Federal authorities said they were forced to fire at a boat packed with 25 illegal migrants from China who were hoping to reach the shores of Florida, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Coast Guard caught the group about a mile south of Key Biscayne, Florida on June 10, DHS said. The migrants initially failed to comply with federal authorities’ orders to stop, forcing the Coast Guard to deploy warning shots, which were ineffective. The Coast Guardsmen then fired a “disabling” shot that stopped the boat without any reported injuries, according to DHS. “By land or sea, our borders are CLOSED,” DHS said in an X post regarding the interception. “This sends a clear message to ANY illegal alien attempting to enter the United States: don’t even think about it.” The Coast Guard crew transported the group of Chinese nationals for further processing. Authorities also seized their boat and transported it to the Coast Guard station in Miami Beach. “Our Coast Guard crews, working closely with our local, state, and federal maritime law enforcement partners, remain vigilant in detecting and deterring unlawful maritime migration ventures,” Lieutenant Matthew Ross, commanding officer, Coast Guard Station Miami Beach, said. “Anyone considering one of these dangerous voyages should understand that they are risking their lives at sea and can expect to be interdicted and repatriated,” Ross said. The encounter follows an incident off the coast of San Diego, where the Coast Guard caught a group of 17 suspected illegal immigrant trying to reach the United States by boat. Coast Guard airmen spotted the vessel at around 1:18 a.m. on Sunday southwest of Point Loma. A boat crew then responded and boarded the boat, where they found 10 claiming Mexican nationals, four claiming Guatemalan nationals, and two claiming Salvadoran nationals, along with one unaccompanied minor claiming Guatemalan. The Coast Guard brought the migrants aboard one of their boats before handing them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). On June 7, the Coast Guard interdicted nine Mexican illegal immigrants near Coronado Island, California. The group was transferred to the custody of Border Patrol. Coast Guard Capt. Jason Hagen, who is the southwest district chief of enforcement, told The Daily Wire in November that authorities were observing an uptick in smuggling interdictions. “As you lock down the land border, the cartels will need to make their money, so they push to the maritime, to the water side. And, unfortunately, there is no border wall in the ocean; we’re challenged with the tyranny of distance,” Hagen said at the time.

Let’s talk about this horrible case that we’ve been covering extensively for years: The grooming gang scandal in the U.K. A new 219-page report has been released by British MP Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party. It is worth noting that some of the evidence that is produced in this report is unverified; it’s similar to reading the Epstein files a little raw, meaning there may be allegations that have not been substantiated or checked out. However, what is in this report is horrifying. According to the report: Britain doesn’t have a racism problem. It has an immigration problem. … Believing proud nations to be responsible for the mid 20th century destruction of Europe, our postwar leaders embraced diversity and multiculturalism as the supposedly civilized alternative. This report establishes beyond any doubt that this “open society” obsession has, in fact, enabled untold barbarism of its own.   Credit: Wired in Live The report continues: 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, Islamic forced conversion, and lifelong trauma. … 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation cases bore distinctively Muslim names … far exceed[ing] the Muslim share of the overall United Kingdom population. (About 6.5%.) … Crimes occurred in at least 149 local authority districts — close to 40% of all such districts across the United Kingdom. I’m not sure how those numbers were compiled or if every victim was listed. What we do know from police investigations is that the number is definitely into the thousands. Whether it’s in the hundreds of thousands, I don’t know. What we do know is that the institutions catastrophically failed. This part of the report is absolutely 100% true: Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalized victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers.  The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care. Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them. The report unsurprisingly concludes that the perpetrators are overwhelmingly from Pakistani, Muslim, and other Muslim backgrounds. It states: Perpetrators from Pakistani, Muslim, and other Muslim backgrounds operated under an honor- and shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use. This pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam. These include the doctrine of Muslim superiority drawn from Quranic verses that position Muslims at the top with a duty to correct non-believers. The gang members’ justification for their crimes can be found in the Islamic principle of loyalty and disavowal … It demands enmity toward non-Muslims, the superiority of men over women, forced marriage combined with the absence of any fixed minimum age of consent, the perception of female sexuality as inherently dangerous, a system of sex slavery that authorizes sexual relations with non-Muslim captives, and a religiously sanctioned social hierarchy that subjugates conquered non-Muslims. These have been major problems throughout the Muslim Middle East and all over the world, including Western areas that have imported this stuff. There are people claiming that the report contains unverified allegations and exaggerations, but we don’t need that report to know what’s already been investigated. What happened in Rotherham affected over a thousand girls and involved legitimately