Category: Crime

Fauci, Crime and No Punishment

A post-pardon strategy for white-coat supremacist Dr. Doom.  

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On his way out of the White House on January 20, Joe Biden issued a statement praising Dr. Anthony Fauci, who “saved countless lives by managing the government’s response to pressing health crises, including HIV/AIDS, as well as the Ebola and Zika viruses. During his tenure as my Chief Medical Advisor, he helped the country tackle a once-in-a-century pandemic. The United States is safer and healthier because of him.” The reader might think Dr. Fauci was getting an award, but that was not the case.

The Delaware Democrat exercised his authority “to pardon” Dr. Fauci, but the issuance of the pardon “should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt of any offense.”

Pardons are normally issued for crimes, and Dr. Fauci provided evidence in his handling of the Covid pandemic, a joint operation.

Dr. Fauci funded Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to perform dangerous gain-of-function research – once banned in the U.S. – that makes viruses more lethal and transmissible. Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about funding the WIV and Sen. Rand Paul, author of Deception: The Great Covid Cover-up, made two criminal referrals to the Biden Department of Justice, which took no action. Biden’s pardon might refer to that crime, but Dr. Fauci’s 50-year-plus career in government offers other possibilities.

Dr. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, but in 1984 the NIH made him head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).  Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, was on record saying that Dr. Fauci “doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” That reality would quickly become evident.

Dr. Fauci’s drug of choice to treat AIDS was AZT (azidothymidine, Zidovudine), a DNA chain terminator rejected for cancer treatment because of excessive toxicity. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provided funding for the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) in New York as an outpatient clinic for HIV-positive children.  The city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) offered up children under its care, nearly all black for Hispanic, for secretive drug experimentation.  The BBC told the story in the 2004 documentary Guinea Pig Kids.

As biochemist Dr. David Rasnick explained, “cocktails” of powerful drugs were forced on the children. Rasnick described Didanosine as “very dangerous” and Nevirapine as “dangerous and debilitating. . . horrible and painful and also lethal.”  The children were also given AZT, which failed to prevent or cure AIDS.

In her 1995 The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, NIH nurse Christine Grady calls AZT “a boon to research” and approves of drug trials on children and pregnant women. On the other hand Grady does not reveal that she was married to Dr. Fauci for 10 years. In 2012, when the NIH made Grady chief of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, they failed to mention her book and marriage to Dr. Fauci, a conflict of interest for the ages. If Tony ever did anything with which Christine disagreed, it’s hard to know what it might be.

In The Real Anthony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy showed how Fauci’s NIAID also conducts drug trials in Africa, where subjects may be unaware of adverse consequences and less likely to draw attention from American journalists. Africans may also be unaware that NIAID officials get royalties from the drugs approved in their trials.

During the Covid pandemic, Dr. Fauci recommended untested vaccines even for children, the least vulnerable group. As Rebecca Culshaw showed in The Real AIDS Epidemic, the rush to approve allegedly “lifesaving” mRNA vaccines “was essentially a massive clinical trial conducted in real time on the entire population.”

Pfizer wanted 75 years before revealing the contents of their highly profitable Covid vaccines. A judge forced the company to release the information, now compiled by Naomi Wolf in The Pfizer Papers. As Bruce Bawer notes, this could be the “Crime of the Century.”

With his pardon of Fauci, Biden intends to remove all possibility of punishment, quite possibly the worst travesty of justice in American history.  Congress should challenge Biden’s pardon all the way to the Supreme Court. While that plays out, the Trump administration should launch strikes against Fauci’s allies and network, still firmly in place.

Dr. Fauci allegedly retired in 2022 but continued to receive a government security detail, which President Trump recently canceled. Trump’s pick to head the NIH is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration targeted by Fauci during the pandemic. If confirmed, Dr. Bhattacharya should fire Christine Grady and current NIAID boss Jeanne Marrazzo, a faithful Fauci disciple and DEI promoter.

Cut back on NIAID and limit the director to a single four-year term, with all grants posted on the internet in real time. Ending white coat supremacy will be a huge victory for the people in 2025 and beyond.

FBI Whistleblower EXPOSES Bureau for Covering Up Crime Stats

Was the Secret Service set up for failure before the first assassination attempt against Trump? FBI whistleblower Steve Friend says DEI initiatives have pushed unqualified individuals into leadership positions, causing the Secret Service and several other government agencies to underperform. Friend also sheds light on how the FBI hid crime data to make it appear as if crime had dropped from 2021 to 2022.

