The remaining 3,041,326 overstay leads (96.7 percent) were determined by the Biden administration to be “Non-Priority.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is accusing the Biden administration of “dereliction of duty” after a DHS Office of Inspector General report revealed that the administration took little to no action to deal with noncitizens who illegally overstayed their authorized periods in the United States, including those deemed threats to national security.

The OIG report found that Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received 3,145,375 nonimmigrant visa overstay leads during fiscal years 2021–2024, with 104,049 (3.3 percent) flagged as potential national security or public safety concerns. ICE opened only 496 investigations into those flagged leads and made only eight arrests, DHS said.

The remaining 3,041,326 overstay leads (96.7 percent) were determined by the Biden administration to be “Non-Priority.”

The report also found that of 2,837,188 Non-Priority leads that were sent to ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), only five were investigated after being determined to be possible public safety threats, and only two arrests were made.

The report identified a September 2021 policy under then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directing ICE to focus resources only on “Priority 1” threats as the “root cause” of the derelict nonenforcement of U.S. law.

“The degree of the Biden Administration’s dereliction of duty, which needlessly put American lives at risk, is staggering and enraging,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “As if the wide-open borders weren’t enough, a new OIG report reveals that the Biden-era ICE failed to act on more than 3 million leads about possible alien overstays, with more than 100,000 of these being labeled as potential national security threats. Unlike the Biden Administration, the Trump Administration will always put the safety of the American people first. We will target and remove as many illegal aliens as possible to make America safe again.”

In a press release, DHS provided several examples of “Non-Priority” alien overstays who went on to commit horrific crimes in the United States:

Williams was lawfully admitted to the United States in December 2023, but overstayed his authorized period after it expired in January 2024. According to DHS, he was arrested in Florida In August 2026, and charged with TWO counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing two people at a Burger King.

Johnstone entered the country in 2021 under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) and overstayed his authorized period after it expired in February 2022, according to DHS. He was arrested in Nevada in May 2026 and charged with “FOUR felony charges of willfully torturing, maiming, or mutilating animals after he allegedly tortured dogs at the animal shelter where he worked,” DHS said.

Chami was lawfully admitted to the United States in December 2021 but overstayed his authorized period after it expired in December 2022, according to DHS. He was arrested in Texas in August 2025, and “charged with aggravated kidnapping after he allegedly sexually assaulted his Uber passenger.”

About Debra Heine

Debra Heine is a conservative Catholic mom of six and longtime political pundit. She has written for several conservative news websites over the years, including Breitbart and PJ Media.

American Greatness

The Haverford case exposes a pattern that deserves far more scrutiny:

1. Publicly hide behind “anti-Israel” or “anti-Zionist” rhetoric—and even blame Israel for antisemitism.

2. Wrap yourself in the language of “Free Palestine.”

3. Operate behind multiple aliases and anonymous accounts.

Then, the mask comes off: explicit antisemitic threats, Nazi references, Holocaust rhetoric, and threats directed at a Jewish victim and his family.

The Guangtian Ha case is a particularly stark example of what prosecutors allege happened when the anonymity came off.

The question is not whether criticism of Israel is legitimate—it obviously can be. The question is what someone’s rhetoric reveals when they stop talking about a state and start targeting Jews.

No one has ever had a valid excuse for shrinking from the duty to fight evil.

Anthony J. DeBlasi | October 8, 2026

Author

When I came home from the war in Korea in 1955, I realized America was moving away from its cultural base, a foundation rooted in civilization strongly influenced by Christianity. I could sense it in mainstream media turning toward the Left. This essentially Marxist spin in commentary and news reporting indicated that America was facing domestic enemies as well as foreign ones. 

Naming this country’s Marxist enemies, for that is what the Left consists of, inevitably points to communists, socialists, and various other collectivists; the lot of them advocates of State rule from the top down. Their bias against individual liberty and its awesome variety of opportunities does not belong in America. 

Americans swallowing the phony narratives of the Left have helped open the path to the deconstruction of America into a nation without liberty, without opportunity, without God, without beauty, and without sanity. Sadly, those who most need to know don’t know that the social and political health of a nation begins with a clear understanding of right and wrong, a truism well tested in human history and recorded in sacred scripture. 

Holy scripture connects people to the realities of life and provides a moral compass to keep them from becoming totally secularized and reliant on the State for their upkeep. That is the way of servitude, for which there is no reward package of subsistence and amusement that can hide the condition of virtual slavery. 

