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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday during a surprise visit to Ukraine announced $400 million in U.S. military aid to Kiev — the second approximately $400 million aid package sent within one week.
Austin told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he was “honored” to be back for his fourth visit to Ukraine.
“Under President Biden’s leadership, the United States remains committed to keeping up this support. And so, I’m pleased to announce today the commitment of a $400 million presidential drawdown package to provide your forces with additional munitions, armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons,” he told the Ukrainian president.
Austin said while the “focus on Ukraine’s immediate needs goes on,” the U.S. was also committed to supporting Ukraine as outlined in a bilateral security agreement he and President Joe Biden signed in July.
Just six days ago, the White House announced a package of military support of $425 million, after Biden spoke to Zelensky via phone.
Biden was planning to host a meeting in October of countries supporting Ukraine, but cancelled in advance of Hurricane Milton to help coordinate a response from Washington, after being in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, during Hurricane Helene. The meeting will now take place virtually in November, which sets up another opportunity for Biden to announce more aid.
The Biden-Harris administration’s aid to Ukraine was announced the same day former President Donald Trump visited North Carolina, where residents are still recovering from the deadliest hurricane in the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina.
Zelensky thanked the “American people, President Biden and bipartisan support.”
“We are very thankful for all the support from the United States that’s been done for Ukraine from the very beginning of this war,” he said.
Zelensky added, “And by the way, thanks for the last package supporting our soldiers,” saying that he and Biden “discussed a lot of important things about victory plan, about preparing for winter with our air defense capabilities, how to strengthen all this.”
“And we discussed also some details [about] next packages which are crucial for us, especially now this challenging winter period,” he said. “So — and we discuss all this with the president. I want to continue. Maybe we will have some results — no, I’m sure that we will have some important results.”
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Filmmaker Spike Lee said on Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that if former President Donald Trump wins the election, it will be a “doomsday.”
Host Ari Melber said, “What does your work have to say about the choice in this election over these next 15 days?”
Lee said, “Well, I’m voting my sister, the vice president. She used the language, the word forward, not backwards. This guy, I don’t call him by his name, I say Agent Orange and the stuff that he is saying, he’s not being shy, he is saying exactly what he wants to do if he becomes the next President of the United States. He said there should be no more elections.”
He continued, “I don’t know how people can be true Americans and just go along with that path, it would be a doomsday. I’m not the only one that says this possibly could be the most important presidential election in history of this country. That’s how dire this is. It’s not a joke, it’s not funny, this is like life and death.”
Lee added, “So I urge people not likely to vote get with the program now. Let’s move this country forward, forward, not backwards.”
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The producer of the hit movie Sound of Freedom has blasted Kamala Harris and Joe Biden over their failed border policies that have resulted in untold numbers of missing children, saying “Kamala and Biden are the biggest human traffickers in history.”
Sound of Freedom producer Eduardo Verástegui appeared alongside former President Donald Trump at an event Tuesday for Latino American voters.
“There’s more than 300,000 children that came in through the border, they released them, and we don’t know where they are. Kamala, where are the children?” he said.
“Kamala and Biden are the biggest human traffickers in history.”
Verástegui also thanked Trump for hosting a screening of Sound of Freedom last year at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to raise awareness of the plight of children kidnapped into sex slavery.
“Thank you for putting the children first,” he said.
A new report found that child-sex trafficking has tripled under Kamala Harris’ watch, due in large part to her open-border policies that have allowed criminal activities to flourish along the border.
Trump spotlighted the child trafficking crisis during a September press conference in California.
“Under this administration, 325,000 migrant children are missing,” Trump said. “Take the biggest stadium in California and you can fill it up five or six times. Those are all missing children. Many of them are dead. Many of them are sex slaves and slaves of [a] different nature.”
“There could be no bigger scandal than this,” he said.
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Senate Democrats attacked McDonald’s on Tuesday for price gouging while it continues to “grow” profits and serve the needs of customers.
The letter, written by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), underscores the success of former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop on Sunday when he worked a McDonald’s drive-thru window in Pennsylvania.
Images and video of the former president helping customers to McDonald’s finest foods nearly broke the internet. Many of Trump’s critics heralded the gesture as great retail politics and a stroke of political genius.
Senate Democrats, however, appeared very upset by Trump’s success.
In a letter addressed to McDonald’s Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski, the senators sought information about the fast-food restaurant’s “increases in fast food prices over the last several years and seeking information regarding McDonald’s pricing decisions.”
The letter made no mention of the policies implemented by the Biden-Harris administration that fueled inflation.
The Senators wrote:
While McDonald’s is not the only fast food restaurant that has increased prices significantly in recent years, its dominant market position as the largest fast food chain in the United States has an outsize impact on American consumers. While working families are trying to make ends meet, McDonald’s and its corporate counterparts have continued to grow their profits.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, fast food prices have consistently outpaced inflation,1 squeezing consumers who for decades were able to rely on restaurants like McDonald’s for a meal at a fair price. However, Americans are now leaving fast food establishments and are increasingly choosing to spend their food dollars on at-home consumption. Since 2020, the Consumer Price Index has increased by 20 percent, but McDonald’s may have increased its menu prices for certain items by substantially more. A recent analysis of six popular fast food chains (McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, Burger King, and Jack in the Box) found that 27 out of 30 menu items experienced price increases that outpaced inflation.
Corporate profits must not come at the expense of people’s ability to put food on the table. As we seek to investigate and understand the increased consumer costs in the economy, we hope McDonald’s will help us to understand why its prices have risen so high.
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The top commander of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq has been killed, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced on Tuesday.
The announcement confirms a statement on the killing of Jassim Al-Mazrouei, also known as Abu Abdul Qader, issued by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) late last week.
In a post on X, the prime minister wrote, “I congratulate our honorable people on the killing of the so-called (Wali of Iraq) in the terrorist organization IS, and (8) of the organization’s senior leaders…”
Al-Sudani highlighted that the “exceptional operation” was carried out by the country’s counter terrorism and national security services under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) in the Hamrin Mountains in northeastern Iraq.
The PM praised the security forces, stressing “There is no place for terrorists in Iraq. We will pursue them to their hideouts and eliminate them until the land of Iraq is cleansed of them and their heinous acts.”
The JOC said that the operation to eliminate the IS commanders was supported by technical assistance and intelligence from ‘Global Coalition’ forces.
