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Forever bars qualified job applicants for indiscretions from years earlier

A Texas court ruling means that a lawsuit over the state's "irrational" rule regarding social workers can advance.

The rule simply bans people who ever have had a conviction from getting a license for social work, ever.

It's being challenged, according to a report from the Institute for Justice, by "two Texas grandmothers with masters' degrees who want to be social workers."

Their problem? Decades ago, while young and under the influence of substance abuse problems, each was convicted of an assault.

The favorable ruling for their arguments came from a Travis County Court, which refused a state motion to dismiss the case.

It's on behalf of Katherin Youniacuff and Tammy Thompson.

"Under a Texas law that the court deemed 'irrational,' each woman is permanently ineligible for a social work license based solely on an old and irrelevant conviction. But the Texas Constitution protects Texans' right to earn an honest living in an occupation of their choosing free from unreasonable government interference," the IJ reported.

"Should people be judged solely on old mistakes? That's what's happening in Texas. Katherin and Tammy both struggled with substance abuse issues early in their lives and each woman pleaded guilty to a single assault conviction during that time. Nearly two decades later, Katherin and Tammy have turned their lives around and want to help people facing similar problems," the IJ explained.

"Texas won't let them. A 2019 Texas law imposed a new, permanent punishment on Katherin and Tammy: Despite their rehabilitation, they are forever barred from working as social workers."

But, the legal team said, that hurts not only the two women involved, but others because of "an exploding mental health and substance abuse crisis coupled with a dire shortage of professional social workers…"

The court's ruling, rejecting the state's demand to dismiss, said, "[a] categorical ban on personal experience directly relevant to a job is irrational."

The IJ said, "The state can of course exclude individuals who truly pose a danger to their clients from practicing social work. But that's not Katherin, or Tammy, or many other aspiring social workers targeted by the state's ban."

The judge found, "any danger that otherwise qualified applicants . . . pose to potential clients is not rationally possible to determine on anything other than an individualized basis."

James Knight, an institute lawyer, explained, "This decision is the first step towards giving Katherin and Tammy and everyone in a similar situation the justice they deserve. Katherin and Tammy made mistakes and paid for them. Permanently punishing them doesn't protect the public. It just makes it harder for people to pull themselves up and provide for their families. That's unconstitutional."

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The Democrat party has decided, apparently, that going pottymouth, cursing, swearing, being crude and vulgar, is an excellent strategy to win back voters they've lost.

Even leftist publications are noting the development.

"S*** talking is Democrats' new strategy," charged CNN. And PBS, noted for its far-left agenda, stated, "What the #$@! Democrats are swearing more. Here's why…."

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A lot of bad blood has surfaced among reporters at the White House since President Donald Trump started his second term.

It's essentially because old-school and legacy agencies and their reporters suddenly were informed that members of the new media, podcasters and such, also would be given access to presidential briefings.

That means those reporters assigned to the White House by the traditional publications and networks are being given access like other reporters, and are seeing their privileged positions and inordinate times reduced.

The conflict reached a takedown point when a CNN employee, Donie O'Sullivan, confronted a member of the new media with the charge those individuals are not "real journalists," and demanded a response.

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WASHINGTON — They came before dawn.

Not with facts. Not with a warrant for justice. But with battering rams, AR-15s, flash grenades, and the chilling certainty of a government gone rogue.

Zachary Rehl, a Marine Corps veteran and former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys chapter, was yanked from his home at gunpoint by an army of FBI agents as if he were a terrorist.

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PALM BEACH, Florida – Is the Democratic Party suffering from dementia, or was this intentional?

The party is celebrating Easter this year by honoring recent Democratic presidents, with a glaring exception: the most recent commander in chief in the person of Joe Biden.

The party's official X account on Sunday posted a "Happy Easter!" message, featuring family-holiday photos of John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

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DHS documents also show gang affiliation, accusations of domestic abuse

Democrats have chosen to fight President Donald Trump to have returned to the United States an illegal alien who was deported to a prison in El Salvador.

The El Salvadoran president has confirmed the inmate is not being released or returned to the U.S., so that end of the arguments appear to be nearing a conclusion.

But the details about the inmate still are being revealed.

A report from the Daily Caller, for example, explains that Department of Homeland Security documents show that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of MS-13, a terror organization, was stopped in 2022 on suspicion of human trafficking.

It was during a traffic stop by a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer that Garcia "was found to be transporting eight passengers across the country," according to sources for the Tennessee Star.

"He allegedly did not have a valid driver's license and was suspected of trafficking the passengers but was let go at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," the report confirmed.

The traffic stop was triggered by "speeding" and the driver's difficulty maintaining a lane.

Garcia's ID was a temporary license from Maryland that is given to non-citizens.

He explained at the time he was driving the eight people from Texas to Maryland, the report said, and none of the passengers had any luggage. They all provided the same home address, Garcia's, the report said.