Failure to relate the Word of God to the reality of living deprives us of the connection to the essence of our being. That connection corrects the inherent human tendency to confuse good and evil, a consequence in most humans of being part angel and part devil. Which part predominates depends on the health of one’s moral character. 

Moral health requires training to acquire and exercise. If the training does not begin in childhood, the resulting handicap is difficult to overcome. Among the most troubling results of this deficiency is the weakness of resisting the Left’s anti-America brainwashing.

Moral training of the young is a prime task of parenting, and it draws on the vitality of a sound tradition. This wonderful resource is constantly attacked by the Left because it undermines the Left’s “progress.” Smearing healthy traditions with the lie that they’re “outdated” has largely succeeded in tradition fading from the consciousness of the mainstream. 

The destructive power of Marxism on culture has had its worst effect on the churches, many of them taking the bait of Liberation Theology, allegedly bringing Christianity “up to date.” The fact is that this spin on Christian doctrine treacherously alters it to comply with Marxist teaching, not the teachings of Christ. This has scattered the flock of worshipers, closed many churches, and devalued the Gospel. This is an abomination, not progress. How can anyone improve upon what Christ had to say? 

Of the lessons I’ve learned outside of classrooms, the saddest is that one’s conscience is not infallibly connected to the truth. The conscience must be trained in its role of guiding us to the truth and to the good. And the widely held belief that the heart inevitably supports doing what is right is also subject to error. Let us not forget how cold the heart can be. Countless individuals have committed unthinkable atrocities, some allegedly ordered by God! The conscience and the heart are quite capable of enormous error. 

As for the role of the mind in all this, let us not forget its aptitude to dither and get lost in conflicts over “points of view.” For many minds, there is no difference between fact and opinion – ending any serious discussion regarding important issues. 

Consider the fact that men and women of exceeding mental ability have been known to make terrible mistakes in judgment regarding their lives and the lives of others. How is it that academics with credentials in human behavior frequently overlook the importance and impact of forms of human interaction like love, hate, anger, forgiveness, heroism, and many other common inclinations? 

Philosophy, theology, literature, and the arts have examined the varied factors affecting human life for thousands of years. What justification is there for snubbing the work of thousands of minds as sharp as any today? I do not claim any special insight on the matter, but this nugget is worth passing on: 

We need to let the mind and the heart unite with that “wiser spirit [that] is at work for us, a better eye than theirs, most prodigal of blessings.” 

[William Wordsworth, The Prelude.) 

Such fullness of mind and heart leads true Christians to the Alpha and Omega of Truth and Knowledge: I am the way and the truth and the life [John 14:6]. Such complete insight divulges a power greater than any from the secular world, which is excessively focused on material things. Materialists lack the understanding that truth is independent of the will and of political ideology. Its detachment from a world consisting entirely of matter–including brains and hearts–keeps truth from becoming the plaything of leaders and rulers where the light of God is shut out, 

as in Nazi Germany (1933-1945); as in Soviet Russia (1922-1991); as in Communist China (1949 to ongoing); and as in the United States (circa 1960 and ongoing) after Marxist apparatchiks stuck their foot inside America’s doors. 

Countering such epic cases of illegitimate takeover requires greater wisdom than most current leaders possess, a painfully familiar fact. How is it that very smart leaders in the mainstream fail to detect America’s domestic enemies, year after year – enemies of freedom, enemies of family, enemies of God, enemies of We the People – unless they have joined those enemies and are willing to bring this nation to its knees?  

We could forever mull the reasons for America’s sorry state, but the weight of culpability falls heaviest on those in high levels of government who, claiming to exercise their best judgment regarding the welfare of the people they serve, fail to apply their brains and their power to that purpose.  

Do we wait forever for accountability, without which no “course correction” is possible? 

Although vengeance is God’s [Deuteronomy 32:35], no one has ever had a valid excuse for shrinking from the duty to fight evil. And this applies with double force to today’s clergy. Pastors must remain constantly aware that there is never a time to turn their backs on God, which is what they do when they fail to uphold and defend the Gospel and the faith, leaving congregants in the hands of God’s enemies – the action of traitors, not of men and women of God. 

