[Breitbart] Illegal aliens, tourists, and foreign visa workers delivered nearly 400,000 children across the United States in 2024 — exceeding the population of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that almost 400,000 “anchor babies,” the term used to describe the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and other foreign nationals with no ties to the country, are delivered across all 50 states each year.
Anchor babies are rewarded with birthright American citizenship despite their parents having no legitimate ties to the U.S., many having only recently arrived. Years later, when the child is considered an adult, they can sponsor their parents and foreign relatives for green cards — anchoring their family in the U.S. for generations.
In 2024, close to 300,000 anchor babies are estimated to have been delivered to illegal alien parents. In addition, about 72,000 anchor babies were estimated to have been delivered to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students.
President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to end birthright citizenship in his second term. Recent polling finds that a plurality of Americans, including 48 percent of whites and 42 percent of Hispanics, support Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship.
“On day one of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump said in 2023.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted birthright citizenship, and many legal scholars dispute the idea.
Many leading conservative scholars argue the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment does not provide mandatory birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens, because these children are not subject to United States jurisdiction as that language was understood when the 14th Amendment was ratified.
The United States and Canada are among only a handful of developed nations, mostly in North and South America, that have a birthright citizenship policy for anyone, regardless of immigration status, born within its physical borders.
Australia, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, and Spain, among other countries, reserve birthright citizenship for children born to at least one citizen parent.
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If you believe in strict construction and original intent, then the birth issue was about former Confederate states seeking to classify former slaves as foreigners. That period of time has past and the intent achieved.
[Spiegel] EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has cancelled trips due to pneumonia.
"The president has cancelled her external appointments for the first two weeks of January," a Commission spokesman said when asked by the dpa news agency. She is struggling with severe pneumonia. The Polish Press Agency (PAP) also reports on von der Leyen's illness.
VON DER LEYEN MISSES POLAND'S TRIP
According to the information, the cancelled dates include a trip to Gdansk on the occasion of the beginning of the Polish EU Council Presidency. It is to be made up for at a later date. "The president is doing her official business from Hanover," the spokesman continued. "If all goes well, the president will be completely healed by the middle of the month." Then she will work again from her office in the Brussels Commission Building.
Poland has for the 1. January officially took over the EU Council Presidency. A ceremony will take place on Friday. Von der Leyen, since the 1. December 2019 at the head of the EU Commission, will not participate. Previously, it had already become known that Poland had unloaded the Hungarian ambassador because of tensions over a case of political asylum.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Thursday, charges against an English teacher in Vancouver, Washington for alleged sexual misconduct with a student were dropped, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations despite allegations of a pattern of sexual acts with minors that goes back over a decade. In addition to charges being dropped, orders prohibiting contact with minors were also rescinded.
According to court documents, Hudson’s Bay High School teacher Shadbreon Gatson, 43, was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with sexual misconduct with a minor. Investigators said the girl was a 16-year-old student when the alleged misconduct took place.
KOIN 6 reported that on Monday, during Gatson's first court appearance, Clark County prosecutors said, "The allegations go back to 2013, but we’re also aware of more recent allegations involving another student that happened in 2024. That will be considered in charging in relationship with this case. He also received letters of directions pertaining to interactions with females as early as 2009."
Prosecutors said that, in 2017, Gaston was reprimanded for allegedly "failing to maintain a boundary" with two other female students.
Vancouver Public Schools claim Gaston was placed on leave on Nov. 8, when the district first learned of inappropriate behavior, but the arrest resulted from a Dec. 2 report filed by the former student.
In 2013, a custodian walked in on Gatson allegedly engaging in sex acts with a 16-year-old student in the school’s band room. The incident was reported to school officials, but both the teacher and student denied it.
Officers interviewed Gatson's alleged victim, who said she came forward now due to the ongoing trauma the alleged incidents have caused her as well as the suspicion that the teacher may have other victims. Additionally, she claimed she originally denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! because Gatson told her to. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Gatson did receive a disciplinary letter in his file.
The relationship allegedly began after Gatson gave the victim detention and "sexual acts happened at both home and the school," according to court documents.
KATU reported that Gatson had similar allegations in his school disciplinary record, going back as early as 2009. Additionally, there may be another allegation involving a student in 2024 which police are investigating.
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I don't know where PM came up with charges being dropped. I clicked through all the links and found this,
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^ Seems to be multiple girls. Older charges may have been dropped while newer ones (within statute of limitations) pursued
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Back in April 2019 Washington State passed a law eliminating any statute of limitations for most sex crimes against minors.
Then on March 26th, 2024 Washington State House Bill 1618 was passed and became law effective date 6/6/2024, allowing longer periods of prosecution for other sex crimes.
Either way, there was NO reason for any toss out or prosecution delay.
BUT!
