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A church in Toms River, New Jersey, with plenty of space as it owns 10 acres of land, proposed building a 17-bed overnight shelter as a way to reach out to the needy and help the community.
So officials in the town retaliated with their own plan to confiscate the land and turn it into pickleball courts.
"It is clear that this is being done in retaliation for the church making an application for a homeless shelter," Harvey York, the church's lawyer, told Fox News.
Citing the constitutional standards regarding protections for freedom religion as well as the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, he said, "I don't know that you'll find a lawyer who will say, 'Oh, yeah, they have every right to do this; they're going to win.'"
It is the Christ Episcopal Church that has found itself in the middle of the city's bull's-eye.
And York said while some residents are happy with the idea, "the majority" is shocked and dismayed.
The church had suggested an outreach to the area's homeless with an overnight shelter.
"It didn't take long for neighbors to become concerned," York explained and the result was an ordinance pending before the town council to condemn and take the land, which now already holds the parish house, auditorium, school, sanctuary and deacon's residence.
"Any governmental agency has the right to condemn property for governmental purposes. That's clear. However, the township has never thought of this as a recreational site," York said. "For them to say they need recreational land flies in the face of the facts and their master plan."
He said city officials need to "mind their own business and stay out of the religious affairs of the community."
The report said the church originally proposed its plan in 2023, an agenda that met all state and local regulations.
Litigation is expected, and Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University, said the case could put before the U.S. Supreme Court the "infamous" Kelo v. City of New London case in which the justices decided the government could confiscate land from one party, under its eminent domain, and give it to another party.
In the Kelo case, city officials in New London confiscated property from a private resident to give it to Pfizer for a major development.
Turley noted the ultimate failure of that scheme.
"After all the pain that the city caused its own residents and the $80 million it spent to buy and bulldoze the property, it came to nothing. Pfizer later announced that it was closing the facility — leaving the city worse off than when it began," he explained.
He said the new case does include the possibility of "public purpose" for the land, but still is clouded with the questions over "a pretextual rationale" for the city's decisions.
"There are ample reasons to be concerned about the actions in this case if they are a form of retaliation for the church's shelter plan," he said.
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A Christian organization obtained a permit and held a rally in Seattle. Leftists enraged by the faith messages being delivered counter-rallied, and 23 ended up being arrested.
So the mayor assigned the blame to the Christian victims.
A Fox News report described how Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has "blamed a Christian rally and infiltrating 'anarchists' for violence" at the weekend event.
"The Seattle Police Department reported 23 people were arrested at Cal Anderson Park during MayDayUSA's 'Don't Mess With Our Kids' rally and a pro-LGBTQ counter-protest. According to SPD, police witnessed 'multiple people inside one group throw items at the opposing group' and, while arresting individuals, were assaulted by other individuals, leading to an officer requiring medical treatment," the report explained.
Harrell's office immediately defended the LGBT community and blasted the "far-right" members who originally organized the rally. Their fault, the statement said, was that they were "provoking" the violent reaction.
It's a classic maneuver used by leftists often to censor those with words they won't tolerate. Leftists create a violent conflict with conservative speakers and authorities then conclude they should censor the conservatives or order to prevent the violence being triggered by leftists.
The mayor's statement said, "Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities, and we stand with our trans neighbors when they face bigotry and injustice. Today's far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city's values, in the heart of Seattle's most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood."
The statement did attribute some of the trouble to "anarchists" who were siding with the counter-protesters.
Harrell then added his endorsement of people who peacefully protest the "extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities," the report said.
And he wants a review of how that Christian group even obtained a rally permit.
"While there are broad First Amendment requirements around permitting events under free speech protections, I am directing the Parks Department to review all of the circumstances of this application to understand whether there were legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued. The Police Department will complete an after-action report of this event, including understanding preparation, crowd management tactics, and review of arrests and citations."
The report said local outlets confirmed that counter-protesters included members of organizations like the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America and such.
MayDayUSA is holding a series of rallies to "stand for our children, restore the family unit, and proclaim the gospel of Jesus, according to an event sponsor.
The mayor's censorial agenda also has prompted a protest plan by those who have announced they will meet outside Seattle City Hall to oppose religious bigotry.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has not only testified before Congress as an expert on the Constitution but also has represented members in court in constitutional disputes, said it is to the city's credit that police arrested "the radicals."
"However, what happened next is even more concerning: Mayor Bruce Harrell seemed to blame the Christian group and demanded to know why they were given a permit at all for an event in the area," he explained.
He explained, "One would hope that the mayor would respond with a simple statement defending free speech (including both the church and peaceful counterprotesters) while condemning the attack." Instead, Harrell condemned the religious organization members "while demanding an investigation into why they were given this permit instead of being moved into a more remote spot."
