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JERUSALEM – Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, Israel’s top military intelligence official, offered his resignation earlier this week over the systemic failures that permitted thousands of Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians to carry out – last Oct. 7 – the worst pogrom against Jews in more than 80 years.

The IDF Military Intelligence Directorate (AMAN in Hebrew) head reportedly retired from the Israel Defense Forces via a letter of resignation placed on current IDF Chief-of-Staff Herzi Halevi’s desk. Haliva will officially step down from his current duties once an appropriate replacement has been found.

There has been intense speculation about Haliva’s position for some time. These concerns were brought into sharper focus due to the IDF’s miscalculation regarding the likely response to the missile strike that killed two senior Islamic Republican Guard Corps generals stationed in a Quds Force headquarters adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1. Haliva was one of the figures who assumed Tehran would continue to play by the sort of gentleman’s agreement rules of the game. But he erred – and potentially catastrophically.

In response, Iran launched the largest barrage of drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles – more than 300 at last count – directly from Iran toward Israel. It was a miracle that the only casualty was a severely wounded 7-year-old Bedouin girl, who remains in intensive care after being hit by falling shrapnel from an intercepted ballistic missile.

Indeed, former Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz penned a stinging opinion piece about Haliva, saying that while the Military Intelligence Directorate has some outstanding people currently working there, its analysis of the intelligence it gathers appears to be faulty – and dangerously so. Under Haliva’s directorship, the assessment was that Qatar’s munificence had quelled Hamas’s genocidal intentions toward Israel. It also misread Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, claiming that Gaza’s Islamist ruling party was placated, when in fact, it was planning the most brutal assault on Jews since the darkest days of the Holocaust.

This is not the first time that an October war has broken out – at least partly – because of intelligence failures with AMAN. On Oct. 6, 1973 – almost 50 years previously to the day – Egyptian and Syrian forces attacked Israel, only to be joined later by other Arab states, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, as intelligence signals were ignored in favor of belief in what is known in Israel as the conceptzia – or "conception"” – most recently, the mistaken belief that Hamas would abandon its murderous ideology for economic gain.

In 1973, the conceptzia that was permitted to take hold was that the collective Arab armies – which had planned to attack Israel in 1967 – were delivered such a humiliating and rapid beating that they would think twice about attacking again. What Israel’s military intelligence failed to properly grasp was that the very seeds of revenge were planted in that humiliation. And it was not as if the border area between Egypt and Israel was exactly quiet in the intervening period.

The so-called "War of Attrition" was exactly as the name suggests: Israel’s military leaders abandoned some of the principles that had made its fighting force so formidable, such as nimbleness and quick action – and in the form of the Bar-Lev line of fortifications, had dug themselves into position close to the Suez Canal, making them sitting targets. And there were frequent – sometimes daily – exchanges of fire between the Egyptian army and the IDF, with the loss of hundreds of lives.

Despite these constant attacks, and despite both Egyptian presidents during this period – Gamal Abdel Nasser, who died in 1970, and Anwar Sadat, who immediately succeeded him – publicly expressing their country’s need to at least regain lost prestige, Israeli attitudes remained laissez-faire. The Jewish state’s leaders would not accept the possibility that the Egyptians – and other Arab states – could have their agency and would act by it.

Thus, the parallels between the intelligence failures of Oct. 6, 1973, and Oct. 7, 2023, are tactical, strategic, and intellectual. Israel’s intelligence-gathering capabilities in 2023 may have been far greater than those in 1973, but the failure and ossification of imagination nevertheless produced catastrophic results. In an article for the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, Amnon Sofrin, a career IDF soldier and former Mossad chief, said Israel’s military leaders in both cases suffered from "group thinks." In 1973, it never occurred to any senior military leaders that Egypt and/or Syria might attack. In 2023, the same could be said of Hamas in Gaza, although in both cases the intelligence reports suggested that an attack of some kind might well be in the offing.

The most poignant expression of all this was when one of the female soldiers, whose task it was to inspect live footage of the border between Gaza and Israel, saw what was taking place on that day and pleaded with her commanders to not allow this to become another Yom Kippur. It wasn’t; it was far worse. Now, someone – in this case, Haliva – is paying the professional price for this glaring failure.

