Op-Ed: They Told You Idaho Was Safe. They Lied.

My name is Brian Lenney, and I represent you in the Idaho State Senate. I took an oath to defend Idaho and America, and I refuse to watch our state be transformed while staying silent.

I came to Idaho because it represented everything America used to be. A place where hardworking Americans could raise families without apology. Where children learned English as their first language. Where our tax dollars stayed in our community.

Most built this life through sacrifice. Some work multiple jobs to afford the mortgage while others work overtime every week to pay for the kid’s sports equipment. Years of saving for a family vacation while others get handouts. Now you watch immigrant families move into subsidized housing while your own children can’t afford simple apartments. You see your kid’s classroom overcrowded with non-English speakers while your property taxes skyrocket to fund translation services you never voted for.

You followed every rule America asked of you. You earned your place here through blood, sweat, and tears. Yet somehow, you’re being displaced in your own homeland by people who contributed nothing to build what you’re losing.

The Government Chose Them Over You: But this transformation didn’t happen by accident. Here’s the betrayal nobody dared tell you: for over thirty years, your own government has systematically replaced American workers and families with immigrants who cost taxpayers billions while contributing nothing.

The numbers tell the story. More than 7,750 foreign nationals have been resettled in Idaho since 2015 alone, with Idaho now ranking as one of the highest in the nation for refugee resettlement per capita. Meanwhile, Biden’s open border policies brought over 10.8 million encounters at U.S. borders, with 2.5 million released into American communities. In 2021, Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base processed fifty-eight thousand Afghan evacuees in just four weeks during what officials called “one of the largest efforts to relocate noncombatants from a war zone in U.S. history.”

So while you scraped together down payments, they got free housing. While you paid insurance premiums, they got free healthcare. While you worked overtime to afford groceries, they got loaded EBT cards. This isn’t immigration. This is organized displacement of the American people.

Your government chose them over you. Your tax dollars funded your own replacement. Every refugee placement was a deliberate decision to prioritize foreign interests over American families who built this state with their bare hands. The system you believed would protect American citizens has been weaponized against you.

Yes, President Trump’s executive order in January gave Americans a temporary reprieve. But the globalist machine that orchestrated this invasion remains intact, waiting for the first opportunity to flood your communities again.

The precedent has already been set. The same pipeline that brought over 124,000 people during what officials called “one of the largest efforts to relocate noncombatants from a war zone in U.S. history” can be activated again at any moment.

This is our last chance to stop the reactivation of a system designed to replace American workers and families. Fail now, and our children will inherit a country that no longer belongs to them.

America First or a Globalist Empire? We’re at a crossroads between American restoration and national destruction. There’s no middle ground left. We can either:

• Surrender: accept that your children will grow up as minorities in their own homeland. Watch American workers permanently replaced by cheap foreign labor. Stand silent as your communities become unrecognizable welfare colonies funded by your own tax dollars. Or…
• Fight for America First: put American families before foreign interests. Support legislation that ends taxpayer-funded demographic replacement. Demand that your government serve American citizens first, last, and always.

This moment will define whether America survives or becomes another failed multicultural experiment. Your children are counting on you to choose America over the globalist agenda that seeks to destroy everything your ancestors built.

The choice you make right now determines whether Idaho remains American territory or becomes another conquered province in the global empire.

Why Every Political Promise Failed You: You trusted politicians who promised to put America First.  Governor Brad Little chose federal dollars over American families, writing to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in December 2019: “I consent to the requirements set forth in Executive Order 13888” that allowed refugee resettlement to continue in Idaho.

You voted for senators who campaigned on American worker protection. Instead, your entire Idaho congressional delegation funds the very programs that import foreign labor to undercut American wages. They bow to corporate interests who profit from cheap foreign workers while American families’ struggle.

Consider Russ Fulcher. The moment he got into office, he voted for the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act” to import even more foreign agricultural workers while Idaho farmers struggled to hire Americans at decent wages (thankfully, he voted against it a few years later). Meanwhile, most of your Idaho lawmakers and Governor Little rolled out the red carpet that helped Micron import thousands of H-1B visa workers to fill high-paying tech jobs that should go to American graduates.

Mike Simpson has been even worse. Simpson has spent decades as the chief architect of Idaho’s foreign worker replacement programs. He authored and repeatedly pushed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which he admits would grant work authorization to over one million illegal agricultural workers. Simpson openly stated “I guarantee you the one thing this is not is amnesty” while simultaneously creating pathways to permanent legal status for foreign workers. He even voted for the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, which nearly doubled available H-2B visas, flooding American communities with even more foreign workers.

Simpson has consistently supported DACA, expanded guest worker programs, and every piece of legislation that prioritizes foreign labor over American workers. When criticized for supporting policies that amount to amnesty, Simpson dismisses concerns by claiming “these are not jobs that Americans will take.” This is the same lie politicians have used for decades to justify replacing American workers with cheaper foreign alternatives.

