[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is admitting that the agency has “no records” on hundreds of thousands of border crossers released into the United States that it was supposed to be monitoring through its Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program.
In September 2022, the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with DHS officials to secure information about the more than 350,000 border crossers currently enrolled in the ATD program by the Biden administration.
The ATD program allows border crossers who have recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to be released into the nation’s interior while being electronically monitored by DHS. The monitoring can come in the form of ankle bracelets or cellphones that only track location and have facial recognition capabilities.
In response to FOIA request, DHS officials wrote back that the agency has “no records” on the hundreds of thousands of border crossers who have entered the ATD program since Fiscal Year 2019.
DHS previously admitted to providing inaccurate ATD program data for Fiscal Year 2022, forcing TRAC researchers to issue a warning on their page that the number of border crossers enrolled in the program may not be accurate.
The Biden administration has drastically grown the ATD program to now include hundreds of thousands of border crossers who are released into the U.S. interior.
The latest enrollment figures show that nearly 378,000 border crossers are enrolled in the ATD program. Compare that figure to September 2019 when a little more than 83,000 border crossers were enrolled in the program.
In the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) year-end report for Fiscal Year 2022, agency officials admit to having “significantly expanded ATD enrollment from an average daily population of approximately 23,000 active participants at the end of FY 2014 to 321,000” by last year’s end.
These ATD enrollees represent a fraction of the 4.8 million border crossers and illegal aliens who have either final deportation orders or pending deportation orders but remain living across American communities — including 1.2 million who have been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge.
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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken
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Their goal is to turn the entire country into the old Cleveland Stadium on 10 cent beer night. They are fomenting chaos with the purpose of breaking society. A bureaucracy that doesn’t keep records is an impossibility. This is not incompetence. They are facilitating the migration path from Panama.
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[JustTheNews] A new era of gun sales is taking effect in California.
On July 1, 2022, California Penal Code section 31910 was revised. The change required semiautomatic pistols sold in California to have microstamping technology.
A microstamp acts like a fingerprint in identifying ammunition cartridges and the gun from which it was fired. The firing pin imposes an identifying stamp on the round's primer as it’s discharged.
The revision now only requires one microstamp in the interior of the handgun instead of two. Supporters hoped that this change in the penal code would encourage manufacturers to employ the technology in their firearm products.
Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with the California Department of Justice, is proposing an additional rule to bolster the use of microstamping. The new rule proposes that the unique microstamp of every handgun in California be kept as a record with the Department of Justice to identify firearms used in criminal activity.
A statement released by the California Department of Justice addressed to “Firearm manufacturers and Interested Parties,” invites comments on specific questions “in developing new regulations to achieve the law’s objectives in the most effective manner.”
The department does not ask whether the rule should be made but rather poses questions on procedure once it is implemented. They invite input on questions such as:
Who is best suited to provide the microstamp to the DOJ?When should the microstamp be provided to the DOJ?How should the microstamp be provided to the DOJ?If a microstamp part needs to be replaced, should the regulated replacement part have the same microstamp as the original?
The department will accept comments from interested parties until 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2023.
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Gee, I know crooks aren't the smartest creatures, but the amount of effort needed to obliterate the microstamp is within the grasp of the simplest criminal mind.
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That would be breaking the law. This initiative is not targeted at law breakers.
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Google inquire result: "Are there any guns with microstamping?
Manufacturing a gun to meet the microstamping specification is extremely difficult largely due to the requirement of two or more imprints needing to be transferred from the interior of the pistol to the casing. As a result, no production firearm has been able to meet this requirement."
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Unprepared... Define unprepared.
When the FBI hires Confidential Informant Embeds, does the FBI train them first? Are they onboarded? How many years out did it take for the FBI to organize and define their J6 operations? Lots of planning occurred here.
[FoxNews] Matt Taibbi also reports on the Trump State Department's eagerness to engage with Twitter.
It was revealed in the latest "Twitter Files," that the office of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., made requests for Twitter to suspend certain accounts.
