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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Joe Biden's Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota
[Breitbar] President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline has released more than 950,000 foreign nationals into the United States since its inception in January 2023 — exceeding the entire population of South Dakota.

Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released figures for March, showing Biden’s parole pipeline is continuing to release tens of thousands of foreign nationals into the United States interior via the southern border and commercial flights.

From January 2023 through March 2024, more than 950,000 foreign nationals have been released into American communities thanks to Biden’s parole pipeline. The pipeline brings foreign nationals to the U.S. through the administration’s “CBP One” mobile app and “humanitarian parole.”

For perspective, more foreign nationals have arrived in the United States on parole under Biden than there are people living in the state of South Dakota.

The CBP One app, whereby those in northern Mexico schedule appointments at the border for release into the United States interior, has brought more than 547,000 foreign nationals into the country. Those arriving via CBP One are primarily from Venezuela, Haiti, and Mexico.

Likewise, about 404,000 nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have arrived in the United States on humanitarian parole during the same 15-month period. Those securing humanitarian parole fly into the United States via commercial flights after getting approval from DHS to enter the country.

Specifically, DHS has allowed about 84,000 Cubans, 154,000 Haitians, 69,000 Nicaraguans, and 95,000 Venezuelans to fly to the United States and secure humanitarian parole.

Those getting parole under Biden have a massively high success rate if they apply for the immigration benefit. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), during a hearing last week, said DHS is approving parole for more than 97 percent of applicants.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that despite the high approval rate, “those [parole] cases are received on an individualized basis.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 04:06 || Comments || Link || [120 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  The only pipeline that the Biden Administration won’t block.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||


Illegal migrant convicted of child rape arrested after district court ignored detainer request
[FoxNews] The migrant first entered the country illegally in 2021

An illegal immigrant from Brazil charged with child rape was recently arrested after a Massachusetts District Court ignored a detainer request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and let him back into the community.

Per Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston, Border Patrol Arizona arrested the Brazilian illegal immigrant in July 2021 then released him into custody.

The illegal alien was arrested in Massachusetts for child rape last December, but Milford District Court ignored a detainer request from ICE and released the migrant into the community on $5,000 bail without notice in late January.

Deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested the 20-year-old on March 28 near his residence in Lowell, Massachusetts.

"This Brazilian noncitizen is accused of sexually abusing a Massachusetts minor," said ICE Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons in a statement. "Every second he spends roaming free in our communities, he represents a potential threat to the children of our communities. The men and women of ICE Boston will always prioritize public safety by protecting the residents of New England from egregious noncitizen offenders."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [135 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  We do have solutions. The Johnathan Watson wing of your local confinement facility.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  District judge must not have any kids.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:26 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
California moves to create genealogy office for reparations eligibility
[JustTheNews] According to analysis shared by the National African American Reparations Commission, lineage-based reparations programs such as these could result in white Americans becoming the majority of those qualified for reparations.
Just another thing Latinos will be blocked from, even the legal ones and those who are citizens.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 04:40 || Comments || Link || [276 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Kamala doesn’t qualify. Their budget shortfall will not stop the stupid.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  They need this why? There are several online services they could contract to do that.

But patronage jobs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2024 9:41 Comments || Top||

#3 
A work in progress.
THE FALLACY OF REPARATIONS
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/16/2024 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  All that money would end up in the hands of Mercedes Benz, BMW, Lexus, Cadillac, a bunch of jewelers, liquor store owners, strip club owners and drug dealers.

And then there would be demands for another tranche.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2024 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Kind of hilarious actually. Only people left in CA to pay for it are Asians and illegals whose ancestors were also brought to the new world as slaves.
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/16/2024 10:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Imagine the violence when folks are told they aren't getting jack... I am.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/16/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Check Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Gotta start somewhere:

Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543 || 04/16/2024 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Before my time. Not a lot, but still before my tim.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2024 15:33 Comments || Top||

#10  So, how many generations have there been in Cal. anyway?
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/16/2024 16:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Sounds like a great way to garner individuals' DNA and, maybe, just maybe, track down some criminals.

Or, it will eventually fall in the "too hard to do" category.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/16/2024 18:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Realistic data records show least 2,500 African Slaves illegally in California prior to 1865. Because California banned slavery in 1849. They were snuck in to mainly work the gold mines during the Rush by their Plantation Owning Masters.

Which a vast majority were DEMOCRATS.

