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Lawmakers Want To Know Why Biden Made It Easier for Terrorists To Enter the US

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Congressional Republicans on Friday launched a formal probe into the Biden administration over its decision to alter federal law so that individuals tied to terrorist organizations can more easily enter the United States.

The investigation, led by House Armed Services Committee member Jim Banks (R., Ind.), comes on the heels of a Washington Free Beacon report last month that detailed how the administration amended federal immigration law to permit foreigners who provided "insufficient material support" to designated terrorist organizations to receive "immigration benefits or other status" inside America.

The State Department said the law was altered to make it easier for vulnerable Afghans who might have worked with terror groups to find refuge in America, but current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Free Beacon said the rule is so broadly written that it could also apply to those who worked with al Qaeda or Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country's paramilitary fighting force that has killed hundreds of Americans.

"These loose and overly broad definitions will open the floodgates for supporters of terrorism to enter the United States," Banks and three Republican colleagues wrote in a letter to the White House that was obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon. "Such a general waiver, if implemented, would create additional difficulty in immigration vetting process, have catastrophic consequences on border security and put American families at increased risk from terrorism."

The lawmakers—Banks and Reps. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), Greg Steube (R., Fla.), and Rob Wittman (R., Va.)—want the administration to provide Congress with information about whether this rule change was implemented as a concession to Iran meant to entice the country into inking a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear accord.

"This order was also released just weeks before negotiations with Iran over restoring the nuclear deal recommenced," they write. "Your administration may be trying to entice Iran back to the nuclear deal by using broad executive authorities to weaken the penalties connected to the [foreign terrorist organization] designation without requiring the IRGC and other Iran-supported terrorist organizations to verifiably cease their terrorist activities."

The State Department, which along with the Department of Homeland Security authored the rule change, said the changes are part of "an effort to address issues related to Afghanistan. The circumstances between Afghanistan and Iran are very different."

The rule does not specifically mention Afghanistan, however, and appears to cover all U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as the IRGC and al Qaeda, according to lawmakers and former senior U.S. officials who reviewed the order and spoke to the Free Beacon. The Taliban is not designated as a foreign terrorist organization, adding more confusion.

Examples of individuals who would fall into the new category include those who provided "humanitarian assistance" or "routine commercial transactions" to designated terror groups, according to a copy of the rule published in the Federal Register.

"Exercising broad executive authorities to weaken the legal force of [foreign terrorist organization] designations is bound to increase risks to U.S. national security," the lawmakers say.

The lawmakers asked the administration to explain by July 22 why it altered immigration laws.

They want to know how the administration justifies these changes and how it could possibly support "the national interest to allow any supporters of terrorism into the United States."

They also want to know how many individuals have qualified for immigration benefits under the rule change and how many could qualify each year. This includes details about how many of these terror-tied individuals are from Afghanistan and Iran.

"If, as the State Department spokesperson commented, this order is intended to benefit Afghan Special Immigration Visa applicants and holders, why is this group not explicitly mentioned?" the lawmakers ask.

"Does your administration intend to issue any immigration related waivers for IRGC and its affiliates? If, as State Department spokesperson commented, this order is not intended to benefit the IRGC and its affiliates, why are IRGC and its affiliates not explicitly excluded from this order?"

llegal Alien Gets $15K Bail After Allegedly Plotting July 4th Mass Shooting with Another Illegal Alien

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One of the two illegal aliens accused of plotting a mass shooting on the Fourth of July in Richmond, Virginia, has been given a mere $15,000 bail.

As Breitbart News reported, Guatemalan nationals 52-year-old illegal alien Julio Alvardo Dubon and 38-year-old illegal alien Rolman Balacarcel Ac were arrested by the Richmond Police Department for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at the city’s annual July 4th celebration.

The mass shooting plot was thwarted thanks to an American “hero citizen,” according to police, who called in a tip.

Court records and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed that Dubon and Ac are illegal aliens.

Dubon arrived years ago on a nonimmigrant visa but overstayed that visa by four years. Despite having overstayed his visa, he was never deported. Ac was twice previously deported from the United States,  in October 2013 and then in August 2014. He arrived back in the United States, presumably from the southern border, at an unknown later date.

While Ac remains in police custody in Charlottesville, Virginia, without bail, Dubon is currently booked in the Richmond City Jail. Though prosecutors urged a district judge to withhold bail from Dubon, the judge handed down a mere $15,000 bail that may allow the suspect to be released before trial.

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Richmond City Jail

“The Commonwealth objected to bond,” prosecutor Colette McEachin told WRIC 8 News. “Nevertheless, the General District Court judge granted a bond and decided on the $15,000 amount himself.”

ICE officials said they have detainers on both Dubon and Ac though President Joe Biden’s administration has gutted interior immigration enforcement, ensuring that fewer and fewer criminal illegal aliens are taken into federal custody.

The American citizen who thwarted the mass shooting plot called police after he heard a man discussing a plan to “shoot up” Richmond’s annual Fourth of July celebration.

That is when police raided Dubon’s residence to find two rifles, a handgun, and 223 rounds of ammunition. Dubon was subsequently charged with being in possession of a firearm as an alien to the United States.

After police reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Richmond Police Chief Gerald Smith said they put surveillance on Ac, who lived at the same residence as Dubon.

