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Mayorkas Defies Common Sense & Other Serious Issues

Mayorkas Doubles Down, Says ‘We Need’ More Migrants Amid Border Debate, Impeachment Fight

President Joe Biden’s border chief says Americans need more migrants to fill jobs — even as House legislators debate his possible impeachment and the Senate considers a legislative deal he helped broker.

Mayorkas made his demand for a high-migration, low-productivity economy during a softball interview with the New York Times:

Wouldn’t it be more orderly, and wouldn’t it be responsible governance to be able to deliver a lawful pathway to fill what we have, which is a labor need, and cut the exploitative smugglers out and give individuals a path to arrive lawfully, safely, in an orderly way, to perform labor that we need? They can send remittances home. They can return home when their work is done. Isn’t that an element of a workable immigration system?

Interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro passively accepted his family-separating, George W. Bush-like “Any Willing Worker” pitch as she suggested the nation’s migration debate is really about how to ensure more orderly migration:

Q. So what I’m hearing you say is that you’d like to expand legal pathways in order to relieve some of the pressure on the Southern border where people come in illegally?

A. Yes, and to fulfill one of the goals of our immigration system.

Mayorkas did not mention that a primary legislated goal of the immigration system is ensuring that American families are not discarded by employers’ use of cheap and compliant foreign labor.

Since 2021, Mayorkas has allowed more than 6.2 million migrants into Americans’ housing, schools, hospitals, and workplaces. His policy has pressured down Americans’ wages. It also boosted rents and housing prices and inflicted more divisive diversity on Americans’ society. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of fields and spiked the number of “Deaths of Despair.”

Washington State Used $340M of Federal Coronavirus Money for Illegal Immigrants

The outlet [Fox News] on Saturday cited the Economic Policy Innovation Center’s (EPIC) report about money that was supposed to help state and local government responding to and recovering from the pandemic.

The organization stated on Friday in its report titled “Bidenomics Slush Fund Subsidizes ‘Undocumented’ Immigration”:

Now, EPIC has discovered that the Biden Administration approved $340 million in SLFRF money for cash payments to “undocumented” immigrants in Washington State.

Americans’ COVID relief money was used to send $1,000 checks to immigrants unlawfully residing in the State of Washington.
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The $340 million project is categorized as a “cash transfer” expenditure under the SLFRF, approved for the State of Washington. This means the Biden Administration directly subsidized “undocumented” immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief.

However, the report noted the state’s coronavirus relief fund for immigrants was no longer accepting applications, which meant the fund has run dry.

The Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund Impact Evaluation Report said, “In April 2021, the Washington State Legislature approved an additional $340 million for another round of funding for undocumented Washingtonians.”

Machete-Wielding Leftist Professor Fired from Third Teaching Gig in a Year

Shellyne Rodriguez first made headlines in May 2023 when she hurled expletives at pro-life students and vandalized their anti-abortion display at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where she worked as an adjunct professor at the time.

The 47-year-old educator was reprimanded by the taxpayer-funded CUNY (City University of New York) institution, but wasn’t fired until she threatened a reporter with a machete when questioned about the incident.
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Rodriguez was then finally fired by Hunter College, as well as CUNY’s School of Visual Arts.

She pleaded guilty to harassment and menacing, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

“Under the terms of a conditional plea agreement, she must complete a therapy program and, if successful, can withdraw the misdemeanor plea and will be sentenced on the violation to a conditional discharge,” the Post reported.
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However, that didn’t stop her from soon obtaining another job at Cooper Union, a private art and science college in Lower Manhattan.

Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine shared a January 23 email from Rodriguez soon after her spring semester sculpture class kicked off, sharing the news that she had been fired once again.

“Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists,’” the troubled educator wrote in a memo to students.

Jake Sullivan Refuses to Rule Out Strikes Inside Iran

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States will take additional action after earlier airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militant groups, but he would not specify where including ruling out Iran.

Sullivan said, “The president ordered strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the tragic death of three brave service members. Those strikes were carried out Friday night to good affect.”

He added, “The president was clear when he ordered them and when he conducted them that that was the beginning of our response. There will be more steps to come.

Anchor Dana Bash said, “You said it’s the beginning. I want to clarify does that means that there will be more strikes coming in the next few days?”

Sullivan said, “What it means is that we will take further action. I’m not going to describe the character of that action. I don’t want to telegraph our punches. There will be further action.”

