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A recent article promoting education software company Terra Dotta's new "Next Gen" platform paints a deceptively optimistic picture of a tech upgrade for international student services. It positions the tool as a critical solution for navigating compliance with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, the Department of Homeland Security's online system for tracking certain classes of foreign students in the U.S. But the article ignores the deeper and more ominous consequences of what Terra Dotta has actually built – a streamlined, automated pipeline from foreign student enrollment to long-term employment, bypassing essential safeguards meant to protect American workers and U.S. immigration integrity.
Beneath its glossy branding, the Next Gen platform is not merely a foreign student support tool, but an end-to-end foreign labor funnel. The software doesn't stop at admissions or visa monitoring; it actively guides students through the life cycle of employment-based immigration, from Optional Practical Training (OPT) and STEM OPT to H-1B visas – and ultimately green card sponsorship.
This automation of the visa-to-work pathway is not incidental; it's the core feature. The purpose of "Next Gen" is to ensure international students remain in the U.S. labor market long after graduation, regardless of workforce demand or labor market conditions. Thus, this is not about support, but rather about retention, conversion and exploitation, all driven by institutions that profit from international tuition and foreign labor demand.
Institutions aren't adopting Terra Dotta to better serve students; they're doing it to protect revenue. After all, international students contributed $43.8 billion to colleges and universities in the United States in 2023-2024. Their presence financially props up graduate programs, funds administrative expansion and helps universities inflate job-placement statistics through extended work authorization loopholes like STEM OPT. Tools like Terra Dotta's ensure these students stay in compliance, remain enrolled and transition smoothly into U.S. employment pipelines, often while bypassing U.S. citizens for entry-level STEM jobs.
This is a business model disguised as education, and platforms like Next Gen provide the back end infrastructure.
The worst part is the automation itself. By embedding immigration transitions into campus systems, the platform removes friction points that might otherwise catch abuse. There is no human discretion, no case-by-case analysis, no scrutiny of student merit or employer intent. If a foreign student gets flagged for SEVIS termination, the system alerts the student before any consequence hits. If a visa deadline approaches, the system nudges the student toward the next immigration category, usually one that benefits the student's institution or a tech employer looking for a cheap hire. It is an unregulated, AI-assisted visa machine that institutionalizes what should be a rigorously controlled process.
Terra Dotta's software is not helping U.S. compliance, it's replacing it. And in so doing, it's enabling the systematic exclusion of U.S. workers from the hiring process. The same universities can now implement software that guarantees foreign nationals uninterrupted access to U.S. jobs, making their university more competitive to attract international students while taxpayers and students foot the bill. This is the quiet digitization of labor displacement, and it's being sold under the guise of student support.
What the PIE News article really showcases is a tech-enabled end-run around immigration enforcement. There's no mention of the abuse of STEM OPT, which lets foreign graduates work for up to three years without employer sponsorship or labor market testing. There's no mention of the 4,700 SEVIS terminations that occurred in just one semester, many tied to fraud or non-compliance. There's no acknowledgment that these so-called student pipelines are now the backbone of major corporations' offshore labor strategies. And there's certainly no accountability for how tools like Terra Dotta are fueling this system.
This isn't innovation. It's automation for exploitation. While the media frames Terra Dotta's rollout as compassionate modernization, Americans should see it for what it really is: a fully digitized foreign worker pipeline built right into America's schools, paid for with tuition dollars and protected by silence.
The only thing Next Gen supports is a future where American graduates are replaced – by design.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is celebrating the removal of artificial food dyes from popular brands like Jell-O.
Petroleum-based dyes are used to make foods more attractive in appearance and are common in ultra-processed foods consumed by children, including popular breakfast cereals and snacks.
Food dyes have no nutritional value and have been linked to health concerns, including ADHD and even cancer.
In April, Kennedy said the government had reached an "understanding" with major food companies to eliminate six artificial food dyes by the end of 2026. The government also announced it was banning two rarely used dyes, Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B.
At the time, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary likened food dyes to a "toxic soup."
"For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals. The scientific community has conducted a number of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum-based synthetic dyes and several health conditions, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, cancer, genomic disruption, GI issues – as I’ve seen in the hospital, and allergic reactions," he said.
Kennedy is also pushing to speed up the removal of Red No. 3, which has been found to cause cancer in rats.