Anthony J. DeBlasi is a veteran and lifelong defender of Western Culture

We have spent centuries building societies on the assumption that people can govern themselves. Our institutions are premised on individual responsibility, private property, free expression, voluntary association, markets, constitutional limits, and the belief that adults can generally be trusted to govern themselves.

Yet much of today’s politics appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

Competence increasingly seems negotiable, perhaps even disqualifying. Expertise is often treated with suspicion. Complex problems are compressed into slogans. Identity matters more than accomplishment, authenticity more than knowledge, and how a politician makes people feel more than that politician’s ability.

Why? And more importantly, what happens to our democracy when understanding a political argument matters less than producing the politically correct reaction?

That is a different question from whether conservatives or liberals are right. It is a question about self-government itself. The old populist argument was simple: the elites have failed you, so “power to the people.”

The emerging version may be something stranger: you don’t need knowledge; you only need someone or something to blame.

That’s a very different kind of populism.

What replaces them?

If individual responsibility declines, what replaces it? If open markets are rejected, who allocates? If private property becomes less secure, who decides what belongs to whom? If institutional authority is weakened, what replaces it? If competence becomes subordinate to identity, how do complex societies keep functioning? And if citizens lose the habit of independent judgment, who’s left to govern?

Perhaps our greatest vulnerability is also our greatest strength. Free people are difficult to control. But they can also be persuaded to surrender their freedoms if you convince them that those freedoms are responsible for their problems.

Individualism can slide into selfishness, while freedom can decay into license. Skepticism can become nihilism, and populism can become tribal. Democracy can weaken the very conditions that make democracy viable.

Collapse is not inevitable, but we should recognize the warning signs.

Failure is unlikely to arrive as tanks in the streets or governments falling overnight. It will be more mundane: institutional competence mattering less; political loyalty mattering more than truth; citizens becoming increasingly unable to agree on basic facts; disagreements becoming moral emergencies; government assuming responsibilities once reserved to individuals; and political leaders being rewarded for promises rather than results.

The most troubling sign may be simpler still:

People become increasingly certain of what they believe while becoming increasingly incapable of explaining why they believe it.

That’s how a civilization becomes stupid—not by losing intelligence, but by losing the habit of using it.

And that may be the most consequential issue facing our civilization.

Not whether the left or right is winning. Not even whether populism is winning.

What if the real winner is a political system that no longer requires citizens to think for themselves?

If that is happening, we should probably figure it out before we discover the answer the hard way.

God Bless America.

Allan J. Feifer, American Thinker

There are “no innocent people” in Gaza and Israel should “also kill two-week-old babies” in the Palestinian enclave, Israel’s former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him.

“I heard all the rhetoric of: ‘they all need to be killed,’ ‘there are no innocent people’,” Lapid said in an interview on Wednesday, describing “a furious and painful meeting with a group of really young people” he had recently met.

The former prime minister, who is now part of the centrist-right wing alliance of the Together party, added that he asked them, “What about babies? They said: ‘babies too, because eventually they’ll grow up and become terrorists’,” Lapid recounted, adding that they said it applies even to two-week-old babies.

“So, Hamas won,” Lapid said, adding that “those are Hamas’s standards. That’s what it wanted. For us to become like them.”

The government’s failure to act against Israeli ministers and officials who called for the starvation of children caused, Lapid said, an “internal damage where you fail to define value-based standards for being different from Hamas.”

Lapid, who served as prime minister for five months before Benjamin Netanyahu regained power in late 2022, accused the government’s conduct of leading to a sharp decline in Israel’s international standing in the past three years.

Lapid said he was equally worried about how young Israelis see the Palestinians after three years of genocide, adding that Israel is conducting a “just” war in Gaza.

The centrist leader stated that the accusations levelled at Israel that it carried out a genocide in Gaza are “nonsense” but “children shouldn’t die in grown-ups’ wars, period,” he said.

Lapid’s comments on Wednesday come amid a growing body of literature and opinion polls that indicate that young Israelis are more right-wing than their parents, with last month serving as an indicator of this right-wing shift.

Israeli outlet Channel 12 News reported that, according to a new poll, 74 percent of Jewish Israelis between the ages of 18 and 22 hold right-wing or centre-right views.

According to the poll, 15 percent of young Jewish Israelis support far-right parties such as Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party and Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party, which advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians from the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank.

