In an hour-long primetime special Thursday night called Crisis on the Border, NewsNation did something the liberal media — and TV news in general — needed to emulate, which was a more accurate, consistent, and raw depiction of the Biden border crisis from the side of law enforcement and the dangers unfettered illegal immigration posed to the public.  Hosted by Dan Abrams, it featured three different reporters live in the field, new reporting, facts about the border, and interviews with four police chiefs on how open-border policies have harmed their communities. Abrams opened by declaring this won’t be “about politics.” Instead, NewsNation’s goal was to inform viewers “about what is actually happening at our southern border and maybe — maybe — even spur some change.”     From there, the special took on the feeling of an episode of his other show, Reelz’s On Patrol: Live (and its predecessor in spirit, A&E’s Live PD) as Abrams immediately tossed to indefatigable correspondents Ali Bradley and Brian Entin (click “expand”): ABRAMS: But we have some — some breaking news because just, as we’ve been preparing for the show, Ali Bradley NewsNation’s border correspondent on the front lines has been there when they just found three migrants trying to hide there and they’ve been arrested in Hidalgo County, Texas. Ali, what just happened? BRADLEY: Yeah, hey, Dan. So we’re out here, we’re actually embedded with an elite brush team with Texas DPS. They are working in conjunction with Border Patrol, so we’ve got state and federal partners working together and we have the chopper in the air. Let me show you what we just witnessed. So, we pulled three people out of this, look at how hard it is down here. This is what they’re up against, so they had to get down in there. That’s basically a canal, a drainage ditch of sorts, pulled these three individuals out, one young man from Honduras, telling us that he was on the hook with the cartel to pay $16,000 to get to Virginia. And guess what Dan? They’re actually working another two people that are in the canal further up. So, we’re gonna go up there, I’m going to send it back to you here. We’re going to keep our feet on the ground. And we’re gonna go after these other two people that are in the water up there.” ABRAMS: Alright, so remember. This is just happening live down there. And we’re going to be staying with Ali Bradley. We’re going go back to her in — in a moment. Ali, thank you for that reporting. You know what? Let’s go now to Pinal County in Arizona. Our senior national correspondent Brian Entin is live patrolling there, what they call smugglers highway Brian, what are you seeing? ENTIN: Yeah, it’s I-10 the nickname — Smugglers Highway. Just a minute ago, we pulled over a semi with Sheriff Lamb here — a semi that’s been reported stolen. I’m not sure exactly — he’s been talking to the driver. Figure out what’s going on. Sheriff Lamb, have you — is this immigrant involved? What have you been able to figure out? PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA SHERIFF MARK LAMB: We’re going check the back right now. It’s a stolen — it’s stolen trailer. So, we’re going to check the back. We’ve seen ‘em in — in trailers before. (....) ABRAMS: I mean, look, you can just tell based on what we just showing you, right? We have two correspondents at the border who, in the last 10 minutes, have seen major activity related to migrants and the border. That’s why it’s important to be there and to be there live. You don’t get that sense without actually watching the stuff as it happening? All right. So we were just with Ali Bradley. Alright? And she said — she is — she’s going to be going back out to that scene following that story that we were just watching, but she’s the one who got this exclusive interview with this current border agent. And again, that is the video — oh, actually that video is just coming in, ok?  So that is the video now of up to of the three migrants who were just arrested there hiding in that area and, literally in the last 10 minutes that came in. The reason we weren’t able to show that to you a moment ago is because we just got the video into us. It happened moments before we went on the air. And you heard that Ali Bradley had actually talked to — talked to one of them as they were as they were there. And again, you know, this is a quite common occurrence at the border. Bradley also taped a bombshell interview with an anonymous border agent, who told her what Americans don’t realize was “we do not control the border, the cartel controls the border” and “[e]verything that we do is a reaction to things that they have planned” with those apprehended merely “pawns while the kings and queens are doing whatever they want.” They added “[n]o one” from the government will be able “to protect you” since “[e]ven at the local law enforcement level, we’re seeing them be defunded and overwhelmed to where your life has to be threatened for them to make you a priority.” In part two, Bradley asked if they’re “scared to do your job.” The agent said while they are from “a more earthly” perspective with “policies changed” that endanger agents and place “illegals...before us,” they’re a Christian who knows God “has my back”. Bradley’s last question about whether they’re more scared of the government or the cartels drew a surprising answer:  Look at the way you have me presented to do an interview when I’m off-duty. I’m terrified to talk to the media because I’m sacred of what, you know, the government could do, which obviously, would be losing my job, right, which I don’t think is fair. At three different points, Abrams brought out charts about apprehensions, gotaways, and key border sectors to show “what our border patrol agents are up against” with the first showing “2.5 million encounters for the whole of last year,” “up from 1.7, just two years before” and 1.3 million already this year. Bradley came back near the bottom of the hour with a fascinating segment about a so-called “cartel kit” and how, in many places, the cartels controlled the desert:     It wasn’t just Bradley and Entin with Abrams as the NewsNation host also spoke with Border Report correspondent Salvador Rivera, who provided two liveshots from San Diego (where an allegedly Peruvian family gave themselves