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Expressing doubt whether explicit and graphic sex shows in front of children actually are protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has allowed a Texas law barring those activities to take effect.
"The law is not facially invalid unless its 'unconstitutional applications substantially outweigh its constitutional ones,'" said a ruling from 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"The district court did not conduct this analysis, nor did the parties brief the proper standard or adequately develop the record. Consequently, we are unequipped to undertake this task in the first instance, and remand for the district court to do so."
A Fox News report said the decision lifts the lower court's injunction against enforcement of the law.
The judges turned to the explicit nature of the shows: "We have genuine doubt, however, that pulsing prosthetic breasts in front of people, putting prosthetic breasts in people's faces, and being spanked by audience members are actually constitutionally protected—especially in the presence of minors."
The ruling from the three-judge panel tossed the 2023 decision from a trial court that blocked the law.
"While nude dancing receives some constitutional protection, 'intentional contact between a nude dancer and a bar patron is conduct beyond the expressive scope of the dancing itself. The conduct at that point has overwhelmed any expressive strains it may contain. That the physical contact occurs while in the course of protected activity does not bring it within the scope of the First Amendment,'" they instructed.
The ruling could be a preliminary to a Supreme Court decision, as the 11th Circuit court recently ruled that a similar statute in Florida likely is problematic.
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Texas, the Lone Star State, has long been the beating heart of American patriotism and a fierce defender of border security. Indeed, for years Texas led the charge against the Biden administration's reckless open-border policies, calling for sovereignty, safety and jobs for its own citizens.
But when the conversation shifted from illegal immigration to legal immigration – the kind that quietly replaces thousands of white-collar professionals through rampant abuse of America's H-1B visa program – Texas has remained largely silent, offering no clear defense of its citizens in this new front of the immigration battle.
OPINION: H-1B VISA HOLDERS ARE KEY TO THE TEXAS ECONOMY
The Trump administration's decision to raise H-1B visa application fees to $100,000 reignited a long-ignored but crucial debate: Who really benefits when American companies import foreign workers instead of hiring American citizens? The H-1B system, popular among tech giants and India-based outsourcing firms, was originally billed as a way to fill rare skill shortages. In practice, however, it has become a giant corporate loophole to lower costs and sidestep the U.S. labor force.
Brown University Professor Dany Bahar recently told Austin-based daily radio news show Texas Standard that Trump's new $100,000 H-1B filing fee is crippling, saying: "It's a way to shoot yourself in the foot, because essentially what it's doing, it's keeping foreign talent away from the United States."
He added, "It's telling people 'do not come,' but a very specific group of people, people who bring talent that is very hard to find in the United States." Although Bahar describes this policy as if it unfairly rewards only a "very specific group," that's the entire point of the policy: Americans' immigration system was designed to favor the genuinely exceptional, not every foreigner that wants to replace Americans by working at a lower cost to the employer.
The new frontier of legal immigration
Few states depend more on these visas than Texas. The issue isn't a shortage of homegrown talent, it's the surge of India-based tech multinationals that have built sprawling U.S. operations across the state.
In Plano, Wipro run sprawling tech hubs. HCLTech calls Frisco home for its American operations. L&T Technology Services and TCS have set up "innovation centers" in Houston, Austin and Dallas – not to train Texans, but to anchor their imported workforces. Each year, these firms dominate the list of H-1B petitioners nationwide.
2023 State Immigration Statistics: Nonimmigrants
Politically, Texas has built its image around protecting borders and defending American jobs. Yet many of the same leaders who vow to guard against illegal crossings remain silent, or complicit, when it comes to legal immigration programs that hand advantages to multinational corporations at the expense of Americans.
The result is an economic contradiction: While working-class Texans are told their state is fighting for them, white-collar professionals are quietly replaced by foreign labor marketed as "specialty skills." The damage is the same: Local jobs disappear, wages stagnate and the next generation's opportunities shrink.
