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But let us examine closely the actual reasons why Biden is now so
worried about migrants now.
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Migration & Ballots
Quote:President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is vowing to sue Texas if state officials begin carrying out a new set of laws, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott ®, that allows them to have illegal aliens arrested and deported — independent of federal officials.
Last week, Abbott signed three pieces of legislation into law, including giving state law enforcement the power to arrest illegal aliens for the crime of illegally crossing the United States-Mexico border and local judges the authority to have illegal aliens deported.
The landmark laws are significant because they put Texas on the map as the first state in the nation where residing illegally in the United States is a state crime, not just a federal crime.
In response, Biden’s DOJ is threatening to sue Texas unless Abbott promises by January 3, 2024, not to enforce the new laws, according to a letter from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton reviewed by the Houston Chronicle.
But let us examine closely the actual reasons why Biden is now so
worried about migrants now.Quote:President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the agency is developing a program that will provide border crossers and illegal aliens released into the United States with photo ID cards.
For more than a year, Breitbart News has chronicled how DHS is planning to roll out a pilot program that will give border crossers and illegal aliens photo ID cards, similar to a driver’s license, upon their release into the United States interior from the southern border.
Now, DHS officials are seemingly confirming their plan to issue photo IDs to such border crossers and illegal aliens.
Buried in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) annual report, officials confirmed that they are planning to begin issuing the photo ID cards to border crossers and illegal aliens sometime this fiscal year.
“[The Office of Immigration Program Evaluation] is leading the ICE Secure Docket Card (SDC) project, which offers a uniform, durable card provided to noncitizens upon release, and facilitates reliable access to commonly lost or damaged immigration-related paperwork,” the ICE report details:
The SDC will be integrated with the Unified Immigration Portal that ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] officers and agents use in the field and the ICE Portal to allow noncitizens access to commonly used documents and services. ICE expects the project to ease ICE personnel workload when encountering noncitizens with the card and decrease the burden on noncitizens when interacting with ICE, including the facilitation of remote reporting for certain low-risk populations. ICE anticipates a limited release in two [Enforcement and Removal Operations] field offices in FY 2024.
Quote:Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, reacted to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot.
DeSantis suggested Florida could remove President Joe Biden from his state’s ballot for his alleged mishandling of border security.
However, the Florida GOP governor said the act by Bellows was not an appropriate interpretation of the 14th Amendment and would ultimately be reversed by the Supreme Court.
Quote:Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents rescued three Mexican migrants who illegally crossed the Canadian border into New York on December 9, according to information received this week from CBP officials. The migrants all suffered injury from exposure to the wintery conditions and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Swanton Sector Cheif Patrol Agent Robert Garcia posted photos on social media showing agents rescuing a group of migrants who became lost in the woods after crossing into New York from Canada. The agents, along with Churubusco Fire Department crews and other supporting agencies, carried out a search and rescue operation leading to the discovery of the injured migrants.
CBP officials reported on December 28 that Swanton Sector agents assigned to the Champlain Station responded to a 911 call in Churubusco, New York, at about 5 a.m. on December 9. The search crews found three migrants suffering from cold weather injuries in the dense forest area. Rescue crews transported the migrants to the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital for treatment, officials stated.
Breitbart later learned the three migrants were identified as Mexican nationals. After being treated at the hospital, agents released the migrants with a notice to appear before an immigration court at some point in the future. Officials did not disclose the final destination plans for the migrants.
EUROPEAN NEWS
Ongoing War in Ukraine & a Lot More
‘Russian Missile’ Entered NATO Airspace, Says Poland: Combat Readiness Increased
Well, the only option left would be that he wanted to produce illegal drugs there.
Quote:Poland says a Russian missile participating in this morning’s massive air strike on Ukraine spent three minutes in Polish, and hence NATO, airspace.
A missile entered NATO airspace on Friday morning at around 0700 (0000 EST), the Polish military says. While initially said to have been a missile of unknown origin and a search for a downed aircraft was launched, Poland now says it has confirmed with its own observations and data from allied militaries that the object was, in fact, a Russian missile.
Polsat reports the remarks of General Wiesław Kukuła who said Ukraine had suffered “a difficult night” of a saturation attack by Russian forces against its air defences, attempting to overwhelm them with drones before pressing on with a missile followup. Polish air defences tracked these attacks over Ukraine, he said, and “One of these rockets crossed the Polish border and then left it.”
Combat aircraft were scrambled to protect Polish airspace, he said, and Major General Maciej Klisz further remarked that Poland’s operational command had experienced “a busy nice… a busy night for all elements of Poland’s air defence.”
Poland says the missile crossed into its territory east of Zamosc, near Lublin, and spent three minutes in Polish airspace, crossing 40 kilometres (25 miles), an indicated airspeed of 500 miles per hour. It is possible a missile launched from Belarus around the ancient city of Brest towards Lviv in Ukraine (Lwów) would pass through Poland in the area described, for the distance described as the Polish border continues slightly further east in this area.
Lviv was one of the Ukrainian cities struck this morning, as noted by Ukrainian state media.