up to Border Patrol), the four police chiefs, and interviewed Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivarez on the state role. The hour concluded with a tense chase as Bradley and Olivarez raced to catch up and assist Border Patrol with five people who’ve breached the border wall in hopes of apprehending them before they can reach a cartel/smuggler’s getaway car and thus prevent “a high-speed chase.” They arrived to find only two of the five captured, but then were dispatched to join in another pursuit seconds later (click “expand” to see a transcript from some of the key moments):     BRADLEY: [W]e just pulled over here. We’re tracking that group that we were telling you about. So there’s a couple individuals here. Some single adults here that were just picked up by border patrol. I — we just arrived on scene. Lieutenant Olivarez, let’s talk a little bit about kind of what’s unfolding here. We literally just arrived, so we have not talked to Border Patrol, so we don’t know much about these individuals. OLIVAREZ: Actually, we got to go. We’ve got some more. We’ve got to go. You’ve got to go get some more guys. All right. Let’s go! (....) BRADLEY: You actually see a Border Patrol motorcycle dirt bike over here to our left. So, we’ve got activity out here. We’re following a Border Patrol car. A lot activity here right now down, Dan. So again, out here, you have ATVs, you have horseback, you’ve got helicopters, we have different lights over here. We’ve got another law enforcement vehicle that’s searching in this area, so it looks like they kind of believe that somebody might be on foot in this area that we are — we are that we are traveling along. And we’ve got our windows down, we’re looking out we’re trying to find if there’s anybody out here, this is what we’re up against. So, like, Lieutenant Olivarez says, these individuals are reaching this wall so quickly, a matter of seconds, and it is basically off to the races for these individuals and they’re hiding in this very thick brush. And look at this, this industrial — there are buildings everywhere. There are so many places to hide before these individuals are really picked up by these load vehicles, so that’s what they’re contending with down here like Lieutenant Olivarez says, it’s a very dynamic situation. So, again, we have multiple agencies on the ground right no. We are embedded with this elite brush team that, as you can see, they have to pivot and go in the vehicles and go after individuals that are getting into these smuggling vehicles before it can become a pursuit and a bigger problem for law enforcement and also for the community. It’s very dangerous when these pursuits go through these communities. (....) BRADLEY: [This] is what they’re doing every single night down here. This is what we did last night as well. But right now, we are looking for people that are we are on foot that just breached the border wall and we’re trying to get them before they get into a loaded vehicle — a smuggling vehicle and then end up basically going north toward San Antonio and then north from there into whatever stash house or whatever other area they kind of disappear into in the interior of our country. With time having run out on the hour, Abrams summarized this as just “happen[ing] to be a Thursday”: “That’s about all that makes today special and we just decided it’s important to see what’s happening at the border on a typical day. And we’ve got a little taste of it. That’s all. That’s all we saw. Just a little bit.” By giving viewers a raw, live sense of what a day on the border looked like (as opposed to a sanitized, pro-illegal-alien perspective), it was an absolute home run by NewsNation. To see the relevant transcript from the May 9 special, click here.

A Border Patrol agent who spoke with NewsNation explained just how bad the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border really is, and to make things worse, it will not get better any time soon.The agent gave the interview anonymously, with NewsNation casting him in a shadow and changing his voice in order to protect his identity so the Department of Homeland Security does not punish him for speaking out. 'The biggest thing is that we do not control the border. The cartel controls the border.'"[What] don't ordinary Americans understand about the border?" reporter Ali Bradley asked."The biggest thing is that we do not control the border. The cartel controls the border. Everything that we do is a reaction to things that they have planned. Usually we're chasing around pawns while the kings and queens are doing whatever they want," the agent replied.Bradley then asked about the seriousness of the threat posed to Americans by so many people illegally entering the country. The agent said the threat to American citizens is "absolutely" real."These huge give up groups that we're getting, you know, the media is only reporting what they can report on, right? Which is, statistically speaking, a small percentage of the actual bad guys that we're catching. The really good ones, we will never catch. ... Our border is by no means secure," he explained."No one is coming. No one is coming to protect you," the agent further warned, pointing out local law enforcement has a hard time dealing with criminals who are U.S. citizens and the influx of illegal immigrants who are committing crimes within the country. The agent stressed Americans need to take it upon themselves to make their safety a priority. — (@) The ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has had detrimental effects for the nation, from cities and states spending millions of dollars trying to take care of people released by Border Patrol to U.S. citizens falling victim to crimes committed by the processed immigrants.A new case out of Florida shows how releasing people into the country, with court dates years from now, has proven to be disastrous.A Guatemalan illegal alien who was caught at the border in January and then released into the U.S. with a 2027 court date was arrested for allegedly kidnapping an 11-year-old girl from in front of her home, pulling her into a van, and raping her in the town of Lake Worth Beach. The girl was saved after her mother went looking for her and banged on the van while calling for help.

