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Already facing a major crime crisis, the Biden administration’s migration policies have brought even more gang violence to American cities. Due to the administration’s anti-border policies, foreign gangs have successfully infiltrated the U.S., and the federal government has shown little interest in stopping the flow. The explosion of illegal alien crime received increased national attention after a group of illegal aliens were caught on camera brutally assaulting New York police officers. Federal officials later confirmed that the alleged assailants were part of “Tren de Aragua,” a violent Venezuelan gang. Unfortunately, this was not the only beating New York police officers...

Log onto Facebook. Before you know it, you’ll see ads from Temu or Wish, pitching cheap products. Or open your old email account, the one that you’ve had for years, so it gets the most spam. Every other message is an offer from some unknown store, selling the sort of thing in which a person like you just might be interested. Or log onto Amazon and look for something, anything at all. Twenty percent of the hits, maybe more, will be “sponsored” items, often from a brand you’ve never heard of. Of course, you can shut down the internet, close...

Sen. Angus King (I-ME) says Congress ought to pass a legislative package that expands legal immigration levels to fill unfilled United States jobs with foreign workers rather than pulling jobless Americans off the labor market sidelines. In an interview with CBS News, King said such a package should include border-related reforms, an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and an expansion of the nation’s legal immigration levels. which already bring more than a million green card holders to the U.S. annually in addition to more than a million foreign visa workers to take American jobs.

While watching DW TV last night, the report that China is importing luxury items from around the world, had me overly concerned. How many products is China importing from us, the U.S., currently? Are well selling them "top of the line", "high value / quality" products? (Things with which we are proud we make; that are also extremely profitable.) Do we have the ability to compete in the global market? We lost a significant portion of our labor market when companies cut expenses by moving assets and interests outside the country. Now, with our dollar devalued so heavily; it is...

Canadian rocker John Butcher, known as Rockin' Johnie B., has pleaded guilty to importing guns destined for a Scarborough street gang member. Butcher, 62, looking disheveled, pleaded guilty to one count of failing to report goods to Canada Customs and one count of importing prohibited firearms, the Toronto Sun said Thursday. He will be sentenced April 22. Butcher has been in jail since March 22, 2004, when he was stopped at the Detroit-Windsor border with 23 guns stashed in the spare tire well of his Pontiac Sunbird. Butcher earlier admitted he had transported large sums of money from the United...

Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country’s involvement with U.N. corruption in Iraq. Poor thing. Yesterday, the independent committee investigating corruption in the U.N.’s “oil-for-food” program for Iraq made public the names of 3,545 companies that sold goods to Saddam. Also published were the names of 248 companies which received Iraqi oil under the program. Through oil-for-food, Saddam stole “$10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.” Leave it to the U.N. to pull off one of the biggest scandals in world history. Evidence is emerging...