He explained, "I do not know anything about this Christian group, but they were clearly the victims, not the cause, of this violence. The suggestion that the location was too triggering for transgender activists is yet another example of a failure of leadership on the left."
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The organization governing California's high-school track and field championship has changed its rules regarding qualifying for the upcoming meet after President Donald Trump posted a threat in response to the participation of males in girls' events.
As WND reported, in a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said: "California, under the leadership of Radical Left Democrat Gavin Newscum, continues to ILLEGALLY allow 'MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN'S SPORTS.'
"This week a transitioned Male athlete, at a major event, won 'everything,' and is now qualified to compete in the 'State Finals' next weekend.
"As a Male, he was a less than average competitor. As a Female, this transitioned person is practically unbeatable.
"THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS.
"Please be hereby advised that large scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not adhered to" – a reference to his February order that barred males from women's sports for entities that receive federal funds.
The California Interscholastic Federation, or CIF, provided a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, just hours after Trump sent his Truth Social post. The competition will now include biologically female athletes that missed out on qualifying for the competition that may have placed higher were it not for a male athlete's participation.
The federation claims it came to the decision at the end of last weekend's CIF Masters Qualifiers round, days before Trump's statement. The statement also refers to the female competitors as "biological female student-athlete."
"The CIF values all of our student-athletes and we will continue to uphold our mission of providing students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete while complying with California law and Education Code. With this in mind, the CIF will be implementing a pilot entry process for the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships," the statement read.
"Under this pilot entry process, any biological female student-athlete who would have earned the next qualifying mark for one of their Section's automatic qualifying entries in the CIF State meet, and did not achieve the CIF State at-large mark in the finals at their Section meet, was extended an opportunity to participate in the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships. The CIF believes this pilot entry process achieves the participation opportunities we seek to afford our student-athletes."
According to Fox News, this change will result in at least two competitors qualifying to compete for the state title after falling just shy of the typical qualification threshold on Saturday. A trans-identified athlete competing as a girl for Jurupa Valley High School took first place in the triple jump and long jump on Saturday. min
The case involves AB Hernandez, a biological male.
Hernandez scored first place in the long jump and triple jump at the recent California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Masters Meet.
Andrew Powell, a sports blogger at the Daily Caller, noted: "Parents at the meet were understandably livid, with one mother furiously confronting Hernandez's mom and asking why her son was both allowed and encouraged to compete."
"What a coward of a woman you are allowing that," yelled the angry mother.
"Your mental illness is on your son, you coward," she added.
Powell concluded: "It's sad how you can't even enjoy Memorial Day Weekend anymore without some transgender flubbing up something, but this is unfortunately the society that we live in today … That woke ish really is a cancer."
In his post, Trump noted that California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently admitted it was "deeply unfair" for males to compete in women's sports. The president vowed to speak to Newsom about the upcoming state track and field championship.
The CIF is already under a federal Title IX investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.
After Trump signed the "No Men's in Women's Sports" executive order on Feb. 5, the CIF was one of the first high school sports leagues in the country to announce it would not follow the order, and instead comply with California's state law.
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A recent CNN report exposed a lawsuit filed against software company Workday, accusing it of embedding illegal bias into its AI-powered hiring platform.
The plaintiff, Derek Mobley, said he was automatically rejected from over 100 positions, often within minutes despite meeting the qualifications.
"Algorithmic decision making and data analytics are not and should not be assumed to be race neutral, disability neutral or age neutral," said Mobley.
The case brings into focus a much deeper issue: how artificial intelligence, job platforms, and corporate partnerships have quietly reengineered America's hiring infrastructure. Through algorithmic filters and foreign-aligned job pipelines, U.S. workers are being screened out, systematically replaced by a workforce handpicked and trained to bypass them entirely. And it's happening beneath the radar, through the very technology Americans are told is designed to be "fair."
The orchestrated funnel: how India used job platforms and corporate alliances to displace American workers
India's rise as a global labor exporter didn't happen by accident; it was the result of a deliberate strategy. That strategy began with embedding itself into U.S. job placement pipelines and ended with complete corporate integration through industry-academia MoUs.
The All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, and Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, engineered this system in partnership with global job platforms like Monster, LinkedIn, and apna.co, followed by deeper alignment with multinational employers like Amazon, Salesforce, Oracle, and VMware. The goal: redirect global hiring pipelines away from American talent and into Indian human capital databases rebranded as "upskilled" labor.
AICTE & CII: How India inflated employability through strategic accreditation, skill manipulation, and labor export
AICTE and CII have jointly spearheaded a vast, government-backed campaign to increase the "employability" of Indian nationals. This campaign was not just about raising skills, it was about manufacturing global labor market access by inflating qualifications, using AI-driven resume and skill optimization, and redirecting global employer pipelines toward India's labor databases.
