Sheetz, a Pennsylvannia-based family business operating over 600 convenience stores across six states, is being sued by the Joe Biden regime’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which says the chain “violated federal law by denying employment to a class of job applicants because of their race.”
Notionally independent, the EEOC is run by Charlotte Burrows, a Democrat and former aide to the late Senator Ted Kennedy. In a statement, the agency admits it “does not allege that Sheetz was motivated by race when making hiring decisions,” but insists the chain still discriminated against minorities by “screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records.”
The agency explained, “Federal law mandates that employment practices causing a disparate impact because of race or other protected classifications must be shown by the employer to be necessary to ensure the safe and efficient performance of the particular jobs at issue.”
“Even when such necessity is proven, the practice remains unlawful if there is an alternative practice available that is comparably effective in achieving the employer’s goals but causes less discriminatory effect,” they added.
Sheetz, which is being sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, says “[d]iversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are” and that they have “attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute.”
The EEOC wants the chain to offer jobs to minorities it turned down, including back pay and retroactive benefits.
The federal government has launched many lawfare cases since Joe Biden took office. Multiple prosecutions of Donald Trump have been mounted, and lawsuits have been lodged empowering federal officials to dismantle state border defenses and block state-level border control laws in Texas.
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Sheetz, a Pennsylvannia-based family business operating over 600 convenience stores across six states, is being sued by the Joe Biden regime's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which says the chain "violated federal law by denying employment to a class of job applicants because of their race."
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Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz has warned moves by Democrat lawmakers to take away Donald Trump’s security if he is sent to prison are intended to facilitate his murder. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, has put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection.
“That’s ridiculous, that means they want him killed because he’s obviously a target,” Dershowitz said of Thompson’s Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act.
“We live in an age where everybody is in danger… certainly Donald Trump needs to get Secret Service protection,” he added.
Thompson has made it clear his bill targets Trump, complaining that “current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee – even a former President.”
“[I]t is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment,” he insists.
‘GUARANTEED VICTORY.’
Dershowitz does not believe Trump will be imprisoned at the end of his election interference trial in Manhattan. He predicts New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan will “bluff, fine and threat, but he’s not going to throw Donald Trump in jail.”
Such a move would mean “a guaranteed victory” in November’s presidential election, Dershowitz explained.
Trump’s legal team argues Merchan is compromised due to his family’s ties to the Democratic Party. The judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, has links to Adam Schiff and Kamala Harris and expressed support for her father imprisoning Trump by sharing pictures of him behind bars on social media.
However, Judge Merchan has refused requests that he recuse himself and banned the former president from talking about his family.
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Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz has warned moves by Democrat lawmakers to take away Donald Trump's security if he is sent to prison are intended to facilitate his murder. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, has put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection.
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A majority of voters believe that the prosecution of President Donald J. Trump is a “politically motivated witch hunt,” and that he is unlikely to be able to get a fair trial in New York City, according to numbers released Monday by Rasmussen Reports.
The data, which emerges from a national survey of 1,126 U.S. likely voters, reveals that just 27 percent of those survey think it is “very likely” Trump receives a fair trial. Fifteen percent say it is “somewhat likely,” but a combined 51 percent majority believe it is “not very likely” or “not likely at all.” Six percent told Rasmussen they were “not sure.”
Additionally, 54 percent were inclined to agree with President Donald Trump that the case against him, especially in the so-called “hush money” trial in New York, is a “politically motivated witch hunt.” Forty percent disagreed, with six percent unsure, again.
Almost 70 percent of Hispanic voters – versus 55 percent of whites, and 43 percent of blacks – believe the trial is a witch hunt.
Opening arguments begin in the Manhattan courtroom today, with the presiding judge, a Democrat donor and his children, set to materially benefit from a guilty verdict against the former President.
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A majority of voters believe that the prosecution of President Donald J. Trump is a "politically motivated witch hunt," and that he is unlikely to be able to get a fair trial in New York City, according to numbers released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. show more
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is set to call upon David Pecker, former chairman of American Media Inc., as its initial witness against Donald Trump. As head of American Media Inc., responsible for publishing the National Enquirer, Pecker is accused of involvement in multiple “catch-and-kill” operations in which potentially damaging stories were acquired and then suppressed.