Garcia was given a warning.

Further in Garcia's background is the fact that DHS confirms he is on the "Threat Screen Center's Transnational Organized Crime Watchlist."

And the Department of Justice told the Daily Caller Garcia is identified as a member of MS-13.

He was subject to deportation when the Trump administration sent him to El Salvador, but the only glitch appears to have been a removal restriction he was not supposed to be sent to that country.

Further, reports confirm he had been the subject of complaints by his wife of domestic abuse.

The Daily Caller News Foundation said Jennifer Vasquez Sura sought a domestic violence restraining order against him in 2021.

Sura now is publicly advocating for his return.

DHS, in a statement, said, "Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a history of violence and was not the upstanding 'Maryland Man' the media has portrayed him as. According to court filings, Garcia's wife sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt, among other harm."

The facts that are being revealed are making it harder for Democrats to continue identifying Garcia as a "family man."

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported the DHS documents show, "Officers found Abrego Garcia loitering in a Home Depot parking lot on March 28, 2019, wearing 'a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations,' the initial Prince George's County Police Department Gang Field Interview Sheet states. 'Wearing the Chicago Bulls hat represents that they are a member in good standing with the MS-13,' the document states. 'Officers contacted a past proven and reliable source of information, who advised Kilmar Armando ABREGO-GARCIA is an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique."

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'Millions of American workers, including those with top security clearance and advanced degrees, have been locked out of jobs or quietly replaced by visa-dependent workers with fake qualifications'

For decades, the American public has been told the nation's future depended on importing foreign "skilled workers." They have been fed a narrative claiming their nation's own citizens were somehow unqualified, uninterested or incapable of filling the very jobs that built their country. But this story was a fabrication, one carefully constructed by economic elites and facilitated by government policy. Behind the curtain stands a foreign government, executing what may be the most expansive and under-acknowledged labor infiltration in modern economic history.

This is not immigration. This is infiltration by policy. A silent economic war is being waged, not with bombs or bullets, but with resumes, fake credentials and weaponized visa loopholes. This is the story of how, through a deliberate national labor export policy, India systematically overtook America's tech, engineering, defense and research sectors while displacing qualified American citizens in the process.

This is the Skilled Worker Hoax.

India's national strategy to export human capital is neither accidental nor benign. It is embedded in the mission statements of Indian government institutions and backed by state-supported private enterprises. Subramaniam Ramadorai, then-chairman of India's National Skill Development Agency, made the country's objective clear: "To meet the aspirations of the youth and to realize our full potential we have to be ready with a skilled and talented human pool. To skill India is hence a national imperative."

Yet the skills being marketed to the world are often more myth than merit. A 2011 release by the Confederation of Indian Industry, or CII, a non-governmental business and industry organization that plays a major role in promoting India's global competitiveness, acknowledged that although 40% of the global population under age 25 lives in India, only 5% of its workforce was considered skilled. By contrast, 85% of the global labor force already had marketable skills. Rajendran Renganathan, a senior CII official, further conceded, "Vocational training is still not seen as the most respectable thing to do after XIIth standard. We need to create employable people, not just educated people."

Despite these admissions, India aggressively promoted its under-skilled labor force as a global tech powerhouse. Programs like Skill India and Digital India were launched alongside efforts from the National Skill Development Corporation to flood foreign labor markets with Indian nationals. Indian outsourcing giants Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies, all closely aligned with the Indian state, embedded themselves deep within major U.S. corporations. These firms secured large-scale contracts while effectively taking control of IT systems, hiring pipelines and contract staffing channels.

Once inside, these companies began funneling candidates through falsified documentation, resume mills and diploma factories. Skill centers operating under the All India Council for Technical Education, or AICTE, mass-produced certificates. Coursework was routinely plagiarized from U.S. syllabi. Fake employment histories and staged references became the norm, all coordinated by body shops across India that have flourished under this scheme.

While India institutionalized a labor-export economy, U.S. regulators remained inert. The Department of Labor and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved applications en masse without meaningful scrutiny. American tech giants like Google, Meta, Amazon and Salesforce actively enabled the takeover. Many of these companies established formal partnerships with Indian firms or entered into Memoranda of Understanding with Indian government bodies. Salesforce, for instance, signed a formal MOU with AICTE, pledging to collaborate on skilling initiatives targeting Indian job seekers.

Department of Homeland Security records show that over 70% of all H-1B visas are awarded to Indian nationals, and Indian outsourcing firms remain among the top petitioners every year. These staffing channels are not merit-based. Hiring increasingly relies on internal referrals, caste-based exclusivity and visa dependency. American citizens, veterans and recent STEM graduates are routinely overlooked or excluded entirely.

