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Summary Houses, cars, and a bus were set on fire in Belfast last night in a night of violence that followed a knife attack on Monday One pastor in north Belfast says black people's homes were targeted, while an MP tells the BBC there was a "race-based pogrom" On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill says "groups of masked men" were "burning families out of their homes" The fire service says it was called to 62 incidents last night,...

A warehouse manager who was inside the Burnstein Von Seelen facility when federal agents conducted an immigration raid said workers screamed and tried to hide as dozens of agents moved through the plant with guns drawn. Randy Linsenbigler, a warehouse manager who has worked at Burnstein Von Seelen in Abbeville for nearly 30 years, said he had no idea what was coming Wednesday morning. “I didn’t know what was going on. I heard people screaming. Then I saw some girls coming running towards me like four or five of them and I’m like what is going on. So I walked...

…A video published June 7 on the YouTube channel Mother & Refuge of the End Times shows a compilation of leading exorcists, including Ripperger and Martins as well as Father Jim Blount and Father Dan Reehil making nearly identical statements over the years to Msgr. Rossetti that demons will disguise themselves as so-called “aliens” and UFOs to deceive people. Last week, Cardinal Robert McElroy, who is notorious for his heterodoxy on homosexuality and other key moral issues, removed Rossetti as an exorcist in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and ended all affiliation with his St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal...

Given its oft-proclaimed calling as a peace project, the European Union can sound oddly bellicose when it sets about crafting policy. There are trade and fiscal “bazookas” to blast away crises, “silver bullet” solutions for every problem, and “nuclear options” to be used as a last resort. Yet in the absence of an EU army or even a police force, the pen-wielding Eurocracy rarely gets its hands on anything that looks like an actual weapon. The only exception—tellingly—is the club’s border-patrol agency. For over a decade after it was founded in 2005, Frontex agents wielded little more than whistles and...

Noncitizens in a key blue state were on the voter rolls for years — and some even voted in prior elections, according to documents obtained via public records request. The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) requested voter rolls from all 21 counties in the Garden State and found multiple instances of noncitizens seeking naturalization asking to be removed from the rolls, claiming they were unknowingly registered to vote. Most were registered as Democrats. Noncitizens cannot vote in state or federal elections, and the candidates for citizenship worried that being on the rolls would disqualify...

The Republican National Committee and the New Jersey GOP went looking through voter-roll records in one of America’s bluest states. What surfaced should make every legal voter pay attention. Fox News reported Monday that documents obtained through public-records requests showed noncitizens on New Jersey voter rolls for years, including some cases where voting histories also appeared. The NJGOP and RNC requested voter rolls from all 21 New Jersey counties, according to the report. The records reportedly showed multiple noncitizens seeking naturalization asking to be removed from the rolls, saying they had been unknowingly registered to vote. Most of those noncitizens...

The federal government is moving to denaturalize more than a dozen “criminal aliens” for allegedly lying about their past crimes, including child sexual abuse, fraud, and drug dealing, during the naturalization process. Officials with the Justice Department told the Washington Examiner that the denaturalization actions, announced on Monday, are “unprecedented.” The suspects include convicts originally from Somalia, Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Jamaica who are accused of withholding information from immigration authorities that would have made them ineligible to receive citizenship. Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud...

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing a major surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into New York City, escalating a growing confrontation with Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Trump border czar Tom Homan revealed Monday that the administration has already drawn up an operational plan and warned Hochul before she signed legislation late last month restricting ICE activities and banning masked immigration agents in New York. "You're going to see more ICE than you've ever seen in New York City, and it's coming," Homan said, according to Bloomberg. "I just reviewed an operational plan....

The empty desks appearing across Colorado today are the delayed consequence of decisions made years ago by politicians, educators, and cultural elites. Colorado colleges are bracing for what education experts call an “enrollment cliff.” Fewer high school graduates mean fewer college applicants, shrinking tuition revenue, budget cuts, mergers, and even campus closures. The same phenomenon is unfolding nationwide. After years of warnings, the demographic reckoning has arrived. According to recent Colorado education data, public school enrollment fell by more than 10,000 students this year, the state’s largest decline since the pandemic. State officials point to a simple explanation: there are...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about widespread taxpayer fraud in the state's welfare programs as early as spring 2019, but took no action and instead the state retaliated against workers who tried to expose the abuses, a bombshell congressional report released Monday concluded. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee referred its findings from a months-long probe into $9 billion-plus in fraud schemes in Minnesota to Vice President JD Vance, raising serious concerns Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to the taxpayer losses because they feared "political retribution from the politically active Somali community,"...

