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An organization that promotes the LGBT ideology in Scotland is being sued for refusing to protect an abuse victim.

A report from the Christian Institute explains the case has been brought against an organization called LGBT Youth Scotland on behalf of a man who alleges the trans activist group failed to protect him from harm.

The case has been confirmed, but the plaintiff is being kept anonymous in court documents. Details of the claims, also, are not being released.

The institute pointed out that the organization has a history of failures: In 2009, its former chief executive, James Rennie, was sentenced to life in prison for child sex offenses, and more recently, just months ago, "a co-author of one of the group's publications for gender-confused children was convicted of grooming and sharing indecent images."

It was Andrew Easton who had contributed to "coming out" propaganda for children as young as 13, in which it was claimed, "Transgender people are people whose gender identity – who they are internally or their 'innate' gender – is different to their physical body or the gender they were assigned at birth."

At that time Scottish Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher said, "This is a deeply disturbing situation. It is long overdue that we audit just how much public money this organization receives and seek assurances over what safeguarding assessments are in place."

The activists during 2022-23 got more than $500,000 in grants from the Scottish government, and about the same from local authorities and National Health Service groups.

The Daily Mail confirmed a spokesman for the group declined to comment, explaining that would be "inappropriate."

Because of the multiple controversies, governments and other funding organizations have been under pressure to cut off money from the organization.

The Daily Mail, itself, reported on an investigation of the group that revealed failures by the group, including Rennie's case, which it described as involving "horrific child sex assaults."

Then the Easton case arose, the report said.

"He was snared by officers over internet chats with someone he believed to be a vulnerable 13-year-old he called 'baby boy,'" the report said.

The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $100,000.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has resurrected a fight against a Texas police department that jailed a journalist for asking questions.

According to a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which is representing journalist Priscilla Villarreal, the high court ordered the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to deal again with the case – taking into consideration the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Gonzalez v. Trevino.

That decision authorized a lawsuit by Sylvia Gonzalez, a former councilwoman in Castle Hills, Texas, a critic of the city manager, who was arrested for misplacing a petition to oust that manager.

She was convicted, but the high court said that the lower court's ruling was too rigid and the case must be reviewed again, considering that, court submissions argued, "when an arrest is a premeditated attempt to punish someone for speech protected by the First Amendment, then the arrest is an unconstitutional 'retaliation.'"

The new ruling involves Villarreal, who left local officials enraged because of her reporting.

"The district attorney even took her behind closed doors to chastise her for her reporting," FIRE confirmed.

Described by The New York Times as 'arguably the most influential journalist in Laredo,'" she covers crime, traffic and other topics for 200,000 Facebook followers.

"Like all good journalists, she's not shy about criticizing government officials. That's why she's been repeatedly targeted by them," FIRE explained.

"In 2017, police dusted off a decades-old statute local officials had never used before to criminalize Priscilla's journalism. The alleged crime? She asked a Laredo police officer to confirm facts about a high-profile suicide and a fatal car accident, facts the officer freely shared and Villarreal published to her hundreds of thousands of readers," the report revealed.

She sued the police and prosecutors after her arrest for violations of the First and Fourth Amendments.

A 5th Circuit panel ruled in her favor but then was reversed by the full court.

The organization reported, "Villarreal's case has deep implications for free speech, a free press, and government accountability. Americans shouldn't be jailed for asking public officials a question, and government officials shouldn't get a free pass when they violate our fundamental rights."

"It has been a challenging seven years since Laredo officials attempted to silence me, and this marks a significant step toward rectifying the wrongs I have faced," she said.

The Supreme Court's decision vacated the 5th Circuit's ruling against her and sent the case back for the lower court to reconsider her claims in light of the Gonzalez ruling.

"We're thrilled over today's decision, and look forward to helping Priscilla continue her fight," said FIRE attorney JT Morris. "This case is vital for free speech, a free press, and ensuring officials are accountable when they trample the First Amendment."

The never-before-used law made it a crime to ask for "non-public" information "if the person asking could benefit from that.

Officials claimed she benefited from reporting on a high-profile suicide and a fatal car accident because she would "gain popularity on Facebook."

