Chicago, set to host the Democratic National Convention next month, experienced a rash of gun violence over the Fourth of July weekend. According to police reports, 109 people were shot, with at least 19 fatalities, an increase of 27 percent from the previous year.
Police data indicates that from 6 PM CT on July 3 to 6 AM CT on July 7, gunfire struck at least 100 individuals, resulting in 17 deaths. An additional two individuals were shot and killed later on July 7, police reported.
City officials canceled police officers’ time off to “maximize presence and ensure prompt incident response.” Despite these measures, the shootings continued. An 8-year-old boy was among the fatalities, shot alongside two other boys aged 5 and 8, based on the Chicago Police Department’s records. Several teenagers aged 15 to 16 were also among the shooting victims.
Local media documented 73 shootings and 11 fatalities during the previous year’s holiday weekend in 2023. Across 2023, Chicago reported 617 homicides.
On top of the rampant gun violence, the city is also dealing with the influx of illegalimmigrants, which it has struggled to cope with. An April report revealed that Chicago had spent nearly $300 million on migrant shelters since 2022 for over 38,000 illegals.
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Chicago, set to host the Democratic National Convention next month, experienced a rash of gun violence over the Fourth of July weekend. According to police reports, 109 people were shot, with at least 19 fatalities, an increase of 27 percent from the previous year.
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Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to use emergency powers to release as many as 40,000 prisoners early in the first days of his premiership. Sources at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) say they are facing an “immediate” and “severe” overcrowding crisis, with fewer than 700 open spaces in English and Welsh prisons.
Officials have advised Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood that prisons will reach full capacity by August 1, with early release on license for criminals 40 percent of the way through their terms being the top-rated option for dealing with the crisis.
Currently, most prisoners serving non-life sentences receive early release on license halfway through their terms. Mahmood’s Conservative Party predecessor, Alex Chalk, sought permission from then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to implement mass releases, but Sunak refused.
Prime Minister Starmer is “expected to authorise emergency measures” so prisoners serving under four years are released earlier “this week,” according to The Times.
Overcrowding was a perennial argument for weaker sentences under both the previous Conservative government and the previous Labour government. Longstanding claims that expanding the prison estate would be too expensive have been undermined by Britain’s illegal immigration crisis, with billions of pounds being found to host tens of thousands of boat migrants in hotels and other locations seemingly overnight.
Prime Minister Starmer has already improved the situation for illegal aliens, scrapping a plan to transfer boat migrants to Rwanda, despite hundreds of millions of pounds having been invested in the scheme already, on his first day in office.
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Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to use emergency powers to release as many as 40,000 prisoners early in the first days of his premiership. Sources at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) say they are facing an "immediate" and "severe" overcrowding crisis, with fewer than 700 open spaces in English and Welsh prisons.
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While Joe Biden’s poor debate performance and mental decline are dominating the news, the migrant crime epidemic Donald Trump warned against in February continues apace.
CHICK-FIL-A SHOOTER.
Authorities have charged Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, 37, with capital murder for allegedly shooting and killing two workers at a Chick-fil-A in Texas.
The El Salvadoran told authorities he crossed the U.S. border unlawfully, but he did not specify the time or place of entry. Mendoza Argueta states he is married and has a child who is a U.S. citizen. This puts him in a category of illegal alien Joe Biden says he will protect from deportation.
The shootings took in the Dallas suburb of Irving and claimed the lives of Brayan Godoy, a 31-year-old father of four, and Patricia Portillo, a 49-year-old grandmother.
WAR CRIMINALS.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been straining its resources to locate and arrest 11 foreigners who “fraudulently entered the United States in an attempt to escape justice” for violating human rights in their homelands.
According to ICE, these include:
Three people from Central America implicated in a variety of human rights violations against civilians and political opponents, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, intelligence gathering for violent regimes and attacks against civilian infrastructure.
Three people from Africa implicated in extrajudicial killings, rape, recruiting child soldiers and committing atrocities on behalf of governments in addition to supporting persecutor groups.
One person from Asia who admitted to targeting women for forced abortions and sterilizations, as well as physically abducting women while working on behalf of the ruling political party.