The Program Electronic Review Management labor certification system, or PERM, which was intended to protect American workers, has been exploited at scale. Companies claim that "no qualified U.S. worker applied," often while laying off American staff to make room for foreign visa workers. These actions are submitted under penalty of perjury, yet virtually no enforcement or consequence follows.

The role of the Confederation of Indian Industry and All India Council for Technical Education cannot be overstated. These quasi-governmental bodies have signed dozens of strategic agreements with U.S. universities, multinational companies and public institutions. Publicly framed as educational and innovation partnerships, these agreements serve as channels to embed Indian labor in critical infrastructure across the United States. One strategic plan from CII plainly states its mission "to make India the undisputed global leader in the matter of skills and talent" by embedding itself in foreign economies through commercial and policy partnerships.

Universities in the United States have also played a central role in enabling this scheme. Many American schools, eager for high-paying international tuition, now enroll tens of thousands of students from India, many of whom come from unaccredited or fraudulent institutions. These students take advantage of the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, and STEM OPT extensions, bypassing normal work visa caps and displacing American graduates in the process.

Despite claims by tech companies that there is a domestic STEM shortage, the evidence proves otherwise. The United States produces more STEM graduates than there are job openings available. Millions of American workers, including those with top security clearance and advanced degrees, have been locked out of jobs or quietly replaced by visa-dependent workers with fake qualifications, which is reflected in this Government of India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation document.

The threat extends beyond economics. Today, sensitive national defense projects, healthcare systems, critical infrastructure and proprietary technologies are being accessed and maintained by foreign contractors, often based in offshore locations. Data is frequently transmitted across borders without sufficient security protocols. This opens the door to espionage, sabotage and blackmail. If the workers entrusted with protecting U.S. systems are themselves products of fraud, then the entire system is compromised.

This is how nations fall, not by conquest, but by quiet economic displacement.

There is still time to reverse course. Congress must move swiftly to suspend the H-1B visa program and terminate OPT and CPT loopholes. PERM labor certifications issued under false pretenses must be revoked. Fraudulent universities should be decertified. Internal audits must be conducted within U.S. hiring systems to identify and eliminate foreign interference and discriminatory recruitment practices. Most importantly, new laws must guarantee that American citizens are given first right to American jobs, without exception.

Americans must not be afraid to say this. The Indian government is not their friend. It is a foreign power pursuing its own interest. That interest is to replace the American workforce with its own, to capture U.S. industries, and to dominate the future of technology. India is not a passive trade partner. It is executing a deliberate economic strategy designed to displace American labor and dominate critical global sectors through manufactured human capital. Not for partnership, but for control.

This ongoing WND investigation will continue to peel back the layers of a global deception that reshaped America without Americans' vote, voice or consent. Each report will reveal the players, pipelines and policies that handed over Americans' future. For those who want to know who stole the American Dream, and how to get it back, stay tuned.

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Saturday in West Palm Beach, President Trump was presented with a life-size bronze statue of himself posing with his fist in the air in defiance – just moments after an assassin's bullet nearly took his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.

Former congressional candidate Anthony Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule, gifted the president the monument, which will be a permanent fixture at his Trump International Golf Club.

Dubbed "The Defiance Monument," the 7-foot-tall statue sits atop a stone pedestal with Constantino's name engraved on it.

"The president was in a happy, joking mood, which was great to see," said Constantino, according to a statement.

Trump and Constantino met at the monument before the president went out to play a round of golf. According to the statement, they were joined by Roger Stone, who's become an adviser and friend to Constantino, as well as Bo Loudon, a friend of Barron Trump.

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Electronic voting machines, basically computers programmed to tabulate the vote data that is input, have been around for a long time. Probably about as long as hacking into computers, an issue that has been a concern for that same period of time.

Observers, even election experts, often have made claims about the porous defenses built into the machines, and sometimes have been sued by voting machine corporations for expressing their doubts.

Now Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, has confirmed in a bombshell announcement that there is "evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate election outcomes in the United States," a report in the Gateway Pundit reveals.

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President Donald Trump is blaming his "stupid" predecessors, who agreed to a list long of trade deals with other nations around the world, for setting up the crisis America now is facing with its trade imbalance.

It's because other nations expect to have access to America's market and consumers to build their businesses and economies, yet want to tariff American goods coming onto their shores with high rates.

Trump is working to level that field and benefit Americans and their economy, by pushing for high tariffs for goods from other nations.

His goal obviously is to persuade those countries to lift their tariff agendas against the U.S., and officials confirmed on Wednesday already 75 countries have already reached out to the U.S. to negotiate, and tariffs against them now are on pause. China, which has been belligerent on the issue, now is to be assessed tariffs of 125%, per Trump's orders.

Trump said that the situation is a result of years of bad trade policies.

"This started with the World Trade Organization which was owned and paid for by China… They said they were a developing nation… I blame the people sitting at this desk… They allowed this to happen."