Kamala’s Crime Wave For over 20 years, Kamala Harris stood with criminals, not victims.

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamalas-crime-wave; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes: 

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In 2008, the Bologna family was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member.

San Francisco DA Kamala Harris refused to ask for the death penalty despite pleas from the widow because of, in her words, a “complicated analysis that involved many issues”. But the real issue was that Kamala protected criminals instead of victims.

Four years earlier, DA Kamala Harris had refused to impose the death penalty on the violent thug who gunned down Officer Isaac Espinoza with an AK-47. His widow blasted Kamala for not even talking to her before denying her husband justice “I felt like she had just taken something from us. She had just taken justice from us. From Isaac. She was only thinking of herself.”

“She never called,” her sister-in-law said. “There was no consideration for Renata, my niece, my parents, me, or the officers. It was as if she didn’t care.”

David Hill, Officer Espinoza’s murderer, however thanked Kamala. “It took a lot of courage,” he told CNN.  “I’m forever grateful.”

Because there were people Kamala did care about. Criminals.

A year before the Bologna murders, Alexander Izaguirre was enrolled in ‘Back on Track’: a Kamala program to expunge felony convictions for criminals in exchange for attending some classes. Izaguirre, who had already mugged another woman, was picked for the program by Kamala. Even while he was enrolled in the program, the illegal alien thug mugged another woman, and then rammed her with a car, fracturing her skull.

But Kamala’s most enduring legacy was writing misleading descriptions for pro-crime ballot initiatives, including Proposition 47, which legalized shoplifting and set off a crime wave.

Kamala’s history as a pro-crime prosecutor explains why she spent the last four years raising money for a pro-crime group whose actions led to the murders of Demitri Ellis-Strong, a black man, and Luis Ortiz, a Latino man.

During the BLM race riots, Kamala Harris endorsed police defunding, arguing that “defund the police, the issue behind it is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety” and claimed that it “is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”

But Kamala Harris went even further than that in aiding the rioters and criminals.

As the BLM race riots burned, Kamala Harris posted a link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund and urged supporters to donate bail money to keep the rioters back on the streets. By the time the rioting was done, over 1,500 businesses were damaged across the state. Some would never reopen. But the harm caused by Kamala’s pro-crime tweet would prove even deadlier than that.

While the Minnesota Freedom Fund was bailing out the race rioters Kamala had endorsed, the primary purpose of the pro-crime group, like other bail funds, was to bail out all the criminals.

And even after the election, Kamala’s fundraising page and social media promotion for the pro-crime group remained up, helping MFF get the money it needed to free rapists and killers.

Next year, MFF bailed out George Howard after he was arrested for domestic abuse. Howard then went out and killed a Latino man while driving on I–94. It then bailed out Shawn Tillman, who had three felony convictions including assault, possession of a firearm and indecent exposure in front of a minor. The bail fund promoted by Kamala bailed Tillman out after he exposed himself to a woman on the light rail in St. Paul. Tillman returned to the light rail and killed a man.

Some dismissed the two killings linked to Kamala’s bail fund as an unintended consequence of her efforts to bail out rioting supporters during an election year, but it’s consistent with her pro-crime views. Kamala ran for president in 2020 on a pro-crime platform of freeing criminals by, among other things, eliminating bail, a policy that led to major crime waves in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other troubled urban areas run by pro-crime ‘Soros’ DAs.

A plan put out by her campaign promised to “transform the criminal justice system” and “re-envision public safety” by ending “mass incarceration”, freeing potentially hundreds of thousands of criminals, legalizing drugs, ending mandatory minimum sentences, which would allow repeat offenders and violent criminals to get off with light sentences, and promote “alternatives” to prison which would put criminals right back on the street.

Kamala’s pro-crime proposals included eliminating bail, which creates a revolving door for criminals, and an endless crime wave. In New York, which eliminated bail, a pickpocket was arrested 70 times, a shoplifter was arrested 100 times, and 1 in 4 freed burglars were arrested again within 60 days. Violent criminals have also benefited from pro-crime policies embraced by Kamala. One thug kicked a 39-year-old woman in the stomach, was freed with no bail, arrested again for selling crack, then arrested for threatening city workers with a knife, and arrested again for arson. One sexual predator who groped women was arrested over 70 times.