It is not yet clear who will replace Haliva as the chief of military intelligence. There is a list of potential candidates, although the IDF’s chief-of-staff expects more resignations to follow Haliva's. These figures might try and preempt the anticipated criticism that will be directed at them for the intelligence failures surrounding Oct. 7. Much of the country expects that just as the lack of preparedness that led up to the Yom Kippur War was investigated by the Agranat Commission – which included some high-profile political casualties, up to and including then-Prime Minister Golda Meir – so, too, there will need to be similar soul-searching if Israel is to be able to try and come to terms with an intelligence breakdown of such epic proportions.

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Maine has become the newest state to adopt a controversial scheme that would give the presidency to the winner of each election's "National Popular Vote" and would, in effect, potentially permanently cancel any decision the state's own voters might make.

A report from ABC News revealed Gov. Janet Mills allowed the legislative plan to become law without her signature.

Of course, there could be defectors among that group, but when voters in those states alone picked the same candidate for president, no other state's voters would count. At all.

The plan purports to create a compact among the states that would let the "majority" of voters pick a president.

The constitutional system, set up to let individual states run elections, allocates one Electoral College vote to states for each member of Congress, distributing the influence proportionately.

The 12 states' electoral votes total 281.

The Electoral College was designed to assure that even smaller states could have an influence on an election, and it sets up the system to rely on the integrity and authority of the states.

But the new system would have handed America a President Al Gore and a President Hillary Clinton, and all of the impacts they would have created, and leftists long have blasted the Electoral College as giving individual states too much power.

The decision in Maine means it is joining 16 other states and Washington, D.C., in the plan, which already has pledged 209 electoral votes.

The plan remains controversial as the method for choosing a president is specified in the Constitution. Proponents of the new idea say they don't need a constitutional amendment, which would be nearly impossible to obtain, because it's just an agreement among states to allocate their Electoral College votes in ways they are allowed.

A court challenge would appear to be inevitable should the coalition ever amass the 270 total.

ABC documented five of the 46 presidents who were inaugurated lost the popular vote, including Donald Trump in 2016.

Promoters say that under the present system, a small number of "swing states" decides the presidency.

"In 2020, if 21,461 voters had changed their minds, Joe Biden would have been defeated, despite leading by over 7 million votes nationally. Each of these 21,461 voters (5,229 in Arizona, 5,890 in Georgia, and 10,342 in Wisconsin) was 329 times more important than the 7 million voters elsewhere," the compact promoters charge.

ABC reported Darrell West, of the Brookings Institute, explained, "If you look at all the presidential elections from 1992 through 2020, Republicans have won the presidential popular vote only once -- and that was in 2004 when [George W.] Bush beat John Kerry in the popular vote. In every other election over the last 30 years, Democrats have won the popular vote, but because of the Electoral College, Republicans have gotten the presidency a couple of times despite losing the popular vote."

Derek Muller, of Notre Dame Law, said the dispute undoubtedly will end up in court unless Congress actually acts.

The last major change in elections was a century ago, when states changed from having their legislatures pick senators to having direct elections. That required a constitutional amendment.

WND reported several years ago that the movement has been making short advances periodically.

At that time, the Democrat governor in Colorado, Jared Polis, signed that state onto the program.

The late Phyllis Schlafly wrote several years earlier about the plan.

"The NPV slogan 'Every Vote Equal' is dishonest because the NPV proposal is based on legalizing vote-stealing. For example, Texas or Louisiana could be forced to cast … votes for a candidate who won more votes in other states, such as New York," she explained at the time.

A lawsuit on the fight is not likely to decide anything ahead of time because federal courts review only actual disputes, not the prospect of what would happen.

And a lawsuit immediately after an election decided on the new scheme could throw the nation into complete turmoil, without a defined winner.

The Constitution does forbid states from entering into compacts with other states without congressional approval.

The program isn't without headwinds. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, vetoed the plan when it was proposed in his state.

