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March 29, 2024
Ed Kozak
Data
Election 2024
Immigration

DATA: 74% of Hispanics Support Use of ‘Illegal’ to Describe Laken Riley’s Killer.

The vast majority of Hispanics support labeling Laken Riley’s killer — Venezuelan national Jose Antonio Ibarra — ‘illegal.’ A significant majority of Hispanics also disapprove of Biden’s performance as President.

When Joe Biden used the term ‘illegal’ to describe Ibarra during his State of the Union address, it was followed by an outcry from far-left extremists in the Democratic Party and pro-illegal immigration advocates across the country. However, nearly three-quarters of Hispanics — 74 percent — believe it was appropriate for Joe Biden to use the term, according to a recent Harvard/Harris poll.

A majority of Hispanics — 63 percent — also believe that the border crisis is getting worse. Seventy-one percent of Hispanics think that the Biden government must do more to make it harder for illegals to enter the country. Sixty-nine percent of Hispanics also believe that Riley’s murder proves stricter immigration policies are necessary.

The poll also suggests that the Biden regime’s willful mishandling of the border crisis is turning support for stricter border enforcement into a bipartisan issue. Seventy percent of all voters polled believe that Riley’s murder highlighted the need for stricter immigration controls, with 84 percent of Republicans, 62 percent of Democrats, and 64 percent of swing voters agreeing.

The data also illustrates the extent to which Hispanic voters — once considered a reliable Democratic constituency — are losing faith in Biden and the Democrats. Sixty-eight percent of Hispanics disapprove of the job Biden is doing on the economy overall, and 70 percent disapprove of his handling of inflation.  Sixty-five percent disapprove of his handling of foreign affairs, and 63 percent disapprove of his handling of immigration.

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The vast majority of Hispanics support labeling Laken Riley’s killer — Venezuelan national Jose Antonio Ibarra — ‘illegal.’ A significant majority of Hispanics also disapprove of Biden’s performance as President. show more
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March 29, 2024
News

South Carolina Finds $2BN in Bank Account, Doesn’t Know Where It’s From.

The state of South Carolina has discovered roughly $1.8 billion in a bank account accrued over the past decade, with no clear understanding of its origin or intended recipients.

Republican State Senator Larry Grooms from South Carolina, who is leading a Senate panel investigation into the matter, likened the situation to a bank having money in its vault without knowing who it belongs to. The discovery of the large sum comes amid other concerns over the state’s financial records following the 2020 resignation of the state’s top accountant, elected Republican comptroller general Richard Eckstrom, after a $3.5 billion accounting blunder.

The investigation, currently tackled by state and private accountants, is focused on uncovering whence the huge sum came and why state officials never addressed the issue.

With records showing the origins of the $1.8 billion yet to surface, the situation casts a shadow on the state’s financial integrity. However, as Republican Governor Henry McMaster optimistically put it, “The good news is no money was lost.” Furthermore, elected Republican Treasurer Curtis Loftis was reportedly able to make nearly $200 million in interest by investing the money from the mysterious account.

Following the discovery of the mystery money, a constitutional amendment has been approved by the Senate to have the comptroller general be an appointed — rather than elected — position. The proposal is now pending a vote from the House.

South Carolina‘s accounting troubles can be traced back to multiple historical issues. However, given the significant amount of money lying unclaimed, ongoing investigations are essential to clarify the money’s origins.

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The state of South Carolina has discovered roughly $1.8 billion in a bank account accrued over the past decade, with no clear understanding of its origin or intended recipients. show more
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March 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Religion
UK

Sadiq Khan Lights London with ‘Happy Ramadan’ Displays over Holy Week and Easter Weekend.

London’s public spaces are being festooned with ‘Happy Ramadan’ lights through Holy Week and Easter weekend, the most important holiday period for Christians.

Ramadan, a period of fasting in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Islamic faith, moves in line with the moon each year. This year, it overlaps with Holy Week and Eastertide and appears to be taking precedence over them, despite the United Kingdom’s status as a constitutionally Christian country.

London’s Ramadan displays, now in their second year, adorn the key locations in the West End, including Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Oxford Street. Khan, of the left-wing Labour Party, personally switched on the lights earlier this month.

The choice of decoration, funded by the Aziz Foundation set up by billionaire property magnate Asif Aziz, has drawn criticism from some Conservatives.

“The thing I would question is this: there has been a Ramadan celebration in the window of Westminster city hall. But I just wonder if the Easter one is going up very soon? Easter is one of the most important Christian festivals of the year but what are [the Labour-run municipal government] doing to celebrate it?” he asked.