That didn’t take long. Over the weekend, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) told a room of wealthy Republican donors he was going to rein the rebels in, booting them from their committees, Punchbowl reports, “if they oppose party-line procedural votes.” It took the speaker just six months to fully develop the political views of a 2012 Republican, from backing unwinnable foreign wars and border surrenders to warrantless spying and the whole anti-Semitism debacle. It took him just a few weeks longer to start thinking he’s got the power of a 2012 Republican leader to boot. But does John Boehner with a Bible have any bite behind that bark? The answer is almost certainly no. The center-left coalition Johnson has cobbled together won’t hold into a new year. Johnson knows he can’t just start kicking members off their committees in the middle of the session. That would take floor votes, and in any case, the revolt against him was too large, with a record 55 Republicans voting no on a “party-line procedural vote” for Ukraine war funding just last month. A majority of Republicans joined the “no” faction later in the process. Alternatively, he could simply decline to reassign committee positions next Congress to those members who continue to thwart him, using his sway over the Steering Committee to make it happen. If he tried it, he’d face a broader, more popular rebellion than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has managed to spark. Finally (and most likely), Johnson can wait until the week after the November election, when House Republicans gather to vote on the rules they want to follow internally for the next Congress. When this comes along, he can write that any Republican who votes against a “party-line procedural vote” in the new Congress will be automatically stripped of his or her committee assignments. There are generally 100 or so Republican members who will do whatever the speaker tells them on any point, so if he pushes for this change, it will pass. He can also likely get rid of the single-vote motion to vacate that has pestered his speakership and ended his predecessor's. He can win the conference rules fight, but he can’t make it stick — because at the start of the new Congress in January, he’ll need to run for speaker again. And that’s when his opponents will get him (and his allies will abandon him). If Republicans expand their majority at all, it won’t be by the 30 votes that the likes of former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) once commanded. The realities of redrawn congressional maps mean Republicans might add 10 seats to their rolls in November. This means in the January leadership elections, the next speaker will have precious little room for ticking off his colleagues. The center-left coalition Johnson has cobbled together won’t hold into a new year, and he’ll find that when he really needs them, the war hawks and big spenders he’s made close company with won’t be rushing to the ramparts to recrown him. Anyone who wants to be speaker — and there are many, including Steve Scalise (R-La.), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) — will need to negotiate with his caucus. That’s where conservatives will demand concessions in the caucus rules, just as they did with then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on motion to vacate in the first place. “You need significantly more than a 10-seat margin to kick people out effectively and have no consequences,” one senior conservative staffer and veteran of the Boehner and Johnson fights told Blaze News. Tight partisan margins, the staffer explained, make this reality “a permanent feature of the House going forward.” Leadership might want it. The moderate and liberal Republicans might want it. Some facets of a potential Trump administration, no doubt, would like a peaceful House as well. Johnson simply cannot deliver. He almost certainly can’t even maintain his speakership for another Congress. It’s been 10 years since Boehner’s infamous crackdown on conservative Republicans helped establish the Freedom Caucus. Boehner knew his city and used this knowledge to try to crush the rebellion. He threatened fundraisers to drop recalcitrant members, revoked House dining passes, and infamously went after committee seats. In the end, one of his loyal chairmen was almost kicked off the committee he had tried to suppress, and Boehner himself ended up retiring to Florida. "He did it just enough to piss them off,” one congressman remembers, “but not enough to change their behavior.” And Mike Johnson is no John Boehner. Sign up for the Christopher Bedford newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter, launching later this spring. IN OTHER NEWS The Trump trial derailment It was a stormy day in court (sorry) when former porn star and current Trump critic Stormy Daniels took the witness stand on Tuesday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Prosecutors successfully pushed Daniels to recount graphic and salacious details about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. The judge, typically very deferential to the Democratic DA’s office, scolded both Daniels and prosecutors over her testimony. Trump’s lawyers moved for a mistrial over what they called “extraordinarily prejudicial” testimony that unfairly inflamed the jury against Trump. What do the sex positions Daniels and Trump may or may not have used during a one-night stand 18 years ago have to do with allegedly falsifying business records in 2016, you may also be asking. But the judge unsurprisingly did not call for a mistrial, and the defense went about attempting to undermine Daniels’ credibility during cross-examination. There are no trial proceedings on Wednesdays, so the saga was set to continue Thursday at 9:30 a.m. The campus collapse MIT officially ended its diversity, equity, and inclusion pledge this week and will no longer force prospective employees to make it. “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways," school President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement, “but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.” That it took years for such an obvious point to be made clear speaks poorly to the state of elite education, but elsewhere, the news is darker. Farther south at New York’s Columbia University, school leaders canceled graduation ceremonies in anticipation of ongoing mob disruptions. Students at the Ivy League, meanwhile, continue to distinguish themselves, misspelling “Palestine” in graffiti across the entrance to a hall they’ve occupied. Has-been rapper Macklemore recorded a cringe-inducing song to support whatever their goals are. In it, he claims forcing the Chinese communists to sell