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Joe Biden’s DHS Plans Photo ID Cards for Illegal Aliens Freed into U.S.

Leaked images of the photo ID cards for illegal aliens were first published by Adam Shaw at Fox News, showing space for the carrier’s photo, a QR code, and information about the carrier, including name and age — similar to a driver’s license or state-issued ID.

The ID cards, part of a DHS pilot program, could be used by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at airports or to access public benefits.

When news of the ID cards leaked last year, officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency defended the program, saying, “For provisionally released noncitizens, the digital modernization will provide ongoing access to important immigration documents through the secure card and connected portal.”

John Fabbricatore, a former ICE official and advisory board member at the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News that the ultimate goal of the Biden administration is to limit illegal aliens’ face-to-face contact with DHS agents as much as possible.

“It’s a normalization of illegal immigration,” Fabbricatore said.

Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told Breitbart News that House Republicans should act to stop the ID cards, among other things.

Biden Grants Quasi-Amnesty to 470,000 More Venezuelan Migrants

President Joe Biden’s border chief is providing quasi-amnesty and work permits to 470,000 more Venezuelan illegal migrants who are now crowding New York and other cities.

Biden’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expansion will add one worker for every nine Americans who will begin to seek jobs this year.

In combination with Biden’s massive inflow of legal and illegal migrants, the temporary amnesty will further force down wages for most Americans — after three years of shrinking wages.

The amnesty will spike housing costs for American families, and displace more Americans from construction, trucking, and restaurant careers.

The expansion will also further reduce marketplace pressure on U.S. employers to buy productivity-boosting machinery or to hire the millions of Americans who have been sidelined amid massive immigration levels since 1990.

The offer of legal protections will also encourage more Venezuelans and other foreigners to migrate into U.S. workplaces, especially because Biden has shown little interest in helping Venezuelans overthrow their dictatorship.

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‘DHS Out to Lunch,’ Plans Massive Migrant Releases
at Texas Border, Says CBP Source

According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has no cohesive enforcement strategy to address the border incursion of more than 2,500 migrants into one Texas border town on Wednesday. The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas every Border Patrol station in the region is beyond capacity. The only instructions received from DHS is to quickly process and release the mostly Venezuelan migrants who made landfall in Eagle Pass to a non-government shelter.

Breitbart Texas posted in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, on Wednesday morning and watched as the more than 2,500 migrants moved through the city streets headed to the Rio Grande to begin the border crossing. Piedras Negras is the city directly across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, a city of 30,000 residents. Some migrants carried children on their shoulders and the few belongings they possessed while they moved to surrender to federal and state authorities waiting in Eagle Pass. Many were single adult migrants.

The source told Breitbart Texas the recent increase in migrant incursions in Eagle Pass, some 7,000 over the previous 72 hours, has filled a local soft-sided Border Patrol processing facility to more than three times its capacity. The lack of detention space at this facility has forced the movement of the migrants to all other Border Patrol stations in the immediate vicinity, resulting in overcrowding at those locations as well.

AG Garland Calls Accusations of Anti-Catholic Bias
‘Outrageous’ in Heated Exchange with GOP Lawmaker

Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared visibly angered when questioned during the Department of Justice (DOJ) Oversight Hearing on Wednesday about whether or not his agency is biased against traditional Catholics.

During the hearing, Rep. Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ) had a heated exchange with Garland after calling out the DOJ and FBI for a string of scandals, including an internal FBI memo that leaked earlier this year. In the memo, the FBI described certain traditional Catholics it was tying to violent extremism as those who prefer Latin mass, have a “disdain” for most modern-day popes, and have a “frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.”

The memo also suggested that violent extremists’ “interest” in “radical-traditionalist Catholic” ideology was growing and that it therefore presented an opportunity for the FBI to engage with certain churches in an attempt to goad the churches’ leadership into serving as FBI “tripwires,” who would operate like unofficial informants to the FBI.
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...Van Drew told Garland. “And never in my life did I think I would see our great DOJ turn into a politicized weapon to be wielded by an investigation to attack political rivals. I still hold the thousands of hardworking staff with high regard, but unfortunately there are some within the department in my mind who have betrayed their oaths.”

