Over the last several years‚ liberals have been casting about seeking a term for immigrants who enter the country illegally that does not mention the fact that such people are guilty of illegal immigration. At various times‚ "undocumented immigrant‚" "asylum seekers‚" "migrants‚" and others have enjoyed their day in the sun. Now the government official charged with stopping illegal immigration is floating a new term‚ but the early returns suggest that this one may not be around long.In a Saturday tweet that implausibly celebrated the government's efforts at restricting illegal immigration‚ DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed that the government is cracking down on what he called "irregular migration‚" by which he apparently meant illegal immigration. The United States‚ and our partners across the region‚ are continuing to enforce consequences for irregular migration‚ including direct repatriation flights to Venezuela. @ICEgov conducted another repatriation flight to Venezuela this week‚ as did the Government of Mexico. — (@) Mayorkas also claimed that the government "continues" to enforce its immigration laws by repatriating these so-called "irregular migrants" back to their country of origin‚ allegedly with the help of countries like Mexico and Venezuela. Mayorkas' new term was not exactly met with applause among commenters on the internet. "So a bank robbery is now an irregular withdrawal?" quipped one respondent. The reality‚ as noted even by liberal cable network CNN‚ is that the border is currently witnessing its largest surge of illegal immigration in over two decades‚ as over 225‚000 illegal immigrants were encountered by border authorities this month alone‚ making it the highest monthly total recorded since at least 2000. The mayors of Chicago‚ Denver and New York City‚ which used to proudly proclaim themselves as sanctuary cities until border states began forcing them to share the burden of accommodating these surges of so-called "irregular migration" have issued public pleas to the Biden Administration‚ saying that the cost of providing legally-required services to the "irregular migrants" are breaking their cities' budgets. "We cannot continue to do the federal government’s job. We have spoken to FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and other federal officials who have expressed concern about the border surge‚ but not offered additional help. We need action and we need it now‚" said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Far left-wing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson echoed that sentiment in a video message‚ pleading that‚ "All of our cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity‚ or nearly out of room. Without significant intervention from the federal government‚ this mission will not be sustained."These mayors have also criticized border governors like Texas' Greg Abbott for refusing to shoulder this entire burden and busing immigrants to their cities. Abbott‚ for his part‚ has attempted to slow the surge by directing Texas authorities to erect barriers on the border‚ but these efforts have been fought strenuously both in court and in person by Mayorkas and DHS.

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Archaeologists excavating the Peiligang site in Xinzheng‚ Henan Province‚ eastern China‚ have discovered a Neolithic pot that is the smallest of its kind. This type of small-mouthed‚ pointed-bottom amphora-like vessel is one of the characteristic artifacts produced by the Neolithic Yangshao culture. Dating to around 7‚700 years ago‚ this example also the earliest of its kind‚ pushing back the history of this form by several centuries and providing new evidence about their origin. The bottle is about 10 cm (four inches) long‚ smaller than more typical examples of this style. and was found this summer in an excavation of the Neolithic burial area on the west bank of the Shuangjie river which flows north-south through the western section of the Peiligang site. About 20 new tombs were unearthed in the excavation of the burial area. Few grave goods were found and most of them were agricultural tools‚ usually a combination of a shovel and sickle. A handful of sharpening stones and stone objects were also unearthed from these tombs. The small pot was discovered in Tomb M48. The Yangshao culture occupied the middle areas of the Yellow River from between 5000 to 3000 B.C. The Yangshao people cultivated crops‚ supplementing their diets by hunting and moving on to new settlements when the land was no longer productive. The excavation uncovered evidence of pre-Yangshao peoples having lived and worked at Peiligang — ostrich egg beaded ornaments‚ animal bone fragments‚ clam shells‚ pottery fragments‚ quartz and flint lithics — in the Late Paleolithic. An early-stage pottery kiln unearthed this year reveals that the Paleolithic Peiligang culture produced pottery at the site and provides new information about transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic cultures in the area. Archaeologists believe the small pot may have been used to make koji‚ a rice wine fermented using the monascus mold (red yeast mold)‚ a process that the Paleolithic settlers of the Peiligang site had already learned.

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Republicans like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have effectively led sanctuary cities to regret their policies as southern border migrants flood their cities to the "breaking point."