1750 to 1860's California Slaves ZERO

1790-1860 California Slave data ZERO

Since they were there ILLEGALLY and Human Trafficked by DEMOCRATS into the states and not by the California Citizens. Why are California's Honest Citizens or anyone else expected to pay for the Human Traffickers Crimes from over 159 years ago?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/16/2024 19:34 Comments || Top||

#13  Human trafficking is probably still alive and well, at the border and in Hollywood.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/16/2024 20:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Senator Mike Lee Brings Business to a Halt in US Senate Until Dems Hold Impeachment Trial for DHS Secretary Mayorkas
[Gateway] Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) on Monday promised to halt US Senate business until Democrats hold an impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

For weeks now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has refused to hold the Senate trial for DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

Constitutional expert Hans Von Spakovsky recently informed Grant Stinchfield and the Real America Voice audience that holding an impeachment trial is not an option for Democrats — it’s their duty according to the US Constitution!
Hans Von Spakovsky: The Senate has a special rule that it put in place, a parliamentary rule, to handle impeachments. The rule was implemented back in the 1980s. That rule calls for a trial. There is no language in there whatsoever that simply allows a motion to dismiss and a vote on a motion to dismiss. Plus, look, the Constitution says the House votes on whether to impeach a federal official, and the Senate then is responsible for holding a trial and determining whether they are guilty or should be acquitted. There’s nothing in there about not h not holding a trial and simply throwing it out.
Tonight Senator Lee is holding Democrats accountable and is halting business until Democrats hold the DHS Secretary’s impeachment trial!

Here is Senator Lee’s speech from moments ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2024 06:16 || Comments || Link || [285 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably have enough Pub Rhino's along with every Dem, who will vote to keep Mayorkas.

Effort in congress should go to ensuring Trump is elected and supporting Gov. Abbott in Texas. Trump will take care of Mayorkas on day one.

You've put up with the worthless POS for nearly four years, what's the rush ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2024 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I doubt he'll be convicted as well, but Dems need to be made to take a position
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2024 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you, Senator Lee! And thank you, people of Utah, for sending him to fight for us!
Posted by: Tom || 04/16/2024 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  That's OK, they've already sold out the American public, so there's nothing important on the agenda.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/16/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Hopefully, Senators will use this break opportunity to drink themselves to death.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ I'll drink to that!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/16/2024 9:57 Comments || Top||

#7  For weeks now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has refused to hold the Senate trial for DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

It's going so slow because they are all as dirty as he. Nobody wants to get splashed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden's own Earl of Strafford
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2024 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Impeaching Articles delivered to Senate moments ago.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/16/2024 14:47 Comments || Top||

#10  He was just following orders.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/16/2024 15:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Ich habe nur Befehle befolgt.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/16/2024 20:04 Comments || Top||

#12  So no new spending until Senator Lee is satisfied with the Mayorkas trial? I can live with that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2024 21:11 Comments || Top||


New RNC chief counsel Spies worked for Romney, Bush, DeSantis, downplayed 2020 election issues
[JustTheNews] "All of these examples, do not mean, by the way, that the election was stolen," Charlie Spies said. "When election officials' incompetence results in catastrophic errors and voters have to be concerned if their vote will count, voters lose their trust in the process,” Spies also wrote.

Charlie Spies, the new Republican National Committee chief counsel, is an election lawyer who worked in support of presidential campaigns for Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Notably, Spies has long downplayed 2020 election issues as the GOP seeks to recapture the White House in the November election.

Last month, then-RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel resigned from her position, following poor fundraising hauls and three consecutive election cycles where Republicans underperformed, and was replaced by North Carolina Republican Party leader Michael Whatley as chairman and Lara Trump as co-chairperson.

After the new leadership was elected, new legal counsel was hired, including Spies as chief counsel, former President Donald Trump attorney Christina Bobb as senior counsel for election integrity, and Bill McGinley as outside counsel for election integrity.

While Bobb and McGinley have both worked for Trump on his campaign and in the White House, respectively, Spies has worked for other GOP presidential candidates in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 elections.

In 2015, while Spies advised pro-Bush PACs, he filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the Trump Organization. Spies alleged that Trump illegally used his business for campaign purposes when the Trump Organization’s general counsel sent cease-and-desist letters to the Right to Rise leadership PAC, the Club for Growth, and Bush donor Mike Fernandez.

In 2016, Spies was asked by CNN how everyone except Trump “could be so sure” that the election was invulnerable to fraud or being rigged.

Spies told CNN, “A presidential election in America can’t be rigged because there’s multi-levels of checks and balances, and those checks and balances are done in a bipartisan way. Any vote can be tracked, in terms of what’s on the machines, and then you can go back and make sure it wasn’t hampered with, and that’s done by state and local officials who are from different parties across the board, depending on where the election’s taking place.