AICTE encouraged thousands of technical institutions to seek National Board of Accreditation certification, granting global credibility to Indian degrees. This also enabled mass certification of under-qualified students while making their credentials appear equivalent to U.S. degrees.
AICTE Skill Development Cell
India's Skill & Experience Inflation Programs:
● NEEM (National Employability Enhancement Mission): Paired students with companies for informal internships, allowing experience to be claimed even when unrelated to the degree field.
● EETP (Employability Enhancement Training Program): Collaborated with platforms like LinkedIn and Monster India to train students on resume building and keyword optimization creating AI-friendly resumes tailored to foreign job systems.
● PMKVY-TI (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana – Technical Institutes): A mass upskilling program linked to employment metrics, but often used to bulk-certify students on paper regardless of actual proficiency.
CII, AICTE & India's quiet takeover of global job platforms
India's economic apparatus, led by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), has systematically built Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with job giants like Monster.com and LinkedIn. These partnerships have created an AI-enabled "labor export funnel" that channels U.S. jobs directly into India's human capital databases.
These aren't isolated partnerships; they're part of a decades-long strategy to reposition India as the global labor supplier by reverse-engineering job qualifications, skill metrics and hiring algorithms used by U.S. employers.
MoUs that redirected U.S. jobs to India
AICTE–Monster India MoU (2017)
Monster was granted full access to AICTE's college network over 10,000 institutions and 3.6 million students. Monster didn't just advertise jobs. It collected employer preference data, built employability indices, and fed the results back to Indian training programs.
Monster was then tasked with tracking student skills, managing campus recruitment, and placing Indian students in global jobs.
"Monster India will provide insights into skill gaps and facilitate job placements."
LinkedIn launched its "Placements" platform in India through AICTE. This placement platform would allow students regardless of academic prestige to access standardized job assessments and global job postings. LinkedIn gathered skills and resume data at scale, enabling Indian colleges to reverse-engineer what global employers wanted.
These weren't just job listings, they were data pipelines used to reshape Indian workforce training to mimic U.S. job qualifications, bypassing geographic barriers and deprioritizing American workers.
AICTE–apna.co MoU (2024):
A newer platform, Apna.co was integrated into India's national employment framework via AICTE's "SWAYAM Plus" career portal. Apna uses AI to generate resume templates and match Indian workers with jobs abroad including in the U.S. by scraping real-time U.S. job data.
"apna.co will power SWAYAM Plus with AI to match Indian students with jobs around the world."
Systematic resume engineering to defraud U.S. employers
These partnerships didn't just help Indian job seekers, they reprogrammed the labor funnel. With real-time insights into what skills U.S. employers seek, Indian candidates were able to falsely claim those skills often without possessing them. Worse, job platforms' AI was trained to match those keyword-rich resumes to U.S. jobs, giving the illusion that American talent didn't apply.
That's why companies claim, "we didn't get qualified American applicants." They did it's just that their AI platforms deprioritized Americans by design. This isn't just a tech issue. It's a foreign interference operation targeting the U.S. workforce.
India's deep access into these hiring engines has allowed it to:
● Redirect hiring pipelines into Indian databases
● Reframe qualifications through manipulated training metrics
● Exploit visa loopholes like OPT and H-1B to onboard foreign labor
● Create a false labor shortage narrative in the U.S.
The Workday lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg. The AI hiring ecosystem dominated by multinational platforms integrated with India's education and workforce ministries has become a gateway to displacement. The U.S. never lacked talent. It lacked gatekeeping. India didn't fill a gap, it created one.
Industry-Academia: From redirected job placement to industry India advantages
What began as job-portal partnerships soon evolved into something far more powerful. With real-time data on U.S. employer demands in hand, India launched a wave of corporate-backed "employability" programs, strategically embedded inside its own education system.
Under the banner of workforce development, India partnered directly with U.S. multinational corporations, Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, LinkedIn, VMware, and others, to mass-certify Indian students in precisely the skills needed for American jobs. These weren't general training efforts. They were tailored, fast-tracked programs designed to feed Indian workers directly into the global tech labor funnel.
While these programs expanded across India, Americans, especially veterans, recent graduates and mid-career professionals, were told they weren't qualified. But this wasn't a gap. It was a manipulated redirect.
● Onshore discrimination: Indian résumés, stuffed with AI-friendly keywords and U.S.-backed certifications, passed automated filters. American résumés were deprioritized or ignored.
● Offshore outsourcing: Companies hired "certified" Indian workers remotely or imported them on H-1B, OPT and STEM OPT visas.
● Bilateral betrayal: American corporations provided technical training to Indian students overseas while excluding American workers from the same programs at home.