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A court filing from the state of Texas, which accuses a physician of illegally supplying sex "change" chemicals to underage patients, states bluntly, "The debate in Texas on the legality of dangerous and experimental medical procedures seeking to transition or affirm a child's belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex is over. Texas law prohibits surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones for the purposes of transitioning a child's biological sex or affirming a child's belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."

Further, it states, "The Supreme Court of Texas held that the law was constitutional."

That document goes on to outline allegations against a physician for doing exactly that, and seeks fines of up to $10,000 for each count alleged.

A report from Courthouse News explained it was a "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit in which the state of Texas is suing a Dallas doctor for violating the state's ban on giving "cross-sex hormones to minors."

The physician, May C. Lau, is accused of deceiving pharmacies and insurance providers both in an agenda to give prescriptions of testosterone to a girl, who portrays herself as a boy.

"These acts, if found to be true, violate the state's Health and Safety Code as well as the Business and Commerce Code, carrying tens of thousands of dollars in civil penalties," the report said.

It is Senate Bill 14, adopted as law last year, that bars doctors from doing those drug deliveries or body mutilating surgeries on minors who have gender dysphoria.

That's the confusion over a person's gender, being male or female. Studies show that overwhelming numbers of those youth, left alone or given nothing more than counseling, eventually resolved themselves to be the sex they were born.

Actually, scientifically, changing from male to female or vice versa isn't possible as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said the law was adopted to "protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions…"

"Doctors who continue to provide these harmful 'gender transition' drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,'" he explained.

Lau has worked in adolescent medicine at Children's Health Center in Dallas.

The filing, in district court in Collin County, explained, "Today, enforcement begins against those who have violated the law by providing, prescribing, administering, or dispensing cross-sex hormones to minors for the purposes of transitioning their biological sex or affirming the child's belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."

The charges in the filing cite "deceptive trade practices, including by misleading pharmacies, insurance providers and/or patients by falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions are for something other than transitioning a child's biological sex or affirming a child's belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."

The filing charged, "Lau is a scofflaw who is putting the health and safety of minors at risk by prescribing testosterone, a controlled substance, to biological female minors for the purposes of transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex in violation of Tex. Health & Safety Code."

Each of the counts is sufficient to trigger the revocation of Lau's license, the filing said.

Courthouse News explained, "The state identified 22 patients between the ages of 14 and 17 who were provided with prescriptions of testosterone. Some of the patients had received the prescriptions before Sept. 1 when SB 14 went into effect, but Lau is said to have continued providing access to the drugs throughout the remainder of last year and into the following year."

Then Lau tried to hide her violations.

"An example of this was in the case of patient 22. The state says that the patient's insurance company was falsely billed for an unspecified endocrine disorder while in actuality, the doctor used puberty blockers to aid in the patient's transition from male to female," the report said.

While the promoters of the transgender ideology call their treatments "gender-affirming," the result often is patients who have been sterilized, had mutilations on their bodies, and are left depending on drugs for a lifetime.

Far left organizations like the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association have pushed the ideology.

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A judge in Florida has ruled that statements about a proposed abortion scheme, even if wrong, cannot arbitrarily be censored by government officials who don't want that misinformation, or disinformation, or malinformation, from spreading.

And the ruling, which right now is only at the level of a judge in Florida, if affirmed up the chain of appellate review, could spell disaster for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime's demand for widespread censorship of what they and their party say is wrong.

A report from Fox News explains the Florida district judge has released a temporary restraining order preventing the state government from pursuing action against television stations that have been running ads promoting a vast expansion of the lucrative abortion industry in the state.

"While Defendant Ladapo refuses to even agree with this simple fact, Plaintiff's political advertisement is political speech—speech at the core of the First Amendment," District Judge Mark E. Walker stated. "The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false.' 'The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech, and religion,'" Walker quoted from the U.S. Supreme Court.

At issue were promotions for the abortion industry that were being aired by stations being paid by Floridians Protecting Freedom, which is pushing a huge expansion of the abortion industry in the state.

The group sued Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and former general counsel to the Florida Department of Health John Wilson when they warned stations not to air the false information in the ads.

The pro-abortion activists said such a move violated their First Amendment right to run political ads.