Pecker, however, presided over an organization that had to settle numerous lawsuits for its fabrications and fantasies, including the 2014 case involving the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the 2003 case of Rep. Gary Condit, the 2017 case featuring Judge Judy, as well as stories featuring Kate Hudson, and others.
Prosecutors are expected to call on Pecker following completion of opening statements.
Pecker also stands accused of “extortion and blackmail” – words used by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos after the Enquirer acquired correspondence belonging to Bezos and his then-lover Lauren Sanchez.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office is set to call upon David Pecker, former chairman of American Media Inc., as its initial witness against Donald Trump. As head of American Media Inc., responsible for publishing the National Enquirer, Pecker is accused of involvement in multiple "catch-and-kill" operations in which potentially damaging stories were acquired and then suppressed.
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Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy, a former senior advisor in the Barack Obama administration, has been arraigned in Great Britain on child sex offense charges. Shy, who previously coordinated the U.S. government’s strategy against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, is accused of arranging the commission of a child sex offense and possessing indecent images of minors.
Shy, a U.S. citizen residing in New Jersey, served under Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, holding key positions at the Treasury between 2008 and 2014. He was most recently an executive at Citi, although the banking group now says he is no longer an employee.
Shy appeared before Luton Crown Court on Friday via video link from His Majesty’s Prison Bedford. He was not asked to enter a plea.
Following the charges, Shy has ceased employment with Citi. He is expected to be remanded in custody until at least June, and his trial is currently scheduled for August.
Several former members of the Obama and Joe Biden governments have run into difficulties with law enforcement over the last year. In November 2023, former Obama advisor Stuart Seldowitz was charged with a hate crime after a xenophobic rant against an Egyptian street vendor in New York. In May 2023, non-binary drag queen Sam Brinton, formerly an official at the Office of Nuclear Energy, was arrested as a fugitive from justice.
Brinton, whose role in the Biden regime was first exposed by The National Pulse, had top-level “Q clearance,” but was fired after being caught stealing women’s underwear from airport luggage while on government business.
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Rahamim 'Rami' Shy, a former senior advisor in the Barack Obama administration, has been arraigned in Great Britain on child sex offense charges. Shy, who previously coordinated the U.S. government's strategy against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, is accused of arranging the commission of a child sex offense and possessing indecent images of minors.
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is serious concern over the scale of infiltration by the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua. Encounters with the gang have spiked at the U.S.-Mexico border. Notorious for engaging in extortion, kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking, Tren de Aragua has been gaining a foothold amid the ongoing border crisis.
Intelligence from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicates members of Tren de Aragua continue to enter the U.S. illegally. The National Pulse previously reported that the brother of Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal immigrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, is a suspected member of Tren de Aragua.
According to Gonzales, the massive number of illegalimmigrants that continue to enter the U.S. no longer consists predominantly of Mexican nationals seeking work. Worryingly, he contended, it now includes criminalelements from other parts of the world.
“It’s no longer passive people just trying to kind of mosey about their business. It is a different element of people,” the Congressman told Fox News. He added: “They’re more aggressive, they’re demanding and they’re culturally not the same. And that’s why, once again, a district 70 percent Hispanic, the people in my district had enough.”
Gonzales said that border agents told him other detainees were afraid of the members of Tren de Aragua.
“You have to have ICE have the ability to go around and actively hunt these criminal aliens that have committed crimes, hunt them down, and deport them,” the Texas Republican said. Arguing for the massive round-up of illegal immigrants, he added: “That has to happen. And when it does happen, it can’t happen in a vacuum. People have to know what’s happening. And it can’t just happen in one part of the country. It has to happen throughout the country.”
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is serious concern over the scale of infiltration by the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua. Encounters with the gang have spiked at the U.S.-Mexico border. Notorious for engaging in extortion, kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking, Tren de Aragua has been gaining a foothold amid the ongoing border crisis.
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The Biden regime’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allocating $300 million to ‘sanctuary‘ cities offering support such as shelter and food to illegal aliens. In light of a surge in border crossings, this funding will be channeled through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). The SSP funds non-federal bodies such as NGOs and local governments that aid illegal aliens who are released into the United States. Of the total funding, $275 million will be dispensed initially, with the remaining $25 million set aside for later in the year.
The program covers costs related to providing shelter, food, transportation, medical care, and personal hygiene to illegal aliens. Other expenses, such as the remodeling of existing facilities, clothing, translation services, outreach information, and administrative costs, are also included.