Bash asked, “Inside Iran? Would you rule that out at this point?”

Sullivan said, “Look, sitting on a national TV program, I’m not going to rule in and rule out any activity anywhere..."

50 Cent Says ‘Maybe Trump Is the Answer’ After NYC Mayor Adams Gives Migrants pre-Paid Credit Cards

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to distribute $53 million to city migrants on pre-paid credit cards was blasted by 50 Cent on Saturday, with the rapper saying the proposal simply inspires him to believe former President Donald Trump is the man to address the country’s manifest problems.

He used an Instagram post to set out his argument.

“WTF mayor Adams call my phone, I don’t understand how this works somebody explain,” the rapper wrote after sharing a screengrab of the New York Post’s coverage of the proposal. “Can’t explain this I’m stuck maybe TRUMP is the answer.”

The city program will offer asylum seekers at the Roosevelt Hotel with hard cash from taxpayer pockets, intended to help illegal migrants pay for food, according to city records.

50 Cent has already slammed California over a similar decision to use taxpayer money to fund health care for aliens.

Adams argues the scheme will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually as it will allegedly stop wasting money on meals the asylum seekers do not want.

Ex-Trump Official Mike Gill Dies: Casualty of D.C. Carjacking Spree

Former Trump administration official Mike Gill, who was shot during a carjacking spree on the 900 block of K Street Northwest in Washington, DC, has died. He was 56.

The father of three previously worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under former President Donald Trump and was gunned down after his assailant entered his Jeep in an attempt to steal it.

The incident also claimed the life of another innocent man, as Breitbart News reported.

“His sudden departure has left a void in our lives that can never be filled,” Kristina Gill said in the statement as reported by NBC News, calling Mike Gill “not only a devoted husband and father but also a cherished son, brother, and friend.”

Gill was dedicated to improving others’ lives, being an active member of his church, befriending and mentoring coworkers, serving on the District of Columbia Board of Elections and coaching his daughter’s soccer team, Kristina Gill added.

Former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo called Gill “one of the most wonderful, honest, earnest, and open-hearted persons on this earth.”

The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a statement.

Latest collated data shows former and current public figures in the District have been targets before while crime in the Democrat-controlled city spiked in 2023, according to police department numbers previously cited by Breitbart:

Homicides: Up 35 percent
Robberies: Up 67 percent
Violent Crime: Up 39 percent
Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent

UN Section

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China Is ‘Working to Impair the Vitality of the U.N.’

The Human Rights Council evaluates all U.N. member countries through a process called the “Universal Periodic Review,” in which the Council drafts reports on respective governments’ respect for human rights and allows a session of peer commentary in which other countries can remark on the evidence of respect for or abuse of human rights. In 2024, the Human Rights Council is scheduled to evaluate 14 countries, China among them; it held its peer review session for China on January 23.

“Last week, at the Universal Periodic Review of the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations, the Chinese Communist Party thought that it could drown out the truth of its shameful human rights record,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), said at a hearing on the U.N. process held on Thursday, “enlisting its allies to offer pampering praise instead of probing questions, while giving a platform to Party-controlled civil society groups over independent non-governmental organizations.”

Smith declared the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, totalitarian dictator Xi Jinping, “a systemic challenge to the international, rules-based order.”
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The Chinese Communist Party is one of the world’s most aggressive state violators of human rights. At the top of its list of atrocities is the ongoing genocide of the ethnic Uyghur minority of East Turkistan, a region communist China occupies and administers under the Mandarin name “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.” In addition to imprisoning up to 3 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minority members in concentration camps, China has engaged in a systematic campaign to reduce the population through the killing of Uyghur babies both in and outside the womb, the forced sterilization of entire villages of women, widespread campaigns to enslave the population in factories, and a documented process to kill Uyghurs by cutting out their organs alive and selling them to wealthy buyers.

ASIA

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2 Scandals & 1 Alliance

Taliban Rejects U.N. Report of Al-Qaeda Training Camp Boom in Afghanistan

The UNSC report published on Monday was confident about the establishment of four new al-Qaeda camps in the Ghazni, Laghman, Parwan, and Uruzgan provinces, plus a weapons depot in Panjshir Valley and five madrassas (religious schools) for indoctrinating Afghan children.

UNSC also found al-Qaeda has safe houses in Herat, Farah, and Helmand provinces plus the national capital of Kabul, which it uses to maintain communications between al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan and the organization’s leadership, which has taken shelter in Iran.
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The UNSC report accused the Taliban of providing protection and support for al-Qaeda, contrary to promises by Taliban leaders that they would not harbor the worldwide terrorist organization. The report also expressed concern about al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban assisting Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group that has launched numerous attacks against the Pakistani government in a bid to destabilize the country.

UNSC said TTP has conducted cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan, some Afghan Taliban members have joined TTP’s ranks, and the Afghan Taliban is providing aid to the families of TTP members. Al-Qaeda fighters have joined TTP on some of these raids.

The Afghan regime has covered some of these activities by taking minimal action against the TTP to placate the Pakistani government. TTP also sought to muddy the waters by creating a splinter group called Tehrik-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), which has claimed several recent high-profile attacks on Pakistani targets. Pakistani officials say some of the TJP fighters killed by its security forces were Afghan nationals.
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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the U.N. report as “propaganda” on Thursday.

Once-Hesitant China Lends Full Support to Russian Invasion of Ukraine as Anniversary Nears

Defense Minister Dong Jun of China reportedly declared that Beijing would “not change or abandon [its] established policy” in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this week – a full-throated endorsement presenting a shift from the Communist Party’s prior attempts to remain “neutral” in the conflict.

The Russian state outlet RT reported that Dong made the remark during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Shoigu on Wednesday. Dong’s meeting with Shoigu marked his debut on the international stage, as communist dictator Xi Jinping appointed him to the position of defense minister on December 29. His predecessor, Li Shangfu, disappeared without explanation in August and subsequently lost his position in October, leaving China with no defense minister for two months. Li’s whereabouts, or why he disappeared, remain a mystery at press time.

Dong used his first prominent appearance as defense minister to endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which approaches its second anniversary in late February.

“We have supported you on the Ukrainian issue despite the fact that the US and the EU continue to put pressure on the Chinese side,” RT quoted Dong as saying. Dong reportedly promised Shoigu that China “will not change or abandon [its] established policy course over this.”

RT added that Dong ranted against America, claiming, “The US is always targeting Russia and China, seeking to retain its hegemony around the globe.” Dong predicted that America’s alleged “hegemony” was “doomed to failure.”

Shoigu – a veteran of several high-profile power struggles within the Russian military apparatus – reportedly expressed satisfaction with Beijing’s support of Moscow, stating that their military collaboration was “developing steadily” and the countries were enjoying “close-productive cooperation.”

India, Saudi Arabia Hold First-Ever Joint Army Exercises

The Indian Defense Ministry announced this week that it had begun a joint army exercise alongside Saudi Arabia named “Sada Tanseeq,” or “Forever in Coordination,” expected to run through February 10.

The event is the first of its kind uniting the armies of Saudi Arabia and India.

India is hosting the exercises in the northern state of Rajasthan, which borders Pakistan and hosts a military complex used for desert terrain training. The exercises are small; the Indian Defense Ministry stated that each country is sending 45 service members each from the Royal Saudi Land Forces and Indian Army. While the two nations have engaged in naval exercises in the past, “Sada Tanseeq” represents a significant elevation in defense cooperation and indicate that Riyadh and New Delhi are seeking to dramatically expand their friendship beyond economic and technology cooperation.

Saudi Arabia has traditionally maintained friendlier ties with India’s top geopolitical ally Pakistan, as the two countries are Islamic theocracies governed by the sharia. The dramatic growth of the Indian migrant population of Saudi Arabia, now estimated to number 2.6 million people, has also been a source of tension on occasion, as cases have surfaced of alleged enslavement of Indian nationals and heinous abuse of domestic and labor workers.

Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, however – the de facto ruler of the country despite the elderly King Salman formally holding the title – the two countries have explored agreements in increasing technology cooperation, joint diplomatic works, and trade deals. The two are now officially allies under the framework of BRICS, a global coalition named after its founding members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Saudi Arabia became one of five states – alongside Iran, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, and Ethiopia – to join BRICS in 2024.

LATIN AMERICA

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Thinking about traveling to Mexico? You better think it twice or even thrice.

Mexico in Crisis

Gunmen Kill Two Migrants, Torch Home in Mexican Border City

Authorities in the Mexican border state of Coahuila are looking into the killing of two migrants whose bodies were found inside a home that had been set on fire.

The incident took place in the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, just south of Eagle Pass, Texas. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by state authorities, police officers responded early Monday morning to the Periodistas neighborhood to a call of shots fired. When police arrived, they found a fully engulfed home and called for the city firefighters to help put out the flames.

Once firefighters put out the fire, they found the burned bodies of two victims believed to be migrants. The identities of the migrants have not been revealed. A motive for the murder and subsequent arson has not been determined. However, authorities are interviewing a possible suspect who has some burns on his body.

The Periodistas neighborhood is near the Rio Grande and has a strong presence of organized crime members who are currently in control of all human and drug trafficking activities. That neighborhood is considered a hotspot for violence in the region.

Two Killed, Two Injured During Day of Cartel Shootouts in Mexican Border City

Two innocent bystanders sustained gunshot injuries and two other men died in multiple locations during a day of cartel shootouts in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Unconfirmed information points to the almost capture of a local cartel figure as being the trigger for the spike in violence.

The violence began shortly after 9 a.m. on the city’s western side along a dirt road called Becerro. In that area, convoys of gunmen clashed with Tamaulipas state police forces. As in prior cases, neither Mexico’s National Guard nor the military responded to help the state police forces who often are outnumbered and outgunned as the Gulf Cartel has been using armored SUVs to mobilize their gunmen during their shootouts.

Unconfirmed information points to state cops coming close to capturing Carlos Humberto “M36” Acuna de Los Santos, a local cartel lieutenant with the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel.

To avoid capture, Acuna deployed his gunmen and had other members drop hundreds of road spikes in various parts of the city as a way to cause traffic jams and slow down police forces.

During the multiple shootouts throughout the city, a 17-year-old student at the TecMilenio high school sustained a gunshot injury and had to be rushed to a local hospital where he is listed in serious condition but is expected to recover.

Mexican Government Calls for Congressional Inquiry into Alleged Cartel-Connected Judge

On Wednesday afternoon, Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior (SEGOB) sent a formal request to the nation’s congress calling for an inquiry against Cresencio Contreras Macias a federal judge based in the border city of Reynosa.

According to the accusation, Contreras Macias, in his rulings, had sided with organized crime members “promoting impunity and denying justice to the Mexican people,” a prepared statement revealed.

Most recently, Contreras Macias was overseeing the case of Jose Alberto “La Kena” Garcia Vilano, a top leader with the Gulf Cartel. According to Mexico’s Proceso, the federal judge was dismissing charges claiming that federal prosecutors had not done enough to prove that La Kena was tied to criminal activity.

According to the allegations from SEGOB, Contreras Macias was also linked to the release of cartel individuals behind the recent kidnapping of 31 migrants in Tamaulipas. As Breitbart Texas reported, on December 30, Gulf Cartel gunmen kidnapped a group of more than 30 migrants who were riding in a passenger bus. While Mexican authorities took credit for rescuing the group, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was forced to admit days later that it was the Gulf Cartel that had released the captive migrants.

Mexican President Calls U.S. Government Immoral After Media Reports Point to Cartel Funding His Campaign

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lashed out at the U.S. government, calling its agencies immoral for allowing three news outlets to publish a series of exposés detailing how the Sinaloa Cartel funneled millions into his 2006 failed presidential campaign.

In separate but connected news articles, Pro-Publica, Insight Crime, and the German news outlet GW.com published separate stories by Tim Golden and Anabel Hernandez, where each reported on a DEA investigation into how the Sinaloa Cartel had funneled millions into Lopez Obrador’s failed presidential bid. The criminal organization funneled cash to all of the candidates to hedge their bets and have friends in power regardless of the outcome.

In their report, both Golden and Hernandez explain in detail how, through their top lieutenants with the Beltran Leyva organization, including Edgar “La Barbie” Villarreal, the Sinaloa Cartel sent between $2-5 million in cash to Lopez Obrador’s campaign. The information in the publication matches witness testimony from the 2019 trial of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, where top witnesses stated that money had been funded into presidential campaigns, including AMLO’s, Breitbart Texas reported.

In the story by Hernandez, she claimed that Lopez Obrador spoke on the phone directly with La Barbie to thank him for a donation and asked for his help in reducing violence once elected.

Lopez Obrador ran for president a total of three times, failing in the first two bids until he was successful in 2018 for a six-year term. This summer, Mexico will hold its 2024 presidential elections, where the Morena party founded by Lopez Obrador is one of the favorites.