The ads were condemned by Jae Williams, of the state health department, for being "unequivocally false and detrimental to public health in Florida."

A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis said, "Surprise, surprise, the most overturned judge on the district court issued another order that excites the press, but these current stories all look past the core issue – the ads are unequivocally false and put the lives and health of pregnant women at risk. Florida's heartbeat protection law always protects the life of a mother and includes exceptions for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking."

The issue that could unsettled the Biden-Harris censorship is the fact the use of the ads apparently is not dependent on their truthfulness.

Leftists long have insisted that whatever they do not accept as true obviously is misinformation or disinformation and must be suppressed. Democrats long have worked with social and other media outlets to suppress all information they dislike.

It's appeared most often during election seasons.

A primary example of that censorship and suppression came during the 2020 presidential election. In that case the information actually was true, but was suppressed widely across the nation by a long list of activist media outlets.

That was the claim, false, that the Biden family scandal details in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer were Russian disinformation.

In fact, all the scandal details were true, but the information was suppressed during the election season, especially after the FBI interfered in the election results and told media outlets to censor that information.

In fact, it was true, and a subsequent polling showed that had those details been reported ordinarily, Joe Biden probably would have lost the election.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute recently commented on the issue, which has been brought up over and over even in this election by Hillary Clinton, who has insisted that Democrats must control the media and its messages.

"In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need 'total control' in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us from harm. Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated, free speech online," Whitehead said.

He said the fight is over "where censorship (corporate and government) begins and free speech ends."

He said the pertinent point is that "government will use any excuse to suppress dissent and control the narrative."

In recent years, it's been the power brokers behind media, publishing, the web's social programs and more, that have insisted that conservative thought be suppressed.

"On the internet, falsehoods and lies abound, misdirection and misinformation dominate, and conspiracy theories go viral," he said. "This is to be expected, and the response should be more speech, not less."

However, to America's government, "these forms of 'disinformation' rank right up there with terrorism, drugs, violence, and disease: societal evils so threatening that 'we the people' should be willing to relinquish a little of our freedoms for the sake of national security."

Now there's a court ruling that even if information is said by the government to be false, it cannot be targeted with censorship, outside of the accept standards that one cannot make threats or injure another person.

He said, "Disinformation isn't the problem. Government coverups and censorship are the problem. Unfortunately, the government has become increasingly intolerant of speech that challenges its power, reveals its corruption, exposes its lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government's many injustices. Every day in this country, those who dare to speak their truth to the powers-that-be find themselves censored, silenced or fired."

He said the "control" demanded by Clinton already is far too close.

"In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry 'firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas,' exhibit a 'willingness to engage in meaningful discussion,' have 'excessive fears of specific stimuli,' or refuse 'voluntary treatment recommendations," he wrote.

Slate explained that DeSantis wanted the pro-abortion promotions to end because while pro-abortion advocates claimed their ads were true the state health department disagreed, creating the conflict.

The judge, appointed by Barack Obama, essentially concluded that the government cannot censor messages because it believes the information is wrong.

The ruling, in fact, cited a Supreme Court decision that said the government can't coerce third parties into censoring speech it doesn't like.

The judge, in a statement that easily could hit hard at the Biden-Harris censorship agenda, stated, "The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false.'"

Meanwhile, an investigation is under way whether the signatures putting the amendment on the ballot were obtained fraudulently.

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President Donald Trump, at the Al Smith Charity Dinner in Manhattan, a tradition for presidential candidates, took a few moments of his speech to express his faith.

He's been derided by Democrats and other leftists for being crude at times, but he closed his speech with revelations about his own beliefs.

"You don't hear about the American Dream anymore. We're going to make it possible for them to have that dream again. This is a very religious evening for me. It really is. It represents so much. My sister was someone who loved the (Catholic) Church and gave to the Church. The cardinal knew that," he said.

"Having recently, myself, survived two assassination attempts—yes, I survived. I have a chart that went down to the right. Fortunately, I looked at it. It's my all-time favorite piece of paper. It went down, and I looked to the right, and I said, 'Was that luck? Was that God?' I think it was God that did that. I really do.