This wasn't about filling shortages. It was about designing a surplus, abroad.
U.S. companies claimed they couldn't find qualified talent domestically, but behind the scenes, they were helping the Indian government build an entire foreign labor ecosystem engineered to displace American workers. These efforts were coordinated through India's Ministry of Education–backed bodies like AICTE and ICT Academy.
And the numbers prove the fraud.
India used its partnerships to simulate "global job readiness" for its youth, even though as of 2023 only 5% of Indian youth ages 20–24 had formal employability skills, according to AICTE's own metrics.
Despite this, Indian institutions flooded the market with inflated credentials: LinkedIn learning badges, AWS modules, Oracle certifications, AI resume optimizers. With U.S. support, India simulated job-readiness at scale, regardless of actual competency. These weren't just skills initiatives. These programs weren't about closing a domestic skills gap. They were a labor export strategy creating a foreign skills surplus, specifically tailored and deliberately designed to match American job descriptions while displacing the very workers they claimed to support.
The corporate accomplices: U.S. tech giants helped India displace American workers
The program was straightforward: Build industry-academia pipelines in India, align skill development with U.S. job qualifications, use corporate e-learning platforms for mass training and flood American job portals with foreign-trained "certified" candidates.
These were not charitable education initiatives, they were targeted labor funnel programs.
Here's a partial list of U.S.-based multinationals that actively partnered with Indian government-backed ICT Academy and AICTE to make Indian nationals more "employable" in the global workforce:
Amazon AWS
Through AWS Academy, Amazon helped deliver cloud computing and DevOps certifications to tens of thousands of Indian students and faculty, ensuring their skills aligned with roles in U.S.-based enterprises.
Oracle
Oracle Academy was formally introduced to Indian education institutions through ICT Academy to mass-certify students in enterprise applications, data management, and Java.
"Oracle and ICT Academy… to teach students industry-relevant skills."
Palo Alto Networks
Cybersecurity, once a national security domain, is now being outsourced at scale. With help from Palo Alto, India's ICT Academy enrolled entire institutions into its cybersecurity academy.
Salesforce
Salesforce partnered with ICT Academy to run the New India Championship, the largest "learnathon" in the country. Its Trailhead platform was used to mass-train Indian students in CRM and SaaS tools widely used in the U.S., directly preparing foreign candidates for roles in American firms.
VMware
ICT Academy became VMware's Regional Academy for India, overseeing deployment of the VMware IT curriculum across colleges. This gave Indian students resume-ready certifications directly aligned with U.S. enterprise infrastructure.
Autodesk
By embedding design and engineering software training into Indian institutions, Autodesk helped India mass-train designers to compete directly with U.S. engineering grads at a fraction of the wage.
The result? Americans replaced by design.
Betrayed by our own American companies: Displacement, discrimination, and deception
With AI-driven resume tools, skill-tagged certifications, and direct visibility into U.S. job portals, India didn't compete for American jobs; it engineered dominance. In truth, the system wasn't broken. It was redirected, away from American workers and toward India's industrialized, subsidized, and government-backed workforce machine.
America didn't just lose jobs. It lost the hiring system itself. The gatekeepers, job boards, training platforms and resume builders were quietly handed over to India. In return, U.S. corporations gained access to a cheaper, manipulated labor force pre-packaged to match whatever job description they posted.
India didn't just fill jobs. It hijacked the system that decides who gets hired. Until these corporate-foreign MoUs are ended and U.S. workforce protections are restored, Americans will continue to be filtered out of their own economy one redirected job at a time.
Corporate enablers behind India's ICT Academy workforce funnel
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A court is being asked to act against state officials who bypass the requirements of their own state constitution.
The situation is that while the Alabama Constitution "makes it clear that if the government wants to come searching on your property, they need a warrant based on probable cause," agents from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources simply cite a statute to ignore that requirement.
The Institute for Justice is now working with three Alabama residents to sue over the practice that has agents invading and searching private property not only without a warrant, but without consent.
The plaintiffs are Killen residents Dalton Boley and Regina Williams, and Muscle Shoals resident Dale Liles, who all took action after facing "multiple" privacy intrusions by game wardens.
None ever has been charged with hunting violations, "yet game wardens have snooped around on their properties without warrants on multiple occasions. That's because of an Alabama statute that allows game wardens to 'enter upon any land … in the performance of their duty.' Whether it's a posted field or residential yard, the statute gives wardens broad power to roam around private property without any warrant," the IJ said.
But, IJ lawyer Suranjan Sen explained, "The Alabama Constitution makes it clear that if the government wants to come searching on your property, they need a warrant based on probable cause, and game wardens are not exempt from the Constitution."
Williams owns 10 acres in Killen and had used it for decades, but as she aged she gave her neighbor, Boley, and his family permission to use it.