Two former members of paramilitary groups — one in Asia, another in the Caribbean — known to have committed serious human rights violations through violent repression and arresting people without cause and extorting civilians by use of force.
Two people from the Caucasus who admitted to organizing violent clashes with opposing political factions and targeting religious minorities for abuse.
ICE required the support of the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for the operation, showcasing the burden of dealing with the world’s war criminals and human rights abusers being in the U.S. thanks to lax immigration controls.
HONDURAN PEDOPHILE.
Honduran illegal Junior Manuel Dubon Benitez, 18, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Iowa. Benitez is charged with sexual abuse in the second degree, according to Iowa court documents.
Dubon Benitez entered the U.S. illegally via Hidalgo, Texas, in April 2022.
HONDURAN HUMAN TRAFFICKER.
Another Honduran, Dora Patricia Flores Canales, has been deported for “aggravated human trafficking in the form of commercial sexual exploitation.”
ICE suggested the foreign fugitive posed “a significant threat to our nation.”
DOMINICAN DRUG TRAFFICKER.
Dominican illegal Jose Abel Polanco-Ramirez, 23, has been detained by ICE after being charged with “trafficking cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine and carrying a dangerous weapon” in Massachusetts.
“Jose Abel Polanco-Ramirez is charged with peddling poison while carrying a deadly weapon on the streets of our Massachusetts community,” said an ICE spokesman. ICE also noted they issued a detainer against Polanco-Ramirez after he was initially charged, but local authorities ignored them and let the illegal loose among the public again.
WANTED CHILD RAPIST.
Also in Massachusetts, ICE detained an unnamed Ecuadorian illegal who first entered the U.S. in 2021. He has been wanted in Ecuador for the rape of a minor and invasion of privacy since at least May 2023.
“This Ecuadorian fugitive is facing some very serious charges, but instead of facing the justice system, he fled and attempted to take refuge in Massachusetts,” said an ICE spokesman, adding that the illegal “posed a significant threat to the children of our communities.”
CONNECTICUT KILLER.
Manuel Fernando Alejandor-Martinez, 23, has been taken into custody by ICE following a conviction for manslaughter in Connecticut.
The Guatemalan illegal, who killed a Connecticut resident while driving an uninsured vehicle, had been released to a halfway house by the Connecticut Department of Corrections in August 2023 in defiance of an ICE detainer.
“We have a new category of crime. It’s called migrant crime, and it’s going to be worse than any other form of crime,” @realDonaldTrump told Laura Ingraham. pic.twitter.com/FrdQLSFKPB
Read The National Pulse’s previous migrant crime round-up here.
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While Joe Biden's poor debate performance and mental decline are dominating the news, the migrant crime epidemic Donald Trump warned against in February continues apace.
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Public backlash over migrant crime and the rise of the populist right has prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to adopt a tougher stance on immigration, despite his prior support for open-door policies.
Facing plummeting public approval and a surge in anti-mass migration sentiment, Scholz’s government has endorsed legislation allowing deportation for foreigners advocating violence on social media, following a fatal attack by an Afghan migrant at a mass migration rally that sparked widespread anger.
“It outrages me when someone who has found protection here commits the most serious of crimes,” Scholz claimed. “Such criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan.”
Crime statistics show a significant increase in offenses involving migrants, with foreigners comprising just 14.6 percent of Germany’s population but accounting for 58.5 percent of all violent crimes.
Scholz’s proposed deportation bill faces challenges, including constitutional issues and logistical hurdles in deporting individuals from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan that are deemed unsafe.
Scholz, under pressure to address migration concerns before next year’s federal elections, has attempted diplomatic agreements to facilitate deportations.
His change of course comes after a populist surge during last month’s European elections, as the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) beat Scholz’s Social Democrats and their coalition partners in the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, remarked last month that the surge of support for populist parties was shifting the Overton Window on issues like mass migration.
In the same way the left shifted the Overton Window towards the climate change agenda, populists are shifting the Overton Window against mass migration, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/CsrZIfWPhA
Public backlash over migrant crime and the rise of the populist right has prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to adopt a tougher stance on immigration, despite his prior support for open-door policies.