Iraqi forces intensified their operations against IS in 2024. In an interview with Bloomberg last month, al-Sudani claimed that the Middle Eastern nation no longer needs US troops on its territory, because “Iraq in 2024 is not the same as Iraq in 2014” and added that “We have moved on from wars to stability.”
In September, Iraq and the US issued a joint statement saying Washington would conclude the American-led international mission in Iraq over the next 12 months. The Pentagon, however, later clarified that while the US mission is changing, it will not constitute a full withdrawal.
The US invaded Iraq in 2003 without UN sanction, claiming it possessed weapons of mass destruction – a claim later found to be false. The US ‘shock and awe’ bombing campaign devastated Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein’s government, leaving the country in chaos and creating fertile ground for extremist groups such as IS.
Following the spread of IS across parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014, US troops returned to the country. Coalition military operations wrapped up in 2021, leaving approximately 2,500 American troops in place.
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https://www.rt.com/news/606123-islamic-state-commander-iraq-eliminated/
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Kamala Harris and her supporters openly mocked a Christian attendee and Jesus Christ during a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday.
Kamala skipped the Al Smith Charity Dinner, a major Christian event in New York, to hit the campaign trail in Wisconsin instead.
During her speech, she focused on promoting abortion when someone bravely interrupted her.
“We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did as he intended.”
A Christian attendee bravely stood up and proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord,” only to be mocked by Harris herself, who coldly replied, “I think you’re at the wrong rally.”
The crowd erupted in cheers and laughter, and Harris, with an air of smugness, added, “Try the smaller one down the street.”
It was a disgusting display by the godless Democrat and her gaggle of supporters.
On Sunday morning, FOX and Friends Weekend had the two university juniors on their show to discuss the insulting anti-Christian display.
FOX and Friends host Will Cain: Today, we’d like to bring in those students who yelled that out to Kamala Harris, a two pro-life students at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, both juniors, Luke Polaske and Grant Beth. Join us now. Luke, Grant, thanks for being with us this morning.
Luke, I’ll start with you. Just take us into that moment. What happened yesterday? We see the video clip. Is there anything more you can tell us about what you guys had to say and what happened afterwards from that video?
Luke Polaske: Thank you. Yeah, it’s great to be here. I would say the first thing I want to bring up, this is our first time I’m taking an interview with anybody, and I think it’s important because this is our raw untold story. There’s a lot that happened off camera that we said at the protest, or, well, while we were protesting. And I guess we could start off with, after she talked about overturning Roe v. Wade and Donald Trump, I yelled out to the crowd that abortion is the sacrament of Satan. And when I said that, I deeply do believe that as a Christian. And about 10 seconds go by, and that’s when the video of my friend Grant and I proclaiming that Christ is Lord and Jesus is King, when we said that. And I think it’s important to say this is a small venue, and We were about 20 to 30 yards away from Kamala at this point. There’s a lot of controversy that says she wasn’t talking to us or we’d laughed we didn’t get kicked out. Well, I can speak on Grant and I’s behalf on video. Grant’s getting pushed and shoved. And there’s about five seconds before she tells us to go to the smaller rally down the street.
You can see on the video, she waves. She was actually waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I wear. And as we were getting asked to leave, I held it up in the air and waved at her and pointed to her, and she looked directly in the eye, gave me an evil smirk.
And I just wanted to clear that up and confirm that she 100 % was talking to us. And there’s other controversy that says we left. We were getting shouted at, pushed, assaulted, screamed at. So we were walking away, but there was about three attendees there, volunteers, that kicked us out with badges or whatever they had. And I specifically remember this one man saying, You are uninvited and unwelcome to this event. You need to leave. And all they did was walk us out the door. They didn’t tell us why. No cops have scoured us out. No secret service. Yeah, that’s our story.
Charlie Hurt: So where was this event held exactly?
Luke Polaske: This was held in our University of La Crosse’s gym. Did you pay tuition to go to the university? I do pay tuition to go to the school, but this was a free event. This is in a really small venue. They only said there was about 2,500 people there, which when she told us to go to a smaller rally down the street, I didn’t really think that for a political rally, there could be smaller than 2,500.
Rachel Campos Duffy: Grant, I want to get your point of view from there. Is there anything you want to add to Luke’s story?
Grant Beth: First of all, thank you, Rachel. Thank you, Will. Thank you, Charlie, for having us. We’re very blessed to be here. We’re very blessed to speak on the national stage. It’s important that we get our message out in any way possible.
First of all, we didn’t really intend on going at any people. People online were calling us MAGA fascist. That was never our intention, going to this rally. We were only here to protest our faith, and We did so. We never expected this to grow as large as it was.
Essentially, she was speaking, and we decided to say, Christ is King, Jesus is Lord. And we got a lot of backlash. As you can see in that firsthand video, I was pushed by an elderly woman. We were heckled at, we were cursed at, we were mocked. And that’s the biggest thing for me, personally, in reflection of the event, Jesus was mocked, his disciples were mocked, and that’s okay. In reality, we did God’s work, And we were there for the right reasons. And God was watching us in this moment. I’m all about being a cordial to a person, no matter your beliefs. But I do believe that that we were sent there by God.
And I do believe this timing, 18 days before the election, is imperative for young Americans and first-time voters like myself to understand that this is what you are going to get with a Kamala Harris presidency.
You are going to get the Kamala Harris that alienates over 50% of the US population that is Christian. You’re You’re going to get the Kamala Harris that skips the Al Smith Memorial dinner that no major presidential candidate has skipped since, I believe, Walter Mondale in 1984.
Now, over 40 years ago, I’m a 20-year-old man. That’s double my life. So that’s a long time for someone not to attend that event. That, along with our experience on this day. It’s a good storm for the opposition, and it just proves what type of person Kamala is and what type of leadership will be…
… This is extremely important for young Americans to understand. If I could ask my young Americans in this country, what do you want your future to look like in this country? Do you want to have to struggle to pay for gas? Do you want to have to struggle to afford groceries on a daily basis? Do you want to even struggle to get your first mortgage on a house? Because that is the future you’re going to get with Kamala Harris as President of the United States.
A future with no more. A future where people are exposed to evil on a daily basis. And people are stripped of the very power they have as citizens of the United States. I implore first-time voters, make an educated choice, whether that be voting early, whether that be going on day of the election, the future of this very country.
Holy smokes! They were impressive!