TikTok undermines freedom. Meanwhile, UNC Chapel Hill leadership is fighting against its own radical professors, one of whom is threatening to withhold students’ grades until the university unsuspends student members of the mob. It’s amazing it has taken so long. Now that it’s here, it’s past time to clean house of the “teachers" who made all this possible in the first place. Blaze News original: Mob rules — pro-Hamas campus protesters' most disgusting behavior caught on video. The fire rises: ‘Signal’s Katherine Maher problem,’ City Journal. Here’s a good rule for a paranoid man to remember: If it’s a widely available “encrypted” messaging service or phone, you can bet a government intelligence service was involved in its creation. Paranoid or not, it’s a good rule of thumb, and with Signal, it might be true. Over at City Journal, Christopher Rufo reports: First, the origin story. The technology behind Signal, which operates as a nonprofit foundation, was initially funded, in part, through a $3 million grant from the government-sponsored Open Technology Fund (OTF), which was spun off from Radio Free Asia, originally established as an anti-Communist information service during the Cold War. OTF funded Signal to provide “encrypted mobile communication tools” to “Internet freedom defenders globally.” Some insiders have argued that the connection between OTF and U.S. intelligence is deeper than it appears. One person who has worked extensively with OTF but asked to remain anonymous told me that, over time, it became increasingly clear “that the project was actually a State Department-connected initiative that planned to wield open source Internet projects made by hacker communities as tools for American foreign policy goals”—including by empowering “activists [and] parties opposed to governments that the USA doesn’t like.” Whatever the merits of such efforts, the claim—if true—suggests a government involvement with Signal that deserves more scrutiny. The other potential problem is the Signal Foundation’s current chairman of the board, Katherine Maher, who started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change. During the Arab Spring period, for instance, Maher ran digital-communications initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa for the National Democratic Institute, a largely government-funded organization that works in concert with American foreign policy campaigns. Maher cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used American technologies to advance the interests of U.S.-supported Color Revolutions abroad. You can read the rest at City Journal.

Apple apologized for its latest promotion for a new iPad, after there were complaints about the company signaling that it wanted to destroy various forms of culture.A commercial for the iPad Pro was posted by Apple CEO Tim Cook to X, stating that it was "the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip.""Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create," the CEO added.In a clear attempt to display all the products that its latest tablet could replace, the "Crush!" ad showed a giant industrial press destroying various forms of instruments and tech.Items that received the death penalty were: TVs, a record player, a trumpet, a guitar, cameras, books, paint cans, a typewriter, and an old-school arcade game reminiscent of Space Invaders.The ad closed out with showing off how thin the latest iPad is and a voice that said, "The most powerful iPad is also the thinnest."Hollywood did not opt for claims that the product was fat-phobic but rather that it was an attack on culture."The destruction of the human experience. Courtesy of Silicon Valley," actor Hugh Grant wrote."Unintentionally perfect metaphor for how we are destroying beauty for profit[.] Bravo," said video game director David Goldfarb."Truly, what is wrong with you?" added filmmaker Justine Bateman."We missed the mark with this video, and we're sorry." Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we\u2019ve ever created, the most advanced display we\u2019ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it\u2019ll be used to create. — (@) Two days after the release of the commercial, Apple distributed an official apology."Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it's incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world," Apple's vice president of marketing communications, Tor Myhren said, according to Variety. "Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we're sorry," the statement concluded.The ad had nearly 60 million views at the time of this writing on Cook's X page alone."Even if I were to be super courteous and assume Apple had the best of intentions with the ad, and merely expressed themselves poorly, the idea that the iPad replaces all of those objects is a total lie," said director Cody Clarke."I almost feel like the controversy was intentional in order to distract from that. We're all busy being up in arms about the offensiveness of the weird, almost ritualistic ad, and we're not stopping for a second to say 'wait—there's no way that iPad renders all of those things obsolete.' It's impressive, but not paradigm-shifting like the iPhone was," Clarke added.Interestingly, the TV spot mimics a 2008 LG phone commercial that shows the industrial crushing of a violin, speakers, drums, and cameras.The LG KC910 Renoir boasted an eight megapixel camera, a touch screen, and wi-fi connectivity.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Biden administration's open-border policies have fueled a staggering increase in illegal immigration at the northern and southern borders. New research indicates that an increasing number of these illegal immigrants do not come originally from Mexico or countries farther South, but rather from Asia. Customs and Border Protection officials have been reporting massive increases in Chinese nationals attempting to illegally enter the country, particularly since late 2023. 