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Former Joe Biden regime official Sam Brinton has avoided jail time after pleading guilty to misdemeanor petit larceny in a plea deal announced last week in Arlington General District Court. Brinton, formerly a highly-paid nuclear official at the Department of Energy, initially faced felony charges that could have resulted in a 20-year sentence.
Brinton admits to stealing luggage belonging to Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin six years ago at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. As part of a plea agreement, the non-binary Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence “abbess” will participate in an adult diversion program, which includes mental health treatment, writing an apology letter to Khamsin, and 50 hours of community service. The charges were reduced from grand larceny.
This is the third time the drag queen has avoided incarceration for stealing women’s luggage for their underwear and other clothing while on government business.
In a related civil case filed in Montgomery County, Maryland, Brinton has reached a settlement with Khamsin, agreeing to an undisclosed financial payment and issuing a personal apology.
Brinton was arrested in May of last year as a “fugitive from justice,” months after The National Pulse exposed the “gender non-binary” former official as a luggage thief and a defender of “rentboy.com,” a site that was raided by authorities over illegal prostitution claims.
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Former Joe Biden regime official Sam Brinton has avoided jail time after pleading guilty to misdemeanor petit larceny in a plea deal announced last week in Arlington General District Court. Brinton, formerly a highly-paid nuclear official at the Department of Energy, initially faced felony charges that could have resulted in a 20-year sentence.
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Boeing is nearing an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019, according to attorneys representing the victims’ families.
The aerospace manufacturer is accused of violating a previous settlement related to these tragedies, which resulted in the deaths of 346 people. The crashes took place in Indonesia in October 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019.
In January 2021, the DOJ charged Boeing with conspiracy to defraud the United States, alleging that the company misled the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) during the evaluation of the 737 MAX aircraft.
Boeing agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement, committing to pay fines totaling $243.7 million, $1.77 billion in compensation to airline customers, and $500 million to the beneficiaries of the crash victims. Boeing also agreed to cooperate with the government and avoid committing any felony offenses, with the DOJ deferring criminal prosecution for three years.
In May, the DOJ asserted that Boeing had violated its obligations under the 2021 settlement. Now, the DOJ is proposing a new agreement, which would necessitate Boeing pleading guilty to conspiracy charges, paying a fine of approximately $200 million, agreeing to the appointment of an external corporate monitor, and remaining on probation for three years. This deal would prevent the need for a criminal trial.
The families of the crash victims have expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed plea deal, criticizing it for lacking accountability and an admission of conspiracy causing the deaths of 346 people.
Several whistleblowers have come forward warning of safety issues with Boeing aircraft, including John Barnett, who was found shot to death earlier this year. Barnett had warned, “If anything happens to me, it’s not suicide,” although his death was ruled as self-inflicted.
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Boeing is nearing an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019, according to attorneys representing the victims' families.
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An illegalimmigrant from Turkey is being charged with first-degree rape after being arrested by police in Albany, New York, last week. Sakir Akkan, 21, allegedly forced a 15-year-old girl into his vehicle on May 14 and threatened to beat her with a metal pole. The Turkish illegal immigrant, authorities say, then proceeded to remove the girl’s clothing and rape her.
According to court documents, Akkan saw the girl walking down an alleyway early in the morning on May 14. After coercing her into his vehicle, he took the victim to an isolated area where the rape then occurred. Police say the 15-year-old was subsequently released by Akkan and sought help at a nearby residence. She was later taken to a local hospital and treated for injuries suffered as she resisted the sexual attack.
Records reveal U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Akkan on November 5 of last year after crossing the border from Mexico into California. Authorities released him just days later with a notice to appear in a Philadelphia court in February 2025. Another illegal immigrant from Ecuador was arraigned in New York City just days prior to Akkan’s arrest for allegedly filming himself raping a 13-year-old girl in Kissena Park.
The Biden government failed to deport the illegalimmigrant—Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25—who had been ordered to leave the United States in 2022. Left-wing prosecutors and other government officials have repeatedly used sanctuary city laws to make it more difficult for illegal immigrant sex offenders, including those accused of child abuse, to be turned over to federal authorities, often preventing deportations.