"But I have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we are by God's providence and His divine mercy. I mean, that was something. I wasn't supposed to be here tonight, that I can tell you. With God's help, I know there is nothing we cannot achieve. We can achieve so much good for this country and get together and unify.

"I want to thank the Al Smith Foundation for its noble work, and I want to express my tremendous gratitude to the Catholic community. It's a great community, one I've gotten along with all my life":

Kamala Harris, invited, only sent a video statement to the event, which hadn't been skipped by a presidential candidate since Walter Mondale gave it the thumbs down, and subsequently lost the election.

The Gateway Pundit posted online a full transcript of Trump's address, which did document how he can turn snarky about his opposition in the 2024 presidential race.

The "top jabs," listed by the publication included, ""Well, I'd better wrap up because Mayor Adams told me earlier that I needed to make this one very quick, especially the city has reserved this room for a large group of illegal aliens coming in from Texas."

He took several opportunities to make fun of the pro-transgenderism agenda adopted by the Biden-Harris regime:

"Chuck Schumer is here looking very glum. He looks glum. He looks glum. But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke your party has become. If Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president."

And he joked about the Democrats' extensive lawfare campaign against him, in which they've weaponized the Department of Justice and multiple local prosecutors to bring various wild charges against him.

"These days, it's a pleasure to be anywhere in New York without a subpoena for my appearance. Any time I don't get a subpoena, I'm very happy," he said.

And he ridiculed the media, with, "But I have to be careful, though, because this will be the first time in the history of this event where jokes will be fact-checked."

He cited Harris' absence: "It's been a long tradition for both Democratic and Republican candidates for president of the United States to attend this dinner. Always, it's a rule. You got to go to the dinner. You got to do it. Otherwise, bad things are going to happen to you from up there. You can't do what I just saw on that screen. But my opponent feels like she doesn't have to be here, which is deeply disrespectful to the event and, in particular, to our great Catholic community. Very disrespectful.

"The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter Mondale, and it did not go very well for him. He lost 49 states and only won one—Minnesota. So I said, 'There's no way I'm missing it.'"

He continued, "And we are doing well, by the way. The votes are starting to come in. You've got to get out and vote. Catholics, you've got to vote for me. Just remember, you better remember—I'm here, and she's not. I could have skipped this, but I didn't. You do something that's incredible—the Catholic Church—you're helping the poor, educating children, and supporting the vulnerable. But if you really wanted Vice President Harris to accept your invitation, I guess you should have told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis. Then she would have been here, guaranteed. She would have been here. Guaranteed."

He also addressed Harris' interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, in which she essentially refused to answer any of his questions, instead diverting to other topics.

Trump said, "And as you may have seen, Kamala did an interview on Fox News yesterday. It went so poorly for her that the Democrats have been forced to install another 100 drop boxes throughout the city. And the upside is, Kamala now sees the benefit of deportation. She wants to deport people—she's vicious! She wants to deport people, and she wants to start by deporting Bret Baier from Fox."

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As tensions in Asia continue to rise, China's President Xi Jinping made a rare trip to Fujian province, an outwardly facing province located across the Taiwan Strait only days after China executed a military blockade "drill" which surrounded and blocked off key ports in Taiwan.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, Xi made a visit to the province to push for modernization in the region which has become an important and robust private economy, slowly growing into a demonstration zone for integrated development within the Taiwan Strait.

"Fujian should continue to make greater progress in accelerating the development of a modern economic system," Xi said.

Xi urged local authorities to promote institutional "opening up" and gave instructions for the direction he wants to see the province go in.

"Efforts must be made to accelerate the establishment of institutions and mechanisms to support all-around innovation, promote integrated reform of institutions and mechanisms pertaining to education, science and technology, and talent in a coordinated manner, and develop new quality productive forces in line with local conditions," Xi said.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported Xi said in a letter to China's annual awards dinner of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations that China would be willing to have a friendly relationship with the U.S., and noted a successful partnership between the two nations would mutually benefit both countries.

"China is willing to be a partner and friend with the United States. This will benefit not only the two countries, but the world," Xi reportedly said according to CCTV.

Xi added China has always handled the relations between China and the U.S. with mutual respect, and a belief that there could be a win-win cooperation.