'We see the women get off the bus. They're immediately contacted by the Chinese taxicab drivers.' The Daily Caller News Foundation reported earlier this year that the White House relaxed the interview vetting process for Chinese nationals who have illegally crossed the border, further fast-tracking their entry into the country. In December, NewsNation captured a video in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, showing a massive caravan of Chinese nationals who had crossed the border illegally. HAPPENING NOW\ud83d\udea8 Large groups of migrants , mostly Chinese national men crossing illegally through open gaps on the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs , CA @NewsNation \n\nTomorrow San Diego County officials will vote on whether the county will spend $3 million in taxpayer funds for\u2026 — (@) In the first six months of fiscal year 2024, Customs and Border Protection officials nationwide encountered nearly 42,000 Chinese nationals, a 133% increase compared to the same period last fiscal year, when they encountered just over 18,000. Most Chinese nationals illegally crossing the southern border into the United States enter through the San Diego Sector, which has experienced the most encounters in April of all other sectors in the nation. In fiscal year 2023, the San Diego Sector's CBP experienced almost 231,000 illegal immigrant encounters. So far, in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, there have already been more than 185,000. These eye-popping numbers reported by CBP do not account for the known or unknown gotaways who entered the U.S. without being apprehended by law enforcement officials. Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, told Blaze News that the increase in Chinese nationals illegally entering the country can be attributed to the fact that the "news has spread that if you can make it to the U.S. border, chances are you will be allowed to stay, perhaps indefinitely." El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells has been sounding the alarm about the open-border crisis and reporting on how it is impacting the San Diego Sector in particular. Wells detailed his recent visits to the southern border in a series of videos shared on X. While touring the border, we came across a group of primarily Chinese nationals who had just crossed the border illegally. The group was walking on a dirt road in the middle of the night, looking for Border Patrol to take them to the City of San Diego. — (@) "I was out there in the middle of the night, and we're driving down these dirt roads and we come across 30 Chinese families — men, women, and children. Just standing there in the middle of nowhere in the dark, maybe 10 miles away from a highway. And they're just waiting to be picked up by the Border Patrol," Wells told Blaze News. "I talked to them. They didn't speak English very well. And I think that some of them probably spoke English better than they let on, but they're just coming over in waves." He explained that the caravans crossing the southern border are "not just randomly happening" but are part of a highly organized effort. Wells and many others have found countless abandoned IDs and passports scattered in the desert. Why are illegal immigrants ripping up their IDs and passports when they enter America? They want to create a new identity so that Border Patrol has no idea who they are.\n\nI visited @thecorygoat house, who lives next to the border and has picked up hundreds of torn-up IDs around\u2026 — (@) "There's a reason for that — they don't want anyone to know who they are. They want to apply for asylum, get their court date for five years in the future, and disappear into the interior of the country," Wells told Blaze News. "We have no idea who they are, why they're here, and what their history is." He warned that the open-border crisis and relaxed vetting provide a dangerous and easily exploitable opportunity for foreign government actors and terrorists to "slip into the interior" of the country. "The communist government of China does not see us as an ally; they see us as a competitor in their quest to dominate the world. And I think they've got a vested interest in damaging the United States at any cost. I also know that they've been heavily involved in espionage and stealing technology. And it certainly is a lot easier to do that when you've got tens of thousands of Chinese migrants coming in, and, of course, I would assume some of those are government agents," Wells told Blaze News. He said the shift in illegal immigrants crossing into California can be blamed mainly on the state's "political climate." "We're a sanctuary state. Our governor has no interest whatsoever in trying to dissuade people from coming across," Wells added. In September, San Diego County had 140,000 street releases, according to Wells. Around the same time, Wells noted that he started seeing fewer illegal immigrants from Central America and more from China and Africa. "The federal government has some goal in mind — I think we all know what it is; it's to change the balance of power in Congress forever. But that goal is so important to them that they do not care about how many people are going to die. I think that's pretty frightening," he stated. Wells said that the nongovernmental organizations tasked with transporting and providing humanitarian aid to the illegal immigrants are quickly moving the individuals out of the area and relocating them to other parts of the state. Once the illegal immigrants cross into the country in San Diego County, they are picked up by Border Patrol agents. Iris Avenue Transit Center serves as the primary drop-off point for illegal aliens. John Fabbricatore, a retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denver Field Office director and current Republican congressional candidate for Colorado's 6th District, told Blaze News that Chinese nationals moving through South America to get to the U.S.-Mexico border are paying significant amounts of money. "They're also being taken care of much better as they move through South America. They are being transported in buses. They have better guides. They're getting food while they're getting through. And that gets all set up by criminal organizations," Fabbricatore said. "These Chinese criminal organizations are actually raising this kind of A+ rating for moving Chinese migrants through South America," often in partnership with the Mexican cartels. In a video posted on X, Wells described seeing female Chinese nationals being picked up by male Chinese taxicab drivers at the transit station in San Diego County. Federal data shows a surge in Chinese migrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, setting a new record with 24,200 arrests over the last six months, predominantly concentrated in San Diego County. — (@) "We see the women get off the bus. They're immediately contacted by the Chinese taxicab drivers," he told Blaze News. "These aren't just guys that show up there. They sleep outside of their taxicabs on the ground. They make cooking fires at night. Their whole life is wrapped around bringing these Chinese people to undisclosed locations." Wells stated that, at this point, he has not confirmed where these women are being taken and why. "I was with somebody who spoke Mandarin overhearing, and they said that they were talking about getting to locations in Los Angeles. My speculation is that to pay off their debt to get into the country, they're working in sex trafficking and