS YEAR:

January: 153,941

February: 164,973

March: 221,303

Folks, the trend line doesn’t look good.  That’s because it is not good.  Its very, very bad. Biden’s Border Crisis is only expected to get worse following Biden’s decision to lift Title 42 in May (see my previous thoughts on Title 42 in the newsletter here).

This little tidbit was published in this week’s Rants and Raves column in the Kingman Daily Miner:

Congressman Paul Gosar. Every voter needs to subscribe to Congressman Gosar’s weekly newsletter and be informed. He is hard working and does a great job, but receives little recognition, in consistently tackling many important issues. HE HAS MY VOTE!

Can I get an AMEN?

As many of you know, there is an ongoing effort by school teachers, psychologists and other medical professionals engaging in sexual grooming of minors, or sexual mutilation of minors including chemical castration.  I strongly oppose this immoral effort to harm our children.  ‘

It is for this reason that the Florida Department of Health issued a directive to its licensed doctors that they are prohibited from sexual grooming and sexual mutilation of minors.   This prohibits doctors of all types from assisting minors in “changing” someone’s God-given sex (male or female) by surgery and chemicals and hormones.

Once a person reaches the age of 18, they can make their own decisions about chemical castration, surgery and other potentially permanent alterations.   But prior to age 18, this should be illegal and any doctor engaging in such barbarity should lose their license and face jail time.  Our children are not living, breathing medical experiments.  They are children of God, and we should protect them.

As for doctors who want to mutilate children, the pledge to do no harm especially applies to children facing life altering chemicals, hormones and puberty blockers.   The danger of permanent harm is real and no credible doctor should be a part of this sexual mutilation.

“Drag queen story hour for children” could be a first step of sexual grooming, in my view.  There is no reason I can think of for grown men in dresses, wigs and makeup to be grooming anybody’s kid. Kids should be left alone.  Once they reach 18 year of age, they can decide if they want to see drag queens.

A couple years ago we would not have predicted that we now live in a society that allows men to claim to be a “woman” in order to compete in sports against actual women.

I recently cosponsored H.R. 426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.  This legislation would prohibit any sports program that receives federal money (which is most of them) from allowing genetic men from competing as women.  The bill would also make it a violation for “athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.  Whether one is male or female is determined on what you were the day you were born.

It is apparent that men who were not competitive in swimming or other sports against genetic men simply put on a different swimsuit and claimed to be a “woman” so they could then win some races.   This is transparently wrong and immoral.  We should not condone this attack on women’s rights and women’s sports.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently declared the second-place finisher as “the real winner” in the NCAA Women’s 500 Yard Freestyle after a genetic male calling himself “Lia” touched the wall first.  Even famous transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner said the same:  “Caitlyn Jenner teed off on Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, who became the first transgender athlete in any sport to win a NCAA Division I championship last week.  The former Olympic decathlete, 72, said Thomas isn’t the “rightful winner” of the NCAA 500-yard women’s freestyle swimming championship following a similar proclamation from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who declared runner-up Emma Weyant the winner.   “It’s not transphobic or anti-trans, it’s COMMON SENSE!” Jenner tweeted”

If you have not watched comedian JP Sears, give him a shot.   He has hilarious takes on current events.

You may recall back in January I wrote about a family in Idaho who have been in a 15-year battle with the EPA over plans to build a home on their residential lot. I promised to keep you updated. This week, I joined 154 other House members on an amici curiae brief filed in support of the petitioners in the pending case Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Sackett case is directly related to how much authority the federal government has over states and private citizens to regulate “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

I support policies that protect the environment while also ensuring that States retain their traditional role as the primary regulators of land and water resources, and that farmers, manufacturers, small business owners, and property owners like the Sacketts in this case can develop and use their land free of over-burdensome, job-killing federal regulations.

You can read the entire brief here.

During this Easter district work period I’ve been busy travelling throughout my district meeting with constituents.  This week, I had the good fortune to join members of the Arizona Farm Bureau on a tour of Mortimer Farms in Dewey, Arizona. Mortimer Farms is a real farm in Dewey, Arizona, where pumpkins, corn, berries, and veggies are grown. The farm is open to the public to enjoy, learn where your food comes from, and pick-your-own seasonal berries and produce.

Bill Melugin

@BillFOXLA: EXCLUSIVE: There were at least 23 people caught at the U.S. Southern border in 2021 who were flagged on the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) of known or suspected terrorists, according to a CBP record I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. @FoxNews

Dear Avid Gosar Newsletter Reader,

I wanted to personally share with you some bittersweet news and let you know that after today I will be handing over my newsletter and other digital duties to Wade Searle, as I will be reentering the private sector at the end of April. It has truly been the honor of a lifetime to work for such a bold and courageous member of congress and a man of true integrity – a trait which comes at a premium these days. I have very much enjoyed getting to know some of you via email over the course of this past year and a half and I’ve always appreciated our dialogue – both positive and at times feisty. Wade is an internal hire who’s already been a huge help to Team Gosar. I am confident leaving you in his very capable hands. As an Arizonan myself, I hope to continue seeing some of you back home in the District.

With gratitude,

-Jessica Lycos

This photo was taken and submitted by Jonathan Stanley. It features a creek near a trail entrance Cibeque Falls in Globe, AZ. Really digging the depth and perspective on this one.

Thank you, Jonathan!

Now, who is next!?

Do you have photography skills? Do you want the chance for your photograph to be featured as our “Picture of the Week?” Send your best shots of our great State to wade.searle@mail.house.gov. We have a beautiful State, let’s show her off!

**Note the updated point of contact!

Breitbart News: Maricopa County Judge Tosses Lawsuit Seeking to Block Biggs, Gosar from Ballot

USSANews: Left-wing group seeks to keep Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Gosar off the ballot

RedState: Effort to Block GOP Reps From Running Because of Jan. 6 Goes Down to Withering Defeat

FoxNews: 42 migrants on terror watchlist arrested attempting to enter US illegally under Biden: CBP data

Breitbart: Flow of Fentanyl into American Communities Quadruples Under Biden

Newsweek: Joe Manchin Warns Against Turning to Iran for Oil as Biden Eyes Deal

Life Site News: ‘Right to kill cannot exist’: Republicans blast Biden DOJ for prosecuting pro-life activists

Washington Times: Kevin McCarthy’s speaker aspirations face fresh doubts after leaked audio

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