In the second of two back-to-back batches of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" shared on Tuesday by Substack writer Matt Taibbi, he reported that Twitter "received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned."
An example he shared was one sent in November 2020 by Schiff's office, who contacted Twitter hoping the tech giant would take action regarding "alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists" against Schiff's staff, including aide Sean Misko.
"Remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service- to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content," the request to Twitter read. "Suspend the many accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, which have repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies."
Schiff's office also requested that Twitter "stop the spread of future misinformation on Twitter" regarding committee staff and "label and reduce the visibility of any content."
"Even Twitter declined to honor Schiff's request at the time," Taibbi wrote, noting Twitter's responses to Schiff's office repeatedly saying "we don't do this." As Taibbi noted, though, Sperry was later suspended.
Schiff's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
Much of the twelfth installment of the "Twitter Files" was focused on eagerness from the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), which Taibbi described as a "fledgling analytic/intelligence" arm to participate in guiding Twitter's moderation of content and how it often used the media to clash with the tech giant beginning in February 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic was underway.
"The GEC flagged accounts as ‘Russian personas and proxies’ based on criteria like, ‘Describing the Coronavirus as an engineered bioweapon,’ blaming ‘research conducted at the Wuhan institute,’ and ‘attributing the appearance of the virus to the CIA,’" Taibbi wrote. "State also flagged accounts that retweeted news that Twitter banned the popular U.S. ZeroHedge, claiming the episode 'led to another flurry of disinformation narratives.' ZH had done reports speculating that the virus had lab origin."
Yoel Roth, Twitter's then-head of trust and safety, push backed at GEC's own analysis allegedly based on data from the Department of Homeland Security that "nearly 250,000" Chinese-linked accounts were peddling propaganda and disinformation about COVID. Roth saw GEC's report partly as "an attempt to insert themselves" into conversations Twitter has had with intel agencies including the DHS and FBI.
The GEC eventually agreed to "loop in Twitter" before going public with its own findings, but the conflict continued between Twitter and the State Department arm. As Taibbi reported, tech giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google opposed the GEC's inclusion in government talks. Roth at the time saw the GEC as "political" unlike the FBI and DHS. Roth also saw "major risks" for Twitter being chummy with the GEC "especially as the election heats up," according to an email. Roth at the time saw the GEC as "political" unlike the FBI and DHS. That, right there, tells you what a willing fool Roth was
Roth further expressed his distrust in the "press-happy" GEC to FBI special agent Elvis Chan, who had constant communication with Twitter. Taibbi wrote, "Chan reassured him it would be a ‘one-way’ channel, and ‘State/GEC, NSA, and CIA have expressed interest in being allowed on in listen mode only.'"
Taibbi continued quoting the FBI agent, "'We can give you everything we’re seeing from the FBI and USIC agencies," Chan explained, but the DHS agency CISA ‘will know what’s going on in each state.' He went on to ask if industry could 'rely on the FBI to be the belly button of the USG.’ They eventually settled on an industry call via Signal."
"Twitter was taking requests from every conceivable government body, beginning with the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI), which seemed to need reassurance Twitter was taking FBI direction. Execs rushed to tell "Team SSCI" they zapped five accounts on an FBI tip," Taibbi tweeted with screenshots of emails. "Requests arrived and were escalated from all over: from Treasury, the NSA, virtually every state, the HHS, from the FBI and DHS, and more."
"Twitter honored almost everyone else’s requests, even those from GEC – including a decision to ban accounts like @RebelProtests and @BricsMedia because GEC identified them as ‘GRU-controlled’ and linked ‘to the Russian government,’ respectively," Taibbi added.
By 2020, requests from the intel community "came in bulk" and carried on into the Biden administration. According to Taibbi, one memo from the 2020 showed that Twitter was "warned about publicity surrounding a book by former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokhin, who alleged ‘corruption by the U.S. government’ – specifically by Joe Biden."