"China has always handled China-U.S. relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, and has always believed that the success of China and the United States is an opportunity for each other," Xi said.

However, despite Xi's assertion China wants to have peace and prosperity, escalating tensions in the South China Sea, the continuous threats made toward Taiwan, China hacking U.S. companies, and sending spies to gather intel on U.S. military bases, have done little to garner a friendly relationship between the U.S. and China.

According to a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence, the relationship between the U.S. and China looking beyond 2030 could be a constructive one, but it needs to come with a more realistic vision.

Senior Fellow and Director at the American Statecraft Program Christopher Chivvis, said in the report's introduction the relationship between China and the U.S. is crucial to keeping peace and world order.

"The tensions marking the U.S.-China relationship have generated a pessimistic, sometimes dire, vision for its future. Hostility has reached a level that makes war thinkable and perhaps even likely within the next decade. It has become difficult to imagine how Washington and Beijing might turn their relationship, which is so crucial to the future of world order, toward calmer waters. If there is to be any hope of doing so, however, policy experts need some realistic vision of what those calmer waters might look like," Chivvis said.

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Alan Dershowitz, a longtime leftist and law professor, says he knows how Joe Biden can "save the world" before leaving office.

But he explains he's also confident it is unlikely to happen, and, he explains, "The result of inaction will be a terrorist regime with a nuclear arsenal, followed by a global nuclear arms race."

All because of "the 'Chamberlain' Democrats."

It is in a column posted at the Daily Caller News Foundation that he explains himself, and he cites the threat of a rogue regime in Iran, the world's primary sponsor of terror and the handler for terror proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

"There is only one way to end this threat completely: that is by regime change. The people of Iran have been yearning for regime change since at least 2009. Iran's unpopular ruling mullahs do not represent the more secular, westernized, and even pro-American majority of the country's population," he wrote. "Regime change is always risky because it is impossible to predict what will replace even the most evil regime. The end of Iran's monarchy in 1979, with the abdication of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was seen by many as progress, only to backfire with its replacement by the mullahs and their Islamic Republic. The threat of Iraq under deposed President Saddam Hussein has been largely replaced by a more adventurous Iran. Similar results have occurred following other regime changes."

He said an alternative would be for the U.S. to work with Israel to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal, using "a military attack against its nuclear facilities."

Dershowitz pointed out that, "The legacy of the last two Democratic presidencies — President Barack Obama's and President Joe Biden's — will be the appeasement of Iran in its efforts to dominate the Middle East and eventually expand its influence through the acquisition of a nuclear arsenal."

He described Obama as the "Chamberlain" for attempting to appease Iran.

"In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought he had a secure peace treaty with Hitler — 'Peace in our time,' he promised the British — only to have Hitler break it at the first opportunity by invading the rump Czechoslovak Republic," he explained.

"Like Chamberlain, Obama, Biden, and Harris seem to believe that 'peace in our time' can be achieved by appeasing Iran and strengthening its economy. The result has been an entirely predictable disaster: by receiving sanctions relief and a humongous increase in oil revenues, Iran has been enabled to expand its proxy war against Israel and the United States through its surrogates in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and possibly Sudan," he wrote.

Biden and Harris have only succeeded in making Iran "even stronger and more dangerous."

That had not been developing under President Donald Trump, he pointed out.

"Under the Trump administration, Iran was considerably weakened economically and thus militarily. Now it is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear arsenal, which will allow its proxies to operate under the protection of Iran's nuclear umbrella," he warned.

Those "proxies" could include terror-fomenting organizations like Hamas or Hezbollah.

"Historians will understand that today's Iran is the modern-day version of Nazi Germany and its attempt — for a time successful — to control all of continental Europe. This is not to say that Iran will ever become what Hitler's genocidal Germany became, but it is to express concern about Iran's dangerous regional aspirations, based on religious apocalyptic doctrines," he warned.

So the solution would be regime change or at least strategic military destruction of Iran's nuclear program.

"Although the United States, even as far back as the Obama administration, has pledged to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal, there is no reason why Iran should believe that, considering U.S. appeasement tactics under Democratic administrations," he said.