Dismantling the deception: The hidden scale
Bahar frames H-1B as "a very, very small program" capped at 85,000 and filled only after employers "can't" hire Americans. However, Bahar, a professor of international and public affairs, appears to be wildly out of touch with immigration reality.
While Bahar calls H-1B "small," capped at 85,000 visas per year, that number is a sleight-of-hand. Universities, nonprofits and government contractors are exempt from the cap, creating a shadow stream of approvals that dwarfs the official limit.
When dependents are added, H-4 visas for spouses and children, the real figure balloons. In 2024, according to the U.S. State Department, 219,659 H-1B and 139,874 H-4 visas were issued, 359,533 total. That's four times higher than Bahar's figure. For years, this statistical illusion has been used to downplay the true scale of foreign labor inflow and its effect on American employment.
The H-1B program isn't a precision instrument to fill national shortages; it's a lottery. Visas are distributed at random, not by skill, wage level or economic need. Employers aren't required to prove they've exhausted domestic candidates before hiring abroad. That safeguard only appears in the PERM (Permanent Labor Certification) stage, when companies apply for green cards. If there truly were a skilled labor shortage, corporations would embrace that safeguard. Instead, they cleverly design myriad ways to avoid finding qualified Americans.
Job ads are drafted with inflated requirements that few domestic candidates will meet. Notices are intentionally placed where they are unlikely to be seen. Ads are run only in the bare-minimum formats required by regulation. Immigration lawyers routinely advise firms to pause PERM filings during layoffs to avoid being forced to offer the same jobs back to recently fired Americans. It's a giant charade of compliance.
The manufactured myths of 'high skill' and 'labor shortage'
Bahar claimed "firms in the United States … were not able to fill those vacancies in the local markets and therefore they are asking the government through a visa process to let them bring a foreign worker who will be able to fill that vacancy." That statement ignores years of documented cases where H-1B workers weren't brought in to fill shortages; they were brought in to replace Americans at lower cost.
In 2015, Disney made headlines when American IT employees were ordered to train their own H-1B replacements supplied by HCL. At Southern California Edison, hundreds of U.S. tech workers were displaced by imported contractors. The University of California required staff to train incoming HCL hires. AT&T, fresh off a $3 billion tax break, outsourced 16,000 American jobs and shut down 44 call centers. At Bank of America, employees were forced to train their replacements, a practice the company called "essential for knowledge transfer."
These are not isolated anecdotes, but are part of a pattern: American workers are displaced while visa pipelines remain open and expanding.
Yet Bahar, arguing that the program is small and beneficial, insists the H-1B is a "high-skilled" program concentrated in technology and high-tech industries. It's true that computer-related jobs make up over 60% of H-1B roles, but that's not because of a lack of American talent. It's because outsourcing firms have captured the system. Studies show 94% of Indian engineering graduates lack employable skills and fewer than 5% can complete a basic programming task. Still, Indian nationals now dominate the vast majority of H-1B approvals, particularly in the very tech jobs U.S. graduates are losing.
Supporters often frame H-1B hiring as access to rare, high-end talent. But the government's own numbers show otherwise. Employers must classify H-1B jobs under one of four wage levels: Level 1 (entry-level) through Level 4 (experienced professional). Employer records reveal that 83% of H-1B registrations fall into Levels I and II, both below the U.S. median wage.
In computer and math occupations, the largest category, 271,000 of 315,000 filings were placed at these lowest tiers. In business and finance, nearly 80% fell into the same category. Across the top five industries, as little as 14% reached the higher wage levels.
If the H-1B truly addressed "rare shortages," employers would be offering higher wages, not lower ones. Instead, the filings cluster at the bottom, proof that the program isn't about innovation or scarcity. It's about cost-cutting. The H-1B system has become a corporate discount program, replacing qualified Americans with cheaper labor under the false promise of "global competitiveness."
Admitting the truth
When asked whether the U.S. is capable of producing its own talent, Bahar framed the issue as a question of global competition, arguing that America must "produce at a lower cost" to remain competitive and that "foreigners bring the experience and know-how" to make that possible.