Quote:Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod killed 14 people, including two children, and injured 108 others Saturday, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said.
Russian officials accused Kyiv of carrying out the attack, which took place the day after an 18-hour aerial bombardment across Ukraine killed at least 39 civilians.
Images of Belgorod on social media showed burning cars and plumes of black smoke rising among damaged buildings as air raid sirens sounded. One strike hit close to a public ice rink in the very heart of the city.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it identified the ammunition used in the strike as Czech-made Vampire rockets and Olkha cluster munitions. It provided no additional information, and The Associated Press was unable to verify its claims.
“This crime will not go unpunished,” the ministry said in a statement on social media.
The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin had been briefed on the situation, and that the country’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, was ordered to join a delegation of medical personnel and rescue workers traveling to Belgorod from Moscow.
Quote:Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba appears to have admonished Western nations, who he accuses of doing too little and too late, in the actions taken in the aftermath of the nearly two-year-long reinvasion of his country by Russia. Speaking of the Western response, Kuleba told the Kyiv Independent that Europe has apparently forgotten how war works and hasn’t made the steps he wants to see in activating a wartime economy to produce weapons.
He told the paper: “Europe doesn’t know how to fight wars. The production of weapons is not the most popular area of business… Unfortunately, our friends spent too much time deliberating on how and when to ramp up their production of weapons and ammunition”.
While European-made weaponry has a superiority of technological sophistication, Kuleba said, it simply can’t be made in sufficient quantities. The minister compared this to Russia, where the armaments industry is state-owned and despite Western sanctions has been rapidly expanded to feed the war machine.
Quote:Amid growing concerns about Ukraine’s ability to continue the fight against the much larger Russian military and failures to recapture any meaningful amount of territory from Moscow’s army, there are growing whispers in the halls of power in the West about the ex-Soviet state’s prospects in battling back its former master.
The latest to publicly express concern was NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who told German broadcaster ARD as translated by POLITICO that the West should “be prepared for bad news,” without elaborating on exactly what he believes may befall the war-torn country next.
The comments from the Norwegian politician came as the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin had ordered the addition of 170,000 extra troops to the Russian Armed Forces, in a move that would take the total strength of the army to over 1.3 million.
Last month, reports emerged from Washington that U.S. officials have quietly begun pressuring Kyiv to come to the negotiating table with Moscow, expressing concerns over the ability to draft more men into the fight. One unnamed American defence official told NBC News that “manpower is at the top of the administration’s concerns right now,” noting that further armed shipments would be irrelevant if Ukraine does not “have competent forces to use them.”
Despite such reported concerns, President Biden is continuing his lobbying effort on Congress to supply billions more military aid to Ukraine, with the White House warning that U.S. funding for the proxy war could dry up by the end of the year. Biden is currently seeking $61 billion in additional aid for Ukraine, however, there has been growing opposition among House Republicans to fund the conflict as the American public is growing war-weary.
Quote:A 26-year-old man was arrested on Friday following a police raid of a house in Catford in south London in which a “quantity of chemicals” were discovered. The raid was also attended by the London Fire Brigade, including two fire engines and other rescue units.
The raid was triggered after locals raised concerns to the police about a large amount of potentially explosive chemicals being brought to the house, which the Daily Mail described as being a potential “bomb-making factory”.
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A spokesman for the Met said: “We were called at around 1.20 pm to concerns about chemicals stored at an address in Daneby Rd SE6.
“A quantity of chemicals was recovered. A 26-year-old man was arrested and taken into police custody. CID officers are investigating. This is not being treated as terror-related.”
Well, the only option left would be that he wanted to produce illegal drugs there.
Quote:Amid heightened security fears across Europe in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza against Islamist forces, Paris will see over 90,000 police officers and gendarmes, as well as some 5,000 soldiers patrolling its streets on New Year’s Eve.
The police will also be deploying helicopters and drones to monitor the crowds, and police have ramped up fireworks seizures by 45 per cent over last year.
Announcing the measure on Friday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said according to Le Figaro that it was necessary to tighten security in the French capital in light of a “very high terrorist threat.”
In addition, the sale and consumption of alcohol will be banned in certain areas of the city during the holiday and New Year’s Eve festivities will shut down at 12:30 am, police prefect Laurent Nuñez said. The police boss went on to say that people will be searched by officers before entering restricted areas and that within the perimeter of the celebrations, shops will be prohibited from selling knives and other objects that could be used as weapons.
ASIAN NEWS
India's Hypocrisy & A Couple of Crises
Quote:India burns so much coal that it has an entire cabinet-level ministry devoted to coal. The Ministry of Coal informed the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, this week that India will not be transitioning to any alternative form of energy in the “foreseeable future.”
The ministry said more mining and importing of coal will be necessary to meet the energy needs of the growing industrial economy.
The Hindustan Times noted that no one participating in the just-concluded winter session of Parliament acted like India’s promise at the COP28 climate conference to begin eliminating fossil fuels was sincere.