In the eleventh installment reported earlier in the day by Taibbi, Twitter had undergone a "PR crisis" following the 2016 presidential election as it was being pressured by Democrats to take action on alleged Russian influence on the platform as Facebook was doing in 2017, something Taibbi concluded influenced Twitter to embrace the intel community.
The more we read, it seems clear the Liberal Socialist Democrat Party (LSD's) should be constantly protested by ANTI-FA for its well documented FASCIST actions.
The question is:
With the Rino-Party in charge of the House, will any of these ILLEGAL / Unconstitutional actions result in criminal charges?
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To those who still watch the nightly news: Is any of this being covered by the media?
I think I know the answer; but I don't want to assume before making further comments.
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It is a Civil Rights violation by Schiff against any Twitter users who we suppressed. He has some immunity with regard to statements that he makes on the floor of Congress. He is only above the law due to FBI/DOJ being corrupt along with the DC courts and DC jury pool.
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It is truly ironic to hear Schifferbrains talking about misinformation.
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To those who still watch the nightly news: Is any of this being covered by the media?
It only encourages them if we watch them. I avoid it like the plague. When outfits like CNN are forced to lay off their employees it warms the cockles of my cold, black heart. One day I hope to hear about CBS, NBC and ABC doing the same.
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I mean, you talk about misinformation...
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Part 12 — or Part 11, 2nd part — can be seen here.
[FoxNews] Matt Taibbi shared 2023's first batch of "Twitter Files"
‘Media Buzz' host Howard Kurtz discusses the latest batch of Twitter files that reveal the Biden and Trump administrations attempted to suppress COVID content they did not agree with.
The first "Twitter Files" of 2023 dove into the tech giant's evolution from its resistance to its embrace of the intel community.
In the eleventh installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files," Substack writer Matt Taibbi reported about the "PR crisis" Twitter underwent in 2017 when Democrats pummeled the tech giant for its apparent inaction of investigating Russian influence on the platform as Facebook was public with uprooting suspicious foreign accounts following the 2016 presidential election.
Amid pressure, Twitter launched a "Russia Task Force" to investigate whether the Kremlin had such a foothold on the platform, even after it had suspended several suspected Russia-linked accounts.
"First round of RU investigation… 15 high risk accounts, 3 of which have connections with Russia, although 2 are RT," an October 2017 memo shared by Taibbi read at the time.
Another read, "Finished with investigation… 2500 full manual account reviews, we think this is exhaustive… 32 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with Russia, only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is Russia Today...remaining <$10k in spend."
Taibbi cited a report from BuzzFeed News that had flagged 45 "fake propaganda accounts" to Twitter, which were later suspended, and "leaks" from Congress published in the media and proposed legislation from lawmakers that further pressured the tech giant to take action.
"This cycle – threatened legislation, wedded to scare headlines pushed by congressional/intel sources, followed by Twitter caving to moderation asks – would later be formalized in partnerships with federal law enforcement," Taibbi wrote Tuesday.
He then highlighted the discrepancy between Twitter's "external" policy, which was that it would remove content "in our soul discretion," while its "internal guidance" read that "any user identified by the U.S. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber operations against targets associated with U.S. or other elections… shall not be allowed to advertise on Twitter."
"We will not be reverting to the status quo," Twitter's then-Public Policy VP Colin Crowell told his colleagues at the time.
Each installment of the "Twitter Files" was shared by the journalists in lengthy Twitter threads addressing various controversies. Taibbi went viral with the first installment in early December with his "Twitter Files" focusing on Twitter's internal discussions leading to it censor the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election, with some officials struggling to explain how it violated its "hacked materials" policies.
It was later revealed that the first batch of "Twitter Files" was vetted without Musk's knowledge by Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker, who previously served as the FBI's general counsel and was involved in the Russia probe. Musk fired Baker shortly thereafter.
A useful summary of the previous Twitter Files reports can be read at the link.
In response to the "Twitter Files," a spokesperson for the FBI told Fox News Digital, "The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them."