“And for that you must be held accountable,” he continued. “I hold you accountable for the labeling of parents as domestic terrorists standing up for the proper education of their own children. I hold you accountable for the anti-Catholic memo. Imagine sending agents undercover into Roman Catholic churches because they were supposedly domestic terrorists.”
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“Attorney General, though the chair, I ask you: Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?” Van Drew repeated.

“I have no idea what ‘traditional’ means here,” Garland said before becoming visibly angry. “The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous – so absurd that you would ask me that question.”

Garland has previously stated that that his family members were victims of religious persecution in Europe, and two of his grandmother’s siblings were murdered in the Holocaust.

“It was your FBI that did this. It was your FBI that was sending – and we have the memos, we have the emails – undercover agents into Catholic churches,” Van Drew continued.

“Both I and the director of the FBI have said that we were appalled by that memo,” Garland replied.

 But those two guys didn't do anything to prevent the FBI from doing so even AFTER the leaks became public.

General Milley: Ukraine Fight Can Be Sustained
Since ‘The United States, Allied Countries Are Rich’

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at a press conference from Germany on Tuesday that the Ukraine War could be sustained because the United States and its allies are “rich.”

Milley was asked: “President Zelenskyy said this weekend that U.S. military aid to Ukraine is arriving far too late. Do Ukraine’s military partners have the industrial capacity to enable Ukraine to make major gains in another fighting season?”

Milley responded: “…you asked about the capacity. Can we continue to do this? The short answer is yes, we can continue to do this, and the United States and its allied countries are rich, powerful, with significant resources, military resources that are capable of sustaining this fight, in President Biden’s words, as long as it takes.”

He added, “And that’s what the intent is of our political leadership of all of the nations of Europe and around the world, actually, and the United States, and that’s exactly what we, the military, will do. We’ll do what we’re directed to do, and we’re going to do it as long as it takes.”

Milley ended his opening remarks at the press conference by saying, “Slava Ukraini,” which means “Glory to Ukraine.”

So he can make US and its allies go bankrupt and get no tangible benefits from defending Ukraine?
People want results, good results. Not failures.

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Iran at the U.N. — America Is the Past, ‘We Are the Future’

Raisi took some hard slaps against the United States despite the Biden administration attempting to curry favor with a $6 billion hostage ransom, and concluded with deranged ravings about terrorism that the U.N. translators clearly had difficulty making sense of.

The U.N. staff also seemed to have a bit of impish fun by turning their cameras on the audience to show how much of the audience drifted away during Raisi’s endless rant or visibly stopped paying attention to what he was saying.

No one called time on Raisi even as his tirade passed the grueling 35-minute mark (the U.N. recommends a 15-minute time limit for General Assembly debate speeches).
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No sane observer would describe the brutal theocracy Raisi presides over as a bastion of reason, dignity, or human rights. While he was speaking at the U.N., his thugs back home were cracking down on protests to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his “morality police” murdering a young woman named Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her mandatory headscarf improperly.

Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, was clearly such a sane observer. Erdan stormed out of the General Assembly during Raisi’s speech, waving a photo of Amini, and was briefly detained for unclear reasons by U.N. security personnel. Erdan later said that “being detained for standing with the Iranian people and protesting a vile mass murderer who was given an audience on the global stage is utterly disgraceful.”

Raisi himself could not care less about Amini or the innocent people who died when his forces viciously suppressed the greatest uprising of the Iranian people in four decades, but he did make a point of visiting the families of security forces killed while crushing that remarkable flicker of liberty.