Ac was then arrested and charged with being in possession of a firearm as an alien to the United States. Smith said they still do not have a clear motive as to why the pair allegedly sought to conduct a mass shooting on American citizens on July 4th.

“There is no telling how many citizens this hero citizen saved from one phone call … one phone call saved numerous lives on the Fourth of July,” Smith said.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


llegal Aliens Plotted July 4th Mass Shooting, Thwarted by American ‘Hero Citizen’

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The pair of suspects arrested for allegedly plotting to “shoot up” a Fourth of July celebration in Richmond, Virginia — thwarted by an American citizen — are illegal aliens, court records state.

On Wednesday, as Breitbart News reported, the Richmond Police Department announced the arrests of Guatemalan nationals 52-year-old illegal alien Julio Alvardo Dubon and 38-year-old illegal alien Rolman Balacarcel Ac for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at the city’s July 4th celebration.

According to Police Chief Gerald Smith, Dubon and Ac’s plan was thwarted thanks to an American “hero citizen” who overheard a conversation about the plot and subsequently called the police.

Court records, reviewed by the Associated Press (AP), identify both Dubon and Ac as illegal aliens living in the U.S. Specifically, Dubon had been living in the U.S. on an expired visa, as millions often do:

Police spokesperson Tracy Walker said both men are from Guatemala. Initial documents filed in General District Court in Richmond say both Alvarado-Dubon and Balacarcel are not in the U.S. legallyThe documents, which say Alvarado-Dubon has an expired visa, did not include any details about the alleged plot. [Emphasis added]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to Breitbart News that agents have lodged detainers on both illegal aliens so that they will be turned over to the agency for arrest and deportation when they are released from local police custody.

Likewise, ICE agents confirmed that Ac is a twice-deported illegal alien who was previously deported in October 2013 and then later in August 2014.

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Illegal aliens Julio Alvardo Dubon and Rolman Balacarcel Ac were arrested in Richmond, Virginia for allegedly plotting a mass shooting on July 4th. (Photos via Richmond Police Department)

The American citizen who thwarted the mass shooting plot called police after he heard a man discussing a plan to “shoot up” Richmond’s annual Fourth of July celebration.

That is when police raided Dubon’s residence to find two rifles, a handgun, and 223 rounds of ammunition. Dubon was subsequently charged with being in possession of a firearm as an alien to the U.S.

After police reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Smith said they put surveillance on Ac who lived at the same residence as Dubon.

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Firearms and ammunition seized from Dubon and Ac’s residence. (Photo via Richmond Police Department)

Ac was then arrested and charged with being in possession of a firearm as an alien to the U.S. Smith said they still do not have a clear motive as to why the pair allegedly sought to conduct a mass shooting on American citizens on July 4th.

“There is no telling how many citizens this hero citizen saved from one phone call … one phone call saved numerous lives on the Fourth of July,” Smith said.

Dubon has been booked into the Richmond City Jail on a $15,000 bail. Though police said Ac was also booked, his records do not appear in the city jail’s records.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here

U.S. Groups Want to Take over Coyotes’ Migrant Extraction Business

Migrants are processed by United States Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border into the United States in Penitas, Texas on July 8, 2021. - Republican lawmakers have slammed Biden for reversing Trump programs, including his "remain in Mexico" policy, which had forced thousands of asylum seekers from Central America …
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Pro-migration groups are using the record death rate among illegal migrants to demand they be hired by the government to safely import more of the coyote-delivered migrants.

President Joe Biden’s government uses the coyote networks to extract and deliver extra migrants above the roughly one million legal immigrants per year set by Congress. Once the migrants are delivered through the cartel-controlled border zone, U.S. officials provide them with legal status or exemptions from deportation while they work at low wages for U.S. companies.

The government’s under-the-table welcome for the coyotes’ paying clients is also fuelling a record-breaking death rate on the border. The death toll was spotlighted by the United Nations’ Institute for Migration on July 1:

More than 1,238 lives have been lost during migration in the [north, central and south] Americas in 2021, among them at least 51 children … At least 728 of these deaths occurred on the United States-Mexico border crossing, making this the deadliest land crossing in the world.

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service wants to take over some of the coyotes’ business.

“Political leaders can … reduce the overall number of people arriving at our southern border by creating real pathways that do not require risk to vulnerable populations and reward to criminal coyotes,” said a CNN op-ed by O’Mara Vignarajah.

Her group is already paid by the federal government to settle government-approved refugee migrants in Americans’ communities and jobs. She continued:

One such pathway is the US Refugee Admissions Program, which admits and resettles refugees whose applications are processed while the applicant remains abroad, avoiding the need to embark upon the treacherous journey to the US.

The Biden administration should immediately scale up overseas processing and expand to new locations where there are large groups of refugees in protracted situations, like in South and Central America. Doing so would improve upon its woeful underperformance in meeting its refugee commitments.

Other pro-migration groups back her pitch for additional safe, legalized migration.

“Reforms must allow us to bring in legal guest workers and open legal avenues for people to come in to help our economy,” insisted Domingo García, president of an ethnic identity group for Latinos, dubbed LULAC, or the League of United Latin Ameican Citizens. “These steps will prevent these refugees and immigrants from being thrown into the hands of human smugglers and coyotes who are willing to risk the lives of others for a dollar,” he wrote.