In addition to this, DHS disclosed an allocation of $340.9 million for the SSP competitive grant program. This comes after a distribution of over $780 million last year through SSP and another program to sanctuary cities and organizations providing services to illegals.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States has skyrocketed in recent years, with exceptional numbers recorded in FY 2023 and the first six months of FY 2024.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) estimates that nearly 16 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States during President Biden’s tenure. Critics argue that policies under the current government have led to increased illegal entry into the country, citing a significant rise in the number of people on the terrorism watchlist attempting to cross the border unlawfully.
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The Biden regime's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allocating $300 million to 'sanctuary' cities offering support such as shelter and food to illegal aliens. In light of a surge in border crossings, this funding will be channeled through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). The SSP funds non-federal bodies such as NGOs and local governments that aid illegal aliens who are released into the United States. Of the total funding, $275 million will be dispensed initially, with the remaining $25 million set aside for later in the year.
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Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, has revealed he is in communication with legal defense for ex-President Donald Trump and is open to testifying against Daniels. Avenatti, presently serving a 19-year prison term for multiple federal offenses, including fraud and embezzlement, shared his readiness to testify but added he is uncertain whether it will come to fruition.
The incarcerated ex-litigator did not disclose details concerning his interactions with Trump’s team. A source close to Trump confirmed the discussions are ongoing. Strikingly, given his past critical stance towards Trump, Avenatti voiced concerns over what he deems as a politically-driven trial against the former president.
“There’s no question [the trial] is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he may be reelected,” Avenatti said. “If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him, I think it’s just flat out wrong, and atrocious.
“I’m really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has been targeted. Four cases is just over the top and I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House,” he concluded.
Avenatti gained public attention representing Daniels in her case against Trump in 2018. The charged central to the current legal case against Trump is the alleged payment of $130,000 in 2016 to silence Daniels about their supposed affair in 2006, a claim Trump has repeatedly denied.
Avenatti’s legal troubles began with domestic violence charges in 2018, followed by a conviction for attempting to extort up to $25 million from Nike in 2020. Later, he was found guilty of stealing $300,000 from Daniels’ book advance, which coincided with him admitting to federal fraud and tax evasion charges, cumulating in his multi-year prison term.
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Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, has revealed he is in communication with legal defense for ex-President Donald Trump and is open to testifying against Daniels. Avenatti, presently serving a 19-year prison term for multiple federal offenses, including fraud and embezzlement, shared his readiness to testify but added he is uncertain whether it will come to fruition.
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Migrant crime, which Donald Trump has described as a “new category of crime” as a result of the border crisis under Joe Biden, is continuing to drain public resources. Wanted murderers, rapists, and kidnappers were recently apprehended, along with predators charged with targeting children in the U.S.
THE MS-13 RACKETEER.
On Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that Jose Lainez-Martinez, an MS-13 gang member based in Silver Spring, Maryland, had been imprisoned for 24 years. Lainez-Martinez had been involved in “a pattern of racketeering activity that included murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, and drug distribution.”
“The acts of Jose Lainez-Martinez and other members of this violent transnational criminal organization led to the tragic loss of a young man’s life,” confirmed a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent.
The investigation into the Salvadoran gangster consumed resources from HSI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Montgomery County Police Department.
In a separate case reported on Wednesday, an MS-13 member described as a “violent felon and a threat to Maryland residents” was arrested by ICE deportation officers. He had previously been convicted of conspiracy, armed robbery, and weapons charges in the U.S.
THE BRAZILIAN PEDOPHILE.
ICE reported the detention of an accused pedophile in Massachusetts on Monday. He was initially let loose among the public by the courts in defiance of a detainer request.
The unnamed Brazilian crossed the U.S. border illegally in July 2021. He was detained by Border Patrol but soon released. By 2023 he had been arrested for driving without a license and, more seriously, rape of a child and enticement of a child under 16.
In January 2024, he was arrested as a fugitive from justice. ICE lodged a detainer request, but Milford District Court failed to honor it when he posted bail. ICE finally took him into custody in late March.
“This Brazilian noncitizen is accused of sexually abusing a Massachusetts minor,” commented ICE field office director Todd Lyons.
“Every second he spends roaming free in our communities, he represents a potential threat to the children of our communities.”
THE RAPIST AND THE KIDNAPPER.