That statement reveals more than he likely intended. It's the quiet confession of the globalist mindset, one that measures strength not by independence, innovation or self-sufficiency, but by how cheaply Americans can be replaced. Bahar's argument reduces U.S. competitiveness to labor cost, not capability. It's the same justification multinational corporations have used for decades to offshore manufacturing jobs to China and now white-collar careers to India.
By that logic, America's future depends on importing low-cost talent instead of investing in its own people, which isn't competition – it's capitulation. The notion that "the most talented people around the world want to come to the U.S." may sound flattering, but it's strategically misleading. The H-1B system doesn't primarily attract the best and brightest; it imports the cheapest and most compliant. The majority of these workers are funneled through outsourcing and body-shop firms whose sole purpose is to undercut U.S. wages while transferring intellectual property, data and innovation abroad.
Bahar's rhetoric, "produce at a lower cost," is the exact phrase global consulting firms use in their offshoring manuals. It's the vocabulary of de-industrialization, the same reasoning that hollowed out America's factories, small towns and middle class. Only now it's being repackaged as a "high-tech" strategy to justify the same betrayal under a new name.
If America's path to "global competitiveness" is to pay its engineers, programmers and analysts less, then the model itself is broken. True strength lies in raising American capability, not in racing to the bottom of the global wage scale. A nation that can build rockets, power grids and AI systems certainly doesn't need to outsource its intelligence. What it needs is leadership willing to defend it.
The false gospel of 'global competitiveness'
Asked whether Trump's higher H-1B fees might strain U.S.-India relations, Bahar's focus turned immediately to tariffs and "integration into the global economy." He warned that such policies could make relationships "difficult" and suggested that America's effort to protect its own labor force amounts to "isolation."
That framing exposes the real priority – not the wellbeing and prosperity of American workers, but the preservation of India's economic access to the United States. Bahar wasn't warning about harm to diplomacy; he was lamenting a threat to a system that allows India to extract jobs, wages and intellectual property from America under the label of "partnership."
By calling efforts to secure American industry "isolation," Bahar mirrors the same rhetoric used for decades by multinational lobbyists and foreign trade groups. The message is always the same: Global integration equals progress and any defense of national interest is regression. But behind that polished language lies a stark reality: dependence. The more America "integrates," the more it is outsourcing its production, its workforce and its sovereignty to nations that view the U.S. market as an economic feeding ground.
India's dominance in the H-1B system isn't a side effect of globalization, it's the centerpiece of a deliberate strategy. Through aggressive lobbying, trade negotiations and influence networks like the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India has built its economic growth model on exporting its labor while importing America's wealth. Bahar's comments align neatly with that strategy: Pressure U.S. policymakers to keep the pipeline open, label resistance as "isolation," and frame dependence as "cooperation."
However, what he calls diplomacy is, in reality, dependency and what he calls integration is the erosion of economic sovereignty. Protecting American workers from systemic displacement isn't isolationism; it is survival. A strong nation trades on fair terms. A captured one bargains away its future.
The human cost of corporate globalism
The victims of this system are not theoretical. Across the country, thousands of U.S. professionals have been forced to train their own replacements, foreign contractors imported through the same visa channels Bahar praises. At Disney, Southern California Edison and Bank of America, American employees were replaced en masse, their experience devalued and their loyalty betrayed.
When Texas-based employers chase low-cost foreign labor, they aren't just saving a dollar, they're putting American families' livelihoods on the line. The surge of visa-driven recruiting and corporate outsourcing across the Lone Star State signals a profound shift – away from American workers and toward offshore profit. And everyday Texans are paying the price.
Bahar called the H-1B program a gateway for "high-skilled workers" that helps the U.S. "stay competitive globally." But as the interview progressed, he repeated the same talking points – the "small program" myth, the "shortage" excuse and the "high-skill" trope, recycled lines that have been used for years to sanitize exploitation.
That's why dismantling these myths with verifiable data, hard evidence and documented harm is no longer optional; it's a national imperative. Because until the truth is restored, it won't be foreign contractors or corporate lobbyists who pay the price. It will be Americans, the very people the U.S. government's system was supposed to protect, who lose their jobs, their futures and their country's promise, one "visa" at a time.
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With the federal government shutdown in Day 36, another black woman has posted an unnerving video online demonstrating how easy it is to steal groceries from a supermarket in a white neighborhood.
This comes on the heels of other women urging folks to steal at will, and one even threatening to hunt down, roast and eat white people if government assistance is taken away.
The latest case involves a TikToker with a username of @estherrenee, who recorded herself in an H-E-B supermarket she says is between 10 and 30 minutes from her home.
"I'm gonna show y'all if you don't get y'all EBT (electronic benefit transfer) what to do," the woman begins. "Y'all think because, for some reason that they watchin' y'all. They not watching y'all. They don't care. White people is not paying attention to y'all."
"I'm in the white neighborhood at their H-E-B, and I'm gonna walk out with my groceries. Easy peasy. Nobody's looking at me. Nobody's paying attention to me. I got my basket full of stuff and I'm just gonna walk out."
"So if they're taking y'all's EBT, just go to the white neighborhood and get a basket full of groceries just like I did."
During her entire video as she strolls through the market and into the parking lot without being stopped or questioned, she displays a visual message indicating: "White people are not paying attention to you."
"She basically recorded her own evidence to be arrested," wrote one commenter.
Others stated:
"Filming yourself stealing goes beyond bold. Stores need to start checking those receipts before you exit. Should be a waste of Human Resources but when margins and risks dictate then it will happen. Theft plain and simple."
"Rallying followers to steal from entire neighborhoods is mob recruitment, not activism. That's a felony pitch, not a social statement. Report it. Prosecute it. Move on."
"Usually they say white people follow them around like they're criminals and going to steal something. And apparently they are. But here she claims white people don't notice."
"And that my friends, is exactly how you destroy a high trust society. Welcome to the new world where everyone just does whatever is right in their own eyes."
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, another woman claiming she was out of food stamps bragged online about stealing from a grocery store while urging others to steal at will and "infiltrate" churches to get cash.
The woman who goes by "consiracycutiee" and has a username of @jaalagotanattitude posted her illegal shoplifting exploits on social media, using extremely graphic language.
"Everything out here is yours," she said. "Whether or not you take it, they call that sh** free will. I call that sh** eminent domain. You know what I'm saying? One thing I learned from the white men: Take it!"
"I don't give a f*** who's already sitting there. I don't give a f*** if your land was already established. B*tch, it's mine now, and I want it. That is what we should be preaching in the land to the f***ing masses.
"Act more like a white man. Take it for yourself, b*tch, and you won't be worried about who don't got it. You see what I'm saying? Get out there and ravish!"
"Last but not least, go into that church and infiltrate. Don't be stupid. Get in there. Ask them for some rent money. Ask them for some help. You've been tithing. Say your lights is off. You need a stipend. You need some food. Go to the church."
Also last week, as WND reported, another black woman threatened to hunt down, roast and eat white Americans, and another threatening to kill anyone who tries to stop looting.
She addressed "the white man" in the U.S., saying: "I'm here to let you know that we are going to eat regardless even if we have to hunt you animals down and roast and eat you, the delectable crackers and cheese.
"We will make it happen if we have to, trust and believe me. And if it takes this government shutdown for black people to finally come from under the government and understand that we don't need to be paying our taxes into this government.
"What we really need to be doing is taking care of one another, buying land and growing our own food and building our own nation. If this government shutdown and starvation is what it's going to take, then let the party begin. It's black power, baby, and we rise."
There is one black woman who is fiercely condemning the recent videos encouraging theft.
She is Megan McGlover, author of "Tell the Truth," who posted her own video addressing the matter.