This is what Kamala Harris, who is running as a prosecutor, proposed for the whole country.

Rather than fighting crime, the former prosecutor condemned the criminal justice system as “unjust, unequal” while claiming that it “disproportionately harms communities of color”.

Kamala favored even the most vicious killers, calling for an end to the death penalty and no life sentences for murderers under 18. Her plan admitted that there was no way to end “mass incarceration” without giving a pass to “individuals convicted of violent offenses”. Kamala argued that “imposing excessively long sentences” on violence criminals doesn’t work and proposed a commission that would embrace “alternatives” to safely locking them up.

Such pro-crime alternatives were already tried in California, New York and other jurisdictions, with horrifying results for victims. Kamala Harris is serious about implementing them.

In the Senate, Kamala proposed the Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act, alongside libertarian Sen. Rand Paul, to encourage states to get rid of bail. The bill falsely claimed that the “bail system has proven to be an ineffective method of protecting public safety”. She also co-sponsored the ‘Justice Safety Valve Act’ with Paul to get rid of mandatory minimums.

Kamala’s pro-crime  views have been consistent. Twenty years ago she protected Officer Isaac Espinoza’s killer while giving his family the cold shoulder. Her support for defunding the police, releasing criminals and legalizing crime has changed California. What will it do to America?

Kamala’s Legacies Ignoring victims of terrorist mass murder, legalizing crime . . . and voter fraud.

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One day before the deadline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom scrapped plans to place on the November 5 ballot a measure to compete with an already qualified proposition to reform Proposition 47. The measure, passed by voters on November 4, 2014, is a legacy item for Kamala Harris, who could be on the ballot for president this November 5.

As California’s attorney general in 2014, Harris named a proposition that changed thefts of property valued under $950 from felonies to misdemeanors. Harris called it the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” but failed to explain how legalizing crime made schools and neighborhoods safer. She has claimed she took no position on the act, but the ballot language has exposed that falsehood.

Proposition 47 launched a crime wave across the state, with 31,322 vehicle break-ins in San Francisco alone in 2017, a 24-percent increase from the previous year. The measure empowered criminals to break into vehicles in broad daylight with bystanders present. The arrest rate in San Francisco, where Harris previously served as district attorney, was less than two percent, and under Proposition 47 criminals could expect at the most a citation.

The consequences of the pro-crime measure were obvious to all but the willfully blind, but the attorney general kept on the quiet side. That emboldened the terrorists embedded in the Golden State.

On December 2, 2015 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik gunned down Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Ngyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Velasco. The dead and wounded included blacks, Hispanics, Asians and immigrants, but Harris failed to call the mass murder a hate crime or even gun violence.

In a December 17 statement, attorney general Harris mentioned “those who lost their lives,” but failed to name a single victim or condemn the terrorists. In a statement one year later, Harris recalled “those who lost their lives and the loved ones they left behind,” but again named not a single victim.

This is the woman of whom President Obama proclaimed, “she is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough,” and “by far the best-looking attorney general in the country.”  The attorney general owes her career to Willie Brown.

As speaker of the California Assembly from 1980 to 1995, Willie Brown was by far the Golden State’s most powerful shot-caller. In 1994 Brown, 60, met Kamala Harris, a full 30 years his junior, and she became “the Speaker’s new steady,” Brown’s “girlfriend” and “frequent companion.” The two-year relationship worked out well for Harris.

Willie Brown appointed his new steady to lucrative sinecures and backed her run for district attorney in San Francisco in 2003. She promised never to seek the death penalty and kept that promise when gang member David Hill deployed an AK-47 to gun down San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza. Dianne Feinstein took Harris to task as she alienated police across the state.

In her 2009 Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make us Safer, written by ghostwriter Joan O’C. Hamilton, Harris found the number of nonviolent offenders “truly staggering” and put them at the top of her “crime pyramid.” The next year, Harris set her sights on the attorney general’s office.

Harris was so lightly regarded as the Sacramento Bee, a reliable Democrat mouthpiece, endorsed her Republican rival Steve Cooley. On election night in 2010, Cooley enjoyed a lead of 10 points and proclaimed victory. The next day, the Harris campaign proclaimed that Kamala would be the next attorney general. According to a witness on the scene, members of the Service Employees International Union, loyal to Harris, were counting the harvested ballots. Three weeks later, Harris prevailed by .8 percent. If anybody thought the election was stolen from Cooley it would be hard to blame them, and the fraudsters have other forces on their side.