Now, Kraft Heinz has announced it will no longer use artificial coloring, with plans to eliminate all synthetic dyes by the end 2027. Some of the impacted brands include Kool Aid, Crystal Light, MiO, Jet-Puffed marshmallows and Jell-O.
"As a food company with a 150+ year heritage, we are continuously evolving our recipes, products, and portfolio to deliver superiority to consumers and customers," Kraft Heinz said. "The vast majority of our products use natural or no colors, and we've been on a journey to reduce our use of FD&C colors across the remainder of our portfolio."
"In fact, we removed artificial colors, preservatives, and flavors from our beloved Kraft Mac & Cheese back in 2016. Our iconic Heinz Tomato Ketchup has never had artificial dyes -- the red color comes simply from the world's best tomatoes," the company added.
"Above all, we are focused on providing nutritious, affordable, and great-tasting food for Americans and this is a privilege we don't take lightly," the statement concluded.
Other companies that are ditching food dyes include General Mills, McCormick, and fast-food chains like Steak ‘n Shake and In-N-Out Burger.
“Big food brands are listening. From cereals to spices to fast food, artificial dyes and additives are being removed for [sic] America’s food supply,” Kennedy said in an X post.
“Thank you, @POTUS, for empowering me to put the health of our children and families first. Together, we will Make America Healthy Again,” he added.
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Leftists, Marxists, activists for illegal immigration into America and even gangs have objected to President Donald Trump's agenda to secure America's borders and deport illegal alien criminals.
His plans come after Joe Biden essentially unlocked the doors, opened the borders and let millions of illegal aliens into America to take jobs, benefit from government social programs and more.
Trump's work has shown results: Statistics show during May border agents released no illegal aliens into the U.S., compared to more than 60,000 given that privilege under Biden a year earlier.
But this the agenda has come criticism, legal opposition, organization resistance and even riots, like those in Los Angeles that activists tried to spread across the country in their "No Kings" protests.
But one state now is offering an addition to Trump's program that takes will take a few breaths away.
It's proposed by Florida and it's called "Alligator Alcatraz," a secure detention facility to be located in the Everglades on land surrounded by alligators and pythons.
A report from the Washington Examiner said Florida officials now are considering the plan for a large immigration detention facility there.
The land currently is owned by Miami-Dade County.
"The proposal by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier comes as the Trump administration has set a quota for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to make 3,000 arrests of illegal immigrants per day," the report said.
It already has an airstrip, which would benefit programs to process and deport illegal aliens.
"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide," Uthmeier told Fox Business. "Only the alligators and pythons are waiting. That's why I like to call it 'Alligator Alcatraz.'"
Construction could begin within weeks if the project gets the proper permissions, he said.
The Examiner reported, "Uthmeier's proposal comes as ICE detention centers have reached capacity for detaining immigrants. Almost 90% of individuals held by ICE are being detained in facilities operated by private, for-profit corporations."
Congress currently is working on a plan to raise the funding for ICE detention operations from $3.4 billion to $45 billion.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed California Gov. Gavin Newsom a huge loss in his fight with President Donald Trump over the activation of National Guard troops to protect federal assets during the ongoing Los Angeles riots.
That violence, attacks on federal officers, destruction of vehicles, vandalism of buildings and more, started when federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers launched a raid to deliver warrants and make arrests in a cartel criminal investigation, involving, among other things, laundering money.
Local activists claimed it was nothing but immigration raids and triggered riots, with Trump calling out National Guard troops to protect federal assets.
Newsom sued, and a leftist local judge ordered the president to return control of the troops to Newsom.
That now has been put on hold.
Explained constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, "Gov. Gavin Newsom just lost a major ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which ruled that President Donald Trump is likely to prevail in his deployment of National Guard troops. Newsom and various Democratic politicians have insisted that Trump's order is unlawful and that Newsom has to agree to any request for deployment. The Ninth Circuit ruled on Thursday that Newsom does not have such a veto over deployments."
The appeals court action blocked an injunction created by a leftist, Charles Breyer, the entry level court judge "who suggested in open court that Trump was acting like another 'King George.' He then wrote an opinion that included many Democratic talking points — suggesting, for example, that Trump was creating disorder by calling out the National Guard to deal with disorder," Turley explained.
"Breyer further indicated that the violence in Los Angeles was relatively minor, despite potentially deadly attacks on law enforcement, arson, and looting," Turley noted.