This was Kamala’s coming out party. She exposed her anti-Christian beliefs for the world to see. And she stands by them. How gross and wicked.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/god-was-watching-us-this-moment-pro-life/
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For election 2024, President Trump’s transition team is now saying they are likely to go it alone and skip any federal transition assistance in advance of inauguration day. That decision is making the deepest parts of the Deep State apparatus very nervous. That decision has major ramifications and could, likely would, include the incoming Trump administration setting up offices outside Washington DC.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A video purporting to show dozens of North Korean recruits lining up to collect Russian military fatigues and gear aims to intimidate Ukrainian forces and marks a new chapter in the 2 1/2-year war with the introduction of another country into the battlefield, Ukrainian officials said.
In the video, which was verified by Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, which operates under the Culture and Information Ministry, presumably North Korean soldiers stand in line to pick up bags, clothes and other apparel from Russian servicemen. The Associated Press could not verify the video independently.
“We received this video from our own sources. We cannot provide additional verification from the sources who provided it to us due to security concerns,” said Ihor Solovey, head of the center.
“The video clearly shows North Korean citizens being given Russian uniforms under the direction of the Russian military,” he said. “For Ukraine, this video is important because it is the first video evidence that shows North Korea participating in the war on the side of Russia. Now not only with weapons and shells but also with personnel.”
The center claims the footage was shot by a Russian soldier in recent days. The location is unknown.
It comes after the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said in local media reports that about 11,000 North Korean infantrymen were currently training in eastern Russia. He predicted they would be ready to join fighting by November. At least 2,600 would be sent to Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an incursion in August, he was quoted as saying.
“The emergence of any number of new soldiers is a problem because we will simply need new, additional weapons to destroy them all,” Solovey told AP. “The dissemination of this video is important as a signal to the world community that with two countries officially at war against Ukraine, we will need more support to repel this aggression.”
The presence of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine, if true, would be another proof of intensified military ties between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Last summer, they signed a strategic partnership treaty that commits both countries to provide military assistance. North Korean weapons have already been used in the Ukraine war.
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In the ancient northern Italy city of Naples, a very consequential event took place today (19), where the defense ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) opened their meeting with their Italian host warning that ‘the global security framework is growing increasingly precarious’ because of the conflict between ‘two competing visions of the world’.
The G7 is formed by the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, with European Union and NATO representatives as usual participants and the inevitable Ukrainians crashing the ‘party’.
This year’s G7 meeting is including the first ministerial meeting dedicated solely to defense.
This comes as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating, and just a few days after Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Italy has the G7 rotating presidency for 2024, in the context of the western powers also having to deal with the war in Ukraine, China’s movement around Taiwan, and much worsened tensions between North and South Korea.
Reuters reported:
“’The brutal Russian aggressions in Ukraine and the indeed critical situation in Middle East, combined with the profound instability of sub-Saharan Africa and the increasing tension in the Indo-Pacific region, highlight a deteriorated security framework’, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in his opening speech.”
The presence of Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov in the Naples has facilitated a discussion on the latest developments in the war.
“Warning that near term forecasts for global security ‘cannot be positive’, Crosetto – a prominent member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party – said tensions were fueled by a confrontation between ‘two different, perhaps incompatible visions of the world.’
On the one side are the countries and organizations that believe in a world order based on international law, Crosetto said, while ‘on the other side, (there are) those who systematically disrespect democracy to pursue their objectives, including by a deliberate use of military force’.”
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell focused on the Midle East, asking for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
He also called for the release of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.
“He told reporters the morning session mainly focused on the Middle East, and said the U.N. mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, could be reviewed but it would be up to the U.N. Security Council to make decisions on its future.”
The host Italy is a major player in the UNIFIL in southern Lebanon ‘to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel’.
The Israeli attacks were criticized by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who paid a visit Lebanon and Jordan on Friday.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/g7-defense-ministers-gather-naples-as-world-is/
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A constitutional battle has erupted in Rome as judges shot down a key element of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centre scheme and sent migrants back to Italy.
Judges in Rome ordered the return of 12 migrants, ten from Bangladesh and six from Egypt, who were removed to detention centres established in Albania earlier this week, ruling that their homelands are not safe and therefore cannot face deportation, broadcaster RAI reports.
The ruling has thrown into question the viability of the Albania scheme, which fellow European nations and even top Eurocrats in Brussels are looking to as a potential framework for handling illegal immigration into the bloc.
Under the Albania scheme, illegals would be sent first to detention centres in the Balkan country to have their asylum claims processed offshore rather than being permitted to remain in Italy during the interim. On Monday, 16 migrants became the first to be sent to the centres in Albania, which are under Italian legal jurisdiction.
Prime Minister Meloni’s government had classified 22 nations as considered safe for the return of illegals, including Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia.
However, judges ruled this week that countries like Egypt and Bangladesh could not be considered as “safe”, citing a previous decision by the European Court of Justice which found that countries outside the EU could not be classified as safe unless their entire territory is found to be free from danger, such as persecution, torture or the possibility of indiscriminate violence.
The conservative government slammed the ruling, claiming that elected representatives should be the people deciding the nation’s immigration policies.
Prime Minister Meloni said: “I have convened a council of ministers for next Monday to solve this problem… I think it is not up to the judiciary to say which are the safe countries but to the government.”
Immigration hardliner Deputy PM Mattei Salvini went further, saying that the ruling is an “attack on Italy and the Italians launched by a part of the politicised judiciar and that whoever prevents the defence of borders endangers the country”.
Even fellow centrist Deputy PM Antonio Tajani was critical of the ruling, saying: “I am used to respecting the decisions of the judiciary but I would also like the decisions of the executive and legislative branches to be respected, because a democracy is based on the tripartition of powers.
“The judiciary must apply the laws, not to modify them or prevent the executive from being able to do its job. Power always comes from the people, who have chosen this parliament and this government. The will of the people must always be respected.”
Justice Minister Nordio argued that the definition of an unsafe country was too broad, noting: “If we believed that there are no safe countries in which rules such as the death penalty apply, then the United States would not be a safe country either.”
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Former first lady Melania Trump’s memoir, Melania, has reportedly hit the top slot on the New York Times bestseller list.
News of the Melania Trump’s book hitting the coveted slot was shared on Wednesday by political strategist and commentator David Urban and the former first lady herself.
According to Fox News, Melania Trump also plans to release a special edition memoir that will feature photographs that she herself captured while serving as first lady and also her life prior to entering politics:
Former first lady Melania Trump is releasing a special collector’s edition of her new memoir containing exclusive images she photographed at the White House and around the world.