Voting in American elections requires American citizenship, but California registers false-documented illegals to vote when they get their driver’s license. Democrats won’t say how many illegals vote, and the “motor voter” program has never been independently audited. In 2019, attorney general Xavier Becerra hinted that there were 10 million “immigrants” in the state, and that opens up many possibilities, especially with party cadres known as politiqueros coercing illegals into voting for Democrats. Legal voters have more than a reasonable doubt about Gavin Newsom’s victory in the 2021 recall.

California’s imported electorate is a pattern for Joe Biden, who brought in some ten million illegals, adding to the 22 million already here. In 2014 vice president Biden said the illegals were “already American citizens,” so “let people vote.”

After the debate debacle, Democrats are pressing Biden to step aside. Ten years after the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” Kamala Harris could become the nation’s first poontronage president. If her career as attorney general of California is any clue, that would be a victory for illegals, criminals, and terrorist mass murderers.

The Crime of Mohamed Hadid

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/03/the-crime-of-mohamed-hadid; republished below in full, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Ah, the Hadids. Where would we be without them? Brainless beauties, those Hadid girls, Gigi and Bella, sashaying down the catwalks of the Western world, and their doting, equally empty-headed, stage-door papa, a real-estate tycoon on his uppers and down on his luck, in sunny California, appear to have no other subject in their empty heads – as their Instagram postings make clear — than the hideousness of the Israelis and the sheer wonderfulness of the Palestinians they persecute. Gigi has informed the world that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” that the Palestinians are the “indigenous” people of a place known for thousands of years as “Palestine,” inhabiting the area long before the Jews ever arrived from Europe to steal their land and drive them out. It appears from her imaginative retelling of history that the Muslim Arabs arrived in “Palestine” two thousand years before Islam even existed. A neat trick!

Lately, the girls have been less loquacious, what with all their high-toned vogueing, and it is Mohamed Hadid who has hogged the Hadid limelight. While it is Hadid’s remarks on Israel that have been most intolerable, he also has a long record of sharp dealing; he has been sued by almost everybody he has ever had real estate dealings with, in one case even being forced by the courts tear down a $100 million mansion he had built in Bel Air, that violated zoning laws and because of its size, threatened to slide down a hill into his neighbors’ home. Just now he has uttered a threat to the President that he will no doubt regret, should the FBI come a-calling to read him the riot act. You can find his threat to “hunt down Biden like a Nazi war criminal” for his support of Israel here: “Mohamed Hadid: We will hunt down ‘Zionist criminals’ like Biden for court,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2024:

Real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid lashed out at US President Joe Biden on Sunday for his relations with Israel during the October 7 War, saying that it was the American leader’s war against Palestinians and that he would be hunted down like a Nazi war criminal.

“This is [US President Joe] Biden’s war on the Palestinian people,” Hadid said on Instagram in response to a TRT World clip of UN Sustainable Development Network director Dr. Jeffery Sachs calling on the US to cease supplying ammunition to Israel. [Jeffrey Sachs is another in our series of “World’s Greatest Authorities.”] “He will be in court with the rest of the Zionist criminals. We will hunt them down like they did the Nazis.”

The current war in Gaza is not Biden’s war against the Palestinians. It’s Hamas’ war against Israelis. Hamas started a war that the Israelis neither wanted nor expected, on October 7, when 3,000 of its operatives pushed into Israel from Gaza, and proceeded to rape, mutilate, torture, and murder 1,200 Israelis, and to kidnap another 265. Israel is now fighting the fourth war for its survival. The other three were the wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973. Mohamed Hadid seems to think that the war is “Biden’s” because, he mistakenly believes, Biden has the power to stop the war at any point. He has a touching belief that Israel is America’s lapdog, that must listen and obey. Israel is an ally, possibly America’s closest ally. It is grateful for American military assistance. It listens carefully to the advice American administrations give. But Israel cannot be bullied to accept a diktat, as Mohamed Hadid seems to think. Jerusalem has shown it has no intention, for example, of accepting a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and its overarching war aim remains the complete dismemberment of Hamas as a military threat.

And does Hadid mean when he says that Biden, having been “hunted down” like the Nazis, will receive the same fate as did those war criminals tried at Nuremberg? Does he want to see him put to death?

