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April 2, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration

Nearly 1,000 ‘Gotaway’ Illegals Crossed Southern Border on Easter Sunday.

U.S. Border Control reports indicate that 919 “gotaway” illegal aliens entered through the southern border on Easter Sunday. “Gotaways” are those who are not recorded in official numbers each month but are tracked internally by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

This recent influx brought the 7-day average of “gotaways” to roughly 761 per day, just days after the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested four individuals caught sabotaging a border fence.

The escalating border situation continues to have repercussions for various states across America. In Denver, city official Andres Carrera advised migrants to relocate to other places after illegals exhausted city resources. “The opportunities are over,” Carrera said in Spanish to a group of illegals. “New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more. So I suggest you go there where there is longer-term shelter. There are also more job opportunities there.”

Similarly, Boston authorities have taken the drastic step to house illegal aliens in the historic Old Chelsea Soldiers’ Home due to the strain on resources.

Public attention to illegal immigration remains high, with polls showing it consistently ranks as a top concern among voters. A recent Gallup poll indicates that 48 percent of respondents view it as a primary issue, up seven points from last year. Furthermore, support for enhanced border security measures is strong, with 79 percent of Republicans, 54 percent of Democrats, and 56 percent of independents polled by the Associated Press favoring the increase of border patrol agents.

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U.S. Border Control reports indicate that 919 "gotaway" illegal aliens entered through the southern border on Easter Sunday. "Gotaways" are those who are not recorded in official numbers each month but are tracked internally by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). show more
April 2, 2024
News

Lizzo, A Woman With No Self Control, ‘Unquits’ Just Days After ‘I Quit’ Claim.

Pop behemoth Lizzo, 35, has unquit just days after claiming to have quit, following an emotional tirade where she expressed her exhaustion with criticism from her fans.

She posted on Instagram on Tuesday, “When I say ‘I quit’, I mean I quit giving any negative energy attention.”

The retraction came after Lizzo ended a post on Friday with, “I didn’t sign up for this s***. I quit,” alongside a peace sign emoji.

Lizzo’s public image came under significant scrutiny last August when she and her production outfit were sued by three former members of her dancing crew. Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez accused her of a series of transgressions, including assault, racial and religious harassment, fat-shaming, disability discrimination, and false imprisonment. Their lawyer, Ron Zambrano, responded skeptically to Lizzo’s initial post, suggesting an honest self-examination was required from the artist instead of pointing fingers at the internet for bullying.

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Pop behemoth Lizzo, 35, has unquit just days after claiming to have quit, following an emotional tirade where she expressed her exhaustion with criticism from her fans. show more
April 2, 2024
William Upton
Immigration

Biden Adds ‘Third Gender’ Option to Immigration Forms.

Immigrants seeking to apply for naturalization in the United States are no longer limited to the ‘gender binary‘ on the N-400 form, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The agency, which oversees the U.S. immigration system and administers the naturalization process for those immigrants who wish to become American citizens, announced that applicants can now choose between “Male,” “Female,” and “Another Gender Identity [X].”

“We are also updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual accordingly to account for this form revision and other forthcoming form revisions that will add a third gender option,” USCIS stated in a policy alert released Monday. The Biden government’s update to immigration policy wasn’t just confined to offering a third gender on USCIS forms, however. Those who select Another Gender Identity will not be required to provide corroborating documentation.

“You do not need to provide supporting documentation to select X as your gender initially or to change your gender selection for Form N-400,” the policy guidance states, continuing: “The gender you select does not need to match the gender listed on your other immigration documents or on supporting identity documents, such as your birth certificate, passport, or state identification.”

USCIS contends the policy change was necessary as limiting the N-400’s gender options to simply Male and Female “created significant barriers for requestors who do not identify with either of those options.” The federal agency goes on to argue that limiting naturalization applicants to just two genders “also creates administrative challenges for USCIS when we receive birth certificates or other official government-issued documents with a gender other than M or F. Adding a third gender option helps ensure that secure identity documents and biographical data are accurate and helps both external stakeholders and individuals requesting immigration benefits.”