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An illegalimmigrant from Turkey is being charged with first-degree rape after being arrested by police in Albany, New York, last week. Sakir Akkan, 21, allegedly forced a 15-year-old girl into his vehicle on May 14 and threatened to beat her with a metal pole. The Turkish illegal immigrant, authorities say, then proceeded to remove the girl's clothing and rape her.
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An insider-knowledge betting scandal is tainting the British general election. Senior Conservative Party figures—and even some police officers—stand accused of using inside info to place bets on the election date shortly before it was announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Sunak’s Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) Craig Williams, also a parliamentary candidate, admits placing a £100 (~$128) bet at 5-1 odds on Sunak calling the election for July 4. The Gambling Commission is investigating him, leading to his suspension as a Conservative candidate—though it’s too late to remove him from the ballots.
He insists he “committed an error of judgment, not an offense” and “intend[s] to clear [his] name.”
The Gambling Commission is also investigating Laura Saunders, another candidate, suspecting she learned the election date from her husband, Tony Lee, the Conservative Party’s director of campaigns. The Commission is also probing Lee. The party has suspended Saunders along with Willams.
A more comprehensive investigation now encompasses a significant number of candidates, candidates’ relatives, and candidates’ friends. Data analysis shows a highly suspicious surge in election day bets just before Sunak announced the date.
Several police officers are implicated in the scandal, with one of Sunak’s close protection officers becoming the first of six officers placed under investigation. Authorities arrested this officer for misconduct in public office, with some questioning why he is facing harsher treatment than the politicians suspected of wrongdoing.
Efforts by Conservatives to reap relatively small sums of money from the election as they face a landslide defeat have further damaged their public reputation. Nigel Farage’s Reform Party leads the Conservatives nationally.
Excl: Here's what happens if you scrape Betfair data for bets on a July election.
This graph cuts off at the end of 21 May, the day before Sunak announced the election.
There's a flood of bets that day – before Rishi formally told the cabinet and stood in Downing Street. pic.twitter.com/AfKyzAbDBQ
An insider-knowledge betting scandal is tainting the British general election. Senior Conservative Party figures—and even some police officers—stand accused of using inside info to place bets on the election date shortly before it was announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.show more
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The funniest addition to this story is that a Labour candidate has also now been suspended, not for betting on the date of the election using insider info, but for betting AGAINST HIMSELF
The funniest addition to this story is that a Labour candidate has also now been suspended, not for betting on the date of the election using insider info, but for betting AGAINST HIMSELF show more
The head of the Maryland Democratic Party’s LGBT caucus allegedly sought to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old minor by text. Michael Knaapen admits the texts, which include nudes and an expressed desire to rape the supposed child and film the encounter, are real. However, he claims he did not really intend to meet the minor and engage in the acts.
Alex Rosen, who routinely confronts adults who message people they believe to be minors, recorded the confrontation in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rosen notes Knaapen had given out his home address, undermining his claims he did not want to meet in person.
Knaapen insists his stated desire to “rape” the child was a “fantasy” the minor “seemed to enjoy.” Rosen shows screenshots of the chats on X, formerly Twitter.
We just busted the head of the LGBTQ Dems of Maryland going after a 14-year-old. 😳
Groomers are about to be mad.
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Visitor logs reveal that Knaapen visited the White House three times last year. He is only the latest Biden regime ally to face accusation of sexual conduct involving minors.
The courts sentenced another Maryland Democrat, Patrick Wojahn, to 30 years in prison last year on 140 counts of possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material. Wojahn also visited the White House several times and was known as a close confidant of Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
In 2022, The National Pulse exposed former Biden regime official Sam Brinton. The Energy Department fired the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag queen after he was arrested for stealing women’s luggage from airports on official business.
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The head of the Maryland Democratic Party’s LGBT caucus allegedly sought to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old minor by text. Michael Knaapen admits the texts, which include nudes and an expressed desire to rape the supposed child and film the encounter, are real. However, he claims he did not really intend to meet the minor and engage in the acts. show more
Migrant crime, which Donald Trump has labeled a “new category of crime,” made waves in the media this past week, with a number of high-profile crimes sparking public outrage.
HANG HIM HIGH.
Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, an Ecuadorian illegal, has been arrested in New York City for allegedly holding up a boy and girl, both aged 13, with a machete. Inga-Landi, 25, allegedly recorded himself raping the girl in a Queens park after binding and gagging the pair before robbing them.