Last month’s mock election in a high school in Ramat Gan showed similar results for the Israeli far right, as Otzma Yehudit, the Religious Zionist party and the new far-right Amcha Yisrael party received almost 15 percent of the votes.

This marks a 10 percent increase in support for the far-right in the school compared with 2022.

Additionally, last month, Lior Schleien, a left-leaning comedian travelling around Israel to speak with young Israelis about politics, was asked to delete from his social media accounts a conversation he had with a young Jewish Israeli who said he wanted to kill all Arabs.

In the now-deleted video, the young man told Schleien: “Give me a knife, I’ll murder them. Every Arab.”

When Schleien questioned the feasibility of such an act, the young man said every Israeli Jew should get a weapon to kill as many Arabs as possible.

In a post on X, the Israeli comedian said the young man’s parents asked him to delete the video, stating they were shocked by their son’s comments.

While the young man’s comments caused a stir online, the position that there are no innocent people in Gaza is a very common opinion in Israel, with a poll last year showing that 64 percent of all Israelis agree with the statement.

According to a 2024 study, young Israelis “have increasingly displayed more hawkish attitudes than older generations, coupled with a stronger inclination towards right-wing identification”, with the research stating that young Israelis are also more religious than older generations.

Nadal Rapaport, Middle East Eye

We are now less than a month out from the mid-term elections, and the single biggest theme that the Democrats have chosen to run on appears to be “affordability.”

How can this possibly be? We live in the age of immediate availability of information, let alone artificial intelligence to track down anything that might previously have been challenging to find. If you want a state-by-state comparison of costs for any particular thing, you can get it in a fraction of a second. The results are in: the Democrat-run states are less “affordable.”

The Democrats and Republicans propose opposite strategies for dealing with the economy. The Democrats advocate for higher government spending, higher taxes, and more regulation of business; and the Republicans advocate for lower spending, lower taxes, and less regulation of business. The states are the “laboratories of democracy,” where we get to see the consequences of disparate policies play out, and to evaluate the results. Neither party is perfect in implementing what it advocates, so there are always some complexities. But in the main it is easy to collect data that give a relatively clear picture of the results of Democrat versus Republican policies.

So let’s consider some examples from among the most prominent issues today.

Electricity Prices.

The federal government’s Energy Information Administration puts out monthly data (with some lag) of state-by-state average electricity prices per kWh to the “ultimate consumer.” Here is the latest chart (July 2026 data). There are separate columns for electricity prices for “residential,” “commercial,” “industrial,” “transportation,” and “all sectors.” The “residential” column is perhaps most relevant to the “affordability” issue.

The national average residential price is 18.31¢/kWh. Alaska and Hawaii are outliers due to geographic remoteness. Putting those aside, the highest prices are in the deepest blue states that have most aggressively pursued the fossil fuel suppression policies to “save the planet” from climate change. California has the highest prices among the lower 48 (33.61¢/kWh), followed by a gaggle of Northeastern states that have joined the “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative” to intentionally drive up their electricity prices (Maine 32.41¢/kWh; Massachusetts 30.49¢/kWh; New York 29.90¢/kWh; Rhode Island 28.29¢/kWh; New Hampshire 26.60¢/kWh; New Jersey 25.19¢/kWh). At the other end of the price spectrum, we find either Republican-run states or a few Democrat states with the good fortune of cheap hydropower: Louisiana 12.72¢/kWh; Nevada 12.77¢/kWh; Utah 13.12¢/kWh; North Dakota 13.41¢/kWh; Tennessee 13.71¢/kWh; Idaho 13.73¢/kWh; Nebraska 13.78¢/kWh; Kentucky 13.81¢/kWh; Wyoming 14.36¢/kWh; Oklahoma 14.35¢/kWh; Arkansas 14.33¢/kWh.

There really can’t be any doubt at this point about which set of policies leads to cheaper electricity.

Gasoline Prices.

Differences in gasoline prices present a red/blue divide that is not quite as clear as differences in electricity prices, but it is close.