O’Mara Vignarajah’s argument that Americans should save migrants’ lives by legalizing illegal migration exposes the radical ambition of the pro-migration groups, noted Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies:

The logical endpoint of that [safety] argument is that everybody should be able to come in …. on the American taxpayers’ dime, so [migrants] wouldn’t have to be in hock to loan sharks or mortgage their uncle’s little farm.

[That] inevitably leads to unlimited immigration. There’s no way you can not [logically] get there. If you say “No, I’m for limits on immigration,” then what are you going to do about the person who’s the next one after the limit? Let’s say you want 5 million legal immigrants a year, which frankly, would not be an implausible position on the part of a lot of the Democrats in Congress. What are you willing to when [migrant] Number 5,000,001 arrives? He is not a rapist, not a drug dealer, just a regular working stiff, and he came in excess of your limit.

Are you willing to take him into custody and throw him out of the country? Yes or no? And if the answer is no, then you’re for unlimited immigration. None of the Democrats in Congress or the administration are really willing to say “Yes [deport him].”

Current law allows the federal government to import one million consumers, workers, and renters each year. The government also imports roughly one million visa workers for jobs that could be done by well-paid Americans and their machines.

Since January 2021, the federal government has also welcomed more than one million coyote-delivered extra migrants across the southern border.

Many of the coyote-delivered migrants die as they try to slip through the border loopholes created by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. He is dangling work permits and an enforcement amnesty that encourages the migrants to risk their lives to get U.S. jobs.

YUMA, ARIZONA - JUNE 22: A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks for identification of immigrants as they wait to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico in the early morning hours on June 22, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks for identification of immigrants as they wait to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico in the early morning hours on June 22, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

One survivor described the June 27 death of the 53 migrants who climbed aboard the coyotes’ trailer truck:

As the truck moved on, making additional stops to pick up more migrants, people began to cluster near the door like [migrant] Cardona Tomás. She had no way to track the time.

“The people were yelling, some cried. Mostly women were calling for it to stop and to open the doors because it was hot, that they couldn’t breathe,” she said, still laboring a bit to speak after being intubated at the hospital.

She said the driver or someone else in the cab yelled back that “we were about to arrive, that there were 20 minutes left, six minutes.”

Guatemalan teenager Juan Wilmer Tulul Tepaz died in the truck, according to PlazaPublica, a website in Guatemala:

“Yes, yes, he is dead”, were the words that [his father] Manuel Tulul was able to outline after looking at photographs of his deceased son to confirm … [His mother] Magdalena, on the other hand, could not say anything. She just clutched her chest and cried.

The 53 dead found in the truck a just a small share of people who are dying while trying to get to the border welcome dangled by progressives and their allies in federal agencies, including border chief Alejandro Mayorkas.

The U.N. report described the known migrant death toll in 2021:

The largest demographic in the available data on migrant deaths in the Americas is unidentified people – nearly 500 individuals died on migratory routes in 2021and remain unidentified. Of those who have been identified, Mexicans make up the largest proportion (154 individuals), followed by Guatemalans (129 individuals) and Venezuelans (94 individuals).

In the Darien Gap [in Panama], 51 migrant lives lost were recorded in 2021. However, anecdotal reports indicate that many migrants die in the Darien Gap and their remains are neither recovered nor reported, so this figure presents only a small fraction of the true number of lives lost.

“Given the challenges to collect data on migrant deaths in the region and the lack of official sources of information, all … figures should be considered an undercount,” the report added.

The sending countries are deeply damaged by the U.S. government’s colonialism-like policy of extracting poor workers, consumers, and renters to juice the U.S. economy. For example, PlazaPublica reported from the rural village of Tzucubal, five hours distant from the capital city:

The children, says teacher Antonia Ixtoz, no longer come to school because they say that it is of no use to them, that their families have no money and that they have to help their parents. Their perception is that studying is a waste of time because they see that people who have graduated end up going to the United States.

Antonia has been a primary school teacher for 11 years in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán and one of her main battles is trying to convince her 11 or 12 year old students not to emigrate. “I have a job and I barely have enough money but I’m not leaving because maybe I can convince a few kids to stay here,” she says.

But pro-migration groups keep calling for the extraction of more migrants from poor countries.

Police found 42 migrants dead in a tractor-trailer near San Antonio. (KSAT Video Screenshot)

53 migrants died in an abandoned trailer in a Texas smuggling incident last week. (KSAT Video Screenshot)

“The best way to limit spaces for the illegality that led to the death of at least 53 people southeast of San Antonio this week is to expand and strengthen legal options for migrants,” said a July 1 op-ed in the Washington Post by Enrique Acevedo, a Mexican-born journalist at CBS News.

“What we have at the southwest border is a lot of people putting their lives in the hands of smugglers who are taking them through very dangerous routes to get into the United States,” Andrew Selee, the president of the Migration Policy Institute, told C-SPAN on July 1:

You have to deal with it at least with three or four strategies. And one is you got to create more opportunity for people to come legally … If we don’t do that, anything else we do is going to fail. It’s a law of supply and demand and people will find their way around sooner or later of whatever enforcement measure we do.