China Pans Joe Biden’s U.N. General Assembly Speech as ‘Cliche, Hollow’

The Global Times panned Biden’s remarks for their “usual snarling at Russia” in response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and claimed that Biden’s conciliatory remarks about Washington’s relationship with China indicate “the White House now has few arrows in its quiver” with which to confront the communist rogue state. It also objected to Biden acknowledging that America has a leadership role to play on the international stage as the world’s wealthiest country and a beacon of freedom and human rights.

As per tradition, Biden was the second world leader to speak at this year’s General Assembly on Tuesday, dedicating a significant percentage of his remarks to encouraging U.N. members to support Ukraine. Biden also announced several programs to “maximize the impact of our collective investment” by enriching underdeveloped Middle East and African countries — an apparent bid to challenge China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which offers predatory loans to poor countries as a means of eroding their sovereignty and nefariously expanding the Communist Party’s influence.

“We’re focusing on economic corridors that will maximize the impact of our collective investment and deliver consequential results across multiple countries and multiple sectors,” Biden told the U.N., continuing:

For example, the Lobito Corridor will extend across Africa from the western port of Angola to the DRC to Zambia … Similarly, the groundbreaking effort we announced at the G20…to connect India to Europe through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel will spur opportunities and investment across two continents.

“The US President Joe Biden has once again turned the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) into a runway for touting US ‘leadership,'” the Global Times grumbled. “He has made the Ukraine crisis the spotlight of the gathering to shore up alliance of US-centered small cliques and used the crisis as a weapon to attack other countries.”

I gotta say this is the only kind of decent proposal the current regime has offered ever since it entered the White House.  The problem is that the US tends to finance most of those projects with some sort of small contributions from Europe. And Europe is facing the same issues like massive immigration!
And why wouldn't China complain about it? They wanna become the first world power at all costs.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to U.N.
Open Borders Hypocrites Making Migrant Traffickers
‘Rich Beyond Measure’

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.

Meloni defended the concept of nationhood and spoke of the natural yearning for national identity, while also stressing the importance of the U.N. as a vehicle for finding “shared solutions that can guarantee peace and prosperity.”

Meloni said nations exist because they “reflect humankind’s innate need to feel a sense of belonging to a community, to a certain people, and to be able to share with others the same historical memory, the same laws, the same customs and traditions – in a word, one’s identity.”

Meloni said the U.N. represented the triumph of reason and debate over violence but threw in a little criticism for the institution talking endlessly about principles it does not always put into practice: “We live in complex times, of continuous emergencies and change, and we cannot afford the luxury of words of circumstance, of lofty principles that have never been realized, of easy choices in place of the right ones.”

“If these two premises – the nation and reason – are still the foundation of our action, then we must reject the utopian and self-serving narrative of those who say that a world without nations, without borders, and without identity would be a world without war and conflict,” she said.

Socialist Zimbabwe
One of World’s Most Poorly Run Countries
Boasts of ‘Good Governance’ at U.N.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa boasted to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that his country has entrenched “democracy, constitutionalism, good governance, and the rule of law” under his leadership, and demanded the lifting of ongoing Western sanctions against Zimbabwe and every other country currently subjected to them.

Few international observers would agree with Mnagagwa’s characterization of Zimbabwe as a bastion of clean representative government. Mnagagwa’s government arrested dozens of the monitors assigned to the August 2023 election, allegedly for leaking election results ahead of time.

The opposition cried foul, complaining of “blatant and gigantic fraud,” including voter suppression and ballot rigging. International human rights groups described an atmosphere of “intimidation” against opponents of the ruling ZANU-PF party, which continued its unbroken 43-year streak in power.

As for Zimbabwe’s economy, the World Bank assessed that it consistently performs below the level that should be made possible by abundant natural resources and good human capital – not primarily because of sanctions, but due to “price and exchange rate instability, misallocation of productive resources, high informality, low investment, and limited structural transformation.”

“High inflation, multiple exchange rates, and unsustainable debt levels have increased the cost of production, reduced incentives for productivity-enhancing investment, and encouraged informality,” the World Bank maintains.