If Hadid were to be convicted for “threatening the President,” he could be punished with a five-year prison term, a fine of $250,000, and three years of “supervised release.” It was bad enough for Mohamed Hadid when his net worth fell from over $100 million just a few years ago to $1 million today. Now, with the right judge, and the wrong lawyer, he may be spending five years in the hoosegow. And then there is that $250,000 fine. But you needn’t worry about Mohamed Hadid. He’ll be visited at least once every few weeks by Gigi, or by Bella. They can talk about Paris fashions, and Bel Air real estate, and all the great things that are happening now in “Palestine.”

Migrant Surge Brings Killers and Criminal Gangs And the Dems’ “sanctuary city” policies make the danger worse.

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Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned on Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason.

Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. They bring “mindless knuckle-dragging violence,” warns Swecker. They’re the “most dangerous gangs on the planet.”

Swecker speculates that countries are emptying their prisons deliberately. Gang leaders setting up crime rings in the U.S. “come out of the muck and the slime of the South American prisons.”

While law enforcement officials here are warning us about the collapse of public safety, left-wing pols deny there’s a problem. Ana Maria Archila, co-director of New York’s Working Families Party, calls the “chaos and insecurity” people are feeling a “false sense.” She blames it on racism and xenophobia, not reality. Open your eyes, Ms. Archila.

Public safety is visibly spiraling downward: migrants beating cops in Times Square; migrants running prostitution rings; migrants on mopeds robbing pedestrians; migrants shoplifting and stripping retail stores; and now a migrant who recently left New York has been arrested for killing a Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley. Not everyone violating the border is a hardened criminal, but President Joe Biden’s open borders are allowing the worst to get in.

When Mayor Eric Adams was asked on Feb. 20 about stabbing incidents and violence against cops at the Randall’s Island shelter, Adams said that “even the most peaceful person — being confined to an area with 3,000 people … there comes a time where it just irritates you.”

“Irritates”? Adams is downplaying a serious threat.

New York’s misguided “sanctuary city” policy makes the danger worse. If a migrant is arrested in New York, the NYPD is barred from communicating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to determine whether the migrant should be deported, jailed or allowed back on the street. On Monday, Adams stated clearly that sanctuary status must be changed so migrants who commit felonies can be picked up by ICE and deported. He’s said it before. Now it needs to happen.

Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, entered the U.S. from Venezuela illegally in September 2022, was granted “parole” under Biden’s policy and came to New York on a bus. While here, he was arrested once but not detained. Now he’s charged with murdering Riley, who was out jogging on the University of Georgia’s Athens campus.

Swecker suggests that “this man did not burst spontaneously into a criminal overnight. This is someone who has committed crimes before.”

After moving to Athens, Georgia, Ibarra was arrested three times, including for shoplifting. But Athens is also a sanctuary city, and he was always released.

On Saturday at CPAC, Donald Trump likened “migrant crime” to the deeds of fictional killer Hannibal Lecter, who eats victims. Not such a stretch in Ibarra’s case, considering he’s charged with “murder with malice” for bludgeoning Riley’s body until it was disfigured.

The vicious gang MS-13 is resurging and may join forces with Tren de Aragua. In 2017, an MS-13 gang hacked and beheaded four Long Island teens, using machetes, knives and a chisel. Gruesome.

The Left denies migrant crime is a problem. The public knows better. A new Pew Research Center report says 57% of Americans believe the huge influx of migrants is leading to more crime.

On Saturday, Adams stood in Times Square, boasting that it’s safe. But saying it doesn’t make it so. Just two days earlier, a teenager visiting the “Crossroads of the World” for the first time was knifed by a gang of masked attackers, including several migrants. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a collapsed lung.

Migrant gangs pose the biggest danger, but pervasive sex trafficking is also a scourge. Watch at about 6 p.m. each day as women exit shelters and get picked up in cars, leaving their kids behind for the night. It’s happening in all five boroughs, according to Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Agent in Charge Darren McCormack.

Are neighbors who criticize what’s happening xenophobic and racist? No. They just want a decent life, and they see it disappearing fast.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.

Gov. Noem of South Dakota Addresses Joint Session of SD Legislature on the Southern Border

America is being overwhelmed by en masse illegal immigration. South Dakota is directly affected by this invasion. We are affected by cartel presence right here on our tribal reservations, by the spread of drugs and human trafficking, and by the drain on our resources.