"You been stealing, whore! You been stealing," McGlover says. "We not gonna talk about every time I turn around and look on the internet, y'all stealing in Walmart, you're stealing in Walgreens, you're stealing in CVS. You're stealing everywhere. What is you talking about? That ain't no threat."
"You done make a whole career out of stealing. At this point, you should be in retirement. You should be looking to retire from your stealing career. Ain't nobody afraid of you, talking about you gonna go steal."
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A school district trying to restrict the speech of students off-campus has been put on a leash.
It is the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled the Livingston Manor Central School District in New York was off base when it suspended a student for a meme posted on social media while the student was off the school grounds.
According to a report at the Center Square, the decision benefits Case Leroy.
He had been suspended for a post that mocked the 2020 death of George Floyd, a death that triggered Black Lives Matter riots across dozens of cities, leaving behind billions of dollars in damages.
According to the report, Leroy "posed with another student's knee on his neck," and said in the caption "Cops got another."
His intolerant community responded with backlash online, protests at his school, and community meetings.
However, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and other First Amendment groups sued the school and explained punishment for his speech violated the First Amendment rights.
A trial court judge sided with the school, but the appeals judges reversed.
"We conclude that Leroy's off-campus speech fell outside the bounds of the school's regulatory authority. We cannot accept the contention that in today's world, a social media post made off-campus is equivalent to speech on campus," said Circuit Judge Barrington Parker.
Judge Myrna Perez agreed, but did point out that there are limits on free speech.
What would be required for school control would be for some situation to make students "feel unsafe" or deprive them of "the ability to learn," she said.
Adam Schulman, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's senior attorney, said the appellate court's ruling "recognized the limits on American public schools' authority to police students' speech outside of school hours or off campus. As the court put it, learning to engage in civil discourse with those with whom we disagree really is 'an essential feature' of student education."
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A significant enforcement move by the U.S. Department of the Treasury has exposed a sprawling human-smuggling enterprise led by an Indian-born couple that has funneled migrants from multiple continents via Mexico into the United States.
The individuals identified are Vikrant Bhardwaj, age 39, and his wife Indu Rani, age 38, both originally from New Delhi. They are alleged to head the so-called "Bhardwaj Human Smuggling Organization" (HSO), which operated out of Cancun, Mexico and maintained a network of front companies from India, the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.
From Treasury Dept. press statement
According to the Treasury Department's announcement, the smuggling blueprint worked like this: Migrants from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America, including some from countries deemed national security risks, would fly into Cancun, be housed in hotels or hostels controlled by the network, then travel north along Mexico's coasts and by land via the "Tapachula-Cancun-Mexicali Corridor," ultimately arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Bribery of airport and security personnel and cooperation with the notorious Sinaloa Cartel are also alleged. This blueprint was used to smuggle thousands of migrants into the U.S.
In parallel, the network is alleged to have laundered money through real-estate and hospitality businesses. Indian companies such as Veena Shivani Estates Private Limited are cited as part of the scheme.
Under the sanctions, all U.S. property or interests tied to the organization or individuals are frozen and U.S. persons are barred from transacting with them.
The significance is two-fold for American interests: It underscores the international dimension of undocumented migration and human-smuggling networks and it raises questions about how Indian nationals and companies factor into pipelines that effectively bypass border controls while undercutting legal migration channels.
For U.S. policy and worker-protection advocates, this case may trigger further scrutiny of India-linked operations that exploit global mobility and migration systems for profit, especially when American labor and border security intersect.
While no arrest information was detailed in the Treasury release, the sanctions themselves are being used as a lever to choke off funds and disrupt logistics before full criminal prosecutions follow.
This case presents a sharp warning: When transnational criminal organizations use sophisticated corporate and geographic cover to smuggle persons, the results are not just a border enforcement issue, they become national-security, labor market and human-rights concerns.
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The War on Drugs just went LIVE. Victor Avila, former ICE agent and now Assistant Director of External and Legislative Affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, joins Elizabeth Farah to reveal how the United States is finally treating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Avila exposes explosive new policies, including the use of Department of War resources, Homeland Security task forces, and military-grade intelligence once reserved for fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda.
He confirms that Chinese chemicals continue to feed Mexican fentanyl super-labs, flooding U.S. streets with poison, and details the administration's aggressive new interdiction strategy that now targets traffickers far south of the U.S. border.
He also breaks the shocking news that drug traffickers are exploiting the U.S. Mail, UPS, and FedEx to deliver fentanyl directly to homes across America, and explains how new scanning technology is being deployed to stop it.
Elizabeth reacts, challenges, and connects the dots from Beijing to Mexico City to Washington. Together, they expose the scope of the crisis and the unprecedented response now underway.
This is not the old War on Drugs. THIS IS WAR.
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As if Zohran Mamdani's candidacy for the job as New York City's mayor weren't scandalous enough, a new firestorm has erupted.
It's because an old interview with his mother has surfaced, and in it she declares he's "not an American at all."
A report at Fox said the interview with his mother was when Mamdani was a 21-year-old college student and she specifically used language that is viewed as derogatory to the United States.
"He is a total desi," Mira Nair, who works as a filmmaker, said in her interview with the Hindustan Times in 2013.
Her son was attending Bowdoin College at the time, and was establishing his radicalization by helping to start the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter there.
"Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian," she charged.
Fox reported, "In Hindi and Urdu, 'firang' is an informal term historically used to describe foreigners or Westerners."
Mehek Cooke, an lawyer born in India who now provides commentary, said the word is a "slur."
"It's the word used back in India to mock outsiders, to say you don't belong," Cooke explained. "Using it here about your own child raised in the United States carries the same tone as calling someone a derogatory word — or worse. It's flippant, divisive, and dripping with contempt for the very country that gave your family a better life."
He added, "When Mamdani's mother says her son was 'never a firang and only desi,' it's a rejection of America. It's ungrateful, disrespectful, and frankly repulsive to live in this country since age seven, receive every freedom, education, and opportunity America offers, and still deny being American."
The report noted Mamdani was born in Uganda, moved to the U.S. when he was 7 and is a dual citizen in the U.S. and Uganda.
Mamdani's campaign already has stunned people with his advocacy for many communist ideals such as taking control of the means of production, no private property and such.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced a sweeping move to curb the use of foreign worker visas in the state's higher education system, declaring that Florida will "pull the plug" on the use of H-1B visas at its public universities and instead prioritize hiring American and Florida-resident workers.
Speaking from Tallahassee, DeSantis said, "We can do it with our residents of Florida and with Americans." The directive, issued to the Florida Board of Governors, orders the system overseeing the state's universities to end reliance on temporary visa holders and ensure taxpayer-funded institutions hire qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The announcement comes amid growing national scrutiny of the H-1B visa program, which critics say has been exploited by corporations and universities to replace American professionals with lower-cost foreign labor. DeSantis' order makes Florida the first state to take such decisive executive action at the university level, positioning his administration at the forefront of state-led efforts to restore fairness in the labor market.
\WND staff has remained in direct contact with Florida officials throughout 2025 regarding reports of visa-related abuses impacting the state. In May, federal agencies received a multi-agency whistleblower report detailing an alleged foreign-run labor funnel operating through F-1, OPT and STEM-OPT visa pathways tied to Miles Education Pvt. Ltd. and its U.S. affiliates. That same month, the documentation and supporting evidence were also shared with Florida authorities for review.
The report requested criminal and civil rights investigations and outlined evidence involving Florida universities, employers, CPA boards and state licensing systems.
According to the report, Miles and its network of partner institutions constructed what is described as a foreign labor funnel disguised as education, exploiting student visa programs to channel low-cost foreign labor into U.S. firms while bypassing American applicants. WND independently confirmed that materials identifying Florida-based connections were included in the submission package provided to state officials.