Then the game wardens arrived.
"This used to be a place where I could come to relax and get away from it all, but now that I know someone could be snooping around, I find it hard to just go there and relax," said Boley, who has faced unsubstantiated accusations from the agents.
"In Muscle Shoals, Dale owns and leases a combined 86 acres with sprawling fields, marshes, and swamps. Unlike Dalton and Regina, Dale does use his land for hunting with his kids and grandkids. There are two entrances to the land: a private gravel road and a gated entrance. Dale first saw a game warden's truck parked on his land in August 2018. He tried to talk to the warden, but he sped away," the IJ said.
The game wardens appeared again.
A trail camera then caught yet another game warden on the land.
"I'm all about preserving our wildlife and great outdoors—that's why I'm the president of my local Ducks Unlimited chapter. But game wardens still have to respect people's rights," said Liles. "Aside from my own privacy concerns, I don't like that the wardens don't wear orange when they're roaming around. It makes it very dangerous when you're hunting with rifles and people aren't wearing colors that make them easy to see."
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As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, a new report indicates Islamic terrorists in Hamas have gone without pay for close to three months as they face severe financial pressure after Israel stopped humanitarian aid from entering Gaza in March.
The Jerusalem Post quotes a report by the London-based Saudi Asharq al Awsat newspaper, which indicates the military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, "has struggled not only to pay its fighters but also to buy military equipment."
"Palestinian Authority employees affiliated with Hamas have also been impacted, getting paid only 900 shekels a month," the report added.
The Jewish News Syndicate reports: "Hamas is under 'great pressure' with the terror organization having lost most of its assets and control of Gaza, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir declared during a Sunday tour of the Strip."
"We are intensifying our activity according to a structured plan," Zamir told Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Gaza.
"Hamas is under tremendous pressure; it has lost most of its assets and its command-and-control structure. We will use all our tools to bring the hostages home, to defeat Hamas and to dismantle its rule."
"This is not an endless war; we will shorten it as we achieve its goals," Zamir continued.
"We aim to win and will do so with determination, thoroughness, and while maintaining the safety of our forces."
The popularity of Hamas in Gaza has plunged dramatically since the outset of the war, as residents are "openly criticizing and protesting the terrorist group," the Jerusalem Post noted.
"In late March, hundreds of Gazan citizens marched in the northern town of Beit Lahiya carrying white flags, calling to end the Hamas rule, and even calling to hand over the Israeli hostages," the Post reported.
"In the West Bank, Hamas members have faced arrests and crackdowns by Israeli and Palestinian security forces. Many cells have been dismantled or lost funding, limiting their ability to carry out terrorist attacks," according to the report.
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Teton County, Wyoming, is one of America's enclaves for the elite.
Figures from 2019 confirm that residents there had the highest average incomes per capita of any county in the U.S., at $252,000.
Property owners include Bill Gates, of Microsoft billions.
As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median home price in the county, meaning half of the homes were priced higher, was $1,060,093.
Nevertheless, homeowners there don't like a county governmental "shakedown" any more than people in other locations.
A report from the Pacific Legal Foundation reveals homeowners Trey and Shelby Scharp are suing in federal court over "excessive and unlawful permit fees the county demanded before allowing them to build a home."
The foundation explained, "Their lawsuit argues that Teton County's 'workforce housing' fees only increase the cost of housing for homeowners, are completely unrelated to their permit, and violate well-established Supreme Court precedents prohibiting governments from extorting money from property owners."
Austin Waisanen, a lawyer for the foundation, explained, "The Scharp family was required to pay a 'workforce housing' fee, despite being told they could not build rental housing on their property. These fees don't make housing cheaper for anyone; they just drive up costs to create housing,"
He continued, "The Constitution is clear that governments cannot compel homebuilders to pay excessive fees for problems they do not create."
The "workforce housing" fee assessed against the Scharps was $25,000, the report said.
While the fee is intended to "help" the workforce in the county that includes Jackson Hole, the county also blocked the Scharps from including a rental unit on their property, a plan that "would have directly helped address worker housing."
Defendants named are the county's board of commissioners.
The court filing, in U.S. district court in Wyoming, explains, "When a local government imposes a condition on land use permits that requires the payment of money or the dedication of real property—what the law terms an 'exaction'—it must make an individualized determination that the condition is related both in nature and extent to the impact of the proposed land use. … Local governments bear the burden of showing that an exaction bears an 'essential nexus' and 'rough proportionality' to the public impacts of a proposed land use. Together, the nexus and proportionality tests ensure that an exaction is necessary to mitigate a proposed land use's impact, and that the scale of an exaction is no larger than necessary. An exaction which lacks either an essential nexus or proportionality is unlawful, and nothing more than an 'out-and-out plan of extortion.'"