Isn't it strange the Washington State School Systems, then allows Mentally Ill Transvestites to dress up, teach classes and use Girl Locker rooms and restrooms?
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report on Monday revealing that three senior DOJ officials allegedly leaked information to the media in an attempt to damage Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... before the 2024 presidential election. The three senior DOJ officials are under investigation for potential Hatch Act violations. Official DOJ policy prohibits its employees from disclosing information about ongoing matters.
At least one of the bigwigs used official DOJ social media accounts to repost links to the articles after leaking the information to select news hounds.
The summary of the investigation stated: "The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation after receiving allegations that actions by a litigating division were politically motivated and violated DOJ policies regarding disclosing information about ongoing matters."
"The OIG investigation found that three then Senior DOJ Officials violated DOJ's Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking to select news hounds, days before an election, non-public DOJ investigative information regarding ongoing DOJ investigative matters, resulting in the publication of two news articles that included the non-public DOJ investigative information. The OIG investigation also found that one of these three then Senior DOJ Officials violated the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy and DOJ's Social Media Policy by reposting through a DOJ social media account links to the news articles," the report continued.
The report concluded, "The OIG also provided its report to the US Office of Special Counsel, which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate alleged Hatch Act violations, for its consideration of whether the conduct of these officials violated the Hatch Act."
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Question: If the Dept of Justice is in charge of enforcing Justice, and has staff doing politically ILLEGAL stunts like this.
Who takes those DOJ staff to court, and prosecutes them to the fullest extent of the law?
How do we, the actual American Citizen Voters, get justice?
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Two high-ranking members of the January 6 committee have been awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... . The award is the second-highest civilian medal that can be awarded after the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Among the group of 20 recipients were former Rep Liz Cheney ...dynastic pseudo-Republican politician from Wyoming, daughter of Richard Cheney. She was a part of the farcicle January 6th bipartisan committee, which resulted in over 1200 political prisoners being tossed into an American gulag. Cheney was roundly trounced in the next election, but that didn't let the prisoners out, did it? She will kept her pension.... , who served as Vice Chair of the J6 committee, and Bennie Thompson, the committee's chair. The White House said that the award is presented to "citizens of the United States of America who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens."
"President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others. The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice," the White House added. The ceremony is set to take place on Thursday evening.
The White House wrote in regard to Cheney, "Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together."
On Thompson, the White House wrote, "Born and raised in a segregated Mississippi, as a college student inspired by the Civil Rights movement, Bennie Thompson volunteered on campaigns and registered southern Black voters. That call to serve eventually led him to Congress, where he chaired the House January 6th Committee—at the forefront of defending the rule of law with unwavering integrity and a steadfast commitment to truth."
This comes after Cheney's name was reportedly under consideration by the Biden White House for a preemptive pardon. Thompson said he would accept a preemptive pardon from Biden if offered. Biden's senior aides are also reportedly concerned about officials who could face inquiries or even indictments under Trump's second term with Kash Patel being nominated to lead the FBI during his administration.
Cheney has also come under fire after a report from Rep. Barry Loudermilk and the House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight recommended that Cheney be investigated for possible criminal activity during her time on the committee, being accused of colluding with witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
John Sopko will produce his final report on the war in Afghanistan later this year
It will show how generals and diplomats were rewarded for reporting success
U.S. failure in Afghanistan was driven by a system that rewarded generals, diplomats, contractors, and policymakers who reported successes on the ground rather than the grim reality of a bloody insurgency, according to the watchdog who spent 12 years observing the war unravel.
The result, said one U.S. military adviser, was that the system 'became a self-licking ice cream cone' as more money was committed to justify the billions already spent.
John Sopko, the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, will deliver his final report later this year.
It will reveal that experts and government officials now believe that decisions made as far back as 2002 meant the war was doomed to fail.
And it will highlight how American ignorance of Afghan culture, the impact of local corruption, plus weak cooperation between U.S. agencies all contributed to a war effort that left the country back in Taliban hands at a cost of more than 2,400 American lives and $2 trillion.
Yet, writes Sopko in a New York Times opinion piece published Thursday, you wouldn't know it from the optimistic reports coming from the officers and officials in charge at the time.
'But a perverse incentive drove our system,' he writes.
'To win promotions and bigger salaries, military and civilian leaders felt they had to sell their tours of duty, deployments, programs and projects as successes — even when they were not.
'Leaders tended to report and highlight favorable information while obscuring that which pointed to failure. After all, failures do not lead to an ambassadorship or an elevation to general.'
The U.S. war in Afghanistan ended with humiliation in August 2021.
Taliban fighters had made rapid advances ever since President Joe Biden announced he was bringing home American troops in April of that year, and they quickly swept into the capital Kabul dashing Washington's hopes that the Afghan government could survive without foreign forces.