A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump’s policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employers’ H-1B visa applications. The visa payment policy violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin declared in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The H-1B policy was created in 1990 and is heavily used by U.S. tech giants to bring in high-skilled workers from overseas. The program allows U.S. employers to seek government permission to hire a nonimmigrant workers in specialty occupations for up to six years. Trump implemented the $100,000 fee in a presidential proclamation last September...

The Trump administration on Monday announced it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign. CBS News exclusively reported about the plans before they were unveiled by the Justice Department. Officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize...

California health officials discovered evidence of measles in routine wastewater testing as the state faces a sharp resurgence of the disease. The Merced County Department of Public Health reported the finding, and while no confirmed clinical cases have been identified in the county, officials said it could indicate undetected circulation. The state has confirmed infections climbing to 74 cases across seven counties, the highest annual total California has recorded in seven years. Health officials said the jump is already far above last year’s numbers, with just 25 cases reported in all of 2025, underscoring how quickly the virus has regained...

This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing detailing how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. In the hearing, witnesses laid out in detail how NGOs received more than $6 billion from the Biden-Harris administration, including through grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and others. They also testified about how the Biden-Harris administration handed over unaccompanied alien children (UACs)...

While Alan Milburn was busy insisting that Britain's youth worklessness crisis has nothing to do with immigration, a think tank quietly published figures that told a very different story. According to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which was set up by former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, 27 young non-EU migrants have been hired for every one young British worker since 2020. In other words, while the number of non-EU under-25s on UK payrolls has risen by 290,000 since the start of the decade, the number of young Britons employed increased by just 11,000 over the same...

The murder of Henry Nowak at the hands of a protected minority -- and the police -- has become the spark that set Britain ablaze. It’s ironic how the lies related to George Floyd’s death led to murder in Great Britain. They will probably finally lead to the ouster of Keir Starmer and the ravaging of the UK’s Labour Party which bought those lies and capitalized on them. In Sussex, England (undoubtedly as in most of the country, as daily examples of two-tier British justice appear in X daily), a concerted brainwashing (“ideological conditioning” in JD Vance’s more polite terms)...

The UK is on the edge of losing its culture and heritage, aided by a compliant government. The US is nearing the precipice as well. America has long been a welcoming host to immigrants, believing that those coming to these shores were seeking a better life and opportunity and were willing to become part of the American tapestry. Although the starts were rough, the Irish and Italians came and did assimilate to become part of the American culture, seeing themselves as Americans first. It was true for my grandparents as well. Despite not being able to speak much English they...

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order in May, forcing the federal government to address a massive loophole allowing illegal immigrants access to U.S. banking systems. The order, titled “Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System,” aims to protect the U.S. banking system from risks tied to illegal immigration, money laundering, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and related fraud. Trump directed the U.S. Treasury Department, federal financial regulators, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to strengthen oversight and risk management in banking related to illicit finance, money laundering, and credit risks tied to illegal immigration. “Illegal Immigrants and Foreign Fraudsters steal...

🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION 100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯 "Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those." "And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry...

In a new ruling released on Friday, a federal judge held that the Trump administration agency that oversees lawful U.S. immigration must stop enforcing several policies that paused adjudication of certain immigration-benefit applications. 1*On June 5, 2026, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down four USCIS policies that paused or delayed certain immigration benefit decisions for applicants from 39 travel ban countries.✅ The court declared four USCIS policies unlawful and vacated them: pic.twitter.com/KrUIxLYRVn— AK Poku Law, PLLC (@greencard1awyer) June 5, 2026The decision came Friday morning in a voluminous order written by Rhode Island's U.S. District Court Chief Judge, John...