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In a follow-up tweet, Dreier reported that Hearthside, the parent company of Cheetos, Nature Valley, Lucky Charms, had lost a significant percentage of its workforce after checking for child laborers. (Yikes) Most of these children are not illegal immigrants, but rather kids who arrived legally through the help of a sponsor. In the past, these children were protected by the Department of Health and Human Services, but as numbers grow, old systems began breaking down. According to the NYT, instability in Central and South America, along with the pandemic, has significantly exacerbated the United States child labor problem. "The number...

Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek asylum up north. She has watched with increasing frustration as a bitter winter has failed to stanch record inflows and as New York City even began buying bus tickets for migrants headed her way. “There’s no political will to fix this,’’ Ms. Gravel, 77, said in her driveway, a stone’s throw from the border. “Canada is soft,’’ she said, adding that asylum-seekers should be processed at official border crossings. “And the United States doesn’t care because this...

A controversial Virginia school board member is taking heat for saying the Battle of Iwo Jima, a major US victory during World War II, “unfortunately happened” — and set a record for “human evil.” Abrar Omeish made the stunning statements during a Thursday meeting of the Fairfax County School Board while discussing the US’s recent Japanese Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 internment of Japanese Americans by the US. “Something for us to certainly reflect on as we learn our history and think about it,” she said of the annual event. “The days when, you know, Iwo Jima unfortunately...

It is unclear where this boat had travelled from but local news agencies are reporting that those aboard were from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. The vessel sank after it crashed against rocks during rough weather, the Adnkronos news agency said. The Italian authorities have mounted a large search-and-rescue operation on land and at sea.

The New York Times published a blockbuster report on Saturday that details massive nationwide child labor horrors taking place because of Joe Biden opening the border to unaccompanied children in 2021 after President Trump fought hard to shut down child trafficking. The children are working to pay off their debts to cartel traffickers and their sponsors here, as well as to send remittances to their families back home. The Times found children working in factories and plants of major American companies and their suppliers across the country. “Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, the Times found....

Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly - who is charged with murdering a Mexican migrant by shooting him dead on his land last month - was released from custody Thursday on a $1million surety bond secured by his ranch. Family members for Kelly, 73, have been able to raise over $350,000 on GiveSendGo, a Christian alternative to GoFundMe after the mainstream crowdfunder took pages Kelly's pages down. Kelly was in custody on a single murder charge for shooting Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on January 30. He told police and border patrol agents that he fired warning shots when he saw Cuen-Butimea and at...

The attorney defending Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, who is facing murder and other charges in the shooting of a Mexican national on his border property, argued during Wednesday's preliminary hearing that the handling of the investigation contrasted drastically with that into Alec Baldwin's shooting on the set of the Western film "Rust." "There was a huge divergence in how investigation and prosecution should happen and how it did happen in this case," Kelly's court-appointed attorney, Brenna Larkin, said. "The Alec Baldwin case comes to mind of a case where an incident occurred, there was a shooting, there was an...

A Pennsylvania county has ended its “sanctuary” status for illegal aliens as the nation’s fentanyl crisis has hit the community, spilling over from the United States-Mexico border. Officials in Butler County, Pennsylvania — which has consistently voted Republican in the last few election cycles — have ended the area’s sanctuary county status that helped keep illegal aliens from being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

In Ireland, there is an asylum or, more exactly, an “asylum” crisis. Muslim economic migrants have been flowing into the crowded country, and they’ve come up with a way to get themselves accepted without fear of being sent back to their countries of origin: they destroy their passports and other travel documents after boarding the plane that brings them to Ireland, but before going through passport control in Dublin. More on this scheme can be found here: “40% of asylum seekers are destroying their passports upon entry to Ireland,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, February 6, 2023:Irish authorities are ramping...

We have the worst border crisis in history, and the Biden administration insists that our southern border is secure. This disconnect between the narrative and reality is the reason why Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is currently facing potential impeachment. Yet, after watching his interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, it all makes sense. “Our goal is to achieve operational control of the border, to do everything that we can to support our personnel with the resources, the technology, the policies that really advance the security of the border, and do not come at the cost of the values of our...