“I am not aware they are. I suspect the window display is not going to change.”

Some have also noted the Ramadan decorations are going up at a time when London is gripped by anti-Israel protests every weekend, with some featuring open calls for jihad.

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London’s public spaces are being festooned with ‘Happy Ramadan’ lights through Holy Week and Easter weekend, the most important holiday period for Christians. show more
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March 28, 2024
William Upton
Immigration

13.7 Million Illegals So Far Under Biden, Proving Trump’s Predictions Right.

New data shows that the number of illegal aliens in the United States has risen to 13.7 million under President Joe Biden, marking an increase of 37 percent. In addition, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. was an estimated 51.4 million in February 2024, a new record high. The number of foreign-born individuals in the country has increased by 6.4 million since Biden took office in January 2021.

In October, President Trump told The National Pulse exclusively that he believed Biden would preside over the importation of upwards of 15 million illegals. The new data shows Trump is likely to end up almost exactly correct by the end of the Biden term.

An average of 172,000 legal and illegal immigrants arrived in the U.S. each month under President Biden. However, the data — from the Center for Immigrant Studies (CIS) and based on the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) — may not fully account for the number of illegal aliens in the country.

The National Pulse previously reported that a retired immigration judge uncovered evidence that the Biden government has released over 100,000 illegals into the U.S. each month. This suggests the Census Bureau’s survey may be drastically undercounting the number of illegal aliens entering the country.

A bulk of the immigrant arrivals into the U.S. under Biden have come from Latin America — although other data suggests that  African, Middle Eastern, and Asian illegal aliens are beginning to comprise greater shares of those encountered by border agents. Additionally, among the 6.4 million who’ve entered the U.S. in the past three years, 44 percent lack having attained an education level beyond high school.

Immigrants now comprise 15.5 percent of the U.S. population. Last year, the Census Bureau released an estimate stating the U.S. wouldn’t hit that number until 2040. Under former President Donald Trump, just 42,000 immigrants were entering the U.S. each month — with the number trending on a decline prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Obama government saw 76,000 immigrants entering the country monthly.

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New data shows that the number of illegal aliens in the United States has risen to 13.7 million under President Joe Biden, marking an increase of 37 percent. In addition, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. was an estimated 51.4 million in February 2024, a new record high. The number of foreign-born individuals in the country has increased by 6.4 million since Biden took office in January 2021. show more
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March 28, 2024
SCOTUS

Jan 6 Defendant Released.

January 6 defendant Kevin Seefried of Laurel, Delaware, has been granted early release from prison after the Supreme Court agreed to take up a relevant appeal.

Seefried was handed a three-year prison term for “obstruction of an official proceeding,” with additional periods of one year and six months on misdemeanor charges.

The obstruction charge is at the center of the Supreme-Court-approved case Fischer v. United States, which questions the novel way Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has used it to prosecute many Jan 6 protestors.

While the DOJ argues the disruption of the 2020 election’s certification caused by protestors amounted to obstruction of an official proceeding, the relevant laws were passed in the wake of the Enron scandal. They were not intended to target protestors, but people who doctored and destroyed documents to sabotage an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Should Fischer succeed in the Supreme Court, a large number of protestors tried on obstruction of an official proceeding charges could be freed. Moreover, “conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding” and “obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding” are among the charges special prosecutor Jack Smith has leveled at Donald Trump, and Fischer‘s success could cut the case against the former president “in half.”

Years on from 2021, Jan 6 prosecutions are accelerating rather than decelerating. Prosecutors are targeting protestors for increasingly minor offenses, including MAGA influencer Isabella DeLuca, whose alleged crime is touching a table that was later passed out of a broken window.

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January 6 defendant Kevin Seefried of Laurel, Delaware, has been granted early release from prison after the Supreme Court agreed to take up a relevant appeal. show more
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March 28, 2024
Wake Up Right
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Finally, A Win for Election Integrity!

Republicans won a major battle over election integrity in Pennsylvania yesterday, as three Democrat judges voted in favor of signature verification for mail-in voting.

The details: The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which is made up of three Democrat-appointed judges, ruled 2-1 to overturn a lower court’s previous ruling that said the state could not enforce a “dated signature requirement” for mail-in ballots.