The collector’s edition of the former first lady’s first-ever memoir, “Melania,” features 256 pages in full color, with each copy signed by Trump.
The collector’s edition includes photos hand-selected by Trump, many she photographed herself surrounding her home and various trips she has taken around the world.
In one particular striking photo shared with Fox News, Marine One could be seen landing on the White House lawn from the window of Melania’s bedroom.
“The striking view from my room as my husband returns to the White House aboard Marine One,” said Melania as she described the photo to Fox News. “The helicopter’s iconic silhouette against the skyline symbolizes his commitment to service, while the surrounding landscape serves as a reminder of the responsibilities he carries.”
The former first lady added that writing her memoir has been an incredible journey.
“Writing my memoir has been an amazing journey filled with emotional highs and lows,” she said. “Each story shaped me into who I am today.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/16/melania-trumps-book-1-new-york-times-bestseller-list/
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The federal government is offering FEMA disaster aid to illegal migrants in North Carolina, according to a report in the Washington Post.
The federal government aids illegal migrants because it wants to demolish the once-clear legal borders and dictionary distinctions between Americans and foreigners. For example, the government is granting aid to foreign migrants if they form a business in the United States, the Post wrote on October 18. “These are people [migrants] who are not in the country legally, but their businesses are legal and they’re paying taxes,” Silvia Martín del Campo, the director for programs for Latino students at McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina.
The aid to migrants would otherwise go to Americans who have lost their homes, land, jobs, and wealth to Hurricane Helene.
The vast majority of Americans are personally sympathetic to migrants, most of whom work hard in low-wage jobs where they also need taxpayer aid to keep them out of poverty. Moreover, many of the migrants — like Americans — have lost their jobs, hard-earned possessions, and even homes to the disaster.
However, the migrants are in North Carolina only because the federal government has spent many billions of dollars to help smuggle illegal migrants across the border and settle in the states. Roughly $1 billion of that funding has come from FEMA accounts since 2021.
The government aid for migrants is part of a post-1990 economic strategy, dubbed “Extraction Migration.” The strategy seeks to inflate the consumer economy by quietly extracting low-wage workers, apartment-sharing renters, and taxpayer-funded consumers from poor countries.
The resulting government inflow of poor migrants blurs the border between Americans and migrants, and it also shrinks Americans’ wages and personal wealth. The policy is very unpopular, so the government hides its role by obscuring the language, loopholes, and funds that help migrants.
For example, the Post’s article about aid for migrants uses words that blur the distinction between ordinary Americans and the illegal migrants who sneaked across the border as it describes how the migrants are offered aid:
Two of the people [emphasis added] who applied with Martín del Campo’s help are [migrant] sisters who own a cleaning service that specializes in mountain cabin rentals. All those reservations have been canceled, she said, leaving them with no business. They applied for a $30,000 loan, which is about as much as they usually make in six months.
“I don’t want to take advantage of the system and I don’t like borrowing money,” one sister said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of her immigration status [emphasis added]. “But my bills are due whether I can work or not. … This kind of loan would help a lot.”
Another low-wage migrant, restaurant worker José Elguera-Camacho, told the Post that he was allowed to apply for the fast-track $750 disaster grant offered by FEMA. “I usually work more than 40 hours a week this month,” he said. “Now I’m at zero,” he said.
FEMA offers the $750 “Serious Needs Assistance” grant to migrants by hiding the loophole in the fine print. The fine print allows paroled illegals to be treated as “qualified non-citizen[s].”
The government is also offering benefits to illegal migrants if they have a son or daughter born in the United States: “Most of the people [aid worker Neyda] Juarez sees are parents applying for FEMA aid on behalf of their children, who are U.S. citizens.”
Juárez is employed by Centro Unido Latino Americano, which is one of the very many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are being used by the government to fund migrants so they settle in American communities.
The NGO is supported by various grants delivered via U.S. charities and the Mexican government. The group has also received taxpayer funding from some of the vast federal spending for migrants and migration.
Most of the government funding for migration is hidden by routing it through myriad NGOs for later distribution to smaller NGOs that commingle funds for Americans and migrants.
Some of the disaster aid that flows through the NGOs is used to pay their operating costs — and their subsequent lobbying for more migration said Krikorian.
This kind of aid run through NGOs is necessary for the NGOs to stay in business. They also are defacto working for more illegal immigration and for allowing the illegal immigrants here already to stay. So even something like disaster aid provided to these nongovernmental groups is helping establish the illegals.
The Centro Unido NGO is also helping the North Carolina migrants by funding their transfer to other U.S. communities, said the Post:
For [migrant] families who lost homes or jobs and don’t qualify for government aid, Centro Unido is raising money to help them pay rent, put down security deposits for new apartments or trailers or move to cities where there’s more work.
The federal disaster aid would be better spent helping migrants return home rather than making it easier for them to illegally stay, “which the disaster aid is obviously meant to do,” said Krikorian.
Sending migrants home with some disaster aid in their pockets “would be an efficient use of money” if it allowed officials to avoid deportation costs, said Krikorian.
Americans would also be aided once the repatriated illegal migrants were no longer competing for the limited supply of local jobs, homes, and social services, he said.
The return of the migrants would also be good for the migrants’ home countries, he added. “Not only would the migrant return home with money, they would also bring their [work skills] … [and] they speak English better,” he said.
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North Korea claimed on Saturday to have found fragments of a crashed South Korean military drone, and threatened to retaliate, intensifying a standoff on the peninsula.
According to Pyongyang’s state-run news agency KCNA, the UAV was likely used to drop leaflets over the capital. Similar drones were spotted scattering leaflets full of “political propaganda and slander” earlier this month, the outlet said.
“If a violation of the DPRK’s territorial ground, air and waters by ROK’s military means is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK and a declaration of war and an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched,” KCNA warned, as quoted by Reuters.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a top government official, claimed on Thursday that Pyongyang had “clear evidence” that the South had violated the North's airspace.
South Korea has refused to confirm whether its drones have crossed the border. Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Colonel Lee Sung-jun told reporters this week that the matter was “something that should be clarified by North Korea.”
Pyongyang has engaged in hostile rhetoric in recent months, accusing its southern neighbor of “provocations.” This week, North Korea blew up sections of roads leading to South Korea, and vowed to “completely separate” the two countries and transform the border area into “an eternal fortress.”