“And the scale of conspiracy and collaboration that would have to take place to rig a national election would assume that Republican governors and Republican secretaries of state across the county were all working together with Democrats to try and hurt a Republican nominee, and that’s just not plausible,” he continued.

On President Biden’s inauguration day, Spies posted on X , "Congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris. May G-d Bless you with wisdom and justice and continue to bless America. #InaugurationDay"

Former Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington told Emerald Robinson on FrankSpeech that Spies’ history was concerning and that “somehow the establishment always keeps its foot in the door, no matter how they pry their way in there.”

She said that Spies is like the people who worked at the RNC during the 2020 election, when they “didn’t do anything to try to preempt the cheating in 2020.”

During a panel with Spies at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2021, Marci McCarthy, who is now chair of the DeKalb County GOP, explained how there was inadequate oversight of ballot adjudication in DeKalb County. Ballot adjudication is when ballots are unable to be processed by a scanner and a two-person team determines the voter’s intent. Spies purportedly didn’t understand how the adjudication worked, leading to McCarthy’s explanation.

Spies also said during the panel, “All of these examples, do not mean, by the way, that the election was stolen. It means that they were out there active and energized and had a message that got people to the polls.”

“We need to instill trust in the system and we need to change some of these laws, but more important is not the lawyers here, but all the political professionals and the politicians and the candidates to have a message that drives people to the polls and we win by such a margin that it’s not going to make a difference,” Spies added.

McCarthy told Robinson that Spies’ hiring was “100% surprising to me, because he really out said that none of this happened and tried to disregard everybody in the room that had genuine concerns, including my own of what I actually experienced, where I was a panelist in DeKalb County, Georgia, and I was adjudicating ballots.”

McCarthy also said, “The man that is the general counsel over election integrity at the RNC gives me heartburn that he’s going to be there and not gonna really be there for us on November 6th. And we’re doing so much to prevent the steal from happening again, and is he going to be there undermining everything that’s happening?”

She noted that the RNC hasn't joined Arizona GOP candidate for U.S. Senate Kari Lake's lawsuit that was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court while the Georgia GOP has filed an amicus brief along with the Arizona GOP and Delaware GOP. Lake's lawsuit alleges that Arizona’s use of electronic voting machines violates both the U.S. Constitution and state law.

"Where are they? Why aren't they standing up with us across the board?" McCarthy asked of the RNC regarding the lawsuit.

While on the CPAC 2021 panel, Spies said that he was in Antrim County, Mich., during the 2020 election and that there were votes flipped by a machine that were caught and corrected.

“We were suspicious for a long time that perhaps there was a software glitch statewide, because other people use the same software, and there is just zero evidence that’s true,” Spies said.

However, while downplaying some election concerns, Spies has also supported election integrity legislation. Last June, Spies testified as a witness at a House Administration Committee hearing in support of the "American Confidence in Elections Act."

“When election officials' incompetence results in catastrophic errors and voters have to be concerned if their vote will count, voters lose their trust in the process,” Spies wrote in his prepared statement.

“Whether it was in Detroit where in 2020 the majority of precincts were out of balance (meaning the number of votes cast didn’t match the number of voters at the precinct), or a few months ago in Maricopa County, Arizona, where half the polling places on election day had printer and tabulator malfunctions, or in Luzerne County in Pennsylvania where they ran out of paper ballots disenfranchising thousands of voters, or when Pinal County sent out 60,000 erroneous ballots to voters, society’s confidence in the our elections wane. It is understandable when voters have concerns with the efficacy of the electoral process in certain states and territories,” he added.

The RNC and Spies didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 04:51 || Comments || Link || [128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gutter ball.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  "When election officials incompetence results in catastrophic errors and voters have to be concerned if their vote will count, voters lose their trust in the process,” Spies also wrote.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/16/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||


House planning to send Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate on Tuesday Today
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 04:49 || Comments || Link || [105 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I did not expect much out of this Congress. They have underperformed my low expectations.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I still predict the GOP (worthless as it is) will lose the House in November, and the Dums will have all of Congress. Take THAT, President Trump!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/16/2024 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The GOP will take the Senate with a Rino majority. It will all look the same.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 11:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Biden Let U.N. Sanctions on Iran Missiles Expire Before Unprecedented Israel Attack
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2024 04:12 || Comments || Link || [91 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  To attribute this stuff to incompetence becomes pretty torturous after a while.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2024 9:29 Comments || Top||



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  Gaza corpse count surpasses 33,700
Mon 2024-04-15
  Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces sez Israel failed to intercept Iran's projectiles in a meaningful way
Mon 2024-04-15
  Hamas thought they'd conquer Israel, had plans for how to divvy it up
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