being taken to the brothels they're going to be working in. But I have no confirmation," he said in an interview with Blaze News. Vaughan, with the CIS, explained that "it would be easy to get away with this kind of an abusive criminal scheme under the current policies." Women crossing the border illegally are "released with few questions asked," she told Blaze News, because "officers are too overwhelmed to be able to screen for trafficking situations." She noted that even if a trafficking situation was detected, the females would be "unlikely to divulge much information because they will fear for the safety of their families in China." "This would not be the first sex trafficking scheme involving Chinese women, and it won't be the last, unless we start doing a better job enforcing our immigration laws. But this is an example of how tolerating and encouraging illegal immigration leads to other problems," Vaughan said. Relaxed border vetting Air Force General Gregory Guillot told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that the influx of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the border is "a big concern" of his, noting the potential for "counter intelligence to hide in plain sight in those numbers," Blaze News previously reported. Vaughan told Blaze News that she believes "most of those crossing the border illegally are relatively ordinary workers looking for better opportunities in the United States, and some are willing to do their time in service to the drug cartels to get out of China." "Some may be spies — why wouldn't China try that? — but the reality is that most any Chinese citizen here as a student or white-collar worker could be enlisted as a spy for China, and those in schools, on research projects, or working for innovative U.S. companies or the government are in a better position to carry out espionage. The men crossing the border illegally are more likely lower-level operatives or ordinary workers," she remarked. Fabbricatore informed Blaze News that he believes a greater threat to national security is from destabilization efforts within the country. "A lot of people just look at it and they see young males crossing the border, and they think the Chinese are sending their military over here. And I don't see that. This isn't 'Red Dawn.' We're not going to see a bunch of soldiers pop up. But it doesn't take that to bring the United States down. It takes people in positions to lead other people to be dissidents and to lash out at the U.S. and have rallies against the U.S. And to just put us into a flux of chaos," he stated. "It takes people stealing our advanced technology and using that in China and making it so that they get something to the market before we do. There are a lot of things the Chinese government can do to destabilize the United States, and it doesn't necessarily have to be through force," Fabbricatore added. To move illegal immigrants through quickly, the Border Patrol has pulled back on its vetting processes, allowing potentially dangerous individuals to slip through undetected. For thorough vetting to occur, illegal aliens would need to be held in custody for about two weeks, Fabbricatore explained. When illegal immigrants enter the country, they are apprehended and transported to a processing facility where their biometrics are collected and an interview is typically conducted, he told Blaze News. The illegal aliens’ information and fingerprints are run through law enforcement systems to check for previous criminal activity. "But if that person has never been in the U.S., they're not hitting on anything because most of the systems that we're searching through are U.S.-based systems where if a person has come in contact with law enforcement or the FBI, there will be something in the system on them," Fabbricatore continued. "Now, there are more advanced systems that that information travels through, but it's a longer process and doesn't have an initial red flag that comes up." "The vetting used to be better with the intelligence-gathering, and it's a lot less now because they're just quickly going through those initial interviews," he noted. 'The young people have been indoctrinated, schooled for years to become American Red Guards to do the destruction of our American ideals and values and traditions.' In addition to the administration's relaxed border policies acting as a magnet for foreign nationals to cross into the country illegally, Vaughan explained that the increase in entries could also be attributed to "the emergence of Chinese organized crime groups expanding their involvement in illegal marijuana growing and in money laundering for the Mexican drug cartels." "We can be confident that there is a connection and that the lax border and interior enforcement has facilitated this business model of illegal weed grows in rural areas with workers in a state of bondage, enforced with violence," she continued. "According to federal law enforcement agents, the Chinese crime groups are now the money laundering partners of choice for the Mexican drug cartels, because the Chinese developed a model to successfully launder the funds more quickly and more cheaply than the Mexican money brokers who used to do this job." The Chinese triads are "controlling a lot of these weed grows that you're seeing in the northern part of our border," including in Maine and upstate New York, Fabbricatore told Blaze News. The threat of the CCP Fabbricatore stated, "We know for sure that the Chinese are sending assets over to the United States — 100%. You can see that in some of the secret police stations that the Chinese have set up in some of our cities. ... Those are CCP assets that they have sent over to the United States to find dissidents, to find these real asylum-seekers who are coming into the U.S. and speaking out against the Chinese government." He mentioned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had shut down the foreign police station operations and arrested some individuals involved. Lily Tang Williams, a Republican congressional candidate in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District, told Blaze News that the Department of Justice may have closed down the offices, but that has not stopped the CCP from continuing its operations. Williams expressed that she is "very, very concerned" about the influx of Chinese nationals crossing the southern border illegally. Tang Williams grew up in China during Mao Zedong's cultural revolution, and she is now determined to "prevent the country she loves from becoming the country she left." "I have been speaking up about my story for a while, and because of that, the [Chinese Communist Party] has discovered me. And they've threatened me since 2019 to say, 