The appeals court cited the justifications for calling on the troops to include:
"Whenever— (1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; (2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States; the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia."
Breyer claimed Trump could not use part three "if there was any possibility of executing federal laws absent the use of the National Guard troops."
The appeals court said that was misguided, as, "Section 12406 does not have as a prerequisite that the President be completely precluded from executing the relevant laws of the United States in order to call members of the National Guard into federal service, nor does it suggest that activation is inappropriate so long as any continued execution of the laws is feasible."
"Defendants have made the required strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal. We disagree with Defendants' primary argument that the President's decision to federalize members of the California National Guard under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 is completely insulated from judicial review. Nonetheless, we are persuaded that, under longstanding precedent interpreting the statutory predecessor to § 12406, our review of that decision must be highly deferential. Affording the President that deference, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority under § 12406(3), which authorizes federalization of the National Guard when 'the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.' Additionally, the Secretary of Defense's transmittal of the order to the Adjutant General of the California National Guard—who is authorized under California law to 'issue all orders in the name of the Governor,' CAL. MIL. & VET. CODE § 163— likely satisfied the statute's procedural requirement that federalization orders be 3 issued 'through' the Governor," the ruling said.
Even if there was a procedural mistake, the court said, "that would not justify the scope of relief provided by the district court's TRO. Our conclusion that it is likely that the President's order federalizing members of the California National Guard was authorized under § 12406(3) also resolves the Tenth Amendment claim because the parties agree that the Tenth Amendment claim turns on the statutory claim. We also conclude that the other stay factors—irreparable harm to Defendants, injury to Plaintiffs, and the public interest—weigh in Defendants' favor. Thus, we grant the motion for a stay pending appeal."
The court ruling acknowledged the violence of the riots, how protesters blocked traffic and used shopping carts to barricade a street for hours, rioters who attacked federal officers and threw mortar-style fireworks at them.
Others were "dangerous" because they threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, burned vehicles, vandalized property.
The result was that officers were injured.
Trump's response was to call the Guard troops to protect federal officers and property, and Newsom demanded that the order be reversed.
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Stephen King has come up with some scary scenarios in his horror stories. So have Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker.
But none envisioned what a stunning new research paper has confirmed: There are human remains in America's water systems.
The horror is the result of America's new abortion industry agenda to deliver chemical abortion drugs to women.
The research paper, "Abortion in our Water, A Special report: Chemical Home Abortions & the Disposition of Aborted Fetal Remains," comes from Liberty Counsel Action.
"This is an unfolding environmental and public health crisis," John Stemberger, chief of Liberty Counsel Action. "The same water that Americans use to drink, cook, and bathe in may contain residuals from powerful, lethal abortion drugs. No one voted for this, and if folks were aware, there would be public outcry. We are all living with these consequences. The EPA instructs Americans not to flush baby wipes, tampons, or goldfish, and yet it allows abortion providers to use wastewater treatment facilities as medical waste facilities and biohazard centers – flushing human fetal tissues that include newly formed organs, placenta, and bone fragments."
The 86-page paper contains an executive summary and is documented with 335 footnotes. Its primary author is Abigail Forman, a former legislator from Minnesota who serves as a researcher and policy analyst with Liberty Counsel Action, an organization chaired by constitutional law attorney Mat Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel, which has fought some of the biggest fights for the pro-life beliefs across the nation.
The paper documents how an estimated 30-40 tons of hazardous medical waste, including human remains, are being flushed.
It analyzes the impacts of flushing the abortion pill, Mifepristone, and other chemical abortion drugs and their residue, each year.
It draws of a variety of studies and peer-reviewed research, petitions to the EPA, government resources and interviews with water treatment experts.
It draws attention to:
The report notes President Donald Trump repeatedly has called for "crystal-clean water" and it now calls on him to act.
The report also calls on Congress and federal agencies to immediately investigate the oversight failures related to the original and subsequent approvals of Mifepristone and propose new regulations that treat "at-home" chemical abortions with the same environmental scrutiny as hospital-based procedures.
The report notes that the original application for FDA approval of the abortion chemicals was flawed because it claimed, citing an environmental assessment from the Population Council, that the impact of the drug on the environment would be minimal.
There was no consideration of the human remains.
"These gross oversights amount to clear violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Clean Water Act (CWA)," the report charges.