He was captured by members of the public and given a beating before being turned over to the police. It has since transpired that he had at least three prior run-ins with the law, and an immigrationjudge ordered his deportation in 2022—but the Joe Biden regime did not execute it, and he was left at large.
Inga-Landi’s case has caused widespread anger, with Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia going so far as to call for him to be hanged from the border wall.
MOTHER OF FIVE.
The rape and murder of mother-of-five Rachel Morin, allegedly by Salvadoran illegal Victor Martinez Hernandez, has caused even greater anger.
Hernandez, 23, was also wanted for murder in his native El Salvador and for an attack on a mother and her young child in Los Angeles when he was arrested in Oklahoma for the 2023 slaying of Morin on a popular Maryland hiking trail.
“We are 1,800 miles from the southern border here in Harford County,” stressed Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler of Harford County, Maryland, in a press conference on the arrest.
“This is the second woman in our county to be killed by illegal suspects. In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. [This] should not be happening. Victor Hernandez did not come here to make a better life for himself… he came here to escape a crime he committed in El Salvador,” he railed.
Trump personally contacted Morin’s family to express his concerns, with her mother saying she was “deeply touched by President Trump’s kindness and concern.”
“He asked about Rachel and showed honest compassion for her untimely death. His words brought comfort to me during this very difficult time.”
FREED TO KILL.
It has been revealed that Pablo Jose Gutierrez-Morales, a 31-year-old illegal alien charged with stabbing a California man to death, carried out the killing just weeks after skipping an immigration hearing.
The Nicaraguan entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which says it “paroled [him] into the U.S. [to be] monitored by ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) with instructions to report to Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), Los Angeles for reporting.”
ICE gave up on these light restrictions a few months later, with disastrous results.
SIXTEEN-TIME DEPORTEE.
Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, a 47-year-old Mexican illegal alien, has been charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, reckless driving, and driving without a license after allegedly running down and killing Scott Miller, 64, in Colorado.
Cruz-Mendoza was working illegally as a driver for the Monique Trucking company when he swerved off the load and caused his cargo to fall onto five vehicles, killing Miller and severely injuring another driver.
The illegal had been deported from the U.S. on 16 previous occasions.
FIVE FUGITIVE KILLERS.
ICE has detained five illegals wanted for murder or another form of homicide over just two weeks in the Houston and Waco areas.
The wanted men include two Hondurans and three Mexicans, with one of the Hondurans “wanted in Mexico for multiple murders.” ICE reports the unnamed 38-year-old killed two people “during a botched attempt to highjack a shipment of illicit narcotics.”
One of the Mexicans had been deported once before, and another “voluntarily returned” three times.
MOST WANTED.
Two illegals on a Texan ‘most wanted’ list have been detained.
Servando Trejo Duran, Jr., 62, has a criminal record in the U.S. dating back to 1980 and has been deported previously. The Mexican was wanted for violating parole conditions related to a murder conviction and was No. 3 on the most wanted list.
Victor Hugo Chox Gonzalez, the No. 1 most wanted, has also been detained. He also has a lengthy criminal record and a previous deportation to his name and was most recently convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in 2023.
DREAMERS.
Newly released U.S. Immigration and Customs Service (USCIS) data revealed that 765,166 so-called ‘Dreamers’ approved by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program had arrest records within five years of the launch of the Obama-Biden initiative.
Fully 10.38 percent of approved applications under DACA—which grants de facto amnesty to illegals arriving in the U.S. as minors—had prior arrest records, including for violent crimes and drunk driving.
Biden recently announced job opportunities and protections against deportation for “Dreamers” to mark the 12th anniversary of DACA. Many criticized the move as a naked attempt to shore up the Democrat’s support among minorities, which is collapsing ahead of the November election.
“We have a new category of crime. It’s called migrant crime, and it’s going to be worse than any other form of crime,” @realDonaldTrump told Laura Ingraham. pic.twitter.com/FrdQLSFKPB
Read The National Pulse’s previous migrant crime round-up here.
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Migrant crime, which Donald Trump has labeled a "new category of crime," made waves in the media this past week, with a number of high-profile crimes sparking public outrage.
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