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India was one of 200 countries to sign the joint statement at COP28 but, a few weeks later, the Ministry of Coal explained to the Rajya Sabha that while India is expanding its use of renewables and alternative energy, coal will remain a major source of power for a very long time to come.
Quote:South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered troops near the North Korean border to immediately respond to any attack without concern for bureaucracy, waiting to report incidents until after the threat has been neutralized.
Yoon’s explicit call for soldiers not to hesitate to attack assailants followed months of increasingly belligerent statements and behaviors from the North. Pyongyang has reportedly increased activity at its Yongbyon nuclear complex – capable of producing plutonium – and test-launched the Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on December 18.
Following the launch, communist dictator Kim Jong-un claimed the objective of the test was to remind the United States and South Korea that his country was prepared and willing to conduct a nuclear bombing against them. The Hwasong-18 is the latest known model of ICBM developed in North Korea and, given its use of solid fuel, is believed to be capable of a much faster nuclear strike than prior liquid-fuel models.
The president’s statements also follow multiple reports indicating that Yoon’s government is concerned not just about a potential conventional military assault by North Korea, or a nuclear attack, but a guerrilla terrorist onslaught similar to what Israel experienced at the hands of the genocidal jihadist group Hamas on October 7. South Korean officials have warned that North Korea is transparently supportive of Hamas and may consider a copycat attack.
Quote:The article in question appeared on the Tieba social media platform, which is run by online giant Baidu, and was quoted by a news service called Mother and Infant Daily News.
Tieba, a word that means “let’s post articles,” is a huge collection of forums similar to Reddit in concept. Baidu describes it as the largest online community in the world due to its vast number of users.
An account in Tieba called City Data posted data on Wednesday that said 7.88 million babies were born in 2023, which was a stunning 1.68 million less than 2022’s total. Measured against China’s 11 million deaths, this meant the national population declined by a net 3.12 million.
Within a matter of hours, Chinese censors tracked down and deleted the City Data post on Tieba.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) found the quick censorship curious since the Chinese Communist Party might be touchy about discussing its population crisis, but declining birth rates are no great secret, and City Data’s numbers were in line with projections made by prominent demographers. A journal called China Philanthropist made a prediction of fewer than eight million births in May that turned out to be highly accurate.
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Young people are increasingly avoiding marriage, having children and buying a home amid a tanking economy and rampant youth unemployment, part of an emerging social phenomenon known as the “young refuseniks” – people who reject the traditional four-fold path to adulthood: finding a mate, marriage, mortgages and raising a family.
A recent poll on the social media platform Weibo found that while most of the 44,000 respondents said 25-28 is the best age to marry, nearly 60% said they were delaying marriage due to work pressures, education or the need to buy property.
LATIN AMERICAN NEWS
Straight from Nicaragua & Argentina
Quote:Local media identified the detained priests as Monsignor Carlos Aviles, vicar general of the Diocese of Managua, and Father Hector Treminio, treasurer for the diocese. Their identities were confirmed in a report by Vatican News, which said they were the fifth and sixth priests to be arrested by the Ortega regime in the past week.
The Nicaraguan government did not respond to foreign media requests for comment on the arrests.
The Ortega regime detained Bishop Alvarez in August 2022 after he criticized the government for shutting down Catholic radio stations and perpetrating human rights abuses against protesters. The regime said the stations were shuttered because Catholic leaders were trying to destabilize the country.
Alvarez was kept under house arrest for six months on charges of “conspiracy,” “spreading false news,” and “damaging the Nicaraguan government and society.”
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Some Catholics have been dismayed by the Vatican’s muted response to the arrest of Alvarez and other clergy, and Ortega’s general persecution of Catholic congregations. Bishops around the world have strongly condemned the Ortega regime.
Quote:The Office of the President of Argentina stated that the 351-page, 664-article long bill – titled “Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines” – will “restore the economic and social order” as perceived through the nation’s constitution. The office stressed its “firm will to undertake, immediately and with suitable instruments, the fight against the adverse factors that threaten the freedom of Argentines; that prevent the proper functioning of the market economy; and are the cause of the impoverishment of the nation.”
Argentine law grants the nation’s deputies, senators, president, and citizens the ability to present bills to Congress for their corresponding review and debate.
The bill, which reportedly contains “two-thirds” of all of Miilei’s reform proposals for Argentina, calls for the declaration of a public emergency in economic, financial, fiscal, social security, security, defense, tariff, energy, sanitary, administrative, and social matters until December 31, 2025, which can be extended by the executive for a maximum term of two years.
The bill complements the Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) signed by Milei last week that modified or eliminated over 350 socialist policies. The bill formalizes some of the DNU’s contents through codification and includes topics that an executive order cannot cover, such as penal, tax, and electoral issues.
Milei announced that if Congress rejects the DNU he will call for a national plebiscite for its approval.
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My Original Stories (available in English and Spanish)
List of Compiled Binary Executables I have published...
HiddenChest & Roole
Give me a free copy of your completed game if you include at least 3 of my scripts!
Just some scripts I've already published on the board...
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