dozens to hundreds of people; a Muslim grooming gang that was, in fact, targeting sexually vulnerable minors. That happened. The police and the journalism experts knew about it, and they admit they knew about it. The BBC did a full documentary on this a few years back, in which one of the journalists who eventually came forward to report on it admitted that, in the early 2000s, he was afraid to report on what was happening in Rotherham because he feared it would lead to anti-immigration sentiment. In other words, he was more worried about the supposed racism that might spring up in the wake of Muslim grooming gangs than about the Muslim grooming gangs themselves. Eventually, he realized that he was doing something terrible and came forward and reported on it. But there were officers, whistleblowers, who were put to the side for years because of politically correct concerns about all of this. Not everyone comes from the same culture, and not everyone thinks the same. The biggest problem for the West — and it is a constant problem — is a projection of our own mindset onto other civilizations, other religions, and other areas of the world. It is not true. It is stupid, and it leads us to make concessions to groups of people who see our concessions as weakness and see our systems as ripe for exploitation. That is true whether you are talking about immigration programs or whether you are talking about nuclear programs. If you’re talking about immigration programs, the idea that anyone can be assimilated because “everyone in their heart is a reasonable person simply seeking a better material life” is untrue. It is verifiably false. This is why importing vast numbers of people from cultures that do not like the West is not only a foolish move, but it is a highly dangerous move, and it may be too late for the U.K. to do anything about it. We’re going to find out. The real political conflict in the U.K. is all about immigration, just as it has been for years in Hungary, Italy, Denmark, and a wide variety of other European countries. The police investigated. They found actual connections. There are no conspiracy theories here. This was a reality. There is verifiable, verified evidence across a wide variety of cases and actual criminal convictions. Now take that internationally. The attempt to project rationality on two groups that are utterly unlike the United States or Europe is foolish. Pretending that the Iranian regime is like the U.S. and therefore subject to normal political considerations is a category error. Putting them even in the same category as Venezuela is a category error. Venezuela is a communist secularist regime. Their chief goal is to ensure that they remain in power. That means that if you choke them off economically, they might do some of the things that you want in order to remain in power. But when it comes to the Iranian government, they are more willing to sacrifice their entire body politic and kill everyone than they are willing to make concessions to the United States that subjugate their millenarian impulses. The biggest mistake the West makes is assuming that everyone thinks like them. That’s why the West imports people who don’t like them. It’s why the West tolerates enclaves of people who don’t like them. It’s why the West refuses to prosecute people who don’t like them. That’s how you end up with horrible scandals. Like the grooming gang case over in Great Britain.

The Vietnamese police have saved over 400 cats from being trafficked and slaughtered in Southeast Asia’s underground cat meat trade. This comprises one of the biggest feline rescue operations in Vietnam’s history. Along with the 400 living felines, the Ho Chi Minh City police found 80 cat carcasses frozen in coolers. Nine people have been arrested for alleged involvement in a “criminal group specialising in stealing and collecting cats,” said BBC News, citing the official newspaper of the city’s police department. The cats were reported to be emaciated, traumatized, and stuffed into cages. An unknown number of the animals died after being rescued because of the poor conditions they were in. A few of the cats were pregnant and have since given birth in police custody. “The sad truth about this trade is that thousands of cats every month are being stolen, trafficked and slaughtered for meat across the country, and the fate of most is to end up at a slaughterhouse or restaurant to be killed and eaten,” said Phuong Tham, the Humane World for Animals Viet Nam country director. “Thankfully these survivors escaped that fate but this large seizure and the swift actions of the police are a welcome step in the crackdown that is badly needed on this trade.” The cat meat trade is not illegal in Vietnam, but distributors are required to gain permits proving a cat’s origins. However, many black market sellers see this permit process as a nuisance and resort to stealing cats on the streets from owners, and trafficking them across borders to Laos, Cambodia, and China. Additionally, one kilogram of cat meat sells for about $2.70, which according to statistics from the agrifood market data website Selina Wamucii, is costlier than a kilogram of chicken ($1.80) but much cheaper than a kilo of beef ($8.11). This gives black market sellers an opportunity to provide a relatively cheap and accessible meat to consumers with a moderate profit margin. The animal rights organization Humane World estimates that over one million cats are “stolen, trafficked and brutally slaughtered for their meat” every year in Vietnam.  The arrest has coincided with a rising support among younger generations and pet owners to end the cat meat trade entirely, with Humane World reporting 71% approval for the banning of cat meat consumption and trade.  The Vietnamese government is planning on instituting more legal protections for cats and cat owners. Cats are eaten most commonly in Vietnam during the Lunar Month for good luck, as animal rights organization Four Paws USA reports. 