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An appeals court ruling has delivered a body blow to Seattle's "heckler's veto" practices, in which police officers ordered a man, on public property, to quit speaking or leave because others objected to what he was saying.

A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the case involving Matthew Meinecke returned to the lower courts for an injunction against that leftist ideology.

The dispute arose because Meincke, a Christian, was on public property twice, during an abortion rally and an LGBT fest, and was reading his Bible.

He was abused by the crowds, and physically assaulted, his Bible was destroyed and he was threatened.

But police, instead of confronting those who were engaged in criminal activity, told Meinecke to move somewhere else, then arrested and took him into custody for declining.

He sued the police and the city, and the appellate ruling now clears the way for an injunction against the defendants as his case proceeds.

The ruling said, "The prototypical heckler’s veto case is one in which the government silences particular speech or a particular speaker 'due to an anticipated disorderly or violent reaction of the audience. As such, it 'is a form of content discrimination, generally forbidden in a traditional or designated public forum.' The Supreme Court has emphasized as 'firmly settled' that 'the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers, or simply because bystanders object to peaceful and orderly demonstrations.' … 'Listeners' reaction to speech is not a content-neutral basis for regulation.' …. It is apparent from the facts, including the video available from police body cameras, that the Seattle police directed Meinecke to leave the area because of the reaction his Bible-reading provoked at the Dobbs and PrideFest protests…."

The ruling continued, "[T]he city maintains that the police officers merely sought to relocate Meinecke’s speech rather than ban it outright…. But the government cannot escape First Amendment scrutiny simply because its actions 'can somehow be described as a burden rather than outright suppression.' … Even assuming that the officers simply instructed Meinecke to cross the street, their directions burdened Meinecke’s speech. Meinecke had a right, just as those participating in the anti-Dobbs rally or the celebration of PrideFest, to use public sidewalks and streets for the peaceful dissemination of his views….

"If speech provokes wrongful acts on the part of hecklers, the government must deal with those wrongful acts directly; it may not avoid doing so by suppressing the speech. … The officers could have required the protestors to take a step back from Meinecke. They could have called for more officers—as they did after Meinecke was arrested. They could have erected a free speech barricade. They could have warned the protestors that any sort of physical altercation would result in the perpetrators’ arrests. And they could have arrested the individuals who ultimately assaulted Meinecke. The city did none of those things. Instead, the police report on Meinecke’s arrest simply recites that '[w]hen resources allowed in the past[,] SPD would try and keep the two opposing groups separated.' That is hardly the sort of concrete proof necessary to establish that restricting Meinecke’s speech was the only way to avoid violence…."

The ruling was written by Judge Jay Bybee and was joined by Margaret McKeown and Daniel Bress.

They posted a lengthy description of the events:

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The ripples from Joe Biden's outlandish – and outrageous – suggestion his uncle, lost in a plane crash during World War II, was eaten by cannibals on New Guinea, continue to spread.

And not in a good way.

Biden, 81, who has a well-earned reputation for verbal stumbles, flubs and blunders, this week claimed, "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea."

Actually records show the uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was lost when the airplane in which he was a passenger, lost power and crashed into the ocean in that region.

Biden's claims since have been the subject of widespread debunking and ribald talk-show levity.

Now the Daily Mail is documenting that academics in Papua New Guinea are not amused by Biden's claims.

The report said, "Outraged Papua New Guinea academics have slammed President Joe Biden for his 'unacceptable' suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in the country after his plane was shot down during World War II."

It continued, "Historically, cannibalism has been reported Papua New Guinea, the Pacific nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, but local academics say Biden's categorization of the act is 'very offensive.'"

Michael Kabuni, described in the report as a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, explained to The Guardian cannibalism existed, but in very specific contexts.

They "wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky," the report said.

Others charged Biden's comments were "unsubstantiated and poorly judged" and "unacceptable."

The report noted economics lecturer Maholopa Laveil agreed with Kabuni, explaining Bien was painting the island "in a bad light."

"PNG has already had a lot of negative press around riots and tribal fighting and this doesn't help, and [the claims are] unsubstantiated," he said.

WND has reported that among many of Biden's tall tales, this one ranks among the tallest.