Mexico’s top diplomats are openly fighting and calling each other liars over who flinched before their U.S. counterparts during the Trump era. The issue centers around “secret” meetings that led to the Remain in Mexico policy which effectively forced the country to stem the flow of migrants. The diplomatic fight exploded this week when Mexico’s Foreign Relations Minister and Presidential hopeful Marcelo Ebrard said during a news conference that his former ambassador to the U.S., Martha Barcena (2018-2021), was out to tarnish his reputation. Ebrard charges that she was the one who accepted Remain in Mexico and a safe third...

Auxiliary bishop David O’Connell of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed. Bishop O’Connell, 69, who was found dead in a room with a gunshot wound to his upper torso, was killed just before 1:00pm, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

The serial entrepreneur says the surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S.'s southern border is an urgent problem that must be tackled. This subject is immigration, considered one of the strengths of the Republican Party, particularly in the South. He just used an article from The New York Post on a recent news conference by Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, to sound the alarm. Adams added that New York was dealing with an "unprecedented influx" of busloads of migrants. He repeated that the city’s shelter system was nearing its "breaking point." At least 16,600 migrants have arrived in...

The current state of the nation's capital is an embarrassment of unrelenting chaos and filth. Every day, a number of innocent victims are carjacked by teenagers illegally wielding guns and engaging in violence. The Washington D.C. City Council, made up entirely of Democrats and leftists, recently voted to reduce penalties for these crimes, ensuring the problem will only get worse — with no recourse for those being threatened and assaulted at the end of the barrel. With crime raging and threatening the city's economic viability, what happened just a few months ago completely undermines the very same democracy Democrats have...

Designed to assist law enforcement agencies in prosecuting criminals, the U visa is granted to victims of crime who lack immigration status and allows them to stay in the country (and work legally), and eventually get a green card and citizenship, ostensibly to aid in the prosecution of the crimes...Although Congress has capped the number of visas at 10,000 a year, there is a backlog of 315,000, as illegal aliens use a U visa application as a way to remain and work in the United States.

The U.S. southern border has been weaponized as millions of unvetted foreigners are distributed throughout the country amid the ongoing Biden Border Rush. But how does the Mexican government fit into the big picture? For years, Mexico's illegal immigration policies have been a mishmash. On the one hand, Mexico has its own immigration law and has detained and deported many illegal aliens. On the other hand, Mexico often just lets illegals pass through, correctly assuming most of them are going to the United States. Sometimes Mexico even helps them get to the U.S. border. American leadership makes a big difference....

Leftism is at war with reality: women are men, men are the first female admirals and champion female swimmers, Old Joe Biden is competent, capable and coherent, drag queens are suitable entertainers for primary school children, and on and on and on. But every war has its casualties, as Leftists are learning these days at Free University in Berlin. A sex offender has been running wild and harassing women there for weeks, but the university has warned the victims not to call the police. The reason why they shouldn’t is as obvious as it is outrageous: the sex offender is...

Drinking the tears of the woke is delicious, particularly when used as a dash of liquid in a fine glass of Scotch Whiskey.Remember when Ron DeSantis and Gregg Abbott were accused of human trafficking? You know, when they helped illegal migrants achieve their dreams by helping them travel to sanctuary cities? An all expenses paid vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, a hotel room in NYC. The chance to visit Chicago’s shooting galleries and join the fun?Yeah, well, the cries of Leftists were muted a bit when Colorado’s and Arizona’s Democrat governors joined the club, and they were shut down completely when...

A senior Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source said that apprehensions of nationals from China are up 800% compared to the same period last fiscal year when including January — the numbers for which have not yet been released. The DHS is on the lookout for potential Chinese spies and other national security threats arriving at the southern border. The U.S. southern border is in the throes of a historic migrant crisis, with more than 251,000 migrant encounters in December

U.S. monthly intake of refugees from Ukraine 2021-2023 Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 13, 2023 In January 2023, the United States accepted 145 refugees from Ukraine. In fiscal year 2022 - which ended September 30, 2022 - the U.S. accepted a total of 1,610 Ukrainian refugees. The most Ukrainian refugees arrived in February of 2022, the same month that Ukraine was invaded by Russia. In April 2022, the United States committed itself to welcoming 100,000 Ukrainian citizens and others fleeing Russian aggression in the region, but has so far only accepted 2,123 since the Russian invasion.