School District Puts on Leave Teacher Who Criticized ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

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School District Puts on Leave Teacher Who Criticized ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Hayward Unified School District placed on leave an elementary school teacher on Feb. 8, 2024, after he dared to question a California school’s spending $250,000 on a teacher training program called “Woke Kindergarten.”

The Daily Caller reported that Glassbrook Elementary School in the state of California used $250,000 in federal funding for underperforming schools to pay for training for teachers on how to be “anti-racist” and to “disrupt whiteness” in the classroom.

After Tiger Craven-Neeley, the elementary school teacher, questioned the Marxist indoctrination, Hayward Unified School District, the school district that governs the school, put him on leave for “allegations of unprofessional conduct” via a video call on Feb. 8, 2024, ordering him to turn in his keys and laptop.

According to Craven-Neeley, he had voiced concerns over the program on Feb. 7, 2024, at a staff meeting. Shortly after that, another teacher, who happened to think that the indoctrination program was good, stood up, pointed a finger at him and said, “You are a danger to the school or the community” before storming out of the room.

As expected, a district administrator asked Craven-Neeley to leave the meeting after one of the woke teachers stormed out of the room.

Unlike the majority of teachers, Craven-Neeley dared to question what it meant to “disrupt whiteness” in the classroom, which eventually resulted in the school district putting him on leave.

“What does that mean? I just want to know, what does that mean for a third-grade classroom?” he said.

Aside from the teacher’s questions regarding the far-left, anti-white indoctrination in the classroom, it is also important to point out that scores for English and math at Glassbrook Elementary have fallen since the program’s implementation.

It was reported that fewer than 4% of students in the school are posting proficient scores in math and a little under 12% testing at grade level in English, a nearly 4% drop since the implementation of “Woke Kindergarten” at the school.

U.S. Marshals Forced to Hand-Deliver Subpoena to Defiant Fani Willis

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U.S. Marshals Forced to Hand-Deliver Subpoena to Defiant Fani Willis

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis rejected an emailed subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, forcing the U.S. Marshals Service to hand-deliver the document directly to her, a report unveiled on Friday. 

The Daily Caller reported that Willis defied a Feb. 2 subpoena seeking all documents tied to an alleged attempt to use federal funds for “swag,” including laptops. However, Willis demanded the subpoena be served in person, prompting the U.S. Marshals Service to hand-deliver the subpoena, the Caller revealed, citing a source.

“Why wouldn’t Fani Willis just accept service like everyone else? Making the U.S. Marshals Service use taxpayer money to do this is a complete waste of time and resources,” the source told the Caller. 

In a three-page letter to Willis, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, cited a Washington Free Beacon report containing whistleblower testimony. The report claimed that Willis’s office sought to misuse a $488,000 federal grant intended for the creation of a juvenile crime prevention center.

However, the whistleblower, Amanda Timpson, said she was fired after notifying Willis that top aide Michael Cuffee wanted the funds for “swag,” including laptops and potential travel expenses. Timpson secretly recorded Willis, where the fired employee raised the alarm of the potential corruption.

“These allegations raise serious concerns about whether you were appropriately supervising the expenditure of federal grant funding allocated to your office and whether you took actions to conceal your office’s unlawful use of federal funds,” Jordan wrote in the letter.

Jordan highlighted the issuance of two previous letters, dated Sept. 27, 2023, and Dec. 5, 2023, both of which Willis failed to comply with.

“In our prior letters, we requested several categories of material relevant for our oversight. However, in response to the recently disclosed whistleblower allegations and as an accommodation, we are prioritizing the production of documents concerning your office’s receipt and use of federal funds,” Jordan added before notifying Willis of the subpoena. 

Willis has faced damning scrutiny over claims of misconduct following her prosecution of former President Donald Trump for alleged illegal attempts to question the presidential results in Georgia. 

Willis came under fire for failing to disclose her engagement in a love affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she selected to lead the prosecution of Trump. Willis went on several vacation trips paid for by Wade using the bank account where his Fulton County salary went, raising concerns about ethical issues and potential violations of the law. 

Timpson said that her firing from the Fulton County DA’s office is similar to the Wade case. “My case and Nathan Wade’s case are very similar when you break them down point by point. Ethical violations, abuse of power, and the misuse of county, state, and federal funds.”