In January, Kim Jong-un proposed abandoning the longstanding commitment to reunification, and labeled South Korea a “principal enemy.”
The tensions mark a contrast to a series of friendly gestures in the late 2010s when then US President Donald Trump sought to de-escalate the situation on the Korean peninsula. However, a meeting between Trump and Kim in Hanoi in 2019 ended in failure, with both sides accusing each other of making unrealistic demands. Pyongyang has since ramped up missile tests, while the US has launched more joint military drills with South Korea.
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has grounds to hear a complaint against CBS for deceptively editing an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a Republican-appointed commissioner has said.
Earlier this month, the broadcaster aired two different answers by Harris to the same question, one in a preview and the other in the actual ‘60 Minutes’ show, prompting accusations of misleading editing to make the sitting vice-president sound more coherent than she actually was.
The Center for American Rights (CAR) filed a complaint to the FCC on Wednesday, accusing the network of “deliberate news distortion,” which would be an actionable offense under the regulator’s rules.
“What this claim is alleging is that an act of distortion took place,” Commissioner Nathan Simington told Fox News Digital on Friday. The FCC has “certainly contemplated the possibility of distortionary reporting taking place via splicing,” he explained, noting that in a previous proceeding the commissioners “gave the example of substituting a yes answer to one question or a no answer to an entirely different question.”
Simington reminded the audience that the FCC can’t regulate what can be said or written, given that the US has the First Amendment to the Constitution that protects freedom of speech and the press. However, CBS could still find itself in trouble for “abuse of public trust,” he said.
“I think everyone agrees that deliberately misleading the public is a bad idea,” the commissioner said, adding that if CBS did so, Americans should be upset, “because people go to the news in order to learn about things that they would never be able to learn about themselves. In other words, going to the news is an act of extending trust. Now, the thing about trust is that once it’s lost, it’s very difficult to regain.”
Simington is one of the two Republicans on the five-member FCC. He was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020. Trump will face Harris in the November 5 election for the White House, after the Democrats pressured President Joe Biden to drop out of the race in July.
Trump accused ‘60 Minutes’ of perpetrating “the greatest fraud in broadcast history” by swapping Harris’ responses. FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, responded by accusing the former president of attacking free speech and democracy itself.
“The FCC does not and will not revoke licenses for broadcast stations simply because a political candidate disagrees with or dislikes content or coverage,” she said last week.
The CAR complaint specifically names WCBS-TV in New York, which is owned and operated by CBS Corporation, rather than an affiliate who could assert plausible deniability. While Simington would not speculate about a possible probe, he said the FCC might levy a fine or place conditions on the network’s license renewal, if CBS is found to have deliberately distorted the Harris interview.
A day before the CAR complaint was filed, House Speaker Mike Johnson accused CBS of selectively and deceptively editing his own interview. The Louisiana Republican offered proof by posting raw footage recorded by his office, alongside what actually aired, on X (formerly Twitter).
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"Biden-Harris Admin Announces Protected Status for Immigrants from Country Plagued by Islamic Terrorism." - The Gateway Pundit
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Immigrants from Lebanon — a country partially controlled by Iraninan-backed terrorists — will receive “temporary protected status” and authorization to work legally in the United States under a new Biden-Harris policy published Thursday.
The TPS policy applies to immigrants from Lebanon who arrived in the U.S. before Wednesday, according to the Department of Homeland Security news release.
And critics are already attacking it as potentially placing Americans in danger.
The news release explains that the status is necessary because of the ongoing armed conflict” in Lebanon and “extraordinary and temporary conditions in Lebanon that prevent nationals of Lebanon from returning in safety.”
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We now have two polls that show the Trump-Vance ticket topping the Harris-Walz ticket in favorability and caring.
Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,683 likely voters between October 14-16 and asked a straightforward question: “Which candidate for president cares the most about people like you?”
Sitting Vice President Kamala Harris earned just 45 percent of the vote. Former President Trump topped her with 49 percent.
On this question, Trump won the male vote by a 12 percent margin, 53 to 41 percent. Harris topped Trump by five points with women but still hit a ceiling at 50 percent to Trump’s 45 percent.
Among black voters, Trump earned an incredible (for a Republican) 33 percent to Kamala’s 61 percent. That number should be closer to 85 to 15 percent in Kamala’s favor.
Here’s what should strike fear into Democrats… On this question of caring, Trump wins the Hispanic vote by ten points, 52 to 42 percent.
There’s more…
The latest Fox News poll, which has never been friendly towards Trump, not only shows the former president with a two-point national lead over Word Salad Kammy (50 to 48 percent), but Trump’s favorability among likely voters is now a point higher than hers, 48 to 47 percent. Both share an unfavorable rating of 52 percent.
Since September, Trump has gained four overall points in this poll, while Kamala lost three points.
Here’s a real bombshell from Fox News… Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), also enjoys a higher favorability rating then his Democrat counterpart, Gov. Elmer Fudd (D-MN). Vance’s favorability sits at 44 percent to Walz’s 43 percent.
“Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz each received a negative 3 rating,” reports Fox News. “Vance improved since September (-12), while Walz went from a positive 3 rating to a -3.”
How did that happen?
The October 1 vice presidential debate, that’s how.
After weeks and weeks of smears funded by billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda, the American public was finally able to see Vance unfiltered and saw what many of us have seen for two years now: a wickedly smart and prepared normal guy… Nothing like the “weird” monster the rigged media sought to turn him into.
On the flip side, Americans also got an unfiltered look at Tim Walz. And so, after billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda attempted to sell him as an everyday guy male voters could relate to, we all discovered Walz is, in reality, a bug-eyed metrosexual whose idea of a fun Saturday night is watching Minneapolis burn.
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The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) wants better tools that can fabricate a living person’s online footprint using advanced generative technologies, The Intercept reported on Thursday, citing a procurement document.
The unclassified wishlist for acquisitions expresses interest in producing fake imagery, including that of humans with different facial expressions, virtual environments, and “selfie videos” that can withstand scrutiny by social media algorithms and real humans. The solutions should also provide audio layers specific for locations of simulated footage.
The Pentagon’s use of fake online personas, or “sock puppets,” dates back at least over a decade. Such digital constructs are used to spread American propaganda, shape or falsify public opinion, and to collect intelligence, according to media reports.
Earlier this year, Reuters exposed a US military operation to undermine public trust in a Chinese vaccine against Covid-19 in the Philippines, a country Washington wants to keep in its orbit while curbing Beijing’s regional influence.