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley noted that Biden "has been long accused of false stories that have ranged from an invented arrest with Nelson Mandela to a zombie-like train conductor." But he said the new one "stood out."

"President Biden suggested that his uncle Ambrose 'Bozey' Finnegan may have been eaten by cannibals in World War II. What is striking about this story is the specificity of the key facts … and the fact that they are entirely false (other than his uncle dying near New Guinea)."

Turley did the research and reported the facts: "The more glaring problem is that Bozey was not flying a plane and was not shot down. It was not a single engine plane but a Douglas A-20 Havoc with two Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior 9-cylinder radial engines. He was not the pilot but a passenger on a plane. (Indeed, he was not referenced in the official report as a pilot but a staffer at the Headquarters of the Fifth Air Force). The plane had mechanical problems and crashed near New Guinea. He did not disappear in a sea of cannibals but the actual sea when he and other passengers failed to get out of the wreckage."

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Joe Biden insists that transgender treatments, the chemicals, the hormones, the surgical mutilations, are just more "health" care.

His advocacy while in the White House has raised the profile of the industry and its impact on its victims.

But some of the worst atrocities just now are coming to light, including the testimony from a whistleblower that patients of a children's gender clinic were "begging to have body parts put back on."

It is Fox News that reported on the comments from a children's gender clinic whistleblower who appeared on a daytime television talk show.

The whistleblower, Jamie Reed, who used to work at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, wrote an expose last year calling such treatments "morally and medically appalling."

The report noted Reed, "who is queer and married to a transgender person herself," explained what changed her ideas on the subject.

"Several things. We started to see patients who were experiencing very significant medical harm being rushed to the emergency room with lacerations requiring stitches. We had patients contact us who were begging to have body parts put back on within months of having surgeries."

She continued, "The thing that kept happening is every time I would raise concerns and ask about the protocols and ask about the guidelines – this is just how the industry works, if a child says they're trans there's no questioning it. We just say, 'Yep, you're trans, what would you like?'"

Multiple studies have documented that nearly all of the children who experience gender dysphoria during their early years resolve those conflicts and live ordinary lives as their birth sex – if they are not influenced by those promoting the extremism.

Reed worked with children at that clinic.

"You're telling me that a 12- or 13-year-old, who can't decide which pajamas to wear, can come in and say, 'I've decided that I want to transition,' and with no more than a couple of hours or two visits – not even a couple of hours, two visits – they say 'Okay, start taking this, start doing this,' which alters their biochemistry in a way that you can't come back from?" show host Dr. Phil wondered.

Reed: "Correct."

The ideology has boomed under Biden's presidency, during which he has insisted its "health care," must be normalized throughout the federal government and even promoted overseas.

Reed was blunt: "Doctors are acting like they're God when it comes to medically transitioning children."

"I saw a young person who was begging to have their breasts put back on after having surgery, we were encouraged not to make a big deal out of it and not to tell other families. I couldn't continue to be silent on it."

Many prominent figures now are seeking investigations into trans clinics after a flood of heart-wrenching stories from those who adopted the agenda, but now are "detransitioning." Some of those even have taken those who "treated" them to court for damages.

The Washington University clinic already is under investigation by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

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A new report has revealed a real stunner in fourth place among America's leading causes of death: The abortions from Planned Parenthood.

The leading player in the nation's lucrative abortion industry said in its annual 2022-23 report that the corporation ended the lives of nearly 393,000 during a single year.

And SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser quickly pointed out the unwelcome significance of that figure.

"Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, abortion, and more abortion. Their annual report shocks the conscience, showing that they ended nearly 393,000 American lives in a single year. This puts abortions performed by Planned Parenthood in the top four leading causes of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19," she explained.

"Once again, pregnant women who walk into Planned Parenthood are sold an abortion 97% of the time, rather than helped to keep their child or make an adoption plan. Meanwhile, they saw 80,000 fewer patients, provided 60,000 fewer pap tests and breast exams, and even gave out less contraception."

Then she noted how ordinary Americans are forced by Democrats in Washington to subsidize the abortion industry.

