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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.
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U.S. Transportation Sean Duffy sounded the alarm Sunday about the safety of American air travel, indicating he "can't stop the frustration of air-traffic controllers" who face higher-than-normal stress levels as they continue to work without pay 26 days into the federal government shutdown.
"You can see the stress, these people that often times live paycheck to paycheck," Duffy said on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel. "I see that burn coming from the controllers."
"They're concerned about gas in the car. They're concerned about child care and mortgages. And so I'm seeing the stress come for the controllers. Just yesterday, Maria, we had 22 staffing triggers. That's one of the highest that we've seen in the system since the shutdown began and that's a sign that the controllers are wearing thin.
"They're taking second jobs. They're out here looking, 'Can I drive Uber? Can I find another source of income to make ends meet until Democrats stop with their radical push for illegal migrants and actually open up the government?'"
Duffy explained: "We have more people calling in sick, more people not showing up for work."
"There's real life situations that they're dealing with their families. I was in one of the towers, and they were celebrating the fact that the airlines had sent them lunch and sent them dinner. I don't want air-traffic controllers going to a food bank."
"The fact that they have to think about how they put food on the table, they need airlines to put food into the towers so they can have lunch or dinner is outrageous."
Duffy said in the next two or three days, he expects "more staffing shortages in towers which means you're gonna see more delays, more cancellations and then you see more Americans frustrated at Democrats and they'll say open up the government. Enough is enough."
When Bartiromo asked Duffy if it is even safe to fly at the current time, Duffy replied: "I need my controllers focused on the airspace, not about the finances at home. They'll tell me there is that seepage of how they're gonna deal with those finances. My job is to keep the airspace safe."
"And so if I don't feel like I have enough controllers, or enough controllers that are focused, we will slow down traffic, we will stop traffic. And that's why you see the delays in the system. And the job No. 1 is, again, get people to where they're going safely. If it's not on time, call the Democrats, call Chuck Schumer. if you're frustrated that you have a staffing shortage and your flight's three hours delayed or your flight is canceled, call Chuck, call Senate Democrats because this is the reason why."
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President Trump has pulled the plug on trade negotiations with Canada, where the economy relies in significant ways on the United States, over what he has called a "FAKE" ad that appears to be trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court's looming decision on tariffs.
Further, the ad may actually misrepresent President Ronald Reagan, whose words it uses.
The bigger picture is Trump's use of tariffs to bring about fair trade agreements for American manufacturers, consumers and economy with foreign nations that long have taken advantage of unbalanced practices.
The Supreme Court right now is considering the status of those tariffs.
Canada, of course, has a significant interest in making them go away. And Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who repeatedly has opposed Trump's economic agenda, revealed he was pushing an ad campaign weeks ago.
Now it's out:
It claims, through Reagan's words, edited for the ad, "High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs."
He was, in 1987, addressing trade with Japan.
Now Trump has responded to the ad.
"The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HERBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."
The Hill explained "Trump in August announced a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian goods, though products covered under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement were exempt. Canada is one of the United States' top trading partners, and their economies are heavily intertwined when it comes to certain products. But Trump has repeatedly argued the U.S. does not need Canadian goods, and that Canada is far more reliant on America for its economy."
In fact, the Reagan Foundation confirmed the ad manipulated Reagan's words, and it announced it was reviewing its legal options"
Here are those remarks, without the political spin from Canada.
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An economics and social studies teacher in Orange County, Florida, has won a battle with his school district, which means displaying a poster of Charlie Kirk in his classroom is now allowable.
As WND reported, William Loggans, a teacher at Horizon High School, had put up the poster shortly after Kirk's assassination on a Utah campus Sept. 10.
Along with Kirk's image, the poster included one of his quotes: "Never underestimate the power of your voice and the impact you can have on the world when you speak up for what you believe in."
In an interview with Not the Bee, Loggans shared his motivation behind the poster, saying that he has a variety of such banners around his room featuring notable public figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Ronald Reagan.
Loggans was forced to take the poster down after a student complained, telling his teacher that Charlie Kirk "is a Nazi and a fascist."
The teacher subsequently filed a grievance with the school, which has ruled that the poster can go back up.
Andrew Jackson, principal of Horizon High School, responded to Loggans this week: "Based on my review and your representation, your grievance is granted and you may redisplay the poster."
"This is quite a victory, and it's not my victory – this victory is the students' victory," Loggans told Fox News Digital. "Instead of being told what they can have or what kind of inspirational quotes they can have in the room and on the person, now they can hear different viewpoints. They can make up their own minds. And so, this is a clear victory for my students and, frankly, for students across this nation."
Loggans' attorney, Anthony Sabatini, posted on X about the victory: