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They spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English. Chicago has a $9.9 billion budget. Its teachers’ unions, who control the city and have one of their own in the mayor’s office, get everything from free abortions to weight loss surgeries, to $145,000 salaries even though their students know absolutely nothing. In math, 19% of Chicago third through eighth graders were proficient on the IAR’s 2024 test, a 2 percentage point increase from the previous school year. During the spring of 2023, 17% of elementary school students were proficient in math, but in the spring of 2019, 24%...

Truth often sounds like fiction, especially when it does not fit the listener’s model of the world and what they believe to be in the realm of possibility. If you lived in Germany in 1933, you might hear news the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was arresting political opponents and putting them in a newly built prison. Unless you knew those people personally, you might dismiss the news as a conspiracy theory designed to hurt Hitler. Later, in November of 1938, when you heard the news of Jews being rounded up and sent to the same prison, you might dismiss it...

The violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua has taken over a hotel in the Texas border city of El Paso — turning into a hub of fighting, drinking and hard-partying behavior, authorities say. The cops have been called nearly 700 times to the Gateway hotel. Surveillance footage shows one man wielding a hatchet, others were spotted with knives and at least one man was seen firing a gun inside, the El Paso County Attorney said. Much of this activity happened while children were present.

An undocumented immigrant police likened to a “ghost” admitted to kidnapping and raping a teenage girl at knifepoint near New Orleans. Diego Rodriguez-Salvador, 23, was arrested Sept. 4 for allegedly luring a 13-year-old girl into his car before driving her to his home in Kenner, La. and raping her. Rodriguez-Salvador, an illegal migrant from Honduras, allegedly asked his friend’s teenage sister to take a ride to a nearby store with him. She accepted the ride, but when the girl noticed they were headed in the wrong direction, Rodriguez-Salvador pulled a knife, assaulted her, then dropped her off in her own...

A shocking Facebook post from a local Springfield community group has sparked alarm after a resident shared a disturbing exchange with her neighbor regarding the safety of pets and local wildlife. The post, shared by a concerned resident, began with a stark warning: “Warning to all about our beloved pets & those around us!!!” The resident recounted a disturbing exchange with her neighbor, who revealed that her daughter’s friend had tragically lost her pet cat. The concerned pet owner had searched tirelessly, checking online lost pet pages, local animal shelters, and asking neighbors if they had seen her missing feline....

Armed Venezuelan gang memebers are stealing oil, copper wire, diesel fuel and catalyst elements from Texas oil fields in West Texas, according to a memo issued to employees. According to the memo obtained by LibsofTikTok, a Texas-based oil company issued a memo to employees warning them about security concerns from violent migrant gangs. Venezuelan gang members are using vehicles to run workers and witnesses off the road as they steal oil and diesel fuel. Per the memo: Dr. McCullough on the “Serious Problem” Spike Protein Poses to Our Health Industry peers and law enforcement in West Texas (WTX) are aware...

A Denver law firm, hired to look into an alleged gang takeover of an Aurora apartment building, says they found the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang began taking over the Whispering Pines Apartments in late 2023. Since then, the gang has engaged in violent assaults, threats of murder, extortion, strongarm tactics, and child prostitution as they have exerted a "stranglehold" on the Aurora apartment complex. That's according to a letter sent to Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman, Aurora City Manager Jason Batchelor, and the interim police chief that was obtained by CBS News Colorado. (snip) The property manager told the law...

Aurora initially dismissed claims, but later acknowledged gang activities and arrests.. Letters obtained by The Denver Gazette from the law firm representing CBZ Management — whose apartment complex in Aurora was shut down over what the city described as safety issues last month — show officials were fully aware weeks ago of accusations that a Venezuelan gang had “forcibly taken control” of the property. In an Aug. 28 letter to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the law firm wrote that CBZ Management had been informed that “Aurora Multi-Family Projects have been forcibly taken control of by gang(s) that have immigrated...

Officials from Aurora, about nine miles east of Denver, told Fox News Digital the Tren de Aragua gang has gained a strong foothold in their city, commandeering apartment complexes and drumming up violent crime and sex trafficking."We currently have entire complexes under gang control — complexes where staff have been beaten up, they've been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property," Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said. "These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang.

VIDEO"Border Czar Denialist" is just another way of saying "Reality Denialist." When you do a quick search online of the Terms "Kamala Harris Border" for the period of January until the end of July 2021 you are hit with an OVERWHELMING number of links to many news stories of Kamala Harris being assigned to find to be the point person ("Border Czar") on the border. In fact, the headline of a Politico story dated March 4, 2024 clearly states, "Biden makes Harris the point person on immigration issues amid border surge." And yet we have Border Czar Denialists (aka REALITY...

California Democrats passed a bill in the State Senate that would provide up to $150,000 in home loans for illegal aliens who are first-time home buyers in the state. The bill, AB 1840, passed the Assembly in a different form, and will head back there for approval before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) desk. As Breitbart News reported Monday: AB 1840, proposed by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), expands an existing program for first-time home buyers such that applicants”shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.” The bill has already passed the California State Senate and is...

A violent Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua has spilled into Aurora, Colorado, despite the fact that the city wanted “no part” in welcoming so-called “asylum seekers” as a result of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. According to a report from the New York Post, Aurora has a population of 390,000 residents. Now, it’s become the base of operations for the gang, which has seized apartment complexes and instigated a crime wave. In February, the Aurora City Council reportedly passed a resolution 7-3 stating that it will not provide resources for illegal immigrants brought into the town...

Just want to point out that the "Killer Kamala" mantra as shouted by pro-Hamas protesters at the DNC isn't just crazy talk. Although these protesters are referring to Biden-Harris' policies and it's affect on Gazans, the term "Killer Kamala" is highly appropriate regarding her role as Border Czar.OVER 3 YEARS AGO Biden assigned Kamala Harris as Border Czar. Not only did Kamala not visit any relevant border areas where incursions are a problem, when asked about it she laughed as she did NOTHING about the invasion. CINO! (Czar In Name Only!).What Kamala DID do is SIT BACK AND WATCH as...

LAS VEGAS — For weeks, Republicans have pummeled Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration, blaming her for President Joe Biden’s policies at the border. Now, Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is seeking to neutralize that line of attack, one of her biggest weaknesses with voters, running a playbook that Democrats say has worked for them in recent elections and staking out her clearest position yet as a tough-on-crime prosecutor focused on securing the border. This week, she has hit back by promising to heighten border security if elected and slamming her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, for helping kill...

A 2019 video of Kamala Harris vowing to shut down all immigration detention centers on “day one” as president has surfaced. Then-Senator Kamala Harris promised to free all criminal illegal aliens if elected president during a town hall in Iowa City, Iowa in October 2019. “I want to know, when you become president, would you be committing to close the immigration detention centers?” an attendee asked Kamala Harris. “Absolutely, on day one. On day one,” Kamala Harris said. WATCH: Open borders Kamala wants to free all criminal illegal immigrants. Attendee: “I want to know, when you become president, would you...

Their lies know no bounds. The Kamala campaign is running an ad this morning claiming she is tough on border policies. Kamala Harris is the border czar responsible for the greatest illegal migrant invasion in US history. Over ten million illegals have walked across the open US border since Kamala and Joe took over. It’s not a secret. But now Kamala Harris and Democrats are running one of the most dishonest political ads in US history. They have no respect for the hundreds of grieving American families who have lost loved ones to the fentanyl crisis or to a violent...

The problem with many liberals is they can’t live in their own truth. They abandon ship as soon as it becomes inconvenient to maintain their current persona. The most obvious and telling recent examples come from the Democrat Presidential candidate-by-fiat, Kamala Harris. For the last three and a half years, she was ‘The Border Czar.’ Everyone knew it. Biden announced it with much ballyhoo, and she was referred to as ‘The Border Czar’ by the television, print, and electronic media repeatedly. As the Vice President, she ran interference for Joe Biden. (He didn’t create the huge border fiasco; she did.)...

ICE said Colombian fugitive is leader of Las Colinas criminal organization based in Santa Marta, Colombia U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that they captured a validated Colombian gang leader wanted for homicide, aggravated theft, and arms trafficking in his home country who was illegally in the U.S. ... The 29-year-old was caught by Border Patrol in September 2023, after illegally crossing into the U.S. near San Ysidro, California. He was served with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge. He was then transferred to Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Diego. Inexplicably, the gang...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance called Vice President Kamala Harris a failed “border czar” during a tour of the “smuggler’s paradise” stretch of the border in Arizona. During his visit to the notorious sector of the border in Cochise County, Vance said Harris has been ineffective at tackling the surge of migrants crossing the border since she took office, claiming all of it will change if he and Donald Trump are elected in November. “It’s unbelievable what we’re letting happen at the southern border, and it’s because Kamala Harris refuses to do her job,” Vance said

President Donald J. Trump’s first television ad attacking his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, splices together footage of her dancing and images of migrants crossing the border as the ad accuses her of being a failed “border czar.”The 30-second ad aims to hold Ms. Harris responsible for millions of border crossings and a quarter-million deaths from fentanyl, which the ad says occurred “on Harris’s watch.” It closes with a new Trump tagline for Ms. Harris: “Failed. Weak. Dangerously Liberal.”The words flash on the screen as she dances, footage from an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.It is the...