In addition to the House Judiciary Committee investigation, Willis is also entangled in a Fulton County Commission investigation, a bipartisan Senate investigation, and calls for the State Bar of Georgia to investigate Willis.

Disney’s Streaming Platform Loses 1.3M Subscribers after Price Hike

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Disney’s Streaming Platform Loses 1.3M Subscribers after Price Hike

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Disney reported that its streaming platform, Disney+, lost 1.3 million subscribers all around the world in the final three months of 2023.

According to the Epoch Times, the Walt Disney Company’s streaming platform — which includes brands like Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars — lost about 400,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada alone. Internationally, the streaming platform lost 900,000 subscribers.

The news source also reported that, in total, subscriptions decreased from 112.6 million to 111.3 million at the close of its first fiscal quarter, which ended on Dec. 30, 2023. It was also pointed out by the Securities and Exchange Commission that Disney’s fiscal year ends on the Saturday that is closest to Sept. 30.

The streaming platform partially attributed the losses to the “substantial price increase” it implemented that same quarter. The company raised the price for its ad-free Disney+ Premium plan by $3 on Oct. 12, 2023, bringing the cost of commercial-free watching from $10.99 to $13.99 per month. Disney+ Basic, which includes ads, however, kept its original price of $7.99 per month.

The news source reported that this change represents a more than 27% increase, adding that Disney+’s ad-free plan was originally only $6.99 when the platform launched back in 2019.

To compare Disney+ with other streaming platforms, Netflix’s Standard ad-free plan is $15.49 but has far more subscribers, about 260 million members. Hulu, a streaming platform that is owned by Disney, also introduced a $3 increase on its ad-free plan, raising the price from $14.99 to $17.99. However, despite the price increase, Hulu managed to secure a 1.2 million boost in subscribers.

Despite losing over a million subscribers, the company expects a rebound from its first quarter, adding that it wants to acquire between 5.5 and 6 million additional subscribers by the end of its current quarter, which runs from January to March.

In addition to that, Disney+ representatives also said that the streaming platform will reach profitability by the end of its current fiscal year, even though the company has not been able to turn a profit since its founding.

Trump Condemns Two-Tier Justice System after Biden Evades Charges

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Trump Condemns Two-Tier Justice System after Biden Evades Charges

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump denounced what he labeled as a two-tier system of justice in the wake of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s much-anticipated report and demanded be charges against him be dropped.

The Hur report recommended against pursuing charges against President Joe Biden, despite evidence suggesting he “willfully retained” and “shared highly classified” information.

Similarly, Trump underwent scrutiny from Special Counsel Jack Smith, who investigated him for alleged mishandling of classified information.

In contrast to Biden, Trump possessed the authority to declassify the documents but now faces a 37-felony count indictment for actions similar to those of Biden, then a former vice president who did not have any authority to hold classified documents past his tenure.

“SO THEN WHY ARE THEY CHARGING ME, I DID NOTHING WRONG???” Trump questioned Saturday in Truth Social. “PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT! A TWO TIER SYSTEM OF JUSTICE. THIS IS AN ATTACK ON SLEEPY JOE’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. IT IS LARGE SCALE ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

Trump voiced similar concerns in a lengthy speech at the National Rifle Association 2024 Presidential Forum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

“If Biden is not going to be charged, he said, that’s up to them, you know, look, if he’s not going to be charged, that’s up to them, but then I should not be charged,” Trump told the crowd on Friday.  

“This is nothing more than selective persecution of Biden’s political opponent: me,” Trump added. “I don’t know that it’s Biden because I don’t think he knows he’s alive but it’s vicious and very smart people that surround the Resolute desk.”

Hur disclosed on Thursday that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” However, the special counsel recommended against pressing charges, citing Biden’s age and noting that he did not “remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.” 

Prosecutors argued that Biden, in a hypothetical trial, would have presented himself as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The investigators added that it would be “difficult” to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden acted willfully, and a jury would not likely convict him.

Israel Rejects Hamas Ceasefire Terms, Promises Victory in Months

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Israel Rejects Hamas Ceasefire Terms, Promises Victory in Months

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a ceasefire proposition by Hamas and said that “total victory” against the terrorist group could be achieved within months.