On Wednesday, ICE confirmed the deportation of another Brazilian, wanted in his home country for “the offense of rape of a vulnerable individual, or statutory rape of a minor 14 years of age or younger.”
Altair Jose Portuense-Lana’s deportation was a convoluted process. He first crossed the U.S. border illegally in July 2021, being apprehended by Border Patrol but released under a so-called Alternative to Detention (ATD) program.
By 2022, he had been arrested for the assault and battery of a family member and “intimidation of witnesses, jurors and persons furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings.” He was hit with “multiple charges of threats to commit a crime and with violation of a restraining/abuse prevention order” later the same year.
Not until March 2024 did an immigration judge issue an order for his removal, with ICE noting he was “being sought for sex offenses in Brazil and represented a threat to New England residents as long as he was walking our streets.”
Also on Wednesday, ICE confirmed the arrest of a Romanian man wanted for kidnapping in his home country. The unnamed 25-year-old, who had been deported once before, was caught reentering the U.S. at the Rio Grande Valley border sector in May 2021. Released with an order to appear before an immigration judge, ICE discovered him living in Fresno, California, in March this year.
THE COLOMBIAN KILLER.
On Thursday, ICE confirmed the arrest of a Colombian illegal alien convicted of premeditated murder in his home country. After serving just four years in prison, the unnamed 44-year-old made his way to the U.S., entering undetected as a so-called “gotaway.”
He was arrested in September 2022 but denied having a criminal record and was paroled through an ATD program. It was a full year before ICE realized they had cut loose a convicted murderer and another five months before he was taken into custody in Hartford, Connecticut.
“This Colombian national lied to immigration officials about his violent past in order to gain entrance into the United States,” commented an ICE field office director. “We cannot allow convicted murderers to roam freely in our New England neighborhoods.”
FREE TO KILL.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed a driver who killed Kurt Englehart, an adviser to Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, is an illegal alien.
Elmer Rueda-Linares “entered the United States March 12, 2021, at or near the Rio Grande City, Texas, Port of Entry without inspection by an immigration official,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted.
“United States Customs and Border Protection arrested him, and he was later released on his own recognizance June 22, 2021.”
After years at large in the country, Rueda-Linares was involved in the deadly crash in Nevada on April 6. He was initially charged with a felony hit-and-run, but this has been downgraded to failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM.
The above examples of illegal aliens victimizing U.S. residents and consuming public resources are illustrative rather than exhaustive. Some indication of the full scale of migrant crime, dismissed as “negligible” by leftist commentators such as MSNBC’s Joy Reid, was given by Rep. Glenn Grothman, Chairman of the House National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, during a hearing on Tuesday.
Grothman indicated that ICE is attempting to monitor at least 6 million illegal aliens. Of these, 617,000 — greater than the population of Wyoming — are known to have criminal records or pending criminal charges.
“The fact is that illegal aliens should not be in the country in the first place and able to commit these crimes,” Grothman said, urging the Biden regime to “stop releasing illegal aliens into the country in droves.”
"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 described as a "new category of crime" as a result of the border crisis under Joe Biden, is continuing to drain public resources. Wanted murderers, rapists, and kidnappers were recently apprehended, along with predators charged with targeting children in the U.S.
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Newly obtained emails indicate the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump with accusations of a ‘quid pro quo’ deal involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine was also connected with the Biden family‘s business affairs in the Eastern European country.
According to White House documents recently released by the National Archives, Eric Ciaramella knew of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s efforts to remove Ukrainian Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the HunterBiden-connected energy firm Burisma.
Ciaramella, who served as a national security analyst and adviser to Biden, responded with surprise in an email to the then-Vice President’s threat to withhold $1 billion in funds for Ukraine unless Shokin was fired. The emails also show that Ciaramella played a key role in discussions within the White House on how to handle Hunter Biden‘s appointment to the Burisma board.
In response to the revelations, George Washington University law professor JonathanTurleytold RealClear Investigations: “It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial [to exonerate Trump].” Turley added, “Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.”
When then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt emailed a news item to Ciaramella highlighting Biden‘s attempt to extort the firing of Shokin, he replied: “Yikes. I don’t recall this coming up in our meeting with them.”
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Newly obtained emails indicate the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump with accusations of a 'quid pro quo' deal involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine was also connected with the Biden family's business affairs in the Eastern European country.
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