"As a reward, Democrats in Washington and the states sent them almost $700 million from the taxpayers – one-third of their revenue – to end the fiscal year with $2.5 billion in net assets. Vice President Kamala Harris even made a campaign stop at a Planned Parenthood abortion center. In turn, their political arm spends more than any other abortion-related group to lobby the federal government against commonsense policies like protecting babies born alive after failed abortions," she said.

Abortion is one of two major agenda points that Biden adopted upon assuming the Oval Office, and he's promoted the industry at every available opportunity. His other campaign goal is transgenderism for children.

Dannenfelser continued, "Planned Parenthood dropped this bombshell report while many Americans are still recovering from tax day. Any family that hasn’t been living under a rock has noticed that necessities get more expensive by the day. We know that 60% of women who’ve had abortions would rather have kept their babies if they just had more emotional or financial support."

The Democrats' response to that problem, however, has been to "demonize and strip funding from pregnancy resource centers that serve women and their children. Bidenomics has turned into abortionomics. Just like their hero Margaret Sanger, their 'solution' to the struggle of families to keep their heads above water is to kill their children and let the abortion industry rake in record profits," she said.

Planned Parenthood is working hard to grow its industry, a scholar from the Charlotte Lozier Institute explained.

Michael New, Ph.D., noted Planned Parenthood’s annual reports "consistently provide solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion."

He said, "Overall, this new report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions in 2022. This is a record number of abortions for the organization and represents approximately 40 percent of the abortions performed in the United States. The report also indicates that Planned Parenthood continues to cut back on several health services. Between 2022 and 2023, preventive-care visits fell by 31.0 percent, pap tests fell by 13.5 percent, cancer screenings fell by 1.4 percent, and adoption referrals fell by 4.5 percent. Interestingly, for every adoption referral in 2023, Planned Parenthood performed over 228 abortions."

The report confirms Planned Parenthood's results as being "consistent with Planned Parenthood’s long-term trend of performing more abortions and providing fewer health services," he said.

"In fact, in the past ten years, the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by 20 percent. Meanwhile, cancer screenings fell by more than 58 percent, and prenatal services declined by more than 67 percent."

The organization, in preparation for the coming election, has documented online the anti-life agenda of the Biden administration.

For example, it has tried to force doctors and nurses to participate in abortion and has tried to suppress the rights of those who object to the wanton destruction of the unborn.

Biden worked on this by eliminating the HHS Office for Civil Rights, trying to push through Congress an "equality" plan that demands that abortion at any time is a "right," and pushing for the legitimization of the Equal Rights Amendment, which died decades ago for lack of support.

Explains the report, "The profit-seeking abortion industry wants to erase medical safety standards on the abortion pill Mifeprex – and promote dangerous chemical abortions that put women at risk of heavy bleeding, severe infection, and sometimes death."

Biden even has promoted a piece of legislation known by critics as the "Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act," which would give abortion business operators "carte blanche to carry out abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason."

Biden also has worked to block popular legislation that would stop abortion on demand after five months, refused to protect babies who survive abortion attempts, canceled safety rules protecting Americans from dangerous chemical abortions, refused to recognize an existing federal law banning partial-birth abortions, and more.

Biden also has named the most pro-abortion cabinet ever, with his HHS chief, Xavier Becerra, exhibiting just this week for Congress his refusal to say an abortion of a healthy baby the day before a due date should be wrong.

Further, Biden's administration has been aggressive in trying to make changes that would require all Americans to fund the abortion industry's lavish lifestyle.

He even nominated to the Supreme Court Ketanji Jackson, who "maligned pro-life sidewalk counselors … in ugly and false ways."

Biden's DOJ, further, has ignored a long list of vandalisms against pro-life pregnancy centers while jailing those who try to counsel women against abortion outside industry locations.

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On Day Two of his hush-money trial in New York City on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said:

"This is a trial that should have never been brought. I say a trial that is being looked at all over the world is calling. They are looking at it and analyzing it. Every legal pundit and every legal scholar said this trial is a disgrace.

"We have a Trump-hating judge. We have a judge who shouldn't be in this case. He is conflicted. But this is a trial that should never happen. It should have been thrown out a long time ago.