Netanyahu said during a Feb. 6, 2024, news conference that was held shortly after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that it’s only a “matter of months” before Israel achieves its military goals — the eradication of all Hamas’s fighting forces in Gaza and destruction of the entire underground tunnel network, the Epoch Times reported.

“There is no other solution but a complete and final victory. If Hamas will survive in Gaza, it’s only a question of time until the next massacre,” he said.

Netanyahu then dismissed ceasefire demands that were raised by Hamas by calling them “bizarre” and saying that negotiation with the group that rules Gaza is “not going anywhere.”

Hamas put forward a ceasefire plan on Feb. 6, 2024, that consists of three phases, each lasting 45 days.

During the first phase, Hamas would be expected to release certain groups of hostages it captured during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks in southern Israel, among which are all female hostages, male hostages under 19, all elderly people and sick hostages. In exchange, Israel would need to release female and underage Palestinian prisoners from its jails and pull back troops from populated areas.

The second phase wouldn’t begin until both sides finished “indirect discussions” about the requirements that are necessary for them to stop fighting and “restore complete calm,” the news source reported. During the second 45 days, Israeli troops would be expected to completely withdraw from Gaza.

The adult hostages that were not freed during the first stage would be released during the second one. The bodies and the remains of hostages who died while in Hamas’s custody would be handed over throughout the third phase. Hamas would expect both sides to have reached an agreement on a permanent ceasefire by the end of the third phase.

Massive Rare Earth Minerals Discovery in Wyo. Could Break America’s Dependence on China

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Massive Rare Earth Minerals Discovery in Wyo. Could Break America’s Dependence on China

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The United States could soon surpass China as the world leader in rare earth minerals and, therefore, break its dependency on the communist country after more than 2.34 billion metric tons of these minerals were discovered in the state of Wyoming.

According to the Daily Mail, American Rare Earths Inc. announced that the reserves near the town of Wheatland dramatically surpass China’s 44 million metric tons, adding that it exceeded all of their expectations after drilling only about 25% of the property.

The types of minerals that are found at the site are used in smartphones, hybrid car motors, military technologies and many other things.

It was additionally reported that as much as 95% of processed rare earth minerals come from China, with the United States importing 74% of its supply from the communist country.

However, in December 2023, China announced a ban on rare earth extraction.

“China is driven to maintain its market dominance. This is now a race,” Don Swartz, CEO of American Rare Earths, said after China’s announcement.

Two months later, Swartz and his team said that they were working to break China’s monopoly on the market.

In March 2023, American Rare Earths conducted the first drilling. It was determined that there were 1.2 million metric ton estimates in northeastern Wyoming. A second attempt in the fall uncovered 64% more of the minerals.

“These results are illustrative of the enormous potential of the project when the resource increased by 64% during a developmental drilling campaign, which increased measured/indicated resources by 128%. Typically, you’ll see the resource decrease as infill drilling takes place – instead, we’re seeing the opposite, with only 25% of the project being drilled to this point,” Swartz said.

Among the rare earth minerals that were uncovered at the site were oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, dysprosium and terbium. Magnets made from neodymium are used in hard disc drives and mobile phones, praseodymium is used in high-strength alloys in aircraft engines, dysprosium is used to make control rods in nuclear reactors and terbium is used in low-energy lightbulbs and mercury lamps.

Operation Lone Star Border Security Funding Totals More Than Multiple State Budgets

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Operation Lone Star Border Security Funding Totals More Than Multiple State Budgets

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – The Texas legislature has allocated more than $11.6 billion to border security efforts over a four-year period, the most in state history.

It totals more than multiple state fiscal year budgets and more than what the Trump administration allocated to federal border security efforts in Texas.

State Rep. Greg Bonnen, R-Friendswood, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, said at a media event with Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday that in mid-2021, he met with the governor to carve out a budget plan to fund Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s border security mission, which was launched in March 2021.

“The problem at the border was of a magnitude that we had never before experienced and efforts and initiatives we had taken in the past were simply going to be insufficient. We needed a new plan, and it was going to require great resources,” Bonnen said. Since then, the legislature, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, have been “unwavering in our commitment to step into the gap and to address a chaotic crisis where the federal government has refused to address.”
The amount that Texas taxpayers have funded for OLS is greater than federal taxpayer money allocated for Texas border security operations under the Trump administration, Bonnen said. “When you look at the appropriations for border security under the four years of the Trump administration in Texas, that was $1.6 billion. For the four years of the Biden presidency, Texas is appropriating $11.6 billion to do the same thing,” he said.