The legalization of more migrants would be good for business and for the U.S. competition against China, says O’Mara Vignarajah, who claims she is a left-winger:

Policy makers must also recognize the economic contributions migrants are poised to make amid a nationwide labor shortage, by increasing access to work visas, such as H-2A and H-2B visas. That people from around the world envy the opportunity to build their livelihoods in the US is a strategic competitive advantage we should leverage, especially in the face of an ascendant China with a far greater overall population.

The same self-centered demand for endless cheap labor — regardless of citizens’ right to a fair labor market — is pushed by business leaders within GOP-led states.

“When the Idaho agricultural industry wants to hire workers to pick produce, the residency of those workers shouldn’t matter,” claimed Peter Crabb, an economics professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. “Anytime we prevent mutually beneficial transactions, we reduce competition and all its benefits to society,” said claimed in a July 5 op-ed for an Idaho newspaper.

But the claimed “labor shortage” is good for Americans and America: It is forcing CEOs to recruit Americans with higher wages and also to invest more money into the high-tech, productivity-boosting automation that allows Americans to get more work done each day.

The migration advocates want to import the people rather than trade with their home countries, said Krikorian. Trade has allowed many countries — such as Chile and Brazil — to flourish by selling goods to Americans.

But migration advocates “want to import the people rather than [trade for] the product of those people’s work,” Krikorian said.

Five Gang Members, Sex Offenders Arrested at Border over July 4 Weekend

YUMA, AZ - MARCH 17: Handcuffs are removed from a suspected illegal immigrant as he is loaded into the back of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection border patrol vehicle after being apprehended on the California side of the Colorado River on March 17, 2006 near Yuma, Arizona. As Congress …
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Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio Sectors arrested five criminal gang members and two deported sex offenders over the Independence Day weekend.

In the Rio Grande Valley Sector, McAllen Station agents captured three members of the hyperviolent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members. During a background investigation, agents found one of the men had a 2010 assault conviction which resulted in a seven-month jail sentence in Maryland. A second gang member received two years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Houston. That criminal alien was deported in 2021.

McAllen Station agents also arrested a member of the Mexican Valluco gang near Hidalgo, Texas. This criminal alien had convictions for larceny and public order crimes as well as a federal immigration conviction for illegal re-entry after removal.

Harlingen Station agents received a request for assistance from TSA officials at the Harlingen International Airport to identify a suspected illegal alien. Agents identified the man as a Salvadoran national illegally present in the U.S. The man revealed his membership in the 18th Street gang and said he served 12 years in a Salvadoran prison for aggravated robbery.

McAllen Station agents also apprehended a group of six migrants near Mission, Texas, on July 1. Hiding in the group was a Mexican national who received a 29-month jail sentence in Michigan for criminal sexual conduct. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers deported the man through Brownsville, Texas, in 2020.

In the Del Rio Sector, Bracketteville Station agents arrested a group of 11 migrants on July 2. The migrants marched through the brush in an attempt to avoid detection and apprehension. During processing at the station, agents identified one of the men as a Guatemalan national with a criminal history.

Agents identified the Guatemalan man as 36-year-old Hector Portillo-Soto. A Louisiana court convicted the Guatemalan man for rape in 2019. The court sentenced him to three years in prison. ERO officers deported the man to Guatemala in February of this year.

The criminal aliens with histories of deportations now face federal felony charges for illegal re-entry after removal. If convicted, each could face up to 20 years in federal prison.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

HOW MUCH DO THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS JOE BIDEN HAS USHERED OVER THE OPEN BORDER CONTRIBUTED TO COVID?

Data cover-up deepens as at least 3 children die of COVID every day in the US

Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that it would discontinue publishing child hospitalization and mortality figures in its weekly “Children and COVID-19” report. The notice states that as of June 16, 2022, “due to only a portion of states reporting hospitalizations and deaths, we are no longer providing updates on cumulative hospitalizations and mortality data.”

Child with COVID-19 in hospital bed (Medical University of South Carolina)

The news highlights the degree to which surveillance and public reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic has been systematically shut down under the Biden administration, beginning with the Department of Health and Human Services ending the requirement for hospitals to submit daily death reports in early February.

Since the spring of 2020, the AAP has reported state-level information about child infections, hospitalizations and deaths. While the data has always been limited due its reliance on inconsistent public data from the states, the report has nevertheless been an important tool in tracking the far-reaching impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable population in society. It has been particularly insightful in documenting the calamitous impact of the forced reopening of schools during the Delta and Omicron surges, during which the vast majority of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among children occurred.

The latest report notes, “Almost 13.8 million children are reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic according to available state reports; nearly 315,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. Approximately 5.9 million reported cases have been added in 2022.”

It adds as well that for the week ending June 30, nearly 76,000 children were infected with COVID-19, up from 68,000 last week. By contrast, this is a 528 percent increase from the number of child cases reported a year prior on July 1, 2021.

The rising cases are part of the latest wave of the pandemic ripping through the United States and internationally. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants are now dominant across the country, accounting for 70 percent of cases last week. The subvariants are known to be highly resistant to immunity from vaccines and prior infections.

The AAP’s last update for child hospitalizations recorded a cumulative total of 43,316 since the start of the pandemic but with data from only 25 states and New York City. It also recorded 1,055 deaths with data from 46 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam.

Though alarming in themselves, the figures from the AAP are known to be undercounts due to the limitations noted above. Over 86,000 children ages 0-17 have been hospitalized from COVID-19 according to CDC data and at least 1,624 have died. The CDC Data Tracker, which is the most real-time source to track deaths by age group, has added 63 pediatric deaths in the past seven days alone, an average of nine per day. Over the past month, 101 pediatric deaths have been added to the Data Tracker, an average of over three per day.

Even these horrific figures are also likely undercounts. In a still unexplained incident, on March 16, 2022, the CDC abruptly removed 72, 277 deaths from the Data Tracker, including 416 pediatric deaths, or 25 percent of the total. Despite repeated attempts by the WSWS to clarify this change to their data, the CDC never issued a clear explanation.

The only plausible explanation for this data manipulation can be gleaned from a report in the Guardian and a form publicized by anti-COVID activist Gregory Travis, which note that the CDC now differentiates between children dying “with COVID” and dying “from COVID.” Initially a far-right talking point at the start of the pandemic, this was adopted by the Biden administration and state Democrats during the Omicron surge last winter.

Though the discontinuation of hospitalization and death data in their weekly report is alarming, the AAP is correct in noting the scarcity of information being made public about the spread of COVID-19.

According to Johns Hopkins, at present half (25) of US states report case information only once a week. Only four states continue to report case numbers seven days per week: Texas, Arkansas, New York and New Jersey. Twenty-four states report COVID-19 deaths only once per week, while Nebraska and North Dakota report deaths “0 days” per week.

On March 18, North Dakota changed from daily reporting to once per week reporting, but the state’s new weekly dashboard does not include deaths. Instead, COVID-19 deaths are now included in a provisional data report released by the Vital Records division once a month. Similarly, Nebraska’s “Respiratory Illness Dashboard” does not publish COVID-19 deaths.

Other states that have reduced reporting since mid-March include Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Montana and Vermont.

The CDC has led the charge in perpetuating the lie that tracking infections is not necessary. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky laughed during a recent interview when she stated, “I know we’re not counting all the rapid [tests]... One of my favorite lines from somebody at the CDC was, ‘you don’t need to count the rain drops to know how hard it’s raining.’” In fact, identifying cases is a prerequisite to isolating infected individuals and stopping the chain of transmission.

Nearly every state, in seeking to justify the reduction in reporting, cited the CDC’s changes to its community risk guidelines in February, which sought to convince the public that risk was tied not to community transmission but to local hospital capacity.

Announcing the reduction in weekly reporting on April 4, a spokesperson for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services stated, “The change in the way the state will report cases and deaths going forward adheres to a national surveillance strategy created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

On May 18, Vermont decommissioned its COVID-19 dashboard and changed to weekly surveillance reports, which its website states provide “the data and indicators most useful to help monitor and determine risk of COVID-19” but do not include mortality data. Death information, as well as more robust data sets with demographic information, is only available through the state’s Open Geodata portal, which is also updated only once per week.

On a COVID-19 Update podcast episode in April, the American Medical Association interviewed Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, the chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). The ASTHO consists of the chief health officials from each US state, Washington D.C., US territories and Freely Associated States. In the interview, Plescia stated that the reduction in data reporting is consistent with reaching “a different stage with how we’re handling the pandemic.”

Plescia repeated the lie that infections in themselves don’t matter. “We don’t want people to get COVID but people are going to get COVID and if they’ve been vaccinated, they’re probably going to be okay,” he said.

Every new detail that scientists learn about Long COVID, or Post-Acute Coronavirus Syndrome, underscores that this statement could not be further from the truth. At least 10 to 30 percent of people who contract COVID-19 will develop Long COVID and an estimated 20 million adults in the US currently suffer from persistent symptoms, which can affect nearly every organ system in the body.

As for children, very little is known about the long-term impact that an infection will have on their health and development. The recent release of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for ages 6 months-5 years is an important but limited step toward protecting children from the most severe acute outcomes. Vaccines have been shown to reduce the incidence of Long COVID by only 15 percent in adults.

Many children ages 5-17 remain unvaccinated altogether. As of June 29, 2022, only 36 percent of children ages 5-11 had received at least one dose and only 29 percent had two doses. Among ages 12-17, 69 percent had received at least one dose and 59 percent had two doses.

With the intentional shutting down of surveillance and public reporting of COVID-19 data, it is increasingly difficult for people to track the disease and understand their own risk. This has ominous implications for the coming fall and winter when millions of children will be forced back into dangerous classrooms and during which time the White House has projected 100 million Americans could contract the disease.

WSWS writer Benjamin Mateus recently posted an important graph on Twitter that showed global youth and infant mortality rates across historical periods. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century there was a monumental reduction in youth mortality rates, driven by the major advances in public health, including vaccines, hygiene and other interventions to protect children from diseases. He noted this was not “because children were exposed to pathogens, but rather protected from them.”

The current policies of the Biden administration and the CDC, which demand that the population “learn to live with COVID,” in line with the profit dictates of the ruling class, are a direct attack on this progress. The working class must take charge in defending itself and the younger generations against a historical move backward. This requires building an independent movement based on a conscious fight for a zero-COVID program in every country to end the pandemic.