"If you look at Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, all great legal scholars, there is not one that we've been able to find that says there should be a trial. I called a -- I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense some accountant I didn't know, marked it down as a legal expense. That's exactly what it was. And you get indicted over that?

"I should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning.

"This is all coming from the Biden White House 'cause the guy can't put two sentences together. He can't campaign. He is using this to try and win an election. And it is not working that way, it's working the opposite way. Check it out. It is called legal expense. That's what you are supposed to call it.

"Nobody has ever seen anything like it. So thank you very much for coming. I am now going to sit down for many hours. The voters understand it. All you have to do is look at the polls. This is a sham trial and the judge should recuse himself because he's conflicted. Thank you very much."

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Colorado has become a microcosm of the divisions facing America because of Joe Biden's open borders policy, enacted when he took office and by executive order trashed President Donald Trump's security plans.

And it's ended up in court.

The state, a far-left outpost in the American West now after a few well-endowed billionaires decided to turn the state Democrat a few years ago and donated liberally to Democrat state legislative candidates in amounts that left GOP contenders gasping, is seriously divided now.

Denver, long a "sanctuary" promoter, has been dealing with tens of thousands of illegal aliens under Biden's policies. The city has had to slash other budget categories to provide food, housing and the like to the multitude of needy individuals who have arrived thanks to Biden.

The leftists in the legislature also aggravated the situation by adopting several laws that prevent local governments from reaching agreements with the federal government over detention of illegal aliens, and even one that bans local law enforcement from detaining illegals on a federal detainer.

So now two counties have sued the state.

The lawsuit is by El Paso and Douglas counties and targets a 2023 law that limits their ability to work with federal officials to detain illegals, and a 2019 law blocking arrests based on federal detainers.

Those laws, the counties charge, are pre-empted by federal law and are unconstitutional, according to a report from the Denver Gazette.

The state actually has gone further, with an additional law that bans state judicial officials from even sharing information with federal immigration law enforcement.

"The nation is facing an immigration crisis," the counties charge in their complaint. "The nation, the state, and local governments need to cooperate and share resources to address this crisis. Colorado House Bills 19-1124 and 23-1100 prohibit the necessary cooperation and create dangerous conditions for the state and migrants."

Further, the laws violate the state constitution's provisions regarding intergovernmental relations, and the distribution powers.

Douglas County officials have confirmed that other counties are looking to join.

They already have distanced themselves from Denver's sanctuary agenda, which will just this year cost taxpayers $90 million for food, housing and transportation for illegals.

The report explained about 40,000 people from South and Central American arrive in Denver in the last year or so, and officials there even have admitted they are asking the migrants to move along to other cities.

The resistance to the ideology also has appeared in resolutions and other actions from major cities like Aurora and Colorado Springs, which have said they cannot afford to provide all those aid programs.

Commissioners in Douglas County also recently adopted a preventive measure, ordering that drivers of commercial vehicles that make unscheduled stops there to deliver illegals will face fines of $1,000 per passenger. They also could have their buses seized.

Sheriff Darren Weekly, of Douglas County, said it's a safety issue.

"For us to be restricted and have our hands tied, to say we can’t communicate legitimate information to the feds, or hold information that could be dangerous to our community, it just does not make sense," he said.

Around the nation, those states recognizing the value of secure national borders have been in conflict with "sanctuary" apologists and leftist enclaves ever since Biden took office and opened the border.

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High school students undoubtedly get a lot of crazy assignments these days, what with "Black Lives Matter" and "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" agendas running many districts.

But a case in Texas has documented a new extremity – a teacher accused of soliciting students to be prostitutes for her pimp son.

It is the New York Post that reports the high school teacher was arrested "on child sex-trafficking charges," for allegedly offering runaway students "a place to stay and then forcing them into prostitution."

The report cited details from Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez in explaining cosmetology teacher Kedria Grigsby, 42, worked at Klein Cain High and was taken into custody on multiple charges.

"She was working with her 21-year-old son, Roger Magee, to build a 'prostitution enterprise,' according to prosecutors," the report documented.