The legal filing charges that the Scharps' construction of new home "does not have any negative impact on housing affordability in Teton County."
It added, "Basic principles of economics show that building a new home increases the supply of available housing and therefore mitigates—not aggravates—housing affordability in Teton County."
Ironically, the family ran into trouble with the county because they planned a 3,700 square foot home with options to rent out an existing cabin on the property, as well as the basement of the new construction.
The county vetoed their plans for providing "too much" rental space.
The case seeks a court ruling that the county standards violate the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions and a judgment that their rights were violated by the process. They also seek economic damages and an injunction against the county's fee scheme.
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President Donald Trump has said over and over he wants to eliminate the federal Department of Education.
That bureaucracy hands out money and sets rules, but actually it is local school boards and state agencies that manage much of the decision-making in the education industry.
But the department still exists, and while it still has offices and staff, it is making changes.
Those include a whole new set of priorities for its grant programs.
A report at PJMedia documents how Linda McMahon, Trump's education secretary, has called for "evidence-based literacy, expanding education choice, and returning education to the states."
The report noted, "The federal government was never constitutionally supposed to be involved in running education, and its involvement has contributed to the crisis of crashing test scores, woke indoctrination, dysfunctional youth, and much more."
"Discretionary grants coming from the Department of Education will now be focused on meaningful learning and expanding choice, not divisive ideologies and unproven strategies," McMahon said.
"It is critical that we immediately address this year's dismal reading and math scores by getting back to the basics, expanding learning options, and making sure decisions in education are made closest to the child."
Various changes are possible: "Expansion of charters, innovative school models, K-12 open enrollment, dissemination of information on choice options, implementation of ESAs, home based education, concurrent enrollment programs, career preparation, postsecondary distance education, skills-based education, apprenticeships, work-based learning, accelerated learning and tutoring, etc.," the report said.
The report noted that the priorities are "a major change from the Biden-Harris administration, which obsessed over implementing woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) standards into our school system, worsening an already severe educational crisis. Race-baiting doesn't teach kids anything useful or help them improve their grades — quite the opposite."
The department announcement confirmed what many Americans already knew, the problems from the Biden administration, such as:
"Pushing student racial diversity through diversity plans, admissions policies, and technical assistance;
Also, embedding DEI in educational subjects and programs such as civics, STEM, and career and technical education;
And, focusing on diversity amongst educators instead of sound teacher preparation;
Also, promoting social emotional learning; and
Supporting divisive school diversity and social justice policies."
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A suspect in a vicious shooting attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum that left a young, soon-to-be-married, couple dead has been charged with murder.
A report from ABC revealed Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chiago, was taken into custody at the scene.
A criminal complaint said the two counts of murder were based on his actions in firing 21 times at the young couple, staff members of the Israeli Embassy, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Reports revealed the viciousness of the attack, in which after shooting the couple, the gunman followed one victim who was crawling away and repeatedly shot again and again.
An Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs official said Lischinsky was a researcher in the political department of the Israeli Embassy, while Milgrim organized U.S. missions to Israel.
The network report detailed, "Rodriguez allegedly walked past the two victims and then 'brandished a firearm from the area of his waistband,' court documents said. He is captured on video 'extending both his arms in the direction' of the victims, and began firing 'several times," the documents said."
The report said the suspect continued firing at the victims after they fell to the ground.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "My heart aches for the families of the beloved young man and woman, whose lives were cut short by a heinous anti-Semitic murderer. I have instructed to increase security arrangements at Israeli missions around the world and security for representatives of the state."
In Washington, police said there would be an increased presence by officers at schools and Jewish community centers.
Kristi Noem, the U.S. secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, said on social media, "We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share. Please pray for the families of the victims. We will bring this depraved perpetrator to justice."
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For years, the United States has been told of a critical labor shortage, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, which necessitated expanded foreign hiring. U.S. policymakers, corporations and academic institutions have promoted the narrative that India possessed a surplus of skilled talent essential to meet projected labor shortages in the United States. This claim, that America lacked sufficient STEM professionals and technical workers, served as the foundation and justification for expanding visa programs, outsourcing high-value jobs and embedding long-term foreign labor pipelines into the U.S. economy.
This narrative reshaped U.S. immigration and economic policy, positioning India as both a partner and a labor supplier. Under the banner of cooperation, American companies invested heavily in Indian operations, while visa programs such as H-1B, STEM OPT and L-1 became the backbone of a pipeline that now delivers hundreds of thousands of Indian workers into U.S. companies annually. India remains the top recipient of these work authorizations. Not only is the India government spending considerable amounts lobbying for more visas they are joined by the same companies expanding operations offshore, deepening dependence on foreign labor while reducing opportunities for Americans.