Red States: Biden Eroding American Sovereignty by Releasing Over a Million Border Crossers into U.S.

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President Joe Biden is eroding United States sovereignty as his administration has released over a million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities since he took office in late January 2021, an amicus brief signed by 17 states alleges.

The brief — signed by officials from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming — was filed last week in a case against the Biden administration for their seeking to drastically reduce arrests and deportations of illegal aliens in the U.S.

As noted, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using the little-known “humanitarian parole” authority to release tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month.

“Although most migrants that DHS encounters are supposed to be subject to mandatory detention if they are not immediately removed DHS has circumvented this mandate too through abuse of its parole authority under 8 U.S.C. §1182(d)(5),” the brief states:

That parole authority is carefully circumscribed “within narrow parameters,” and requires individualized decisions that are made “case-by-case and with a public-interest justification.” But DHS has instead been “releas[ing] undocumented immigrants into the United States en masse” under that authority. [Emphasis added]

The brief suggests that three-fourths of illegal aliens arriving at the southern border are evading Border Patrol agents while the “small portion that DHS does not slip through the agency’s fingers entirely, DHS unlawfully paroles many of them into the U.S. rather than detaining them.”

“For the vast majority of migrants unlawfully entering the U.S., actual enforcement of U.S. immigration laws by DHS is thus the rare exception, rather than the rule,” the brief states.

As Breitbart News has reported, Biden’s DHS has released nearly 1.05 million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities since February 2021. This is a foreign population twice the size of Wyoming’s, about 84,000 people larger than the population of Austin, Texas, and twice the population of Atlanta, Georgia.

In May, alone, Biden’s DHS released more than 95,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior — nearly 30,000 people larger than the population of Portland, Maine. In April, Biden’s DHS released nearly 118,000 and in March, the agency released over 80,000.

The case is Texas v. United States, No. 22-40367 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here

The question of the day is, why have any Republicans voted to confirm any of Biden's Cabinet appointees?  Every one of them has been chosen not for his expertise in any sphere of influence, but for his radicalism; the farther left these people are, the better in Biden's (?) view.  Xavier Beccara probably belongs in prison. PATRICIA McCARTHY

As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate. Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in California history.

 Judicial Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.  “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his political patrons.

Young Border Crossers to Be Sent to North Carolina After Xavier Becerra Claimed ‘No Plan’ Existed

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President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin sending Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to a luxury private school campus in North Carolina after HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said “no plan” existed.

In May 2021, during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) asked Becerra if HHS had any plans to begin housing UACs at facilities in North Carolina.

“Have you planning on or have you already sent minors to North Carolina?” Hudson asked, to which Becerra responded:

Congressman, thank you for the question, and first let me respond by saying that we are always trying to make sure that we are providing a safe and legal shelter for the kids who are in our custody … but I will tell you that there is no plan that we have to shelter children in North Carolina … there is no plan that I could tell you of right now to shelter children in North Carolina.
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A little more than a year later, in June, the American Hebrew Academy announced that its sprawling 100-acre campus in Greensboro, North Carolina would be leased by HHS to resettle and house UACs arriving at the United States-Mexico border.

The contract will begin housing UACs early next month and about 800 staff will be hired to provide educational courses, translation services, recreational activities, medical care, counseling, and security.

The American Hebrew Academy, which closed in 2019 but reopened last year, is a private boarding school for the nation’s wealthiest households. Tuition costs up to $42,000 a school year. The campus includes 31 buildings, 35 student apartments, an $18 million athletic center, and a 22-acre private lake.

In response, a group of North Carolina Republicans sent a letter to Becerra noting that he had previously denied to Congress that any such UAC resettlement plans existed.

“The decision to now resettle UACs in Greensboro directly contradicts what you said previously and comes as a complete surprise to us and our constituencies,” the lawmakers write, asking for how much the resettlement operation will cost American taxpayers.

In May, alone, nearly 15,000 UACs were apprehended at the southern border — nearly all of which will be turned over to HHS and resettled across the U.S. In a single month, the Biden administration released about 8,000 UACs into the U.S. interior.

The overwhelming majority of UACs arriving at the border are teen boys. The latest federal data shows that 72 percent of all UACs are over 14-years-old and 66 percent are boys.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


 

America, the Globalist Grift

 By Michelle Malkin | July 6, 2022 | 5:04am EDT

  

A boy from Colombia rests at a motel used as a temporary shelter by the non-profit Colores United in Deming, New Mexico on June 4, 2022. (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)
A boy from Colombia rests at a motel used as a temporary shelter by the non-profit Colores United in Deming, New Mexico on June 4, 2022. (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

I hate to snuff out any post-Independence Day fervor that you still might be enjoying. Oh, well. "Wet Blanket" is my middle name. All the annual Old Glory-waving rituals and public displays of patriotic affection can't change this bitter fact:

Our once-sovereign nation has become nothing more than a morbidly obese cash cow for what the Biden administration now openly calls the "liberal world order."

Higher gas prices are just the tip of the sacrifice iceberg. It's our posterity paying the globalist pipers. In the new "liberal world order" (which is really just the same old Bush family "New World Order" of more than three decades ago), homegrown children's needs are subjugated to the hopes and dreams of the children of the rest of the world.