"Students for Life of America estimates that 40+ tons of chemically tainted medical waste have entered our wastewater treatment plants, which, in any other context, would be a national scandal. As it pertains to other possible human harms, it is important to note mifepristone acts as an endocrine disruptor (a chemical that may mimic or interfere with a body's hormones) by blocking a vital fertility hormone. Mifepristone is also known to form 'active metabolites,' that is, metabolites that retain therapeutic effects. After being excreted by women, these metabolites enter wastewater treatment plants—most of which are not designed to remove them—and may end up in our water supply," it warns.
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President Donald Trump has announced a new list of sanctions targeting the rogue Islamic regime in Iran, this time putting in the bull's-eye eight companies that are involved "in the procurement and transshipment of sensitive machinery for Iran's defense industry."
The sanctioned include the Hong Kong-based Unico Shipping, Shun Kai Xing, a bulk carrier owned by Unico Shipping, Zhang Yanbang, shipmaster of the Shun Kai Xing, China-based Futech, Hong Kong-based Athena Shipping, Singapore-based V-Shipping. China-based Shenzhen Xinxin Shipping and
Turkey-based Edis Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi.
A report from the Washington Examiner said the goal is to undermine Iran's military even as Trump is considering whether to take military action.
"The U.S. remains resolved to disrupt any effort by Iran to procure the sensitive, dual-use technology, components, and machinery that underpin the regime's ballistic missile, unmanned aerial vehicle, and asymmetric weapons programs. We have been clear: those who enable these schemes will be held accountable," explained Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "Treasury will continue to degrade Iran's ability to produce and proliferate these deadly weapons, which threaten regional stability and global security."
Trump announced just a day earlier he will decide whether to join Israel in action against Iran in the next two weeks.
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Somalia native Rep. Ilhan Omar has deleted her own statement about slavery in the United States after being confronted by the fact that her own native soil has thousands in slavery.
Omar, a far-left Democrat from Minnesota whose own political career has been littered with scandals over her marriages, routinely blasts America as a horrible country for its treatment of immigrants, blacks, and more.
She often has confirmed she is in Congress to look out for the interests of Somalia's people.
It was when she posted a Juneteenth comment that she was caught.
She said, "160 years ago on June 19, 1865, slavery ended in this country. Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions."
It was commenter Gunther Eagleman who responded, "Somalia still has slaves. Ilhan should go fight to free her own people," and then later followed with, "She deleted her post."
A report at the Gateway Pundit said, "Another Juneteenth post by Omar remains, 'On Juneteenth, we remember that freedom is not always swift but it is always worth the fight. It's a powerful reminder of how long justice can take to reach those who deserve it most. Today, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, and achievement, and continue the work to root out systematic racism from our policies and institutions.'"
The report cited a 2024 State Department report confirming human trafficking in Somalia: "IDPs, minority populations, people residing in al-Shabaab territory, and Somali children working in informal sectors remain the most vulnerable to sex trafficking and forced labor. Some Somalis willingly surrender custody of their children to people with whom they share familial ties or clan linkages who may subsequently exploit some of these children in forced labor or sex trafficking. Traffickers may exploit children in forced labor in agriculture, domestic work, herding, selling or portering khat, crushing stones, fishing, forced begging, or construction."
And the report noted a 2023 Walk Free estimate of nearly 100,00 enslaved in Somalia.
President Trump made some big league changes to the White House grounds on Thursday, installing a pair of massive flagpoles on the North and South Lawns.
The real estate mogul, who is famous for doing everything on a "big, beautiful" scale, showed off the fresh renovations with enthusiasm.
“This is the real deal,” he said. “This is the best you can get. There’s nothing like this.”
For about an hour, the former real estate developer supervised the project while riffing with reporters on the political news of the day.
The president was asked about the crisis in Iran, which has presented him with a pivotal choice whether to enter a new Middle Eastern conflict - but he offered few details on geopolitics as he discussed the flag poles with a builder's passion.
“I love construction,” he added. “I love it, I know it better than anybody.”
“They put sand inside, and if they use dirt or anything else other than sand, it rots out the pole over a period of years. But sand, for some reason, chemically just works," he said. "It gives you flexibility and it doesn’t do anything to the cask,” he said.
“It’s such a beautiful pole,” Trump said.
Trump said he has wanted to do this for some time, but he was distracted during his first term by witch hunts. Now, he's "the hunter."