What has received far less attention is the full scope of this arrangement utilizing the U.S. visas and the documented strategy that underpins it. According to India's own national planning documents, this is not merely an outcome of globalization or educational exchange, it is a deliberate economic program designed to export surplus labor to high-wage markets like the United States.
India's youth strategy: a pipeline, not a partnership
India's government has long framed its young population not as a domestic challenge, but as a global opportunity to exploit. Through its central policy think tank, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), Indian leadership developed a comprehensive strategy to export its workforce as a competitive asset to the world. This strategy was formalized in two key policy blueprints India's Three-Year Action Agenda (2017–2020) and the Three-Year Action Plan which identified labor mobility as a national economic priority. India projected that by 2020, it would have the world's youngest population and by 2030, the largest working-age population at 962 million. Indian policymakers described this shift as a "demographic dividend" and positioned the surplus workforce as a solution to "reduce global skill shortages," particularly in aging Western nations.
India positioned its youth population as a solution to global labor shortages, promoting it as a workforce resource for aging nations like the United States, where the average worker age is 40. With a national average age of just 29 by 2020, India declared itself the world's youngest country and sought to leverage that demographic position into global labor market influence. Indian planning documents openly describe a vision to become the "global hub for skilled workforce" a role not designed to meet internal needs, but to supply talent to foreign economies.
This demographic ambition closely parallels hiring trends in the United States, especially in the tech sector. According to a 2023 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers aged 25 to 39 now make up over 40.8% of the U.S. tech workforce, compared to 33.1% across the broader U.S. labor force. As younger workers dominate, older American professionals are being pushed out. Nearly 20% of discrimination complaints in the tech industry are now age-related, according to the EEOC, with many older Americans alleging exclusion and retaliation based on age.
India has capitalized on this shift. By using programs like H-1B, L-1, H-4 EAD and STEM OPT, India has not only supplied cheaper labor, but has strategically leveraged its youth to displace older American workers. As UC Davis professor Norm Matloff has documented, age is a central issue in the H-1B program. The majority of H-1B visa holders are under the age of 30 and employers benefit from hiring younger workers who are not only paid less, but also reduce long-term benefit and healthcare costs. Legally, this practice is enabled through the Department of Labor's four-tier wage structure, which assigns wage levels based on experience. In practice, that means younger workers often from India are slotted into lower wage tiers, creating a system that bypasses older, experienced Americans through a lawful proxy for age-based preference.
This alignment between India's demographic strategy and America's legal framework has created a pipeline where India's youngest workers are fast-tracked into high-value U.S. jobs, while older American professionals are systematically sidelined.
India's message to the global economy has remained consistent: Western countries face labor shortages and India has a surplus workforce ready to fill them. But beneath this message lies a far-reaching plan, supported by national skilling schemes, credentialing programs and government-to-government agreements. These policies are not designed to benefit American workers. They are designed to shift labor value jobs, wages and long-term opportunity away from the United States and toward India.
What began as a demographic talking point has evolved into a comprehensive labor export model. The results are playing out across America's economy today. And they are not the result of partnership. They are the product of strategy.
According to U.S. trade data, the majority of American services sold to foreign consumers are no longer being exported directly from the U.S., but are now delivered through foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational enterprises, totaling over $2.1 trillion in services in 2022 alone. That figure represents real offshoring, jobs, technologies and capital being delivered from India within the United States. Meanwhile, U.S. imports of services from foreign MNEs, many with ties to Indian outsourcing giants, totaled over $1.5 trillion, showing just how embedded foreign labor supply chains have become in America's service economy.
India's skill gap: Exporting engineers it admitted were unemployable
The strategy was further formalized under the National Skill Development Mission, launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who declared his ambition to "make India the Skill Capital of the World." The mission's objectives were clear: create institutional convergence, accelerate training and fast-track overseas employment placements. One major component of this mission was overseas employment, which was established to channel millions of Indian workers into international labor markets through coordinated government and industry efforts.
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) acknowledged that only 2.3% of India's workforce had received formal skill training. This figure stands in stark contrast to 52% in the United States, 68% in the United Kingdom and over 90% in South Korea. In addition to this low training penetration, the Indian government raised concerns over the quality of its education infrastructure. Even acknowledging that a significant portion of engineering graduates lacked the necessary skills to actually be employed as engineers.
The foundation of this strategy was laid in India's National Skill Development Policy which formalized the use of short-term, modular training programs to issue credentials on a mass scale. Tools such as Recognition of Prior Learning enabled individuals to receive government certifications based on informal work experience rather than formal education or rigorous testing. U.S. employers and agencies later interpreted these credentials as equivalent to legitimate degrees or skill qualifications.