Earlier in the week, Abbott met with 13 governors who all expressed their commitment to defending Texas and showed how combined efforts in one area in Eagle Pass, Texas, worked. Illegal entries went from more than 3,000 a day to roughly three, the governor said. OLS efforts are also expanding in other areas along the Texas-Mexico border, Border Czar Mike Banks told The Center Square.

Texas has been so successful at blocking illegal entry that cartel activity has been pushed west into Democratic-led states that aren’t implementing similar tactics that Texas has, he told The Center Square. “If you look at the number of illegal border crossings today, Texas counts for 30% of those crossings. The remaining 70% are crossing in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Why? Because they’re not putting up the resistance that Texas is.”

Bonnen also explained how OLS funds were being spent. Roughly $3.1 billion goes toward expanding border barriers and infrastructure, including continuing to build Texas’ own border wall.

Roughly $200 million is spent on transporting illegal foreign nationals to the six self-described sanctuary cities of Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles. The remainder funds Texas Military Department and Texas Department of Public Safety operations, Bonnen said.

“What everybody should understand” is the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker, and members of the legislature “stand firmly committed that as long as there is an absence of the federal government doing its job to secure our international border, we will step up and take their place,” he said.

What Texas has allocated for border security operations is greater than fiscal year budgets of multiple states, including Iowa, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming, for example, according to an analysis of state fiscal year budgets by The Center Square.

What Texas spends on border security is also more than the beginning balance of fiscal 2024 general revenues of all but seven states, and more than the ending balance of seven states’ fiscal 2023 general revenue funds, according to an analysis by The Center Square of state budget data compiled by the National Association of State Budget Officers.

Texas’ general revenue fund was $39.2 billion at the end of fiscal 2023 and at the beginning of fiscal 2024, the second highest in the country behind New York.

Since Abbott launched OLS in 2021, Texas law enforcement officers have apprehended nearly 500,000 illegal foreign nationals and made more than 39,000 criminal arrests with more than 35,000 felony charges reported, according to state data. They’ve also seized more than 458 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill more than everyone in the United States and Canada.

Texas has transported more than 100,000 foreign nationals who illegally entered the country and were unlawfully released into Texas by the Biden administration, Abbott argues, to sanctuary cities, with New York City receiving the most.

Abbott maintains that OLS “continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border. Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”

Graphic: 200 Corpses Found Abused in Colorado Funeral Home

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(Headline USA) A county coroner reported suspicions about bodies being poorly treated by a Colorado funeral home more than three years before nearly 200 decomposing bodies were discovered inside a decrepit building in October, according to newly unsealed court documents that raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to continue for so long.

The concerns raised by the Fremont County coroner also included worries about the improper refrigeration of bodies and were reported to a state agency in 2020, according to the arrest affidavits for Return to Nature Funeral Home owners Jon and Carie Hallford. But the coroner received no response from the state agency, which has long struggled to effectively oversee the funeral home industry, according to the documents.

Colorado has some of the weakest rules for funeral homes in the nation with no routine inspections or qualification requirements for funeral home operators. The Hallfords allegedly stored bodies as far back as 2019, and the count grew over the next four years, as prosecutors claim they used the money they were taking from grieving families for lavish expenses.

“The fact that he made a complaint and nothing was done about it just completely blows my mind,” said Tanya Wilson, who hired the funeral home to cremate her mother before learning that her mother’s remains weren’t in the ashes she had spread in Hawaii but languishing inside a building back in Colorado.

“Families could’ve been saved from this if they had done something about this,” she said.

Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies on Friday confirmed that it did get an email from Fremont County coroner Randy Keller in May 2020 saying that he had gotten calls regarding refrigeration issues at a funeral home in his county but he did not say which one. Keller said he did not know if the concerns were justified and offered to do an inspection if the state wasn’t able to, said department spokesperson Katie O’Donnell in a statement.

O’Donnell said the agency didn’t have the power to inspect funeral homes at the time, with lawmakers giving the agency inspection authority two years later. It’s unclear if the agency followed up after Keller’s initial email, or if Keller did an inspection himself.

