I left my 25-year mainstream media career to bring you real, unfiltered stories. No spin, no agenda—just transparency and truth. Your support helps keep independent journalism alive. Subscribe now for just $5 a month, and you can cancel anytime.
EL PASO, TX - More than 85 percent of migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are released into the U.S. interior, a report from the House Homeland Security Committee details. At the same time, the report accuses President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to slash federal detention space.
The report — which breaks down how Biden and Harris have welcomed nearly eight million migrants to the U.S. since early 2021 — suggests that while Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has mass released migrants into American communities, the agency has simultaneously cut detention space.
In particular, the report finds that just 36 percent of migrants in Fiscal Year 2021 were detained by DHS for at least some period of time while their cases were adjudicated. Compare this to Fiscal Year 2013, under former President Barack Obama, when 91 percent of migrants were detained for at least some period of time during their case adjudications. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - Michigan’s Senate voted to pass four election-related bills that aim to counter voter discrimination on the basis of race, ability or language – protections already provided by the 15th amendment that the legislation is meant to bolster.
The package of bills would supply legal pathways and resources for citizens to sue local governments for 15th Amendment violations, create an electronic voting database, and require all polling places to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, among other things.
“Every Michigan voter deserves access to fair, secure elections and no citizen should be unfairly denied the right to vote,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in response to the bills’ passage. “The Michigan Voting Rights Act will not only build on the federal Voting Rights Act but will add new protections at the state level to shield us from future attacks on our democracy.” Click here to ead more.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd said the federal government has not been cooperating with the state’s attempts to identify and remove illegal aliens from its voter rolls.
Byrd’s worries come as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has been cracking down on election fraud and demanding information from the Biden administration on non-citizens who are registered to vote in Florida.
The secretary of state told the Washington Examiner that the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database remains outdated and slow.
“We have to have the alien registration number for it to give us a positive result, and many times, we get evidence of somebody being a noncitizen, but they don’t have the alien registration number, so even where we can use [the database], we can’t because states don’t always have that information,” Byrd said. Click here to read more.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he’s posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.
Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes recently, including in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that killed two students and two teachers.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts Monday, Chitwood warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making these threats, he’ll make sure the public knows. Click here to read more.
MOULTRIE, Ga. - A woman in Georgia is making a difference one box at a time.
For over a decade, Patricia Garlick has supported soldiers deployed overseas by sending them care packages.
From new socks to puzzles and even food items, Garlick packs all she can into her care packages.
“People don’t realize how much stuff you can fit in a box,” she said.
She calls them Pride Packages.
Garlick established her initiative in 2005 after her son was deployed to Iraq. She would send him care packages everyday.
However, when her son brought to her attention that some of the other soldiers were not getting anything sent to them from home, she knew she had to do something.
“I decided that I could do something for our troops that weren’t getting anything back home,” she said. Click here to read more.