The American Automobile Association publishes data on State Gas Price Averages, up-to-date every day. Here is today’s chart. (That link may go to charts that change each day.). They publish a color-coded map indicating states with high, medium and low average prices:

If you go to the link and hover your cursor above any state, you will get today’s price for that state. The swath of mostly Republican-led states across the South and Midwest has the lowest prices. California again has the highest of the lower 48: $6.3602 today, against a national average of $4.3667. The reasons for California’s extraordinarily high prices have been well publicized: a combination of environmental restrictions on drilling and on refineries (causing many of those to close), plus special required blends of gasoline, and high taxes. California’s restrictions on refineries have had the unfortunate effect of dragging many neighboring states, even partially or fully red ones, into gasoline price purgatory, although the prices in these states are much lower than in California (e.g., Nevada $5.4645; Idaho $4.9303; Arizona $4.7263). High prices in the blue Northeastern states are driven by regulations and high taxes (e.g., New York $4.4678; Connecticut $4.4437; Massachusetts $4.3452).

State and Local Tax Burden

The Tax Foundation publishes a chart of annual state and local tax collections per capita. Here is their chart for 2026. D.C. ranks number one at $15,009, followed by New York ($12,506), North Dakota, Hawaii, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Mexico, California, Vermont and Illinois ($8,339) to round out the top ten. North Dakota is the only red state outlier there, explained by the fact that they produce a lot of oil, taxed at the well-head, and have a small population. So the tax burden on the populace is actually low.

At the low end it is entirely red states with the possible exception of purple-ish Arizona (in order starting from the lowest: Mississippi ($4,868), Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Arizona, Idaho, Florida, Missouri, South Dakota, Arkansas, Oklahoma ($5,312)).

How Democrats can claim the mantle of “affordability” in the face of easily-available data like these is beyond me.

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Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

Wisconsin voters will decide in November whether to approve three proposed amendments to the state Constitution.

The Republican-led Legislature has placed three separate questions on the ballot. The proposed amendments would:

*Prohibit the governor from using the partial veto power to create a new tax or fee.

*Prohibit the government from ordering the closure of places of worship during an emergency.

*Bar the government entities from discriminating against or providing preferential treatment to individuals based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.

Under Wisconsin law, a proposed constitutional amendment must pass the state Legislature in the exact same form during two consecutive legislative sessions before it can go before voters. The governor does not have the authority to veto constitutional amendments. If approved by the Legislature, the final decision rests with Wisconsin voters.

“This is a legislature’s attempt to get around the governor,” said Sue Jennik, the President of the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Dane County. The LWV is against all three amendments.

“These are ways to restrict the power of the government,” said Dan Lennington, the Managing Vice President and Deputy Counsel for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. The conservative law firm is in favor of all three.

Partial veto power

Question on ballot: “Partial veto. Shall section 10 (1) (c) of article V of the constitution be amended to prohibit the governor, in exercising his or her partial veto authority, from creating or increasing or authorizing the creation or increase of any tax or fee?”

Background:

If approved this amendment would prohibit the governor from using the partial veto power to create a new tax or fee.

In 2023, Gov. Tony Evers partially vetoed the section of the 2024-25 state budget that would have increased school funding by $325 per student for two years, changing the wording of the end date from “2024-25” to “2425” by striking out the “20” and the hyphen from the bill. The state supreme court upheld the veto in 2025. Chief Justice Jill Karofsky said at the time that Wisconsin’s constitution does not limit the governor’s partial veto power “based on how much or how little the partial vetoes change policy.”

Religious worship during emergencies

Question on ballot: “Freedom to gather in places of worship during an emergency. Shall section 18 of article I of the constitution, which deals with religious liberty, be amended to prohibit the state or a political subdivision of the state from ordering the closure of, or forbidding gatherings in, places of worship in response to a state of emergency, including a public health emergency?”

Background:

If approved, this would prohibit the government from ordering the closure of places of worship during an emergency.

This question stems from the restriction put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Gov. Evers issued the Safer at Home order which ordered all Wisconsinites to stay at home unless the activity was considered essential. Religious gathers were limited to 10 people or fewer in a room at a time with social distancing requirements in place.

The State Supreme Court struck down the stay-at-home restrictions and ruled that Gov. Evers’ administration overstepped its authority when it extended the order. Government discrimination

Question on ballot: “Governmental entity discrimination prohibited. Shall section 27 of article I of the constitution be created to prohibit governmental entities in the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, public contracting, or public administration?”

Background:

If approved, this amendment would bar government entities from discriminating against or providing preferential treatment to individuals based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. The amendment’s author Rep. Dave Murphy (R – Hortonville) previously testified that the amendment is modeled “after Michigan’s 2006 constitutional amendment, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Elly Lalibertie, Channel 3000 News

U.S. — The nation has reportedly slipped into a period of deep sadness and introspection after learning that Iran may not actually nuke Los Angeles.