In 2022, The Pentagon ordered a review of its psychological warfare operations, after social media giants Facebook and Twitter (now X) reported detecting and banning dozens of bots operated by US Central Command.
The US government has regularly accused its geopolitical rivals, including China, Russia and Iran, of conducting “malign influence operations” online using AI-generated content. Among other forms of meddling, foreign governments were alleged to be influencing elections in the US.
The purported methods resemble what The New York Times described in June when it exposed an Israeli influence operation targeting American citizens. The campaign, sponsored by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, used AI-generated content to boost narratives favorable to the close US ally, the report claimed.
Daniel Byman, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University, commented on the disparity between US denunciations of its adversaries’ methods and its apparent intention to use the same tactics in its own offensive operations.
The US “has a strong interest in the public believing that the government consistently puts out truthful (to the best of knowledge) information and is not deliberately deceiving people,” he said. “So, there is a legitimate concern that the U.S. will be seen as hypocritical.”
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The Biden-Harris regime announced on Wednesday that they were sending another $425 million to Ukraine to fight their losing war against Russia.
As a reminder – none of the money going to Ukraine will be audited.
Via Grok AI – The US has sent at least $174 billion to Ukraine for their war effort. $62 billion was channeled through the Pentagon for military support. Over $46 billion was sent for humanitarian efforts.
The Department of Defense announced $2.4 billion in security assistance to Ukraine in September.
Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris regime has sent $474 million to Americans who survived Hurricane Helene in North Carolina in late September.
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Michelle Obama will headline an Atlanta rally on October 29 for the Kamala Harris campaign after she initially had no plans to help the coronated Democrat nominee.
The announcement, first reported in the Associated Press, suggests the Harris campaign is becoming more desperate to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in modern American politics.
The rally to boost turnout will occur on November 1, five days before election day, just before early voting ends in Georgia.
The AP reported on Michelle Obama’s decision to enter the 2024 fray:
The Oct. 29 event will be hosted by When We All Vote, a nonpartisan civic engagement group that Obama founded in 2018 to “change the culture around voting” and reach out to people who are less likely to engage in politics and elections.
The rally is likely to help the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, in a closely contested state. Obama is one of the party’s best-known figures and gave a speech boosting Harris’ candidacy at the national convention in August.
It is unclear which celebrities will attend the rally but organizers noted that the group’s co-chairs include professional basketball players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul; musical artists Becky G, H.E.R., Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez and Janelle Monáe; beauty influencer Bretman Rock; and actors Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kerry Washington.
Multiple polls show Vice President Kamala Harris performing poorly in some battleground states, and it appears the campaign has become more desperate in the past week. The campaign announced Monday that its candidate would appear Wednesday in an interview on Fox News, which critics say reeks of desperation.
Polling shows Harris is losing support among men, black voters, and Hispanic voters, while Trump is running ahead of his 2020 and 2016 performances. Swing state polling indicates Trump is either leading Harris or within the margin of error. Voter registrations and early voting also appear to benefit Trump in many states.
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Former President Donald Trump will visit a McDonald’s in the swing state of Pennsylvania on Sunday and “work the fry cooker,” according to reports.
“Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit a McDonald’s on Sunday in Pennsylvania and ‘work the fry cooker’, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN,” the network’s Kristen Holmes reported.
“This comes up as Trump has repeatedly claimed Vice President Kamala Harris never actually worked at McDonald’s,” she added.
A source “familiar with the matter” also previewed the plan to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Indeed, Trump previewed this move during a speech in late September, doubting Harris’s claim that she once worked at McDonald’s.
“I think I’m going to a McDonald’s in two weeks, actually, and I’m going to work the french fries, because I will have worked longer and harder at McDonald’s than she did if I do that, even for half an hour,” Trump said.
Harris has used the claim that she once worked at McDonald’s as an appeal to American voters, attempting to convince them that she can relate to being middle class.
As Breitbart News detailed:
According to a recent Associated Press article, Harris mentioned the job at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, “trying to show an understanding of middle-class struggles.”
A Harris campaign ad in August said, “She grew up in a middle-class home. She was the daughter of a working mom and she worked at McDonald’s while she got her degree. Kamala Harris knows what it’s like to be middle class”:
Another campaign ad said, “Determination is how Kamala Harris went from working in McDonald’s to prosecutor, state attorney general, U.S. senator and our vice president in one generation.”
But after that claim came under scrutiny, she began to downplay it, asserting she was just a “kid” at the time.
“Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family — I worked there as a student, I was a kid — who work there trying to raise families and pay rent on that,” she told MSNBC.
Despite initial campaign claims that she allegedly worked there to pay for college, her campaign later admitted that “she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money.”
Harris’s has continued to point to what she describes as her middle class upbringing, despite the fact that she grew up in Westmount — the “poshest neighborhood, which, at the time she lived there, was not only the nicest neighborhood in Montreal but was the richest one in all of Canada — far from the struggle of the ‘streets’ Harris now purports to have been down with,” as Breitbart News reported.
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Giorgia Meloni’s conservative government has begun sending illegal migrants from Italy to offshore processing detention centres in Albania, with the maiden ship setting sail from the island of Lampedusa and arriving on Wednesday.
Ten Egyptian and six Bengali migrants were removed from Italy aboard the naval Libra patrol ship on Monday on a journey to the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania, docking at the town on Wednesday morning.
“The first ship that will take irregular migrants to the repatriation centres set up in Albania has left Lampedusa,” Brothers of Italy MP Sara Kelany said per Il Giornale as it departed. “We have built a replicable and effective model to manage clandestine arrivals, alleviate the migratory pressure on Italy and strengthen our internal security.”
The migrant removals mark the fruition of a long-awaited plan from the Meloni government in Rome, which negotiated a deal with Tirana to house up to 36,000 migrants per year in detention centres.
The €670 million ($730m/£560m) five-year deal will allow migrants to be held offshore while their asylum claims are processed rather than allowing the illegals to remain in Italy. While the centres will be in Albania, Italy will still be responsible for security, and the properties will technically remain under Italian jurisdiction.
Under the scheme, migrants will be held for up to four weeks in the detention centres. Should Italian authorities deem them worthy of asylum, they will be transferred to migrant centres in Italy. However, should their claims be determined to be spurious, they will be sent back to their country of origin.
Rome hopes that sending migrants directly to Albania will deter further attempts to reach their shores by aliens, even though it is unlikely that all illegals will be removed under the scheme.