He said if Biden can stop Iran "from having a nuclear arsenal would … be a great accomplishment and a lasting positive legacy for the Biden presidency."

The problem? "At the moment, the current administration does not seem to be willing even to allow Israel to go it alone," Dershowitz said.

So the fault for a "terrorist regime with a nuclear arsenal" will rest "squarely with the 'Chamberlain' Democrats."

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The state of Florida has sued the Biden-Harris administration for refusing to fulfill its obligations under federal law and verify immigration records.

That means that state officials cannot determine who is, and who is not, qualified to vote, leaving the integrity of election results unknown.

"Voting is a right granted to American citizens – not illegal immigrants or other noncitizens. The Biden-Harris administration has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country, and we must ensure that only citizens are on our voter rolls," explained Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. "I am taking legal action against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Mayorkas to ensure Florida can maintain the integrity of our state's voter rolls."

Cord Byrd, Florida's secretary of state, added, "The Florida Constitution is clear that only citizens can vote in our elections. Florida is calling on the federal government to dismantle the barriers blocking the states from obtaining critical information needed to prevent non-citizens from voting in our elections. We are going to prevail in our effort to uphold the law and uphold the Constitution's guarantee of one citizen, one vote."

A report from Fox News explained the state contends the Department of Homeland Security is mandated to respond to inquiries from state and local governments seeking to verify the immigration status of anyone in their jurisdiction.

"Because the federal government is refusing to comply with these obligations and frustrating Florida's ability to maintain the integrity of its elections, Florida files this suit," the legal action charges.

The state explains it has "an obligation to maintain accurate and current voter registration records" and then cites the millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, that have come across America's southern border under the Biden-Harris open borders agenda.

The program at issue is called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, and is supposed to allow states to confirm the status of aliens.

"According to the lawsuit, DHS and Florida have an agreement to allow the state to use SAVE to verify immigration and citizenship status for people on the voter registration rolls. The lawsuit claims that Florida's Department of State identified several individuals for whom it had evidence that they were not citizens, but couldn't run a search via SAVE as it doesn't have unique identifiers," the report said.

And the feds refused to provide that necessary information, it charges.

"Thus, Florida has identified a subset of individuals for whom it cannot verify citizenship or immigration status through SAVE and for whom DHS refuses to verify citizenship or immigration status through other means," the state charges.

The action seeks a court ruling that the feds, to be within the law, must provide Florida with responses.

The same issue already is in the courts, as a similar action by the state of Ohio seeks access to DHS databases that now are closed off to states.

The Biden-Harris White House is so dedicated to concealing the presence of noncitizens on voter rolls, that it has sued both Alabama and Virginia over those states' efforts to clean their voter lists of noncitizens.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has officially cut off sections of roads leading to South Korea, including vital rail links, by blowing them up.

According to the Associated Press, rising tensions between the two nations escalated to threats of destruction after South Korea allegedly flew drones over North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, to distribute anti-regime pamphlets.

The AP further reported in response to the demolition, South Korean soldiers fired warning shots toward the country's border zone, however, there was no reported damage on the South Korea side from the explosions.

Koo Byoung Sam, spokesperson for South Korea's unification ministry, called the incident a violation of past agreements and "highly abnormal," according to GB News.

"It is deplorable that North Korea is repeatedly conducting such regressive behavior," Koo said.

According to a report from Bloomberg, North Korea has designated South Korea as a "hostile state" within its constitution on Thursday which was reported by state media.

"This is an inevitable and legitimate measure taken in keeping with the requirement of the DPRK [Democratic People;s Republic of Korea] Constitution which clearly defines the ROK [Republic of Korea] as a hostile state," the official Korean Central News Agency said.

Both sides have technically still been at war since the Korean war reached an armistice in 1953, rather than a peace treaty. After years of hostility, in 2018 the two sides declared there would be a new era of peace between them. These peaceful relations have quickly eroded since then – with both sides accusing each other of undermining the other.

North Korea has sent hundreds of hot air balloons across the border filled with human excrement and trash over the past few months. This was allegedly in response to South Korean activists sending posters into North Korea which criticized Kim, his family, and the regime.

South Korean officials have said since May, there have been approximately 5,500 of these balloons sent over the border, which has interrupted airline flights, and forced the closure of runways.