Thousands of Afghans and foreign civilians flocked to the capital's airport seeking safe passage as U.S. diplomats hurriedly abandoned their embassy.
Tragedy struck when a suicide bomber killed 13 American personnel amid the chaos at the airport.
The confused exit cast a black cloud over Biden's first year in office, undermining his reputation as a foreign policy expert and a safe pair of hands after Donald Trump's first term.
Those final weeks showed the futility of U.S. claims that things were moving in the right direction, says Sopko.
'The sudden collapse of the Afghan government and rise of the Taliban showed that the United States could not buy favorable Afghan perceptions of the country’s corrupt leaders and government, or of America's intentions,' he writes.
'Yet over two decades — and even as Afghan provinces fell like dominoes in the summer of 2021 — I do not recall any senior official telling Congress or the American people that failure was a real possibility.'
Instead, he pointed to occasions when official spokesmen offered misleading information. He cited the Pentagon official who said just before the collapse that the Kabul government had more than 300,000 soldiers and police officers, despite evidence of thousands of 'ghost' personnel who existed only on paper so that bosses could collect extra salaries.
'Important information for measuring the success of initiatives was — at times deliberately — hidden from Congress and the American public, including USAID-funded assessments that concluded Afghan ministries were incapable of managing direct U.S. financial assistance,' he writes.
'Despite vigorous efforts by the U.S. bureaucracy to stop us, my office made such material public.'
He describes how one general said his biggest problem was how to spend the remaining $1 billion from his annual budget in a little over a month, amid a culture that measured spending as the best metric of success.
'Another official we spoke to said he refused to cancel a multimillion-dollar building project that field commanders did not want, because the funding had to be spent,' writes Sopko. 'The building was never used.'
Meanwhile, the spending continues. Sopko said much was routed that United Nations agencies that lacked transparency and proper oversight.
And last year, his office reported that since the withdrawal, U.S.-funded partners paid at least $10.9 million in taxes and fees to Taliban authorities.
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Here’s an idea. Let’s not fund the Taliban anymore. No more weekly cash deliveries. Let’s start there.
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The real process of the USA's role in the Afghan debacle amounts to Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
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The whole HR of the military is counter productive. It operated in a peacetime mode substituting peacetime practices in lieu of actual warfare in the selection and promotion process. We've been at war pretty much since 9/11 and there was no adjustment in the process. War is not fair or equitable, neither should the promotion and selection process to wage it.
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"What if nobody went... over thar?"
"Inefficient to travel so far
When," lament our elite,
"Those we want to defeat
Are right here."
"Public transit to war!"
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Yep:
UPDATE: 2:38 p.m.: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) switched their votes to Johnson on the first vote, giving him the majority and the House Speaker's gavel.
ooohhhh goodie. Good news is he owes Trump for it. We'll see if he honors the debt or stays an asshat.
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Apparently the NY Judge Merchan is going to sentence Trump on the 10th, and I suspect attempt to jail him. Either a massive act of arrogance and insult, or a ploy to create some form of reprieve by Biden or NY Governor.
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Claim now is "Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, signaled in a written decision that he'd sentence the former and future president to what's known as an unconditional discharge, in which a case is closed without jail time, a fine or probation. Trump can appear virtually for sentencing, if he chooses.
Merchan wrote that he sought to balance competing interests: Trump’s ability to govern “unencumbered” by the case, the U.S. Supreme Court's July ruling on presidential immunity, the public’s expectation “that all are equal and no one is above the Iaw,” and the importance of respecting a jury verdict."
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Trump couldn't appeal his verdict/sentence until actually sentenced IIUC.
Merchan should be slammed, drummed out, and his DNC Daughter's campaign co. made toxic
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From NoMo's link above Trump can appear virtually for sentencing, if he chooses
Suppose honorable Judge runs a fake punt and sentences Trump to jail. If Trump refuses to turn himself in, it becomes a matter for law enforcement and the honorable Judge has both followed the law and washed his hands of the case.
The idea of Trump running the country from jail like some Mexican drug lord sounds like something the Babylon Bee would write, so it will probably happen.
[DNYUZ] San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie promised a worried resident that he would clean up the streets ahead of his tenure, after a mayoral election centered around the city’s homelessness, crime and drug overdose problems.
“Clean up the streets and the homeless, please,” a woman told Lurie during a walking tour of the city, according to the Wall Street Journal. Lurie responded, “We’re going to.”
Lurie, a first-time candidate, Levi Strauss heir and founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit, said on the campaign trail that “it is time to end the perception that lawlessness is an acceptable part of life in San Francisco.” Lurie beat incumbent Mayor London Breed in November.
“We are the greatest city in the world when we are at our best,” Lurie said on the walk, according to the WSJ. “If I had to place my bet on a city that is going to come back stronger and better than ever, it is our city.”