'Shut up,' or, 'You are a wanted criminal when you come back to China to visit your family and friends," Tang Williams stated, adding that she has been unable to see her loved ones since the threats began. She said she is concerned about her safety and the CCP's influence on American systems. "I'm afraid that people don't understand China. That is a very complicated issue," Tang Williams remarked. She explained that Xi Jinping aims to ensure that China takes over as the top global power, including "militarily, economically, diplomatically, and technologically." "There's a strong force united to really destroy our country from within," she told Blaze News. "I truly believe America can only be destroyed by the enemies within." Tang Williams explained that the federal government has allowed China to "infiltrate" America for decades. She noted that the CCP's influence and control is much more significant than most realize. "For the U.S. particularly, they have sent the Confucius Institute funded by the Chinese government in the name of promoting culture and the language. ... At the end of last year, I think at most of the college campuses, the Confucius Institute ceased to exist, but I heard they changed names," she warned. "That's the tactic." Fabbricatore echoed Tang Williams' concerns in a statement made to Blaze News, noting that the CCP has exploited student and work visa programs to plant assets that fuel destabilization efforts. Tang Williams stated that news outlets in the U.S. that broadcast and publish content in Mandarin are all owned by pro-CCP actors. "Now, you talk about business associations, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, friendship societies, sister cities, university exchanges," she continued. "It's amazing, all that deep infiltration." Tang Williams explained that Mao Zedong used identity politics to seize control. I am a survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Here are some of his revolution features and tactics. You can judge yourself if these look similar with today's American woke cultural revolution.\n\n1. Mao started Cultural Revolution to purge his political enemies and become a\u2026 — (@) "There is a similarity between the cultural revolution in China and the woke revolution in this country. And the young people have been indoctrinated, schooled for years to become American Red Guards to do the destruction of our American ideals and values and traditions," Tang Williams told Blaze News. "Marxism is 'oppressor versus oppressed.' So they are constantly creating the new oppressed group," she added. "It's by design. ... Our young people just don't know; they don't realize it." When asked about the border crisis and recent increase in Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S., Tang Williams told Blaze News, "I'm very concerned a legal immigrant, like me, has been totally forgotten — people who come here, follow the laws. My brother waited 13 years to come here legally from inside China. And those people are being punished." Tang Williams explained that a "very organized" system exists for Chinese nationals seeking to immigrate to the U.S. illegally. "I have watched some TikTok videos in Chinese," she said. The online posts "tell people where to sleep in South America, what route to take to avoid the criminals." Tang Williams explained that they arrange for drivers to pick them up once they have arrived in the U.S. "Some people are truly wanting to escape China for freedom, come here, live a better life," Tang Williams stated. "But there's lots of military-age men. They do not even want to be photographed, and they don't want to talk. And it sounds like it's very organized, the whole activity. Even telling them which border to enter." Tang Williams told Blaze News that if the White House and Democrats truly cared about immigrants, they would speed up processing times for those who have applied to legally move to the U.S. She called the administration's open-border crisis a "mad house." "They are doing this on purpose; this massive illegal migration movement is also supporting and funding the dividing of nations. ... Why do they just open up the borders? There is clearly an agenda to help one party," Tang Williams continued. "[Democrats] only think about their own power grab and staying in power. And getting [illegal immigrants] fast-tracked to get a Social Security number to work and to become voters." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban is privately airing his frustrations with President Joe Biden's apparent new policy toward Israel.In an interview on Wednesday, Biden threatened to withhold weapons from Israel if its military forces enter and attack Rafah, a major population center in southern Gaza. In fact, Biden confirmed that his administration officials have already "held up" at least one shipment of weapons."Bad... bad... bad decision, on all levels. Pls reconsider."The apparent policy change toward Israel — which Speaker Mike Johnson believes is a betrayal — prompted Saban to fire off an email to two top Biden advisers, Steve Ricchetti and Anita Dunn.The billionaire businessman accused Biden of sending a "terrible message" to U.S. allies and suggested the decision will erode Biden's support among Jewish voters who support Israel. He asked the senior aides to pass his concerns to the president."We, the U.S., as you stated numerous times, believe that Hamas should be defeated. We, the U.S., in this case YOU Mr. President, have decided to stop sending munitions to Israel to achieve the goal that WE/YOU have set up for Israel and ourselves," Saban wrote."Even beyond Israel, this sends a terrible message to our allies in the region, and beyond that, we can flip from doing the right ting (sic) to bending to political pressure," he added."Let's not forget that there are more Jewish voters, who care about Israel, than Muslim voters that care about Hamas," Saban reminded. "Bad... bad... bad decision, on all levels. Pls reconsider." — (@) An ardent supporter of the president, Haim most recently hosted a fundraiser for Biden's re-election campaign in February. He also helped Biden in the 2022 midterm elections and raised millions for Biden in 2020.His message underscores the political headwinds that Biden faces ahead of the 2024 election.On one hand, progressive Democrats are upset over Biden's level of support for Israel, and Democratic strategists warn that Biden may have alienated a significant number of young liberal voters with his pro-Israel policies. Moderate Democrats, on the other hand, are generally more supportive of Israel than progressives. Biden, therefore, is facing a lose-lose situation."We are very concerned about what appears to be a significant shift in US policy," Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel, told Axios."There are a lot of people in the pro-Israel community who are very worried, very upset and very angry," he added. "We don't know what the consequences are going to be politically."