Private Skill Knowledge Providers were authorized to operate with limited oversight, creating a decentralized, loosely regulated skilling ecosystem. Certifications issued through public-private training centers were bundled into portfolios marketed as academic equivalencies and served as the basis for international employment pipelines including the H-1B visa, STEM OPT and employment-based green cards.
Through these mechanisms, India engineered a labor export system that no longer relied on educational excellence, but on credential scalability. With the support of U.S. companies and minimal scrutiny from immigration authorities, these certifications became tools of economic migration into the highest-value jobs in the American economy. The NSDC and MSDE, operating with government mandate, coordinated directly with foreign employers and international partners to match Indian trainees with overseas placements.
This model reveals a critical truth often obscured by policy rhetoric: India never possessed a truly skilled workforce on a global standard. What it had and continues to have is a massive, underemployed population largely lacking formal education, technical training, or industry-ready credentials. Rather than address this deficit through structural reform, India developed a credentialing system designed to convert informal labor into exportable assets.
Indian government documents repeatedly acknowledge that large portions of the population consumed more of the country's GDP than they contributed, placing strain on national productivity. Utilizing their "demographic dividend," India repositioned their surplus labor as a global commodity. Their ambition to become the "global talent hub" was never grounded in skill excellence,it was built on repackaging unemployment as opportunity and offloading the economic burden onto the United States labor market.
America's immigration system repurposed: Visas, investments and the erosion of U.S. technology jobs
Let the following models illustrate the measurable success of India's labor export strategy. They show a clear pattern: as India steadily increased its share of U.S. employment-based visas, particularly the very visa programs its government lobbies for most aggressively, such as H-1B, L-1, H-4 EAD and STEM OPT, American industries began shifting in parallel. Beginning in 2009, India's share of these visa categories steadily grew, eventually dominating them. At the same time, U.S.-based multinational companies significantly scaled up operations in India, increased foreign direct investment and expanded offshore hiring, particularly through Indian multinational firms contracted to deliver outsourced labor services.
Nonimmigrant Visa Issuances by Visa Class and by Nationality
Changes in Host Country Employment for U.S. Multinational Enterprises,
This correlation is not coincidental. As visa approvals for Indian nationals surged, so too did the number of American jobs relocated overseas. These trends were accompanied by rising employment in India, rapid expansion of Indian outsourcing firms and increasing dependency on offshore labor models. Meanwhile, U.S. workers faced mounting job insecurity, wage stagnation and waves of layoffs, particularly in the tech and engineering sectors most impacted by these shifts.
These practices have contributed to a quiet displacement of American professionals. While framed as meeting demand, the pipeline has come to dominate sectors like IT, engineering, pharmaceuticals and consulting, fields where wage depression, age discrimination and outsourcing have grown alongside foreign labor market access. American workers find themselves navigating an employment system increasingly built around imported labor, foreign certification networks and bilateral workforce agreements that few voters or legislators have ever seen.
India's vision to become the world's "Skill Capital" is not rhetorical. It is a multi-agency operation backed by state policy, foreign investment and diplomatic engagement. Its goals are clearly stated and its implementation is ongoing. What remains to be seen is whether the United States will continue to treat this as partnership, or begin to recognize it as a strategic labor realignment with serious consequences for Americans.
From policy to profit: The results of India's engineered labor takeover
The evidence is now clear. India's labor export strategy, marketed under the guise of cooperation and global talent sharing, was never simply about filling gaps or meeting temporary needs. It was a deliberate, long-term campaign to embed Indian labor into the foundation of the U.S. workforce through policy influence, credential manipulation and immigration program domination. And now, the outcomes of that campaign are no longer theoretical, they are measurable.
India has successfully positioned itself as a global destination for job creation, not just by generating domestic employment, but by absorbing jobs that were once part of the American economy. The same multinational corporations that lobbied for more work visas, citing talent shortages, have simultaneously offshored entire departments to India, facilitated by both U.S. and Indian MNEs. These corporations built offices, training centers and R&D hubs across Indian cities while scaling back hiring at home.
India's domination of the U.S. immigration system was not the end goal. It was the vehicle. What followed was a transfer of opportunity, wage growth and middle-class economic security from the United States to India. The result is an American labor market now structurally dependent on foreign-supplied labor and an Indian economy strengthened by the very visa programs and corporate relationships that were originally promoted as mutually beneficial.
The numbers don't lie. India has not only produced more jobs for its own people, but it has done so by systematically capturing and redirecting jobs, investment and workforce opportunity once meant for Americans. This is not the result of chance, but of strategy. And unless the U.S. confronts the scope of this manipulation and reclaims control of its labor and immigration systems, the trajectory will continue, more American jobs lost, more foreign systems embedded and a generation of U.S. workers left behind.