The Meloni government initially faced criticism for failing to live up to its hardline campaign stances on illegal immigration, such as a promise to impose a naval blockade in the Mediterranean to prevent illegal crossings, which never came to pass.
However, Meloni’s multi-pronged approach to the crisis—including crafting deals with African nations and clamping down on ‘migrant taxi’ NGO ships—has begun to pay off. According to Interior Ministry figures, illegal migration has decreased by over 61 per cent this year compared to 2023.
Should the Albanian plan also prove successful, it could serve to embarrass the Labour Party government in Britain, which scrapped a similar scheme with Rwanda as one of its first acts after coming to power in July. The Albanian model is also reportedly being considered in Brussels as a potential framework for the EU to handle illegal migration into the bloc.
The removal of illegals has been criticised by globalist institutions, with Amnesty International saying that it has “strong concern about possible violations of human rights related to the measures provided for by the protocol, in particular, with regard to generalized detention, automatic detention and search and rescue operations at sea, considering it a violation, by Italy, of its international obligations.”
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In August 2024, President Trump shocked a crowd of supporters in Glendale, Arizona, with a ghastly statistic.
Trump told the crowd, “325,000 migrant children have gone missing in America today. They’re gone. They’re missing.”
Kamala Harris, the Biden Border Czar, allowed them to be trafficked into our country. Trump added, “Many of them are in sex slavery, or they’re dead.”
President Trump was quoting figures from an August 2024 Department of Homeland Security report.
NewsNation reported:
On Aug. 19, the DHS published a 14-page report revealing more than 32,000 unaccompanied children did not attend their immigration hearings between the fiscal years of 2019 and 2023.
What’s more, nearly 300,000 of these kids that came across the southern border alone never even got a court date whatsoever.
Essentially, Border Patrol doesn’t have anything to do with these young children.
That’s 300,000 unaccounted for children in the US today — in the last four years!
As Drew Hernandez says, “The Open Border Massacre under the failed leadership of Kamala Harris has led to the largest human and child trafficking operation in world history.”
Also in September, Muckraker released their shocking video report on illegal alien children forced to work in Times Square in New York City.
A child told Muckraker he saw a child kidnapped from Times Square in broad daylight.
One young child told the reporters that he forced to work four days a week from 4 PM until 2 AM in the morning.
The same young boy says he saw dead bodies on his way to America and witnessed children drowning.
The trafficking of children is not by accident.
The Biden regime knew this would happen when they planned their open border crisis.
And now this… Madeleine Rowley at The Free Press reported this week that forced labor and prostitution among underage migrants more than tripled under President Biden, reaching record highs.
This is a national disgrace, a massive blight on our country.
All thanks to Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/kamalas-kids-child-sex-trafficking-has-tripled-last/
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The small town of Logansport, Indiana, has not been spared the disastrous effects of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s border crisis.
Logansport is truly in the middle of “nowhere” in the rural midwestern state of Indiana, but despite being hours away from any major metropolis, the small town has still been targeted by the Biden regime.
The town is in the center of northern Indiana more than two hours from Chicago, and an hour and a half north of the state’s biggest city, Indianapolis. But despite is meager resources and its place hours from any major metropolis, Biden has dumped thousands of Haitians there as well as hundreds from a variety of other nations.
People from 28 countries now call the town of just 18,000 residents their home, as thousands of foreigners — perhaps as many as 5,000 — have streamed there over the last four years, according to WXIN-TV.
With the tidal wave of migrants — both quasi-legal, and illegal — the town is suffering as it races to adjust to the onslaught, which has pushed the area’s resources past the breaking point.
The problems are mounting. The schools are stretched thin, the town is seeing rising crime, and health care is overtaxed. And that does not even mention the growing housing problem the small town is facing.
The schools, for example, have found hundreds of migrant students, some of whom speak little or no English, being enrolled in the area’s schools. And according to Cass County Health Department Administrator Serenity Alter, many of these kids ended up in Logansport alone and unaccompanied by any adults.
The city’s medical facilities are also suffering.
Logansport Memorial Hospital reported that they have seen an avalanche of 20,000 emergency room visits and that 27 percent of these patients are on Medicaid, which has put a lot of pressure on the hospital’s finances.
Indeed, many of the migrants aren’t even officially on Medicaid. They are automatically enrolled in what Fox 59 called “presumptive Medicaid” and then they apply for charity care or a payment plan, the latter of which is rarely paid.
Housing is another major problem. Some apartments and homes have as many as 25 occupants, which violates state occupancy limits, but of which nothing is being done. For instance, Bloomington, Indiana, has limits of three adults along with several children, and in some instances up to five adults. These standards are typical across the state. But Logansport is seeing a dozen adults and more in the same dwelling.
Still, the problem is not lost on Logansport’s Republican Mayor Chris Martin, who called the growing housing crisis, “a big concern” for the city council.
These are the same concerns we have seen in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Springfield, Ohio, and so many other small American towns suffering from waves of migrants thanks to Joe Biden’s border crisis.
Mayor Matin has harsh words for the Biden-Harris administration. The mayor says his town needs help from the government now, not later. He also wondered why the town council is not being told how many more migrants will be coming.
“Do you even know? We don’t,” Martin said of the waves of migrants his town has seen. “We don’t.”
“The federal government has got to step in and help communities our size,” he added.
Martin also pointed out that city budgets in all areas have soared because of the rise in population the town has experienced.
“Here’s how we know it has changed,” he told the station. “Because of the 20 to 30% increase that we are seeing in a lot of our normal city services like traffic, school and the hospital.”
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Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.
TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure:
Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function.
Dickeson described caring for teens who have brain damage from being so heavily drugged—teens who have had their fingernails pulled out, and lemon juice poured on wounds. When I asked to interview one of their migrant residents, Dickeson said they simply weren’t in any condition to speak to anyone, much less a reporter. “We think the cartels and gangs use torture as a control method for the males,” said Dickeson. “They’re not going to fight back if they chain their victims to a radiator, beat them up frequently, or drug them.”
The abuse and prostitution may be forced on young migrants who are indebted to smugglers and their affiliated trafficking gangs in the United States. If they cannot pay their debts, their families can lose farms and homes to the banks that hold the loans.
The rising number of youth sex-trafficking cases were posted at the Department of Health and Human Services when TheFreePress demanded the data under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency is responsible for checking and issuing Certification and Eligibility Letters to the children and youths who first request aid after escaping sex traffickers.