Gov. Noem Holds Press Conference on the Southern Border

Gov. Abbott Signs Bill Making Illegal Immigration In Texas A State Crime

TOPSHOT - Josue Serrano, a Mexican deported migrant, hangs wooden crosses on the border fence as part of a vigil for migrants who died while migrating to the United States, at the US-Mexico border in playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on July 4, 2022. - On June 27, 2022, 53 migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras were found death abandoned in a suffocatingly hot tractor-trailer truck in the US state of Texas. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Josue Serrano, a Mexican deported migrant, hangs wooden crosses on the border fence as part of a vigil for migrants who died while migrating to the United States, at the US-Mexico border in playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on July 4, 2022. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Taylor Tinsley
1:23 PM – Tuesday, December 19, 2023

REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/gov-abbott-signs-bill-making-illegal-immigration-in-texas-a-state-crime/

Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill making illegal immigration a crime in the state of Texas.

Abbott (R-Texas) signed a trio of bills on Monday, but SB4 has been highly criticized as one of the cruelest state laws against illegal immigration in recent U.S. history.

The Republican governor said the bills’ goal is to stop the tidal wave of illegal immigrants making their way into the Lone Star State. 

It also creates a state criminal offense for anyone coming in from a foreign nation illegally.

“For repeat offenders,” Abbott said, “it creates the offense of illegal reentry with a potential sentence term of up to 20-years.”

Abbott affirmed President Biden’s “deliberate inaction” to secure the border has led Texas to fend for itself. 

The Republican also pointed out how rising immigration also poses a national security crisis. He said under President Trump there were 11 people on the terrorist watch list that were apprehended, and under President Biden that number has skyrocketed to 294.

SB4 is set to take effect in March 2024.

Civil rights groups on Tuesday, including The American Civil Liberties Union and the Texas Civil Rights Project, filed a lawsuit against the measure arguing it’s unconstitutional.

Also in response to the new law on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was just another political move by Republicans who continue to “dehumanize” illegal immigrants.

Abbott signed two other bills on Monday, allocating $1.5 billion to build more border barriers and walls, and $40 million to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The other measure creates a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence for smuggling illegal immigrants and a 5-year minimum sentence for operating a stash house.

Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said he plans on challenging the “inhumane” law.

“The foreign ministry is already working to challenge this law. Plus, we will always be against these measures. I want to tell our fellow countrymen and migrants, we will be defending them,” said Lopez Obrador. “Abbott wants to gain popularity. He will win nothing but the opposite – he will lose sympathy because there are a lot of Mexicans in Texas.”

Meanwhile in FY2024 to date, CBP has encountered more than 240,000 migrants.

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Hamas-linked CAIR operative reinstated to Maryland hate crimes commission

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REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/hamas-linked-cair-operative-reinstated-to-maryland-hate-crimes-commission

This shows yet again that the concept of “hate crimes” itself is subjective. To any supporter of Israel, Zainab Chaudry is clearly engaging in hate speech. But to her fellow supporters of Hamas, what she is saying is entirely justified. This is why “hate crimes” should not be a legal category, as they invariably empower one perspective at the expense of another in areas where the state should allow for the free expression of differing points of view.

“Islamist Suspended from, then Reinstated to Maryland Hate Crimes Commission,” by Susannah Johnston, Focus On Western Islamism, December 8, 2023:

Two weeks after Maryland’s attorney general suspended the staffer of an Islamist organization from the state’s hate crimes commission for promoting hatred of Israel on the internet, he reinstated her on the grounds that he lacked the legal authority to suspend her in the first place. The episode highlights the inherent incompatibility of including an Islamist organization on any commission tasked with fighting hate.

The incident began when Zainab Chaudry, director of the Maryland branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), responded to Hamas’s October 7 massacre by publicly likening Israel to the Nazis, referred to Hamas attackers as “freedom fighters,” and wrote on her Facebook, “I will never be able to understand how the world summoned up rage for 40 fake Israeli babies while completely turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies.”

In response, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown suspended Chaudry from Maryland’s Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention on November 21, saying that her presence risked “disrupting the work and mission of the Commission.”

Brown then reinstated her on December 6. Oddly, the law establishing the commission, which Governor Wes Moore approved in May, required the appointment of a staffer from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to serve alongside 19 other stakeholder organizations voted by Maryland legislators to represent targets of hate.

