DEL RIO, TX - There has long been an understanding among officials that drug cartels operating on the southern border won’t shoot or attack law enforcement on the United States side as it might shut down the criminal organizations’ operations.
However, after infighting among rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel, which erupted after U.S. authorities apprehended two of its leaders in late July, members are now permitted to shoot at Border Patrol agents, according to an internal alert sent out to the El Paso, Texas, sector. The alert reminds agents to remain mindful of their surroundings and to approach any cartel operatives with extreme caution.
Just two days ago, the memo said, contractors working on a ranch in the Eagle Pass area of Texas’ Del Rio Sector reported taking fire from the Mexican side of the border. The workers saw several individuals in Mexico where the shots came from, per the memo, but could not determine how many people were out there. No injuries were reported from this incident.
Victor Avila, a former special agent within Homeland Security Investigation, says law enforcement should be concerned about this recent escalation, especially as one cartel has now basically split into two.
“The No. 1 reason they fight for these plazas is because these plazas are the corridors to enter the United States, whether California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and that’s the major fight because the Sinaloa cartel has controlled that whole area,” Avila said. Click here to read more.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF - McDonald’s released a statement Sunday admitting it has no record of Kamala Harris ever working there, as she has repeatedly claimed.
This deepening scandal, which social media has dubbed Stolen McValor, finally got the spotlight it deserved Sunday when former President Trump spent some time making French fries and working the drive-thru at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.
It was a win-win for the man now widely seen as the 2024 frontrunner. He had the opportunity to show off his charming side and ability to connect with everyday people while pointing to what looks more and more like a shameless lie in Kamala’s biography.
After being in the public eye for decades and writing two memoirs that never mentioned her time with the Golden Arches, Harris only first mentioned working there at a 2009 union event as she planned to run for president.
Media requests to her campaign asking for verification of her McDonald’s employment have been ignored, although this could be easily verified through tax records or people coming forward. As it so happens, I worked for a few months at a McDonald’s in the early eighties and could easily prove it by requesting documents and naming at least a dozen people who I worked with or who knew I worked there, including my parents. Click here to read more.
TAYLOR, Mich - Boat heroics and beer theatrics … this guy is a friggin’ legend.
21-year-old Jarrett Burkhalter recently had an experience of a lifetime that he’s guaranteed to never forget, originally starting out as a boat trip to pay a visit to his favorite island to relax. But while pulling out of Gibraltar’s Humbug Marina, he ended up hearing a loud explosion.
When he got around the corner, he saw a burning boat sitting in the water, inundated with flames. Not long after, he started hearing cries for help, according to an interview he did with 7 News Detroit.
“I flung my boat around here, I put my nose against the side of his boat,” said Burkhalter.
Once he got to the boat, that’s when he located an elderly couple who was on board.
“They were shaken up,” stated Burkhalter. “The guy said he just filled the tanks up too, so when I heard that I said ‘we gotta get off.'”
Burkhalter went on to explain that he immediately helped the couple get off the boat and placed back on the dock. Both were fortunately unharmed. They have since reached out to Burkhalter to issue him a ‘thank you’ for saving their lives.
And here’s what makes this story even better: Burkhalter ended up making it to his island after everything and enjoyed the views with “a nice cold beer.” Click here to read more.
ATLANTA, GA - The arrest of an illegal immigrant for the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley a few weeks before President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address ignited a political firestorm. “Laken’s death is the direct result of policies on the federal level and an unwillingness by this White House to secure the southern border,” Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp charged, after reports emerged that the border patrol had grabbed Venezuelan Jose Ibarra back in 2022, but that he was quickly paroled and released into the United States. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, reacting to the controversy, warned of an illegal-alien crime wave; at the State of the Union itself, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted Biden, calling out for the president to “say her name”—a reference to Riley. When Biden did mention her name, he acknowledged that she died at the hands of an illegal migrant; further controversy ensued when he later apologized for using the term “illegal,” and not the politically correct “undocumented.”
The elite press rode to Biden’s defense. The idea of a migrant crime wave was a myth, media outlets proclaimed, noting studies of Texas incarceration data from years ago, which seemed to suggest that illegals commit crimes at low rates. This ignored other surveys, based on federal multistate data, which show a far more troubling reality. And after years of a migrant border “surge”—with countless asylum-seekers inadequately vetted and then allowed to enter the U.S.—state law-enforcement agencies now warn that immigrant gangs have seized control of many drug- and human-trafficking networks and have unleashed robbery sprees across the nation. With polls showing Americans alarmed about illegal immigration—a majority even backing mass deportations—Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin reflected public anger when he charged that “every state” is now “a border state.” Click here to read more.
RALEIGH, NC - Hurricane Helene knocked out production at a Baxter plant in Marion, North Carolina, that is responsible for manufacturing 60% of the nation’s supply of IV fluid solutions.
Now, 85% of healthcare providers across the country report facing IV shortages, which are forcing them to ration supplies, hold off on performing elective procedures, and wait until a medical emergency to use them, according to a survey conducted by healthcare supply chain company Premier Inc. The IV fluid shortage comes in the wake of flu and respiratory infection season. IV fluid is a common remedy used by healthcare providers to treat patients hospitalized with the flu.
The survey found that 54% of healthcare providers report having 10 days or less of IV fluid supplies in their inventory.
“When you take that much supply out of the supply chain in the U.S., it creates havoc,” Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety at the American Hospital Association, told the Hill. “Everyone is being told to be very careful with their supply of these IV solutions and other fluids.”
Although the Food and Drug Administration approved supplies to be shipped in from Baxter facilities in Ireland, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom, and hospitals have been permitted to create their own IV fluid supply, the shortage is predicted to last through the rest of this year. Click here to read more.