Back up: In November 2022, the RNC sued to ensure signature verification, and the state Supreme Court ruled in their favor. But this past November, a federal court struck down that ruling, leading to this most recent appeal and judgment…

The 3rd Circuit declared: “The Pennsylvania General Assembly has decided that mail-in voters must date the declaration on the return envelope of their ballot to make their vote effective… thus, failure to comply renders a ballot invalid under Pennsylvania law.”

Big picture: In 2020, Pennsylvania saw 2,637,065 votes cast by mail-in ballot. And according to the official tally, Joe Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes.

  • Translation: Even the slightest amount of mail-in voter fraud could have been the deciding factor in that race.

Pennsylvania is critical. If it’s going to allow vote-by-mail, then having signature verification is a major step toward ensuring the upcoming election is secure.

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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Republicans won a major battle over election integrity in Pennsylvania yesterday, as three Democrat judges voted in favor of signature verification for mail-in voting. show more
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March 28, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration

Here’s How Mass Migration is Threatening America’s Food Security.

Animal health experts are warning that mass illegal immigration is threatening the United States’ food supply. Since 2021, authorities recorded an estimated nine million encounters with undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. These illegal aliens are rarely subject to any meaningful health checks and carry with them a variety of diseases.

“These people are just destroying our country. And our food supply is going to be a real critical issue,” Dr. Michael Vickers, a veterinarian who served on the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC), told The Epoch Times.

Vickers highlighted the fact that thousands of cattle in Texas were slaughtered after being infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). The source of these infections was the illegal aliens who worked at the affected dairies. Vickers noted that “people from Central America and beyond” milk “[m]ost of the dairy herds in the United States.”

In two cases, a combined 23,000 cattle were infected with TB. Investigators discovered that the TB strains were human and originated outside of the U.S. Twelve illegal aliens working with the herds were infected with TB, Vickers said.

Vickers also expressed concerns that the ongoing border crisis risks a severe New World screwworm epidemic. New World screwworm cases are surging in Central America, and last year, the USDA had to provide emergency funding to foreign farmers to combat outbreaks.

While the threat the ongoing border crisis poses to Americans is often evident, few realize how dangerous unfettered migration is to the U.S. food supply. Biden’s ‘newcomers‘ strain public resources, commit crime, and carry disease. Now those diseases risk destroying the country’s food supply.

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Animal health experts are warning that mass illegal immigration is threatening the United States’ food supply. Since 2021, authorities recorded an estimated nine million encounters with undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. These illegal aliens are rarely subject to any meaningful health checks and carry with them a variety of diseases. show more
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March 28, 2024
Ed Kozak
News

Epstein Island Visitor Data Exposed.

Data broker Near Intelligence has allegedly gathered detailed coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices belonging to visitors to Little St. James, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island. The data, uncovered by WIRED, reveals the visitors’ respective residences and places of work, shedding light on the possible identities of high-profile figures undeterred by Epstein’s criminal status. Many of these visitors traveled to the Island well after allegations against Epstein emerged. The data was collected from July 2016 until July 6, 2019 — the day of Epstein’s arrest.

TRACKING EPSTEIN’S FRIENDS.

The data collected is apparently so precise that Near Intelligence could pinpoint individuals’ locations within centimeters. For example, the data broker was able to track visitors’ movements from the Ritz-Carlton on St. Thomas to a specific dock at the American Yacht Harbor, which then ferried them to Little St. James. While the visitors have not yet been named, the data obtained by Near Intelligence offers clues. Over 11,000 coordinates harvested point to 166 locations throughout the U.S. where Epstein’s guests lived and worked, as well as in Australia and the Cayman Islands.

Near Intelligence identified devices traveling to Little St. James from U.S. locations in 80 cities across 26 states. The top states of origin of Epstein’s guests were Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York. The data broker identified mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida, homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and even a nightclub in Miami.

TRACKING EPSTEIN’S VICTIMS.

The data also points to the routes taken by Epstein’s victims. Coordinates identified other properties belonging to Epstein, including his 8,000-acre ranch in New Mexico and a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida — both of which were identified by prosecutors as locations from where Epstein trafficked minors for abuse.

Near Intelligence’s report on visitors’ movements to Epstein’s island included five maps. One revealed locations of devices present on the island more than three years before Epstein’s arrest. Two maps identified “Common Evening Locations” and “Common Daytime Locations” for each visitor, respectively. A fourth map displays the “general geographic areas from which a location generates the majority of its visits,” while the fifth map shows visitors’ locations 30 minutes before and after arriving on Little St. James.

WIRED CONCEALING IDENTITIES.

While it appears that the data accessed by WIRED would enable the publication to identify the influential individuals who frequented Epstein’s Island, they have so far refused to do so.