The FBI's routine contact with Twitter regarding users that would ultimately face punishment for their tweets has raised major flags about potential First Amendment violations.
The FBI remained defiant amid criticism, telling Fox News in a statement "The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers… It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."
Musk teased there's "much more" Twitter Files to reveal in 2023 particularly about COVID and how top doctors and scientists were "actively suppressed on Twitter," presumably for going against the White House-approved narrative.
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Russia, Russia, Russia and nary a word about China. That is beyond suspicious. It is, I believe, a smoking gun that proves Democrat subservience to the Chinese Communist Party.
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/\ Democrat subservience to the Chinese Communist Party.
You've obviously been 'following the money' again Abu.
[PJMedia] House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to obtain the necessary 218 votes to become the next House speaker during the first vote on Tuesday.
Reps. McCarthy (R-Calif.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) split most of the votes, but no candidate received more than half of the vote (218) which is required to win the election. It has been nearly a century since the majority party failed to elect a speaker on the first vote, explains Fox News.
Given that some Republicans have previously declared their opposition to McCarthy, it was widely expected that he would need more than one round of voting to win the gavel.
A group of five conservatives led by Biggs and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) have publicly stated that they will not support McCarthy under any circumstances and have called on him to stand down to make room for a more viable candidate.
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I thought Jeffereis was the Dem in line to replace Pelosi, namely the Dem leader.
But I find the turmoil on both sides refreshing.
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Bobby, Jeffries is the Dem in line to replace the Wicked Witch of the West but some "Republicans" have threatened to vote for him if McCarthy isn't replaced. The Republicans seem to never miss a chance to shoot themselves (and us) in the foot.
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The final count was 203 for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., 212 for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., 10 for Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. and 9 for others. Jefferies needs only 6 votes to be speaker.
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McCarthy: "“Last night I was presented the only way to have 218 votes if I provided certain members with certain positions, certain gavels to take over a committee, to have certain budgets,” Rep. McCarthy said. “And it even came to a position where one Matt Gaetz said I don’t care if we go to a plurality and we elect Hakeem Jeffries and it hurts the new front line members not to get re-elected.”
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^ Imagine, a politician whining about having to sell his soul.
I'm all broken up for his angst.
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Considering McCarthy is a swamp guy, is great friends with all the swamp dems and the first thing he mentioned when his name first came up is he will not impeach Biden or anyone in his cabinet yeah fuck him.
If they do elect him, they better make sure they get enough concessions and rule changes they can kick him out pretty quick if he ignores them. He has changed his tune when he realized there were enough members that would do exactly what they are doing now.
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House Speaker emeritus Nancy Pelosi was re-elected Speaker of the House in 2021 with only 216 votes. In 2015, Former House Speaker John Boehner found himself in this same position and was still voted in as Speaker by the same vote margin. You see, the vote does not have to be among the entire 434 members of Congress, but a plurality. All it takes is a member’s absence or their voting “present.”
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"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker." - Mencken
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I am pleased that we are not in a go along to get along situation. If there are GOP people that will cross the aisle to vote for Jeffries we will have at least identified some moles. Eventually we may see some Dems vote in McCarthy for concessions. Either case of McCarthy or Jefferies would be very bad. Not knowing who we need to get rid of is unacceptable.
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#1, NN2N1, not all Californians are uber liberal. Most of the loonies are on the coast in places like the Bay Area and Los Angeles. True, that's where most of the votes are but go inland a few miles and you will find some of the more rural areas where people tend to be quite conservative.
I'd hate to see Republicans screw around and end up with a Democrat as Speaker but I guess that's why it's called the Stupid Party.
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And McCarthy goes down in flames a 4th time. Boebart is calling on him to yield.
[JOHN KASS NEWS] Some still think of Chicago politics as prizefight, with the winner grabbing the government hammer to beat opponents into submission with "the rule of law" and take the spoils the Chicago Way.
And now the holidays have passed, the main event, the race for mayor of Chicago, is about to begin in full this week.
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.