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Allie Beth Stuckey had no idea that her humble beginnings as a young college graduate with a passion for the word of God and talent for public speaking would lead her to where she is now — on the set of the 1,000th episode of "Relatable." “I got to deliver the commencement speech at our college graduation, and I just remember there was this moment, it almost felt like an out-of-body experience, where I was looking out into the crowd and I just had this, it was almost a physical feeling in my heart that I want to do this,” Stuckey says. “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life,” she adds. Stuckey was also leading a Bible study in 2015, when the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was heating up. One of the girls in the Bible study told Stuckey that she loved Bernie Sanders. “I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ and so we start going through the issues,” Stuckey explains. “And by the way, she is extremely conservative now.” This is what inspired Stuckey to begin talking to young women about political issues, so she started off small, speaking at sorority chapter meetings, and started a blog called “The Conservative Millennial.” “Eventually I started making videos that just took off, that were getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views — whether it was about Trump, or how Christians should vote, or about feminism, the Women’s March, abortion, things like that,” Stuckey explains. This is what led her to touring Blaze Studios and eventually doing Facebook lives with Blaze Media. “The videos that I was doing for TheBlaze really worked, they performed really well. And then so it just kind of grew,” she says. “And here I am today.” “So much evidence, at least to me, of God’s providence and how he works all things together according to his good will,” she continues, before leaving her audience with a message of hope. “I know that our lives look different, that you are on a different journey than I am, and the opportunities and spaces and sphere of influence that God has for you is going to be different — but all of us are placed on these tiny, tiny spots of eternity, these tiny specks of the universe.” “And all of us are called to the same thing — yes, to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God — but just to maximize and beautify and to cultivate and to make better the people around us through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Biden administration plans to launch a taxpayer-funded pilot program that involves providing 10,000 illegal aliens with identification cards, Fox News Digital reported.According to the news outlet, the program is slated to roll out this summer. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hopes the plan will modernize its documentation process for removal proceedings.While still subject to change, the ICE Secure Docket Card initiative will likely be launched in three or four locations, the agency told Fox News Digital. A source informed the news outlet that Houston and Atlanta are two potential options. 'Just in time for the election, the Biden administration is quietly legitimizing a government-sanctioned invasion of our nation.'ICE insisted that the ID cards are not forms of federal identification but rather a means to "modernize documentation provided to some noncitizens.""While the specifics of the card and pilot are under development, it is important to note the secure card will not be an official form of federal identification," the agency told Fox News Digital. "The secure card will indicate it is for use by DHS agencies and would be provided only after national security background checks have been performed.""Moving to a secure card will save the agency millions, free up resources and ensure information is quickly accessible to DHS officials while reducing the agency's FOIA backlog," the agency continued. "For provisionally released noncitizens, the digital modernization will provide ongoing access to important immigration documents through the secure card and connected portal."Currently, ICE provides illegal aliens released into the country's interior with several paper documents pertaining to their immigration status. The agency noted that such papers pose a security risk, as they can be lost or damaged. The new idea system will allow ICE agents to more easily verify an illegal alien's identity when checked against Department of Homeland Security systems. RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that the ID program will "undoubtedly lead" to illegal aliens "obtaining other documents, benefits and rights — or create an entirely new identity.""Just in time for the election, the Biden administration is quietly legitimizing a government-sanctioned invasion of our nation," Hauman stated. He noted that most of the illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. arrive without any form of identification."So how do we even know who they are?" he questioned.Leaked pictures of the ID cards show that they will include a photograph and other identifying information.News broke about the administration's plan to implement ID cards for illegal aliens in 2022. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to ICE's acting director in July 2022 expressing concerns about the program. The committee argued that ICE's ID cards were "intended in part to help illegal immigrants circumvent checking in physically at ICE offices and more easily access benefits within the United States."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Just after he worked on the first Metal Gear, writer and director Hideo Kojima put out a cyberpunk adventure game called Snatcher. Heavily inspired by movies like Blade Runner and The Terminator, Snatcher never made a big splash outside of Japan — mostly because its English version hasn't been ported to modern videogame platforms — but its influence is felt in experimental, tech focused entries to the science fiction adventure game genre like Eliza, Orwell, République, and, notably, today's launch of Cyber Manhunt 2: New World. Continue reading Phoenix Wright style cyberpunk adventure launches on Steam

In addition to the 2,700-year-old well, archaeologists also found struck flint, animal bone, and pottery used for storage and waste. The post While Preparing For Road Construction In England, Workers Just Happened Upon A Wooden Well From The Bronze Age appeared first on All That's Interesting.