A press release from AG Brown’s office states that he does not have the authority to remove or suspend members of the commission. “Upon further review, it was determined that the law establishing the Commission directs the Attorney General to appoint members to a 4-year fixed term but does not provide the Attorney General the authority to remove a Commissioner before the expiration of their term nor the authority to suspend a Commissioner during their term of service.”

CAIR, the organization which Chaudry belongs to, is a notorious purveyor of anti-Israel hatred. The organization has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and its leaders regularly defend Hamas, a designated terrorist organization regarded as the Palestinian branch of the MB. In 2008, federal prosecutors listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution after they determined that HLF had funneled millions to Hamas.  In 1994, the organization’s National Director, Nihad Awad, publicly stated, “I am in support of the Hamas movement.” The Hamas Charter calls for obliterating Israel….

US State Department says Hamas won’t release female hostages because they will tell about jihadis’ sex crimes~Rape, Torture, Mutilation, and Murder by Hamas of Both Men and Women

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/us-state-department-says-hamas-wont-release-female-hostages-because-they-will-tell-about-jihadis-sex-crimes;

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This is quite likely. Hamas enjoys vogue right now and the world loves it. But too many horrific rape stories might sour the affection of even the most ardent Leftist.

“US State Department–Hamas won’t release women hostages because they will talk about sex crimes,” by Vered Weiss, World Israel News, December 4, 2023:

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller revealed in a press conference that Hamas won’t free the remaining women because they don’t want them to talk about possible sex crimes in captivity.

With increasing reports about the frequency and severity of sexual crimes, including rape and genital mutilation, perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, Matthew Miller has posited the hesitancy of releasing female hostages, the main issue that led to the end of the ceasefire and the resumption of fighting, is to prevent them from revealing similar crimes during their confinement.

In a press conference, Miller said, “The fact that they continue to hold women, hostages, the fact that they continue to hold children, hostages, just the fact that it seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over they’ve been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”

“There is very little that I would put beyond Hamas when it comes to its treatment of civilians, and particularly its treatment of women,” he adds.

Last week, 110 elderly women, mothers and their children, and foreign nationals were released by Hamas.

As of last Friday after the ceasefire, 136 hostages remain who are mainly male, but there are still a number of women, including one who was seen in October 7th footage revealing blood on the seat of her sweatpants as she was shoved by terrorists into a van….

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Rape, Torture, Mutilation, and Murder by Hamas of Both Men and Women

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/rape-torture-mutilation-and-murder-by-hamas-of-both-men-and-women;

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More eyewitness accounts have just been released about the sexual assaults, followed by torture and decapitations, of both men and women, carried out by Hamas on October 7. The story can be found here: “Hamas raped men as well as women during October 7 attack: Investigators reveal how sex assault victims were tied up, stripped and mutilated as Israel launches its ‘biggest ever criminal investigation,'” by Summer Goodkind and David Averre, Daily Mail, December 4, 2023:

Israeli investigators probing the fallout of the brutal October 7 attacks have found evidence that men as well as women suffered sexual violence and rape at the hands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad attackers, activists have claimed.

Yael Sherer, a spokeswoman for Israel’s Survivors of Sexual Violence advocacy group, said there was physical evidence as well as eyewitness accounts of sexual violence perpetrated against both sexes amid the attacks.

‘There was sexual violence and rape in these communities in the south of Israel… we have a few living survivors – not a lot – of both genders. It didn’t only happen to women, it happened to men as well,’ she told BBC Radio 4.

‘Aside from finding the bodies of people who were murdered, a lot of the bodies were mutilated… terrorists made sure to disgrace these people and dishonor them,’ she added….

Yoni Saadon, 39, who survived the attack on the Nova music festival by hiding under dead bodies, this weekend gave a harrowing account of the sexual violence he saw perpetrated against women at the campground.

One horrifying image he described was the moment a woman’s decapitated head rolled across the road, after she was beheaded for refusing to be stripped naked….

After an hour, the shift manager peeked out. ‘I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her.’

The woman was screaming "stop it," he said, and begged the terrorists to kill her to put her out of her misery.

‘When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head," he said.

The father of four admitted how his mind kept reminding him it could have been one of his daughters, or his sister, who at the last minute bowed out of the festival.

The horror was far from over for Yoni as, hiding in the bushes, he saw two more Hamas fighters catch a woman.