“For this story, we reproduced some of the maps created by Near, while excluding any precise location data that could be used to identify properties or individuals, to protect the privacy of anyone uninvolved in Epstein’s crimes,” the publication said.

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Data broker Near Intelligence has allegedly gathered detailed coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices belonging to visitors to Little St. James, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island. The data, uncovered by WIRED, reveals the visitors’ respective residences and places of work, shedding light on the possible identities of high-profile figures undeterred by Epstein’s criminal status. Many of these visitors traveled to the Island well after allegations against Epstein emerged. The data was collected from July 2016 until July 6, 2019 — the day of Epstein’s arrest. show more
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March 28, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare

SURPRISE! – Judge Who Wants Trump Attorney Disbarred is Massive Democrat Donor.

Conservative attorney John Eastman faces potential disbarment and a substantial financial penalty following a recommendation by California judge Yvette Roland. But Roland is a massive Democrat Party donor, calling her judgment into question when making such a recommendation. Roland has specifically donated thousands of dollars to Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, and Democrat fundraising operation ActBlue, The National Pulse can reveal.

Her recommended sanctions against Eastment include a $10,000 fine. Eastman’s supposed offense was spearheading a novel legal theory to contest the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. The sanctions and disbarment recommendation are now subject to review by the California Supreme Court.

In an interview on War Room with Stephen K. Bannon, Eastman said he faces disbarment in just three days unless an appellate court intervenes and issues a stay while he pursues an appeal. Eastman described the California judge’s ruling: “It’s 128 pages… and almost every page has at least one blatant lie on it.”

“We’re going to be challenging this vigorously all the way up through the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary,” he added.

If the disbarment recommendation proceeds and is successful, Eastman, a highly regarded constitutional scholar, will lose his ability to practice law in California. The proceeding took place over 32 nonconsecutive days and stretched over ten weeks. Eastman told Bannon that at least one commenter speculated it may have been the most protracted and expensive bar disciplinary hearing in history.

The constitutional scholar explained to Bannon the numerous instances where the judge presiding over his California Bar hearing had ruled to exclude exculpatory evidence — including legal briefs from at least six state attorneys general who had agreed with his assessment against certifying the 2020 presidential election after allegations of fraud.

“She said that their briefs were not relevant, even though they did exactly the same thing I did, which demonstrated that reasonable attorneys were taking these actions,” Eastman said.

“This is Orwellian, it is authoritarian,” he said, responding to the judge’s process and ruling. “The government has spoken, and you better bow to our claims, or we’re going to destroy you.”

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Conservative attorney John Eastman faces potential disbarment and a substantial financial penalty following a recommendation by California judge Yvette Roland. But Roland is a massive Democrat Party donor, calling her judgment into question when making such a recommendation. Roland has specifically donated thousands of dollars to Barack Obama, Gavin Newsom, and Democrat fundraising operation ActBlue, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
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March 28, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Politics

Matt Schlapp’s Crotch-Grabbing Legal Woes May Not Be Over After All…

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) organizer Matt Schlapp, who originally claimed to be “cleared” of a sexual assault allegation against campaign staffer Carlton Huffman, may be back in legal hot water, with his accuser now allegedly disputing his description of the settlement between them.

Schlapp, who chairs the American Conservative Union (ACU), appeared to claim vindication when comments from Huffman appeared in the press, stating the “claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family.”

“Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them,” the statement said, raising questions about the specificity of the wording. Shortly after, it emerged Huffman was paid a $480,000 settlement by ACU’s insurer. Reports also suggest he doesn’t stand by the comments made in his name, which were provided to the media by the Schlapp team, with Huffman insisting he never agreed to them.

Sources say “verbiage in [Huffman’s] statement was not what Huffman had agreed to as part of the settlement,” and Huffman’s counsel has “notified Schlapp’s legal team that some of Schlapp’s personal statements and social media posts celebrating the lawsuit’s resolution appeared to be in breach of the agreement’s non-disparagement clause.”

Schlapp has already removed social media posts suggesting he had been “cleared” and that Huffman had “apologized.” Huffman has not recanted his original claims about Schlapp, a 56-year-old father-of-five, who is alleged to have sexually “pummelled” the younger man’s crotch during a car ride.

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Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) organizer Matt Schlapp, who originally claimed to be "cleared" of a sexual assault allegation against campaign staffer Carlton Huffman, may be back in legal hot water, with his accuser now allegedly disputing his description of the settlement between them. show more
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