A survivor of the Pakistani grooming gangs says she was asked to remain silent about her rapist’s race for an interview on the news. Sammy Woodhouse, a mother who bore a son out of rape at age 15 and an advocate for children of child sexual abuse, was ordered by a producer on “Good Morning Britain” not to mention that her assaulter was a Muslim man of Pakistani heritage. Woodhouse refused to comply — and she says the news program has since apologized to her. In an exclusive interview on Wednesday with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, Woodhouse shared her key takeaways from the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report,” a 219-page document released this week exposing crimes carried out in the United Kingdom by Muslim men with “predominantly Pakistani heritage.” “A minimum of 250,000 children that have been trafficked around the United Kingdom from as early as the 1950s,” Woodhouse said. “Usually from the age of eleven, they’ve been groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked, murdered, criminalized, impregnated, blamed, the authorities turned a blind eye due to race …”    Credit: Wired in Live Woodhouse noted that the majority of the perpetrators were Pakistani and Muslim. Children as young as four years old were sold by their mothers, while professionals and officers looked the other way, and some were even directly involved, raping the girls themselves.  Dogs were also used to rape the young girls, and the children were locked in cages, receiving the “most horrific of torture,” according to Woodhouse. “I think every single person — not just in the UK, but around the world — needs to read this report because I promise you right now, this is not just a problem for the United Kingdom,” Woodhouse said.  When asked why Pakistanis and Muslims do this, since it was not a problem before like it is today, Woodhouse said it was because they have “pure hate for non-believers.” “There is a hate towards non-believers, especially white women or white females. As I said earlier, I think that Islam is a very violent and sexist religion, and when you read the report, you will see some of the things that they were saying to the children, you know, about their race, about the fact that they [weren’t] Muslim; and about their religion because some of the children were Christians.” Woodhouse said Muslim men read scriptures from the Quran while a girl was raped orally, vaginally, and anally at the same time. The Muslim men would also reportedly say, “Where is your God now,” to victims who wore crosses. Children were also forced to marry these men, and then trafficked outside of the UK, according to Woodhouse.  “There were even social workers that came and acted as witnesses at these weddings,” Woodhouse added. Some police officers, she said, were not only involved in covering up these activities, but were willing participants — raping young girls and giving them back to their attackers.  “There’s never been a professional held to account for the mass rape and torture of children in our country — not one,” Woodhouse noted. She went on to explain that people remain unaware of these horrors and the victims’ trauma, in part, because they just can’t believe people would commit these atrocities. “I always say that the biggest challenge of this country is to change the mindsets of people, but you’re not gonna be able to change all those mindsets,” Woodhouse said. “We have damning amounts of evidence now in the public domain … and it’s still not enough for some people.”

Dana White gave President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, a behind-the-scenes look at the UFC 250 Freedom event that took place on June 14 on the White House lawn. The 19-year-old posted a video on YouTube on Tuesday that gave viewers a peek at a day spent one-on-one with White. Her vlog started with her morning at Starbucks and Sephora, but then she headed to Thesis Gym and White started their day with a workout. “We’ve have a full day. It’s gonna be a very long day,” White said. The day before the fight, Trump joined the UFC president on the White House lawn to watch the Nitro Circus “Wheel Team Six” motorcyclists perform. The show included a daring backflip from Travis Pastrana. White then proceeded to give Trump an exclusive tour of the extravagant stadium, built specifically for the White House event, where they encountered a number of those who would be involved in the production, such as Joe Rogan and Nina Drama. While getting ready for the weigh-in ceremony, Trump and White made their way through the crowd of supporters while taking pictures and signing autographs with fans. They were onstage for the weigh-in ceremony at the beginning of the event with Steve Garcia and Diego Lopes as the sea of patriotic supporters cheered in response. Trump ended her vlog with a montage of the UFC fighters and fireworks show. The UFC fight at the White House was just one small part of the massive celebration for America’s 250th anniversary, and it also happened to fall on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. Weather concerns earlier in the evening had prompted the UFC to initiate a one-hour delay for the first fight — and participants were warned that once things got underway, any lightning strikes near the White House would trigger an additional automatic 30-minute delay.