“I’ve had it for a long time. In the first term I had it, but, you know, you guys were after me. I said I had to focus. I was the hunted. And now I’m the hunter. There’s a big difference,” he said.
Trump also came with jokes, as usual, asking the hard-hatted workers if any of them were in the country illegally.
"We're taking them out by the thousands. Murderers, drug dealers, people that are mentally insane, from insane asylums," Trump said.
"Do we have anybody here who's a member of -- no, I don't think so. You've known these people for a long time?" he asked. "Any illegal immigrants?"
When the job was finished, Trump returned and saluted Old Glory.
The president has added gold touches to the Oval Office, and he is installing a patio in the Rose Garden, opulent renovations that have drawn criticism from those who compare him to an aspiring "king."
With his "beautiful" flagpoles, Trump is leaving another stamp of his personality on the White House - while honoring America's democracy at the same time.
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Gain-of-function research is a dangerous game where scientists deliberately make viruses, or something else, more dangerous so that measures to counter it can be researched.
Many believe COVID-19 came out of exactly that type of work in Wuhan, China.
But now The National institutes of Health has announced it is terminating all funding for grants involving that risky procedure.
And researchers have until the end of June to say whether their grants comply with President Donald Trump's executive order regulating the experimentation.
A report from the Washington Examiner noted scientists got notice this week about the end of such funding.
"Gain-of-function research has been hotly debated since the mid-2010s, when the scientific community became increasingly concerned about the potential for genetically manipulated viruses to start an epidemic or pandemic via a lab accident," the Examiner reported. "In layman's terms, gain-of-function refers to the manipulation of a pathogen to make it more transmissible or give it the capacity to infect its host in new ways."
It was revealed after the COVID-19 pandemic circled the globe and killed millions that the NIH had funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where COVID-19 erupted.
"Trump's May executive order provides a technical definition for 'dangerous gain-of-function research' as any research activity altering a pathogen or toxin that 'could result in significant societal consequences,'" the report noted.
His order permanently prohibits such research in nations designated by the director of National Intelligence as "countries of concern," such as China.
The plan revealed this week is that NIH funding for such projects, in appropriate locations, will resume when an oversight procedure proposed by Trump takes effect.
The report explained, "Stopping federal funding of gain-of-function research has been a priority of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Paul has introduced legislation multiple times to codify an independent oversight agency to review potentially risky research projects before they receive federal funding from any department funding biomedical projects, not just the NIH."
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Amid a faceoff between a rogue Islamic regime in Iran, which openly has stated its intent to wipe Israel from the face of the earth, and that tiny democracy sitting at the fulcrum of Middle East power that launched a series of bombings to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons hopes, President Donald Trump has been getting a lot of advice.
Bomb or not. Intervene or not. Much more. Trump himself has suggested, often, that Iran reach an agreement to give up its nuclear weapons plans and join the world economy in multiple ways.
Now popular evangelical leader Franklin Graham has endorsed a suggestion from Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, on which voice to follow.
"HIS voice."
Explained Graham, online, "I appreciate Ambassador Mike Huckabee and what he said in his text message to President Donald J. Trump. I agree with every word. Pray for Ambassador Huckabee as he serves in Israel during these difficult days, and pray for President Trump – and that all of our leaders would listen to God's voice, the ONE that matters."
Huckabee earlier had urged the president to listen to "HIS voice."
He said, according to the image re-posted by the White House:
Mr. President.
God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century – maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else.
You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice.
I am your appointed servant in his land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts.
No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don't reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you.
I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important that mine or ANYONE else's.
You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.
I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU!
It is my honor to serve you!
Mike Huckabee
Reaction to Huckabee's comments were split on social media. Democrats condemned them, while those members of less extreme parts of the American community supported.
WND had reported earlier this year as the Trump administration was being assembled on Huckabee's perspective about the future of the Mideast.
He told interviewer Maria Bartiromo, "I'm personally optimistic that we're going to see something bold. I will use this term, Maria. I think we will see something of biblical proportion happen with his leadership in the Middle East."
His comment came just as Trump was proposing the U.S. take over the troubled Gaza Strip to help transform it into a Riviera-style region.
That followed Israel's strikes on the terrorists of Hamas who used the region as a base from which to attack Israel and slaughter some 1,200 Israeli civilians, often in horrific fashion.