 

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Immigrants seeking to apply for naturalization in the United States are no longer limited to the 'gender binary' on the N-400 form, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The agency, which oversees the U.S. immigration system and administers the naturalization process for those immigrants who wish to become American citizens, announced that applicants can now choose between "Male," "Female," and "Another Gender Identity [X]." show more
April 2, 2024
Lawfare
Politics

NY Judge: Opposing Lawfare Against Trump Is Racist.

A New York federal judge has declared that the New York Fire Department (FDNY) members who booed and chanted “Trump” during a speech by the state’s Attorney General Letitia James in early March were motivated by racial animosity and not politics. The accusation of racism, leveled by U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis, came during a recent status conference regarding the FDNY’s settlement with the Vulcan Society — a fraternal organization of Black firefighters.

“Get the EEO [Equal Employment Opportunity] office straightened out. Take some of your brilliant lawyers from the Corporation Counsel and put them in there and start holding hearings. That’s not a request, that’s a direction,” Garaufis ordered while addressing FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh. He continued: “I’ve lived in New York City all my life. I know what the problem is. And believe me, front and center is what happened the other day. This doesn’t have to do with politics, this has to do with race.”

An earlier complaint by Vulcan Society President Regina Wilson before the court prompted the judge’s accusations of racism. “I don’t know if you had an opportunity to just see the vile nature of these members even when we were at Christian Cultural Center where they started booing and saying ‘Trump, Trump Trump,’ while Letitia James was at the podium,” she said, drawing Judge Garaufis’s attention to the pro-Trump protest. Wilson, like Garaufis, went on explicitly tie support for Trump with racism: “This behavior is who this department is. Not all of them, but a large portion of them. So when Black people go to work and have to deal with this and you don’t get any help or support really from the department, it’s horrific.”

On March 7, a group of New York firefighters protested a speech by Letitia James during an FDNY awards ceremony. They chanted “Trump” repeatedly as the Attorney General attempted to speak — voicing their displeasure with the ongoing lawfare campaign her office has waged against former President Donald Trump. Following the protest, the FDNY launched an internal investigation to identify the political hecklers.

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A New York federal judge has declared that the New York Fire Department (FDNY) members who booed and chanted "Trump" during a speech by the state's Attorney General Letitia James in early March were motivated by racial animosity and not politics. The accusation of racism, leveled by U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis, came during a recent status conference regarding the FDNY's settlement with the Vulcan Society — a fraternal organization of Black firefighters. show more
April 2, 2024
Immigration
World

Russia is Mass Deporting Muslims After the Moscow Terror Attack.

Mass deportations of Muslim migrants are surging across Russia in the wake of the March 22 attack by four Islamic terrorists at the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow that left over 140 people dead.

The deportations come as authorities — concerned about further attacks — step up raids on apartments and dorm complexes known to house Muslim migrants from Central Asia. In the final week of March alone, St. Petersburg courts received 584 cases linked to breaches of immigration law, and at least 418 foreigners were ordered into special holding facilities to await deportation.

The Crocus City Hall attackers, all Tajik nationals, attempted to cross the Ukrainian border following the incident. Over one million Tajiks have entered Russia in recent years seeking work. A recent report from the Moscow Times found that “Between 2012 and 2018, over 2,000 Tajik citizens joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, making Tajikistan the third highest sender of foreign fighters to the war on a per capita basis.”

The U.S. government has asserted that ISIS-K was behind the Crocus City Hall attack. However, the Kremlin has suggested the terrorists may have had support from Ukraine or the U.S. itself.

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Mass deportations of Muslim migrants are surging across Russia in the wake of the March 22 attack by four Islamic terrorists at the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow that left over 140 people dead. show more
April 2, 2024
Corruption

Judge Denies Motions to Dismiss Charges Against Hunter Biden.

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi denied several motions seeking to dismiss the tax evasion charges against President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Biden is facing three felony and six misdemeanor tax-related charges, for which he has pleaded not guilty. Scarsi rejected all eight motions Biden’s legal team filed in an 82-page order.