Yes, your elected officials have partnered with NGOs, unelected bureaucrats, and tech lords to support H-2B expansion for seasonal workers, H-1B increases for tech positions, and agricultural worker programs that systematically undercut American wages. And yes, every visa program, every foreign worker import scheme, and every corporate giveaway prioritizes cheap foreign labor over American families.

Yet, you keep voting for these guys:Maybe it’s because you believe the system will eventually correct itself. I once believed that as well. Instead, immigrant placements exploded and each placement represents another American family priced out, another American worker displaced, another American community transformed. You tried working within a system designed to ignore American interests entirely. The political establishment profits from your displacement. They have no incentive to stop the process that enriches them while impoverishing you.

Traditional politics can’t solve a problem created by deliberate betrayal of the American people.

Follow the Money: The entire anti-American replacement system depends on one vulnerable point: taxpayer funding that can be cut off completely.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement received more than $7 billion in FY 2024 under Biden. Every foreign placement generated $12,750 in immediate federal grants, but the real theft happened through state matching requirements that multiplied costs exponentially. Yet as I write this, you’ll be pleased to know that Trump has slashed the entire operation. His administration suspended refugee resettlement, froze millions in federal funding, and proposed eliminating the $307 million Refugee Support Services program and the $564 million Transitional and Medical Services program entirely.

In Idaho, orgs like the International Rescue Committee and Agency for New Americans (aka Jannus) have siphoned millions from American taxpayers, processing thousands of foreign placements while American veterans sleep homeless and American families struggle with medical debt.

What Do You Mean, “You People?”  Who are the “they” behind this system? Start with the global architects: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees cherry-picks candidates from war zones. The International Organization for Migration books the flights. George Soros’s Open Society Foundations fund the advocacy groups that lobby for more placements.

Domestically, it’s a revolving door of federal bureaucrats, NGO executives, and corporate beneficiaries. Former State Department officials join refugee contractors. Corporate lobbyists push for more foreign worker visas. Chamber of Commerce types demand cheap labor while wrapping it in humanitarian rhetoric. The local enablers cash the checks: IRC executives in Boise pull down six-figure salaries while “serving refugees.” Agency for New Americans (aka Jannus) administrators expand programs that generate more federal grants. USCRI Twin Falls directors see placement operations as job security.

When you expose these financial flows and demand America First budget priorities, the entire system collapses. These organizations can’t survive without massive taxpayer subsidies funding your own replacement. Cut their funding, end their operation. It’s that simple. This isn’t about humanitarian concerns. It’s about power, money, and the deliberate transformation of America against the will of the American people.

The Great Awakening: Americans are discovering they have the power to reject demographic replacement entirely. When citizens demand their tax dollars serve American families first, entire anti-American programs collapse under scrutiny.

The financial pressure is devastating organizations that built fortunes on American displacement. USCRI Twin Falls is laying off staff as 90% of their funding disappears. When forced to justify why foreign interests should receive taxpayer money while Americans struggle, these organizations have no defense.

American workers are waking up to the reality that their displacement was planned and funded by their own government. This awakening is creating political pressure that makes continued replacement programs impossible to sustain. The America First movement is bigger than anyone imagined. It represents the survival instinct of a people who refuse to be replaced.

Your Marching Orders: The future of American Idaho depends on what you do right now. As your state senator, I’m giving you these orders:

Contact every representative (congress, Governor, your reps) immediately. Demand they choose American families over foreign interests or face primary challenges. Tell them: “Fund Americans first or find a new job.” Demand county opt-outs, zero NGO funding, and full financial audits. Connect with patriots in other states and multiply pressure on anti-American funding.

And for crying out loud, show up to the damn polls and VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION. If you don’t, you have nobody to blame but yourself. You saw the results from last week, right? Only 28% of Idahoans showed up to vote! 

This is a war for the survival of American communities. Act like it:  In his prophetic book, The Death of the West, Pat Buchanan said: “In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.” Our ancestors didn’t cross an ocean and tame a wilderness so foreigners could inherit what Americans built. Idaho’s forefathers carved this state from nothing through American blood, sweat, and determination.

They fought wars, survived winters, and died young to give their descendants a homeland. Miners in Coeur d’Alene and ranchers in the Owyhee’s didn’t sacrifice everything so their great-grandchildren could become minorities in their own state.

They built Idaho for Americans. Not for UN bureaucrats. Not for NGO profiteers. Not for immigrants who contribute nothing but take everything. You’re their heir. This is your inheritance. These are your people. This is your fight. The thousands of refugees represent American families who could have been housed instead.

Trump’s pause gave you this moment. Now you must seize it.

Your ancestors’ blood bought this land. Your children’s future depends on what you do today. America First means Americans first. Always. No exceptions.

Fight for it or lose it forever.