O’Donnell declined to elaborate on Keller’s 2020 email and the agency’s response. Keller did not respond to a phone call requesting comment.

The funeral home, which was based in Colorado Springs and used a building in nearby Penrose where the bodies were found as a mortuary, was first licensed in 2017. State regulators did not conduct any inspection of the funeral home while it was operating, according to the affidavits. Colorado lawmakers have dragged their feet in passing funeral home regulations on par with most other states — even after a separate Colorado funeral home’s operators were accused of selling bodies years before the discovery at Return to Nature.

The bodies were finally discovered last year after neighbors complained of the smell coming from the building. Authorities who responded found a stain coming out the front door that they say was the result of the decomposition of bodies, according to the affidavits. That echoed descriptions of the floors inside being covered with the fluid from decomposition provided during court hearings for the Hallfords.

The affidavits describe how the bodies were strewn throughout the rooms and how Jon Hallford was seen on surveillance video treating a body more like a sandbag than a former human being. They say that buckets had been placed under some bodies to collect the fluid. About 40 bodies had been stacked on top of each other and some were stored in storage totes, according to the affidavits, which note the “unimaginable conditions” authorities worked in to remove the bodies while wearing protective equipment.

“I picture my mom in every single one of those situations,” said Wilson. “I imagine my mom folded up and put in a storage tote. I imagine my mom just being left on the floor within inches of decomposition fluids.”

“And it haunts me,” she said.

Investigators believe Jon Hallford moved some bodies from the main funeral home in Colorado Springs to the Penrose building in September after a complaint about odor at the main site. According to the affidavit, surveillance footage showed him flipping a body off a gurney and onto the floor at the Penrose building so he could use it to bring more bodies inside from a van on Sept. 9, 2023, a day after the complaint.

The affidavits also provided more details about previous allegations that the Hallfords used money families and insurance companies paid to cover cremations and burials to pay for lavish personal expenses, including trips to California, Florida and Las Vegas, $31,000 in cryptocurrency, laser body sculpting and shopping at luxury retailers like Gucci and Tiffany.

From 2020 to 2023, Jon Hallford also bought over 600 pounds of concrete mix at Home Depot and investigators suspect the couple put it in urns instead of ashes, the affidavit says. Prosecutors have said some relatives of the deceased received fake ashes rather than the cremated remains of their loved ones.

The arrest affidavits have been sealed since November when the couple was arrested in Oklahoma after they allegedly fled, but were made public following an evidentiary hearing held Thursday for Jon Hallford. Carie Hallford’s hearing was held last month.

Jon Hallford is represented by Adam Steigerwald, an attorney from the public defender’s office, which does not comment on its cases. Carie Hallford’s lawyer, Michael Stuzynski, declined to comment.

They are each charged with 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, five counts of theft, four counts of money laundering and over 50 counts of forgery. They have not been asked to enter a plea yet.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Promises to Restore Gun Freedoms in Pennsylvania Speech

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(Christen Smith, The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said Friday he’d never limit gun rights for Americans amid surging crime, border insecurity and global instability – all side effects of a Democratic administration he deems corrupt and immoral.

“Now I stand before you with a very simple promise – your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president,” he said. “When I’m back in the Oval Office no one will lay a finger on your firearms. It’s not going to happen.”

Trump’s pledge came during a 75-minute speech at the Great American Outdoor Show in Pennsylvania’s capital city of Harrisburg as he chases the Republican presidential nomination.

“Even as they turn America into a crime-ridden, gang-infested, terror-filled dumping ground, Joe Biden and his thugs will do everything in their power to confiscate your guns and annihilate your God-given right to self defense,” he said.

During the event hosted by the National Rifle Association, the former president recalled his efforts to protect and expand gun rights during his first term – including opening federal land for public hunting access, reversing an executive order that limited ownership rights for some Social Security recipients and withdrawing from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

“Where basically they take your guns,” Trump said.

He also committed to undoing a federal rule that recategorizes pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, compelling registration of the weapons lest owners face a felony charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Twenty-five states have challenged the rule in federal court.

Without his intervention, Trump painted a bleak picture.

“It means hundreds of more radical left judges waging a cruscade against law-abiding gun owners and four more years of Joe Biden means a nonstop war on gun makers, dealers and sellers designed to put the entire industry right out of business,” he said.