DeSantis' leadership marks a growing shift among states seeking to address what many describe as Washington's failure to protect American workers from visa misuse. His directive could serve as a model for governors nationwide to follow.
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Hundreds of "noncitizens" who allegedly registered to vote, or even voted, in Ohio elections have been referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced he has found more than 1,000 noncitizens who "appear to have registered to vote unlawfully in Ohio," and all of them, 1,084 individuals, have been sent to the DOJ to face prosecution.
"Ohio has earned its reputation as the Gold Standard, and our Election Integrity Unit continues to prove why," he told Fox News Digital. "We work tirelessly to ensure that every eligible voter's voice is heard, and anyone who tries to cheat the system will face serious consequences."
He noted 167 of the individuals appear to have actually cast a ballot in a federal election, and there were 135 others referred for "other unlawful voting activity." Some of those allegedly voted in two locations in Ohio, or in two states, in the same election. Several appear to have voted "after the date of their death."
The work is part of LaRose's plan to clean up Ohio's voter rolls, launched before the 2024 vote.
Part of that work included his lawsuit against Joe Biden because of his administration's refusal to provide data that could have back then helped identify those in various schemes.
The report explained his office also took more than 155,000 names on voter registration rolls because they were abandoned or inactive.
The report explained the names came up when investigators cross-checked lists provided by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, the Social Security records and more.
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The war brought by Democrats and other leftists against President Donald Trump's agenda to secure the nation's borders and deport illegal alien criminals is taking a serious turn.
It's that local and state officials in some venues have been threatening to arrest and prosecute federal officers doing their jobs.
If that happens, it likely won't turn out well for those local officials.
That's according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who wrote to California officials who are guilty of making those threats to federal officers.
"Stand down or face prosecution," Blanche told them. "No one threatens our agents. No one will stop us from Making American Safe Again."
He noted "The Department of Justice views any arrests of federal agents and officers in the performance of their official duties as both illegal and futile. … Numerous federal laws prohibit interfering with and impeding immigration or other law-enforcement operations."
His promise is that the U.S. "will investigate and prosecute any state or local official who violates these federal statutes (or directs or conspires with others to violate them)."
Those officials now have been ordered to save any records regarding their own "attempts or efforts to impede or obstruct federal law enforcement" because that could be evidence in cases against them.
The Washington Examiner commented the new instructions are "a bright red line for officials in state and local governments who are threatening to arrest federal immigration officials for enforcing federal law in Democrat-run areas."
Those making such threats including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, and Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois.
The report said they have claimed to have plans "to pursue legal action over what they say are abuses by federal immigration officers in their states."
Pelosi and Rep. Kevin Mullin, another California Democrats, said in a joint statement federal officers "could be arrested for violating state laws," the report noted.
"It is important to note that California law protects communities and prevents federal agents from taking certain actions here that we have witnessed in other states. While the President may enjoy absolute immunity courtesy of his rogue Supreme Court, those who operate under his orders do not," they threatened. "Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law — and if they are convicted, the President cannot pardon them."
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has joined in making threats.
"If there is excessive use of force, shootings that aren't legally justified, things of that nature, then I have to step in and do my job with respect to them, like I do with anyone else," Jenkins threatened.
And Pritzker has ordered the creation of a state commission to monitor federal immigration enforcement, "for future prosecutions against agents," the report said.
"Once this all ends, I believe there will be people of good faith who will review what the Commission has recorded and will demand answers and accountability," he said.
Blanche's letter was to California officials.
"We urge you and other California officials to publicly abandon this apparent criminal conspiracy, to stop threatening law enforcement, and to prioritize the safety of your citizens," Blanche said. "In the meantime, federal agents and officers will continue to enforce federal law and will not be deterred by the threat of arrest by California authorities who have abdicated their duty to protect their constituents."
Constitutional analysts have said state officials clearly are out of line if they try to violate federal law, or stop enforcement.