"It appears Grigsby recruited troubled juveniles from local high schools by offering them a place to stay, which would be a hotel," the sheriff reported on social media

Counts against the suspect include child trafficking and compelling prostitution.

Other teens also have alleged they were recruited.

The son had been arrested on similar counts more than a year ago and, the Post reported, "Investigators say they found text messages between mother and son — as well others with three alleged victims, ages 15, 16 and 17— discussing prostitution payments being made with Zelle."

A bond of $725,000 was set for Grigsby, and she was ordered not to contact any of the alleged victims, the report said.

A school official confirmed that Grigsby passed a background check when first hired for the 2019-2020 school year.

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Although President Joe Biden has called his 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal an "extraordinary success," most others have expressed a diametrically opposite view ever since. For many, the events that unfolded paint a picture of abject failure, including one that places Taliban terrorists on U.S. soil.

But then there are the good guys, including the thousands of Afghan interpreters and guides who helped U.S. forces for years. One of them, Ahmad Ehsan, accompanied the U.S. Army in its fight against the Taliban starting in 2018, serving as an interpreter and cultural adviser in Kabul until January 2021. WND is using a pseudonym to protect his identity.

Ehsan told WND, regarding Biden’s catastrophic exit from Afghanistan: "It was not an evacuation or withdrawal" at all, adding that a real military evacuation "would have been well-planned [and] with good management if it were," instead of the "shameful chaos" that unfolded.

While it was negotiating with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, Ehsan said, the United States had "more than enough time" to ensure a clean withdrawal and evacuation. Instead, he said, "the withdrawal and evacuation became a big shame in the history of the United States."

Near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, Ehsan witnessed the "chaos and shame" firsthand. "I tried to get inside the airport but couldn’t because the crowds around the airport were too congested." He recorded videos showing unvetted Afghans scaling the wall around the airport and attempting to board aircraft.

As he watched the large crowds of people, Ehsan saw Taliban fighters giving their weapons to other members of the Taliban before entering the airport’s main gate.

"I saw women and children fainting in the crowds with little room to breathe," Ehsan told WND. "Some of them were beaten or injured by Taliban fighters as they made their way to the airport." He also witnessed a mother give birth to her child in front of thousands of people.

"It was a very painful day for me," Ehsan recalled. "So many Taliban were able to enter the Kabul airport gate and were able to evacuate from Afghanistan to Qatar and other countries," he disclosed. "Many were also bribing people with money to let them inside the airport."

"Even though I served in the U.S. Army," Ehsan lamented, "I was left behind in a dire situation with an unknown future."

Ehsan is one of more than an estimated 62,000 Afghan interpreters and others who, by the end of 2021, had worked alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan and should be eligible for the Special Immigrant Visa program.

Yet, after two attempts, Ehsan has been denied entry into the U.S. by the State Department after being unjustly terminated from his duties as an interpreter. Records reviewed by WND indicate Ehsan provided "faithful and valuable" service to the U.S. military, according to his former battalion commander and other colleagues.

"I don’t know what will happen to me, I face torture and death if I am found by the Taliban," he said. "I also have no income and not enough food for me and my family."

While hiding from the Taliban, Ehsan said, "I've watched them for three years, celebrating their victory against the United States." For this reason, he told WND, "I feel very disappointed and betrayed, still fighting for my own life after losing family members in a war to bring peace, security, and freedom to my people."

He feels betrayed by the United States because, according to Ehsan, "the evacuation was not for U.S. allies." Rather, he said, "It was an evacuation for the Taliban, barbers, shopkeepers, tailors, street boys, or anyone that didn’t have an affiliation to the USG [United States government] like me."

Meanwhile, there are thousands of people, added Ehsan, including members of the Taliban, who have made it to the U.S. without proper documentation. Yet, he said, "For those truly eligible to come, we were left behind to be killed by the Taliban," who now control Afghanistan.

Ehsan’s story raises the inevitable question: How many Taliban fighters, who hosted and enabled al-Qaeda, which attacked America so viciously on Sept. 11, 2001, made it into the U.S., while U.S. allies like Ehsan have not?