He didn’t forget to skewer the Department of Justice’s decision against charging President Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents over his 40-plus years in office, either, calling his own infractions “peanuts comparatively.”

Trump’s speech comes after a visibly upset Biden addressed the nation late Thursday to respond to a special counsel investigation that laid bare numerous examples of his memory loss.

The blockbuster special counsel report, while clearing Biden, sparked questions about the 81-year-old president’s mental fitness when it called him an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Trump didn’t mince words on Friday, warning that the world teeters on the edge of World War III.

“We have a guy that can’t put two sentences together and he’s in charge of negotiations with Russia, with China, with North Korea,” he said.

MURDOCK: Dems’ Flirtation w/ Illegals Turns into Heavy Petting via Open Borders

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MURDOCK: Dems’ Flirtation w/ Illegals Turns into Heavy Petting via Open Borders

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) They’re just not that into you.

Today’s Democrats treat the American people like a spouse who has grown routine,  sometimes ungrateful, and decreasingly alluring. And they cannot forgive America for running off for four years with that damned contractor.

But Democrats swoon over the 8.8 million illegal aliens whom they have helped invade on Joe Biden’s watch! These arrivistes are like a collective paramour who blends excitement, the exotic, and a stiff whiff of danger. And, before long, odds are that they will vote Democrat. In one word: HOT!

This is why American citizens lately feel jilted, if not abused by Democrats, even as illegals gasp beneath the gifts that the Left piles on. “More free stuff?” they must ask. “We must be dating, but we just wanted something casual.”

• New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams just cooked up a $53 million, free debit-card giveaway for illegal-alien families with kids. They will receive $1,000 per month to buy baby supplies and food, including “culturally relevant” cuisine.

Meanwhile, Adams chopped the Education Department’s food budget by $60 million. This month, students who enjoyed chicken thighs, grab-and-go salads, and cookies now endure cheaper fare: pizza, hummus and crackers, and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

Gotham’s classrooms are 41.1% Hispanic, 23.7% black, and 16.5% of Asian descent. Schools that are only 14.7% white, on average, should expect more social justice than this. Instead, Adams feeds illegal aliens while depriving his voters’ children.

•  Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, also a Democrat, seized the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex in Boston’s 55.6% black Roxbury district and turned it into an illegal-alien shelter.

This will leave at-risk youth with one less place to avoid trouble and seniors one less spot to gather safely. According to NECN.com news, the expropriated facility on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will provide illegals with “wraparound services until May 31.”

Healey, accompanied by Boston’s far-left Mayor Michelle Wu, visited the institution on Jan. 31. One local man approached Healey in front of the building and asked, “Maura, why do you think it’s OK to take away resources from the citizens of Massachusetts?”

She flippantly replied, “We need a housing bill passed.”

Sounding betrayed, former City Council candidate Shawn Nelson complained, “The only time they want us is when they want a vote, and as soon as they get that vote they don’t need us anymore.”

•  Rubin Report host Dave Rubin flew through Miami last month. “This is the state of absolute insanity happening at our airports,” he tweeted. “I’m in the Pre-TSA line, where migrants don’t have to have an ID to get through security and it’s their choice whether they want their picture taken.”

Illegal aliens need not show ID to board planes. Those with arrest warrants may use those as ID, if they wish.

As for American citizens, let’s see those ID cards!

•  Army veteran Frank Tammaro, 94, was disappointed when his Staten Island senior center closed last March and booted 52 others.

Tammaro grew enraged when he learned last summer that the facility re-opened, to house illegal aliens—for free.

•  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has taken well-deserved income for processing $94.3 million in illegal aliens’ health claims in Fiscal Year 2022, up 27.4% from $74 million in FY 2021. Meanwhile, U.S. veterans’ wait-listed health claims swelled from 150,000 in FY 2022 to 417,855 in FY 2023—up 178.6%.

Biden is “taking resources away from our veterans to facilitate healthcare for illegal migrants,” said House Veterans Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill. “As a Marine, I believe any dollar taken away from a veteran is a promise broken to those who served.”

Biden and the Democrats have turned America into a First-World country with second-class citizens and pampered foreign invaders.

Americans who dislike the Democrats’ cold shoulders should go to Mexico, rush north across the “border,” and fall into the warm, illegal-alien-loving arms of today’s Democrat Party.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.

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