AMLO or Abbott?: Who is the real migrant bus king of North America at U.S.-Mexico border Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's immigration agency has intensified a busing program that aims to hurt migrants' chances of reaching the U.S. border. 04/29/2024 - 8:10 am | View Link
The real migrant bus king of North America isn't the Texas governor. It's Mexico's president. Mexico is busing migrants south to keep them from reaching the U.S. Immigrant advocates say it drives vulnerable people into the arms of smugglers. 04/27/2024 - 10:13 pm | View Link
Why Are the Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration Still Tax-Exempt? Nor, interestingly, does the U.S. tax code prevent a nonprofit from violating the laws of another nation. It has long been recognized that a charity which seeks, say, to care for children in a ... 04/27/2024 - 5:05 pm | View Link
Concerns raised about migrant children's mental health The future of Senate Bill 4 is still tangled in court challenges. It's the Texas law that would allow police to arrest people for illegally crossing the border. But groups are speaking out about the ... 04/22/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when ... 04/18/2024 - 5:17 pm | View Link
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) “has repeatedly claimed to be the recipient of two Bronze Star medals and a Combat Infantryman Badge from his time in the U. S. Army serving in Iraq and Afghanistan,” CBS News reports.
“There is no question that Nehls served overseas, engaged in combat, and was awarded a Bronze Star for his duties there.
“Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre,” Politico reports.
“But at Mar-a-Lago, even before the revelation about her dog, Noem had long ago been cast aside as a likely running mate, according to six people close to former President Donald Trump who, while not discounting Noem entirely, have for many weeks said she has almost no chance of being on the ticket.
“Donald Trump on Thursday scoffed at the notion that he would debate long shot presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even as the former president’s allies show more concern about Kennedy’s campaign,” Business Insider reports.
Said Trump: “He’s, uh, not a serious candidate. They say he hurts Biden. I don’t know who he hurts, he might hurt me.
“A key political operative on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign was charged with assault after allegedly choking and punching a woman in New York early Saturday morning,” Mediaite reports.
“Trent Pool, who serves as a paid consultant on the long-shot independent campaign and has been leading the effort to get Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing.”
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.