North Korea has recently been sending troops to Russia to fight against Ukraine, a move that has now caused Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to declare war on North Korea, and Russia's other close ally, Iran.

"North Korea, the Kim family, which holds 20 millionths of the Korean people in slavery, our intelligence records not only the transfer of weapons from North Korea to Russia, but also the transfer of people. These are workers for the Russian factories, instead of Russian citizens killed in the war and personnel for the Russian army, and this is already a fact. In fact, this is the participation of the second state in the war against Ukraine on the side of Russia," Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy hinted that China – which was recently attempting to play peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine – was not doing anything effective to end the war.

"Everyone sees help of the Iranian regime for Putin, as well as cooperation of China with Russia. Beijing is abstaining from taking really serious effective steps to stop Putin, stop the aggression and Russia's violation of the UN charter … Ukrainians and all our partners, if we do not strengthen ourselves significantly now, Putin will have time to significantly strengthen himself next year, strengthen so he will reject diplomacy forever. Russia must lose the war against Ukraine," Zelenskyy said.

ABC News Australia reported there have been over 1.4 million North Koreans signing up to join or have returned to the nation's army, allegedly spurred on by the recent drone pamphlet drop. Currently, North Korea has over 1.28 million active soldiers, and approximately 600,000 in reserves.

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A stern warning has been issued to illegal migrants who are convicted of felony crimes – they will not be welcome in the U.S. and they will forfeit their privilege to stay.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a statement Tuesday from the New York enforcement removal operations office, after a series of arrests took place in New York City.

Currently, NYC is a sanctuary city which limits its cooperation with ICE officials. As a result, ICE agents are left to go into the city's neighborhoods to find criminal illegal aliens who are ripe for deportation.

According to Fox News, deportation of criminal migrants has come under fire after data showed there are 425,431 convicted criminals currently in removal proceedings who are not in ICE custody. The staggering numbers have compelled the Biden administration to prioritize public safety ahead of the upcoming presidential election which is only in a few short weeks.

Fox News further reported non-detained illegal migrants not in ICE custody have surged from 3.7 million under former President Donald Trump to a bloated 7.4 million under the Biden administration.

On Wednesday, ICE said officers arrested an unlawfully present Venezuelan national, Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, after he was convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers in Times Square. ICE agents took Gomez-Izquiel into custody upon his conviction in the New York Supreme Court.

ERO New York City Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo said in a statement that ICE will not allow communities to become safe havens for illegal migrants who do not abide by the law.

"Gomez-Izquiel is a criminal and threat to the public servants, residents and businesses of New York City … We will not allow our communities to become safe havens for noncitizens who refuse to abide our laws. ERO New York City will continue to work with unending determination to apprehend and remove these violent criminal offenders," Genalo said.

Gomez has been a prolific border crosser, first making his way across the southern border in August 2023 without inspection by U.S. Border Patrol agents, before removing himself two days later. Gomez then entered the U.S. in October 2023, again without inspection.

During an audio town hall with the Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God, Vice President Kamala Harris blamed the border crisis on Trump, again making the false claim the Biden administration had tried to pass an immigration bill to "fix" the problem at the southern border.

"Charlamagne, the first thing we dropped was a bill to fix the broken immigration system, which by the way, Trump did not fix when he was president … You can look at every step along the way. We then tightened up the asylum process. We then worked with what we needed to cure ports of entry. We did a number of things, including what we did to get that border security bill passed, and then also an executive order that has actually reduced significantly the number of illegal crossings," Harris said.

However, former National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Fox News host Steve Doocy the bill Harris purports to have been nixed by Trump did not actually contain anything within it to secure the border. Rather, it would have given a pathway to citizenship to over 11 million illegal migrants residing in the U.S.

"There were no border security measures in that bill. Again … it was all about amnesty for those people that are currently here … When you look at that, that's the reason the Border Patrol agents right now just don't feel like their job means anything. That's why people are looking at leaving if she gets elected again. We all want to be able to feel like our job means something that we're able to accomplish," Judd said.

Judd added there are no mechanisms that border patrol agents are able to use right now, and noted that is directly the fault of Harris.

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