‘She was fighting back, not allowing them to strip her,’ he recalled. ‘They threw her to the ground and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her and her head rolled along the ground. I see that head too.’…

Haim Outmezgine, commander of a special unit of Zaka, that collects the remains of bodies said: ‘We collected 1,000 bodies in ten days from the festival site and kibbutzim. No one saw more than us.

‘It was clear they were trying to spread as much horror as they could — to kill, to burn alive, to rape … it seemed their mission was to rape as many as possible.’

David Katz, head of the Lahav 443 criminal investigation unit, did not give a precise figure for the number of cases under investigation, but said the inquiry could take 'six to eight months’.

The horror grows and grows. Those who still are unable to appreciate Israel’s determination to eliminate Hamas, and — like the Bidenites — preposterously hector Israel to “use great care to limit civilian casualties,” when that is something the IDF already does, more than any other army in the world, should study carefully these eyewitness accounts of unparalleled barbarity.

How Bad Is Crime in Philadelphia? Bad Enough for a Cheesesteak Joint to Hire Armed Security

By Michael Cantrell 3:39 PM on September 18, 2023
How Bad Is Crime in Philadelphia? Bad Enough for a Cheesesteak Joint to Hire Armed Security
Whenever someone gears up to pay the historic city of Philadelphia a visit, one of the first things they want to know is which establishment makes the best cheesesteak sandwiches. The age-old question was usually decided by whether or not you wanted Cheeze-Whiz or provolone on it. Nowadays, with the skyrocketing crime rate in the city, thanks to disastrous soft-on-crime policies instituted by Democrats, the best cheesesteak joint is the one with armed guards. Tragic, that this is what the City of Brotherly Love has become in Biden’s America.

According to a new report from TheBlaze, Jim’s West Steaks and Hoagies has hired armed guards to provide protection for customers who come to their establishment for the simple pleasure of a good sandwich. It’s absolutely atrocious this is now necessary. But hey, what do you expect when officials in our country’s major cities push for shorter prison sentences, defunding police forces, and all manner of bills that favor criminals? The whole point of having a legal system is the protection of the innocent and discouraging the bad guys from doing bad things that harm society.

If the consequences for doing bad things that harm society consist of slaps on the wrist, we should not be surprised when our deterrent no longer deters.

One of the main reasons the restaurant decided to hire armed guards is because they are a super popular place that usually has lines of people going down the block, which leaves them open to assault and other forms of crime while waiting in line.

The chief financial officer of Jim’s West spoke with local media outlet WPVI-TV, saying, “The violence has spiked. It goes up and down. You want people to feel safe and be safe. So when they come out and eat, they don’t have to worry about no type of harm.”

The owner of Presidential Protection Services, Kevon Darden, has actually gotten out on the streets in front of the famous hoagie establishment and guarded customers. He said that the guards protecting patrons have been certified by the State of Pennsylvania to perform the duties required of security professionals. Many of these individuals have either military or law enforcement backgrounds. In other words, these aren’t random dudes off Monster or Indeed. These are guys who know exactly what they are doing and perform at the highest level of their industry.

Landers commented that the threat of violence on the street is so pervasive right now that many local businesses are being forced to drop a load of extra cash to try and keep both workers and their customer base safe. This is money that many of these smaller companies can’t really afford to part with. So, in light of that, they are forced to offset the cost, which means raising prices for goods and services. And that’s a drain on the bottom line, as it will inevitably reduce business and profit. Reduced profits mean jobs being cut. The company downsizes instead of expanding. The economy of the whole city takes a punch to the gut.

All of this is because leftists, desperate to remain in power, are doing their best to ensure criminals get off lightly for their behavior so they can ultimately restore their right to vote and fluff up their voter rolls. Gross, right?

Related: Far-Left Philly Lawyer Shocked, Shocked to Discover His Son Is Accused Terrorist

The Philly Voice stated in a recent report that, back in 2015, Jim’s West was the target of several armed robbers who ended up only getting $215 in cash out of the register and from customers who were patronizing the establishment at the time.

One of the customers weighed in on the armed guards, saying, “If it deters it (crime), I can’t complain. I’m not a big fan of guns, but I get it.”

Another individual, likely a bonehead liberal, said that seeing an armed guard “walking around with a machine gun, it’s not family-friendly.”

I hate to break it to this person, but given the crime rate in Philly, I’d say the whole city is no longer “family friendly.”