The agency issued 1,143 letters in 2021, 2,226 letters in 2022, and 2,148 letters in 2024 under the welcome policies set by border chief Alejandro Mayorkas. The agency has not posted any data since the first week of September 2023.
The incomplete data adds up to 5,517 letters since October 2020, or an average of 1,8,37 letters per year.
Under President Donald Trump, the number of letters averaged 562 per year — or just one-third of the record reached under the guidance of pro-migration progressives.
The number of child cases under Biden and Mayorkas is three times their adult caseload, according to the agency data.
Mayorkas’ easy migration policies were unchallenged by Harris when she “ran away” from the border issue in 2021 as Biden tried — weakly — to get control over Mayorkas and his business backers. She also endorsed Mayorkas’ overall policies in her campaign’s economic platform.
There is likely to be some fraud in the process — like in the “U Visa” for crime victims — because it allows youths to be treated as refugees and put on a fast track to the very valuable prize of citizenship.
But there is much evidence that many of the 540,000 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” welcomed by Mayorkas either volunteer for abusive work or are forced into abusive work. At least 50 percent of the UACs are older teenagers or are young men who pretend to be younger than 19.
Federal investigations into sexual trafficking of UACs under President Donald Trump were stymied when then-Sen. Kamala Harris added language to a spending bill that barred information-sharing with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Federal agencies have done little to stop the sex trafficking, whistleblowers told TheFreePress:
Deborah White, another whistleblower who worked at the same [government-funded] shelter, testified that migrant children were handed over to improperly vetted sponsors who used fraudulent IDs and different addresses to procure numerous unrelated children. “I had multiple cases that I reported on,” said White, meaning she reported suspicious sponsors to her supervisor. “One in particular where we sent 329 children to one address: two garden apartment [buildings] in Houston, Texas.” The supervisor, White told The Free Press in an interview, took no steps to investigate further, but instead told White that she wasn’t moving migrants out of the facility quickly enough.
Amid the youths’ sexual torture, prostitution, and trafficking, progressives have happily thrown charges of bigotry and racism at the Americans who want their border laws enforced.
Trump “has been tapping into a long and tawdry history of US nativism by fearmongering about immigration for some time now. He keeps at it because bigotry and racism offer some of the essential glue that binds his coalition together and makes it such a robust and incendiary political force,” claimed Timothy O’Brien, the senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, in March 2024.
“Immigration has always been a building block of US … economic might,” he added.
Part of that migrant-enabled “economic might” comes from the covert employment of child migrants. In February 2023, the New York Times described the scale of workplace abuse, complete with photographs and captions:
Cristian works a construction job instead of going to school. He is 14 … Carolina packages Cheerios at night in a factory. She is 15 … Wander starts looking for day-labor jobs before sunrise. He is 13.
But the newspaper stopped following the child-labor issue it touched on Mayorkas and his Extraction Migration economic policy.
Similarly, the New York Times has posted intermittent articles about the sexual abuse of migrants — but it does not allow the coverage to taint the progressives’ claim to be the good guys in migration policy or the establishment’s narrative that the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants.”
In general, editors at establishment media sides prefer to hire pro-migration reporters to cover the migration beat. In turn, those reporters focus their empathy on migrants’ preferences — and also hide the myriad harms and economic distortions caused by their favored policie.s
In September 2023, federal agencies and Houston police announced they had arrested 10 human traffickers:
“Numerous young girls will no longer be raped, sexually exploited and beaten by the individuals arrested during this operation thanks to the efforts made by our partners at the Houston Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations and the agencies who make up the Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance,” said FBI Houston acting Special Agent in Charge David Martinez.
“Tragically, hundreds more underage sex trafficking victims won’t be rescued because we do not know about them. Without the public’s help, tormented sex trafficking victims remain in the clutches of manipulative criminals who seek only to enrich themselves at the expense of vulnerable juveniles.”
The successful operation got minimal media coverage. Mayorkas’ DHS press office did not announce the arrest. But five days later, however, the media office announced a new service to help migrants apply for benefits.
Weirdly, Mayorjkas repeatedly describes himself as a moral champion for migrants because of his migrant parents, his sympathy for migrants, and his support for “equity” between Americans and foreigners.
In May 2023, Mayorkas explained his pro-migration motivation during a graduation speech to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy:
My drive has been defined by a very clear purpose. My mother’s and father’s life journeys were defined by displacement. My mother was twice a refugee, first from war-torn Europe and, 19 years later, with my father, my sister, and me from the communist takeover of Cuba … They are the primary engine of my drive, and the primary reason why I work so hard, my purpose.
Breitbart News covers the sexual trafficking and labor abuse of children and youths enabled by Mayorkas.
Breitbart News also covers the thousands of migrant deaths and massive foreign destruction encouraged by Mayrokas and his Extraction Migration economic strategy.
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A cybersecurity breach at Muah.ai, a website offering “uncensored” AI-powered chatbots, has resulted in the theft of a vast database containing users’ interactions including a large number of users seeking child pornography.
404 Media reports that a major hacking incident at Muah.ai, a platform that allows users to create customized AI chatbots with a focus on explicit content, has exposed a substantial amount of user data, including chatbot prompts that reveal users’ sexual fantasies and, in many cases, attempts to create chatbots for child sexual abuse scenarios.
The hacker, who chose to remain anonymous, discovered vulnerabilities in the Muah.ai website, describing it as “basically a handful of open-source projects duct-taped together.” Initially driven by curiosity, the hacker decided to contact 404 Media after discovering the nature of the data in the database.
The stolen data includes email addresses, many of which appear to be personal accounts with users’ real names, linked to their chatbot interactions. This presents a significant privacy breach for Muah.ai users, as their explicit sexual fantasies are now potentially identifiable.
Some of the data contains explicit references to underage individuals, including the sexual abuse of toddlers and incest with young children. While it’s unclear if the AI system generated responses reflecting these requests, the data reveals the disturbing intentions of some users.
Muah.ai administrator Harvard Han claimed the breach was “financed by our competitors in the uncensored AI industry.” However, no evidence was provided to support this assertion, and the hacker denied any affiliation with the AI industry. Muah.ai positions itself as an “uncensored” platform for building AI chatbots, explicitly allowing sexual conversations and photos while claiming to ban underage content. The site offers pre-made bots, community-created options, or the ability to create custom AI companions that can send sexually suggestive or explicit messages and AI-generated images.
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