Last week, Biden’s defense attorneys presented numerous legal arguments for dismissing the charges entirely or at least in part. One of the claims made by the defense team contended that the sweetheart plea deal — which fell apart late last year after several of its provisions were revoked by another federal judge — remained valid. They argued that if the deal’s conditions were met, the charges against Biden should be dropped. Biden’s attorneys also pushed arguments that special counsel David Weiss was improperly appointed and thus could not prosecute the case, as well as insisting that President Joe Biden‘s Department of Justice selectively targeted his son.

Judge Scarsi, however, found all these arguments unconvincing. Regarding the claim of selective prosecution, he stated the defense team “fails to present a reasonable inference, let alone clear evidence, of discriminatory effect and discriminatory purpose.” Scarsi also disregarded an additional claim that comments made by Congressional Republicans affected the integrity of the prosecution.

Responding to the judge’s ruling, Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said: “We strongly disagree with the Court’s decision and will continue to vigorously pursue Mr. Biden’s challenges to the abnormal way the Special Counsel handled this investigation and charged this case.”

In addition to the tax charges, Hunter Biden is facing federal charges relating to firearm possession while using narcotics, with a trial date set for June. Biden continues to plead not guilty to all charges.

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U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi denied several motions seeking to dismiss the tax evasion charges against President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Biden is facing three felony and six misdemeanor tax-related charges, for which he has pleaded not guilty. Scarsi rejected all eight motions Biden’s legal team filed in an 82-page order. show more
April 2, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
Politics

Biden Approves $380M in Border Security Funding – for Middle Eastern Nations.

The $1.2 trillion spending bill recently signed into law by Joe Biden includes $380 million to strengthen border controls — not in the United States but in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.

This funding for foreign countries’ border security, which has become a regular fixture in recent omnibus budgets, has ruffled feathers among Republicans, given the crisis at the U.S. southern border.

This discrepancy was highlighted by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) in 2022. He complained the Democrats were “doing border security in foreign countries, [while] impeding border security in our country.”

However, with Scalise as the House majority leader this year, the same policies are still advancing.

While the spending bill secured bipartisan approval, preventing a government shutdown, it saw substantial opposition from conservatives. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Speaker of the House, faced a motion filed against him by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), accusing him of betraying the faith of the House GOP Conference by allowing the legislation.

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The $1.2 trillion spending bill recently signed into law by Joe Biden includes $380 million to strengthen border controls — not in the United States but in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman. show more
April 2, 2024
Wake Up Right
News

Biden Secretly Flies Hundreds of Thousands of Illegals to Florida and Texas.

The Biden regime has flown hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens directly from their home states into the United States and put 90 percent of them in Florida and Texas, according to an exhaustive analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

Back up: In October 2022, the Biden regime rolled out a migrant parole program that allowed Venezuelan nations to apply for asylum from their home country and then get flown to the U.S. In January 2023, the program was expanded to include Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Colombians.

The details: The Biden regime refuses to publicly disclose where they’re dropping the illegals in this parole program, so The Center for Immigration Studies cross-reverenced CBP data with data from the Office of Field Operations (OFO) which tracks encounters at airports and filtered it to pull just the five nationalities mentioned above.

The numbers: The analysis found that roughly 386,000 have been flown in since October 2022. Here’s what that looks like by city:

  • Miami: 326,000
  • Houston: 21,964
  • Los Angeles: 8,382
  • San Francisco: 4,578
  • Atlanta: 4,515
  • Boston: 4,879
  • Baltimore: 3,784
  • Chicago: 1,556

It is not clear if these cities are the final destinations for these illegals or if they continue on to other locations.

Big picture: Florida and Texas, which account for roughly 90 percent of the arrivals, also happen to be the states fighting hardest against Biden’s border chaos. So it’s not a stretch to see these drop-offs as retribution by the Biden regime.

The last word goes to Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at CIS, who cuts to why Biden is doing this, explaining that it brings “people that were going across the border in through airports so they don’t have to be counted as border crossers, which is the number everybody watches.”

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

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The Biden regime has flown hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens directly from their home states into the United States and put 90 percent of them in Florida and Texas, according to an exhaustive analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. show more
April 2, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

REVEALED: Soros Propaganda Network Founder Has Visited Biden White House 20+ Times.

Tara McGowan, founder of Courier Newsroom and its parent company Good Information Inc., has made almost 20 visits to Joe Biden’s White House, according to visitor logs. The apparent closeness of McGowan to the ruling regime poses questions about her companies’ claimed independence, considering their openly left-leaning editorial position.

McGowan’s news enterprise has received huge sums of money from leftist plutocrat George Soros. It also boasts significant relationships with key figures in the White House. These include Jordan Finkelstein, Chief of Staff to a senior Biden adviser; Patrick Stevenson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Digital Strategy; and Madeline Strasser and Nina Srivastava, linked to former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.

Her meetings with these Biden officials raise questions about potential coordination between her media entities and the White House. McGowan and Stevenson, in particular, both focus on online engagement.

McGowan’s White House access seems likely to have facilitated an exclusive interview with Biden for Courier Newsroom.

AGITPROP.

McGowan previously worked for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s election campaigns, and her site initiated a seven-figure ad campaign promoting Democrat politicians during the 2020 elections.

She also runs a progressive political organization named Acronym, which raised $100 million from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, used to fund leftist political ad campaigns.

The predecessor to Courier Newsroom — The Dogwood — packaged partisan propaganda as if it was straight news, and was intended “to support the flipping of both State House and State Senate chambers in Virginia,” according to an internal memo.

Biden’s White House has been known to collaborate with other leftist news organizations, such the MeidasTouch Network, which created the “bloodbath” hoax.

White House strategist and communications chief Anita Dunn even praised MeidasTouch as the “front lines” of the anti-Trump campaign online.

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Tara McGowan, founder of Courier Newsroom and its parent company Good Information Inc., has made almost 20 visits to Joe Biden's White House, according to visitor logs. The apparent closeness of McGowan to the ruling regime poses questions about her companies' claimed independence, considering their openly left-leaning editorial position. show more
April 2, 2024
Ed Kozak
Lawfare

Judge Merchan Expands Gag to Mask His Daughter’s Democratic Party Links.

New York Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial, expanded his gag order Monday night after Trump and his attorneys highlighted troubling connections between Merchan’s daughter and the Democratic Party machine. The original reporting on the subject was done by investigative journalist Laura Loomer.

Merchan decreed that Trump is barred from “attacking” his family members as well as those of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump is also barred from “attacking” witnesses, prosecutors, court staff members, and their relatives. Trump was directed by Merchan to “refrain” from talking about those involved in another gag order issued last week.

The former President’s “pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game’ for Defendant’s vitriol,” Merchan said. “It is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. The threat is very real.”

‘REAL AND LEGITIMATE CONCERNS.’

Merchan’s expanded gag order was issued in the wake of Trump’s attacks on his daughter, Loren Merchan. Loren Merchan runs a Democratic-aligned campaign firm called Authentic Campaigns that has received millions of dollars from high-profile Democrats, raising serious conflict-of-interest questions about Juan Merchan and his impartiality.

“Your Honor’s daughter’s close connection to President Trump’s political adversaries and her work at, and financial interest in, a firm deeply engrained with Democratic politics raises real and legitimate concerns about this Court’s impartiality,” Trump’s attorneys argued on Monday. “The financial well-being of Your Honor’s daughter depends at least in part on the success of Authentic. And Authentic’s business model is one that requires it to attack President Trump and support individuals and causes in direct competition with President Trump,” they added.

Despite the obvious conflict-of-interest concerns, Merchan — who is also a Biden donor — has refused to recuse himself.

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New York Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's so-called "hush money" trial, expanded his gag order Monday night after Trump and his attorneys highlighted troubling connections between Merchan's daughter and the Democratic Party machine. The original reporting on the subject was done by investigative journalist Laura Loomer. show more