The mayor-elect said he wanted to run for mayor because he had a hard time explaining San Francisco’s decline to his children, according to the WSJ.
“I just couldn’t stand by… This is our city. I love it with all my being,” he said.
Lurie plans to declare a state of emergency over the fentanyl crisis, replenish San Francisco’s police force, and get his employees at City Hall to return to in-person work full-time, according to the WSJ.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was named as the chair of Lurie’s transition team, and Lurie named Ned Segal, the former Chief Financial Officer of Twitter, to a newly created post, the chief of housing and economic development.
After Lurie’s 10-point victory over Breed, he told CNN that he wanted to get back to common-sense policies.
“I am a lifelong Democrat, but we don‘t think of ourselves as progressives or moderates or conservatives here in San Francisco,” Lurie said. “We just want to get back to common sense. We have to deliver the basics, and that‘s my plan. That‘s the mandate that I was elected to fulfill.”
“We have to make sure that we have a fully staffed police department. We have to get our behavioral health and drug crisis under control in our city,” he added. “We need to make sure our small businesses can thrive. Our big businesses need to be coming back to San Francisco. We need to be open for business again. I don‘t believe that that‘s a rightward swing. That‘s a common sense approach.
[Breitbart] On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to questions on how we can ensure ISIS won’t exploit the border by stating that “individuals who pose a threat to public safety or our national security are prioritized for immigration detention and removal from the United States.” And that policy changes have been made to reduce traffic at the southern border.
After listing figures about potential terrorists at the border, host Sandra Smith asked, [relevant exchange begins around 2:30] “How can we be sure that ISIS won’t find a safe harbor here?”
Mayorkas answered, “It is our highest responsibility to ensure the safety and security of the American people. And in the service of that responsibility, we screen and vet individuals, and individuals who pose a threat to public safety or our national security are prioritized for immigration detention and removal from the United States. And looking at the matter before us, the tragedy in New Orleans yesterday, we are dealing with a United States citizen born in the state of Texas who was radicalized to violence by a foreign terrorist ideology. But, let me be clear, whatever the nature of the threat, those who pose a threat to the American people are our highest priority for law enforcement action as our laws provide and we enforce and execute those laws every single day. And so many people in our department do so at risk to their own well-being and safety.”
Smith responded, “There are going to be many who are going to hear you say that and wonder why more hasn’t been done to stop people from illegally coming into the country, Mr. Secretary. I looked back at March 12. And I was reminded when Christopher Wray, heading up the FBI, said that the terror level in this country has reached a whole new level, worried about those here who will inspire acts like, by the way, the one that just happened in New Orleans. He said the terror level threat is higher than before October 7. So, one might wonder why there hasn’t been a change in policy that has led to that.”
Mayorkas responded, “Well, there has been a change in policy. Quite frankly, the number of individuals encountered at our southern border on a daily basis now is lower than it was in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, number one. Number two, Director Wray was speaking of the fact that we have a diverse set of challenges that our country is facing. And I have spoken publicly about this as well. We have the persistent threat of foreign terrorism that really gave rise to the Department of Homeland Security in the first instance after the tragic events of 9/11. We have the individuals already resident in the United States radicalized to violence by a foreign terrorist ideology, or, over the last eight years, what we have seen, anti-government sentiment, false narratives spread online, personal grievances. And the third major threat vector is adverse nation-states such as the People’s Republic of China, Russia, and Iran that we counter every single day.”
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The new Congress taking office today still has time to impeach Mayorkas. While they're at it, they can also impeach / remove Biden and Harris. However, I anticipate the same old, same old Congressional shenanigans and self-serving activities.
NEW: New Orleans Police Superintendent says she had no clue that New Orleans had sidewalk barriers to defend against terror attacks, which are now being used today.
What a total embarrassment.
Reporters seemed shocked when Anne Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted that she was… pic.twitter.com/5prEdJyuj8
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New Orleans Police Superintendent says she had no clue that New Orleans had sidewalk barriers to defend against terror attacks Fixed it for you all.
"However, the barrier situated at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon streets was not upright on New Year's Eve, meaning vehicles could drive over the flattened barricade and onto Bourbon Street from Canal Street."
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"I didn't know Granny Clampett was still alive and NOLA Chief of Police"
Granny Clampett wasn't known for her tolerance of nonsense. The frames on her glasses were not purple and she did not extol the virtues of DEI. Now, Miss Jane was another story.
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Don't the 5 Stars on each shoulder of her jacket look sharp?
What the hell are we doing to ourselves as a society that *this* worn-out school marm passes as a "Police Superintendent"?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...dynastic pseudo-Republican politician from Wyoming, daughter of Richard Cheney. She was a part of the farcicle January 6th 