Stick with me and follow an open-borders bouncing ball that demonstrates how multinational elites exploit America Last — with the brazen complicity of our own U.S. government, nonprofits and corporations. As always, we must follow the money to find the truth. Let's dig deeper behind this headline:

"Former American Hebrew Academy will house unaccompanied immigrant children."

According to WFMY-TV news in Greensboro, North Carolina, a failed international school venture called the American Hebrew Academy entered into a lucrative five-year lease agreement this week with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The plan will turn AHA's sprawling campus into a tax-subsidized shelter for illegal alien youth. The "unaccompanied children" will be shipped from Mexico starting this month and will be treated to a comprehensive array of benefits exclusively showered on the offspring of southern border violators.

I exposed the HHS/ORR kiddie catch-and-release racket in my 2019 book, "Open Borders Inc." Thanks to a liberal Bill Clinton-appointed judge in Southern California and convoluted class-action litigation dating back to 1997 on behalf of illegals spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union, the feds created new rights and standards for illegal alien minor shelter care. Clinton immigration bureaucrats agreed to provide food, clothing, personal grooming items, medical and dental care, family planning, "at least one hour a day of large muscle activity," "structured leisure time activities," psychotherapy and lawyers. Lots of lawyers.

HHS now operates a network of 100 state-licensed shelters in 17 states and has provided care to a whopping total of over 340,000 illegal alien children. (For perspective: That's a population roughly equivalent to the city of Anaheim, California, or Aurora, Colorado.) In 2017, the budget was $1.4 billion. In 2022, the Biden administration has requested an astronomical $3.2 billion in funding for the program.

Fun fact: The Biden administration rerouted $2 billion in COVID-19 funds for Americans to the illegal alien youth housing boondoggle.

Those tax funds will subsidize a panoply of for-profit and nonprofit ventures serving foreigners' children on American soil, which in turn provides bottomless inducements for countless hundreds of thousands of other families around the world to fork over coyote fees to send even more unaccompanied minors across our borders, who then move into the HHS/ORR facilities, which are served by nearly 50 other organizations at a cost of over $34,000 per child, according to the Capital Research Center.

So while you're worrying about formula, diaper and food shortages for your own kiddos, rest assured: Open Borders, Inc. is hard at work spending your money on everyone else's babies, toddlers and teens.

Let us peer further into the defunct "American Hebrew Academy," which is now reinventing itself as part of the Biden leasing scheme as the "Greensboro Piedmont Academy Influx Care Facility for UC (unaccompanied minors)" and the "Greensboro Global Academy."

The AHA was in a "financial death spiral" for years after its profligate founder and aviation reinsurance mogul, Maurice Sabbah, threw $100 million down a black hole pursuing his dream of building a world-renowned boarding school in 2001 that he envisioned as "an international destination in elite Jewish education," according to The Forward.

But that year, an arbitration panel ruled that Sabbah's aviation reinsurance business had committed fraud and "willful and deliberate misconduct" by skimming off hundreds of millions of dollars for its founders, leaving Japanese insurance companies high and dry when 9/11 happened; the decision yielded a $400 million settlement. The ripped-off companies then sued and settled with AHA to recoup purloined funds.

The operators of the academy tried to salvage the 100-acre campus — replete with an $18 million athletic field, 22-acre lake, 16 dorms, 34 staff resident apartments, natatorium, climbing walls and high-tech gadgetry in every classroom — by rebranding as an "international school" targeting Middle Eastern and Asian students.

The goal: bringing "globalization" to Greensboro.

The "American Hebrew Academy" turned to a "private" education company called Puxin in communist China for a $26 million loan in 2019 for help. In May 2022, the New York Stock Exchange moved to suspend trading in Puxin and delist it amid longstanding allegations of fraud. As Judicial Watch notes, "the money HHS is paying in rent will likely be used to pay back the Chinese company."

God bless America? God help us from the globalist grifters making bank off whatever is still left of this country, if that is what you call it.

(Michelle Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.)

Ron Paul: What We’re Facing Today ‘a Lot Worse’ than the Depression, Recent Downturns

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Tuesday, during an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) warned the country was worse off than it had been in some of the most challenging economic times in its history, including the Great Depression of the last century.

Paul decried the economic policies of inflating the money supply and the U.S. debt as the causes.

“[T]he founders understood exactly what we’re talking about,” he said. “They had the runaway inflation with the Continental Dollar. So they put in the Constitution that only gold and silver could be legal tender. And if we had followed that, we wouldn’t have had the welfare-warfare state with these huge deficits and what we’re facing because I think what we’re facing today is a lot worse than what we’ve had in the past, whether it was the Depression or whether it was the downturns we’ve had in recent years.”

“I think the bubble is bigger,” Ron Paul added. “I think the debt is bigger. The demands are bigger, and people are way overconfident even though they’re getting worried — way overconfident that you can take your debt at $10 trillion and, in a few years, switch it to $30 trillion, and nothing changes.”

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Exclusive—RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Hammers Biden on Rising Prices: ‘American Dream Is Slipping Away’

Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Following Tuesday's results, the National Republican Campaign Committee added 13 House Democrats to the list of 57 it was targeting for defeat …
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel hammered the Biden administration for its reckless spending and anti-U.S. energy agenda which forces Americans to pay more for groceries, gas, and travel.