Following a misunderstood statement by President Trump that it would be a “small price to pay” for Iran to nuke LA and San Diego, the nation was upset to learn there is no imminent threat to the City of Angels and that it would not, in fact, be destroyed.

“There are no words to express my disappointment,” said John Glenn of Arizona. “I mean, I’m glad San Diego is going to be okay, but I was really hoping LA would get hit with an atomic blast and fall into the sea. That would have really made my day.”

Trump has reportedly ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff following the sudden realization that LA would not be torn apart in a flash reaching 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, irradiating the landscape for years to come, preventing Hollywood from ever rebuilding, and scattering the bodies of the Hollywood elite into the wind.

At publishing time, Americans continued to hold out hope that an earthquake would do to LA what Iran would not.

But not all of the regret was focused on Hollywood. Some were just upset that the Dodgers might have another shot at the World Series.

“They can’t keep getting away with it!” said local sports fan Lyle Wann.

Babylon Bee

Stealing from the taxpayer has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry in America – and the Trump administration is finally doing something about it.

From the Department of Government Efficiency to Vice President JD Vance’s task force, the Trump administration has made combatting fraud a top priority. Here are just a few of the most astonishing fraud schemes uncovered so far.

750,000 fraudsters stealing $2.2 billion from Obamacare

Since its passage in 2010, Obamacare has been a magnet for scammers, resulting in higher tax bills for Americans and higher premiums in the private insurance market. But the Trump administration is finally doing something about it.

On September 21, Vice President Vance announced that the White House Fraud Task Force would be removing 750,000 enrollees from the program, saving taxpayers an estimated $2.2 billion.

While elected Democrats and the liberal media have claimed that the administration is simply ripping people off their insurance, that hardly appears to be the case. According to Vance, brokers have been enrolling people in Obamacare who do not qualify for subsidies or in some cases do not even exist.

The brokers then collect lucrative commission payments from insurance companies.

“In one case we found a fraud ring that had 40 agents, 40 brokerage agents who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently,” Vance said. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also revealed that more than one million people who enrolled in Obamacare this year had no Social Security number.

Democrats never had an incentive to root out fraud; in fact, the Biden administration relaxed verification safeguards that would have caught most of the scammers. But Democrats benefit when more people appear to be enrolled in Obamacare, because that makes it more politically risky for Republicans to roll back subsidies or reduce eligibility.

250+ fake trucking schools

Unqualified migrant truckers have become the terror of American roads, with one heartbreaking story after another showing the deadly consequences of allowing poorly trained drivers to operate big rigs.

There are two primary culprits in this ongoing tragedy: Democrat states granting a commercial driver’s license to virtually anyone who wants one, and fraudulent trucking schools churning out certifications to drivers who in some cases can’t even speak or read English.

The Trump administration has gone after both the states and the schools, suspending more than 110 schools and completely shutting down another 150 so far, according to Center Square.

The case to prove fraud is simple. The 110 schools currently suspended are linked to more than 5,000 drivers who failed English language proficiency tests. Meanwhile, the 150 schools that have been shut down entirely “claim to be certified but have unlicensed instructors and don’t have adequate space to allow drivers to get behind the wheel and drive.”

Hundreds of fake hospice centers in Los Angeles

Following an investigation from independent journalist and YouTuber Nick Shirley, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced an investigation into hospice care centers in Los Angeles. What he found was truly shocking.

Roughly one-third of the nation’s hospice providers are based in Los Angeles – despite the city only being home to 2.5 percent of the U.S. elderly population. In just one three-mile stretch of the city, there were 500 registered hospice companies, including 89 in a single building.

A CBS News investigation found “empty offices, piled-up mail, and phone lines dead” when they attempted to contact the companies. In total, CMS projects that there is $3.5 billion of hospice and home care fraud in Los Angeles every year.

In one particularly appalling case, a single physician was linked to Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024 – accounting for an eye-popping $71 million in billings to the government. Most hospice doctors care for only about 140 patients annually.

Perhaps most tellingly of all, CMS received zero complaints after shutting down more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles.

Minnesota scammers use ChatGPT to steal $2 million

Shirley’s investigative journalism kicked off the fraud frenzy in Minnesota, where he uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud linked to the state’s large Somali population. As the Trump administration has continued to investigate there, what they’ve found has only become more jaw-dropping.

