Ann Arbor spent $4.5 million of its ARPA funds on solar panels
Ann Arbor spent $4.5 million of the $24 million it received through the American Rescue Plan Act on solar power infrastructure. It was the city’s largest allocation of the funds and listed in the category “Replacement of Lost Public Sector Revenue.”
The city used funds in ways consistent with federal guidelines, Mariah Walton, Ann Arbor’s deputy city administrator, wrote to Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. Federal rules “allowed local governments to use funds for general services if they experienced revenue shortfalls,” Walton added.
The U.S. Department of Treasury let local governments treat up to $10 million of their federal relief money as if it were general revenue that would have been collected if not for the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Rescue Plan Act was a $1.9 trillion spending package enacted in 2021 under the Biden administration. Click here to read more.
ICE nabs illegal alien child sex offender from Cuba in Michigan over Thanksgiving weekend
As Michiganders celebrated the Thanksgiving weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continued work around the clock to give them something to be thankful for.
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday highlighted the arrests of numerous rapists, pedophiles, and murderers over the holiday weekend, including at least one child sex abuser in Michigan.
“While Americans enjoyed a long holiday weekend with their families and friends, ICE law enforcement was hard at work arresting rapists, child sex abusers and murderers,” an unidentified DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
“Every American should be grateful to our law enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line each and every day to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” the statement read. “Despite what the media and sanctuary politicians claim, 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens convicted or charged with a crime in the U.S.” Click here to read more.
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Out of Sight: Following the Money Trail of Missing Child Border Crossers
On the campaign trail, Vice President JD Vance repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for allegedly losing track of some 320,000 minors who had crossed the border unaccompanied. “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug trafficking, to human trafficking,” Vance said.
One year later, the fate of most of those children remains unknown. While the Trump administration has all but stopped the crush of migrants that occurred during Biden’s term, neither the government nor the nonprofits that were largely responsible for resettling this vulnerable population of unaccompanied minors have been able to tell RealClearInvestigations where they are living. Click here to read more.
Somali Scandal Could Sink Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s Political Career
A scandal involving hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a federally funded nutrition program may starve Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) chances of a political future, the Hill reported Saturday.
The controversy, involving Minnesota’s influential Somali community, focuses on millions stolen from the program and has led to more than 50 convictions. Federal prosecutors accused dozens of people of stealing funds from a government program that was to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Times put the story on the radar of legacy media outlets on November 29, with a report that federal prosecutors said as much as $1 billion in taxpayer money may have been stolen in separate fraudulent schemes. Click here to read more.
Another train stabbing in Charlotte -- and the suspect’s been deported twice already
An illegal migrant -- who was deported by the U.S. twice in recent years -- was arrested in connection with a stabbing on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
DHS on Saturday identified the suspect as 33-year-old Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia.
Online records from the Mecklenburg County Jail show the suspect is facing the following charges:
Attempted first-degree murder
Assault with deadly weapon serious injury
Break/enter motor vehicle
Carrying concealed weapon
Intoxicated and disruptive