Data from the Farm Bureau shows that the cost of having a July 4 cookout is 17 percent higher compared to prices from a year ago. This year’s Independence Day celebration will cost Americans, for a party of ten, approximately $69.68 for their favorite cookout foods such as cheeseburgers, pork chops, chicken breasts, homemade potato salad, strawberries, and ice cream.

In response to this, McDaniel exclusively told Breitbart News that “The American Dream is slipping away because of Joe Biden,” blaming the costs on Democrat policies.

“Democrats’ reckless spending, anti-U.S. energy agenda, and failed economic policies are leaving families further and further behind,” McDaniel continued. “Instead of celebrating Fourth of July weekend, Americans are spending more on groceries, emptying their wallets for gas, and canceling travel plans.”

The Farm Bureau’s July 4th cookout survey, which was taken from 176 volunteer shoppers across the country and in Puerto Rico — including from the agency’s staff — found that the most significant price increase in goods compared to last year was the ground beef, chicken breasts, and pork & beans:

  • Two pounds of ground beef are $11.12, up 36 percent from last year
  • Two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts are $8.99, up 33 percent from last year
  • 32 ounces of pork & beans are $2.53, up 33 percent from last year
  • Three pounds of center-cut pork chops are $15.26, up 31 percent from last year
  • 2.5 quarts of fresh-squeezed lemonade are $4.43, up 22 percent from last year
  • 2.5 pounds of homemade potato salad are $3.27, up 19 percent from last year
  • Eight hamburger buns are $1.93, up 16 percent from last year
  • Half-gallon of vanilla ice cream is 5.16, up 10 percent from last year
  • Thirteen-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is $4.31, up 7 percent from last year

The skyrocketing costs of everyday goods, ultimately costing Americans roughly $10 more than last year, also comes the year after the Biden White House tried to tout that Americans would save $0.16 on their Fourth of July cookouts.

Americans are starting to worry about the price of food.

A recent poll from CBS News found that the price of food impacts 90 percent of Americans, and 84 percent said they are personally affected by the cost of gas. This comes as the average price of gas has skyrocketed in June, seeing a record high for part of the month and soaring above $5 a gallon.

This also comes as Americans say the American Dream is less achievable now than it was two years ago.

A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 60 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the ability of most people to achieve the American Dream. Additionally, 83 percent said that the state of the economy is “poor” or “not so good.” This comes two years after a Gallup poll found that 70 percent viewed the American dream as personally achievable.

Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.


Joe Biden’s Approval Underwater on Key Issues

President Joe Biden meets with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Joe Biden’s approval on key issues is underwater months ahead of the midterm elections as Democrats hope to not only maintain but grow their majorities, a Yahoo! News/YouGov survey found.

The survey, which found 60 percent indicated that Biden should not run for reelection in 2024, showed 54 percent disapprove of his overall job performance. Only 38 percent approve, giving Biden a net approval of negative 16.

Biden does not fare better on specific issues, either. A majority, 59 percent, disapprove of his handling of the economy, compared to 31 percent who approve, putting him 28 points underwater in that area.  Notably, 66 percent of independents disapprove of his handling of the economy as well.

The net negative trend is consistent on a variety of issues.

Race:
38 percent approve
47 percent disapprove

Guns:
36 percent approve
53 percent disapprove

Climate change:
36 percent approve
47 percent disapprove

Crime:
32 percent approve
53 percent disapprove

The situation with Russia and Ukraine:
38 percent approve
50 percent disapprove

Abortion:
31 percent approve
55 percent disapprove

Biden only garnered a positive approval on one issue — the coronavirus, with 45 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving.

The survey was taken June 24-27, 2022, among 1,630 U.S. adults and coincides with June’s Harvard Caps Harris Poll poll, which showed former President Donald Trump besting Biden on similar issues.


Exclusive — Rep. Markwayne Mullin: Biden Administration ‘Trying to Wreck Our Economy’ for a ‘Socialist Takeover’

UNITED STATES - MAY 12: Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., participates in the news conference on the Invest to Protect Act outside the Capitol on Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Rep. Markwayne Mullen (R-OK) said the Biden administration is deliberately harming the U.S. economy to create pretexts for further governmental seizures of power and control over society, offering his remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson.

Inflation of gas prices due to government decrees and policies is part of a broader undermining of U.S. prosperity driven by the Democrat Party to create citizens’ dependency on the state, Mullen stated.

“There are three things that a socialist takeover has to control,” Mullen said. “They have to control the education system, the healthcare system, and the energy sector. The energy sector, because the energy sector is the backbone of every economy. Without strong and affordable energy, you can’t have a strong economy. If you show me a country that doesn’t have reliable and affordable energy, I’ll show you a third-world country, and that’s the advantage that a socialist dictator [uses]. They take advantage of that.”

He continued, “They’re not disguising what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to wreck our economy so that the government can come back in and try to raise it back up. … They’ve literally taken the mask off. … They’re trying to destroy the market [for fossil fuels], and that market disruption happens to be in red states.”

Mullin is running in a special election to represent Oklahoma in the U.S Senate due to Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) pending retirement, scheduled for January 2023.

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