In one particularly shocking case, the Department of Justice announced in July that four individuals had “pleaded guilty to defrauding Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program out of approximately $2.2 million and concealing the scheme by using artificial intelligence to create fake records when questioned by insurance companies.”

Specifically, the defendants “fabricated records using ChatGPT in an attempt to conceal their theft.”

The DOJ called the criminals “Minnesota men,” but it’s doubtful that “Moktar Hassan Aden,” “Mustafa Dayib Ali,” “Khalid Ahmed Dayib,” and “Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed” feel any sense of loyalty to Minnesota or the United States.

Gang members paid addicts in fentanyl and heroin to steal $12 million from Medicaid

One of the reasons there is so much fraud is that the federal government doles out cash for basically every cause.

In August, the Department of Justice charged four gang members with “$12 million of fraudulent Medicaid claims” for billing the government for “fake rides for Medicaid patients to and from methadone clinics in the Bronx.” The defendants allegedly “paid recurring kickbacks to Medicaid patients in cash and drugs, and laundered millions of dollars in fraud proceeds obtained from the scheme.”

The four individuals also reportedly “engaged in violence against their rivals.”

In other words, fraud has become so easy and rampant that gangs are now turning to ripping off taxpayers instead of good-old-fashioned robberies and racketeering. As a result, American taxpayer dollars are being used to fund gang warfare.

Homeless services executive spends $12 million on nightclubs, cars, and exotic vacations

In September, the Department of Justice announced federal fraud charges against California nonprofit executive Michael Young for allegedly “misappropriating” (read: stealing) $12 million.

Young received more than $100 million in funds meant to help address the out-of-control homelessness problem in California. Instead, he diverted millions to “a high-end nightclub, a nearly $50,000 trip to Tahiti, and a $140,000 restoration of a vintage Chevy Impala,” according to CalMatters.

Federal authorities charged at least two other people with defrauding taxpayers by stealing homeless funds. At least one has already pleaded guilty.

Authorities expect more charges to come, as a scathing 2025 report “found L.A. city officials failed to properly track $2.3 billion in homeless funds.”

“We have not seen the results you would expect for billions of dollars being spent,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced. He said “many more” prosecutions are expected.

Federal California district attorney Bill Essayli made a similar comment.

“There’s no vetting. There’s no auditing. There’s no accounting. It was just a rush to push as much money out the door as possible,” he said.

As critics have pointed out, nonprofits that are supposed to help the homeless have no incentive to do so. The worse the homelessness crisis gets, the more money the scammers can expect from the government.

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While these are a few of the most shocking examples of fraud uncovered so far during the Trump administration, they’re hardly the only ones. Taken together, they make abundantly clear that stealing from the taxpayer has become a multi-billion-dollar industry in America.

The most infuriating part of this saga for everyday Americans may be that the fraudsters are not particularly clever. They make virtually no effort to hide their schemes because, until now, no one in power has bothered to look under the hood and see where the money is really going.

Now, Trump is cleaning up the mess and putting the thieves on notice. But the question remains: is this a permanent change, or will the next administration allow a return to the broken status quo? It ultimately will be up to voters to decide.

Matt Lamb, AMAC Newsline

NEW YORK, NY — Liberals around the country prepared to commemorate the anniversary of October eighth, the day Israel attacked Gaza completely unprovoked.

Progressives gathered to hold moments of silence for those killed on the first day of Israel’s stunning attack on the peaceful Palestinians living in Gaza.

“We will never know why the Jews decided to be so violent on this day,” activist Kristina Mac told friends. “We need to have a protest and condemn Israel’s cruel and evil actions against the poor, benevolent people living in Gaza. These people were simply minding their own business, standing around being peaceful, when the Israelis rolled in. It’s still so hard to understand.”

Democrats have long railed against the Jewish state for their shocking, groundless actions on October the eighth. “Israel, out of nothing but spite, slaughtered 40 billion Gazans in cold blood,” said local Democrat Marcus Haynes. “The Zionist scum attacked the happy, basket-weaving pacifists of Palestine simply because they could. We will always mark this dark and sad day in history, remembering the kindly Gazans who lost their lives for no reason.”

At publishing time, liberals had also condemned the invasion of Normandy during WWII as a disproportionate attack on the peaceful Germans.

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