MLB-Backed ‘Crisis’ Line for LGBT Youth Redirects to Sexually Explicit Chat Room

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MLB-Backed ‘Crisis’ Line for LGBT Youth Redirects to Sexually Explicit Chat Room

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) An emergency text line called the Crisis Text Line—which partnered with Major League Baseball as part of a community outreach initiative—was caught sending users to sexually explicit chat rooms.

The watchdog group known as the American Accountability Foundation directed one of their employees to pose as someone who “was born a boy but never totally felt very masculine.”

According to the Daily Wire, the text line directed the employee to the LGBT National Help Center and the Trevor Project’s “TrevorSpace,” an online community for LGBT young people ages 13 to 24.

But instead of providing age-appropriate guidelines and filters, the site appeared set up to facilitate child-grooming.

Parents and watchdog groups that entered the chat before discovered that users would discuss graphic sexual topics, such as masturbation and sex positions.

Chat users also directed other users to specific brands of chest binders and gender reassignment referrals.

Reports indicated that the website did not take any measures to confirm the ages of its users.

The AAF also discovered that the chat room has a “quick exit” button, allowing the user to shut down the chat screen and erase their browsing history to quickly conceal it.

“Major League Baseball’s actions are absolutely shocking. There is absolutely no excuse or explanation that could possibly make this ok,” said AAF President Tom Jones.

“Grooming kids for gender transition is so beyond the pale of morality and basic decency that it’s hard to see how MLB ever comes back from this,” he continued. “Shame on MLB, and shame on every player participating in this program. Leave our kids alone!!”

The Trevor Project claims to be a nonprofit fighting the alleged suicide epidemic among gay youths. Disgraced transgender luggage thief Sam Brinton worked as its chief advocacy officer prior to taking his role as deputy energy secretary for the Biden administration.

While he worked at the nonprofit, Brinton advocated for young children to hide their confusion from adults and even went as far to write and recommend policies for school faculty and administrators to keep vital information from parents.

The MLB did not comment on the revelation that they support grooming and gender transition for children.

The baseball league has had a rocky relationship with woke virtue-signaling in the past. After it weighed in on Georgia’s election-integrity laws by moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in 2021, it faced a wave of backlash from boycotting fans.

More recently, the Los Angeles Dodgers faced criticism for allowing a blasphemous transgender group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to take the field at a Pride Night celebration, spurring several Christian players to speak out. Brinton was also a member of that group.

Some conservative members of Congress have discussed eliminating the league’s special anti-trust designation to allow other competitive baseball leagues in response to its political advocacy.

Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Six New Border-Security Bills into Law

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Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Six New Border-Security Bills into Law

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed six border bills into law on Thursday, ranging from designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations to creating an interstate compact to expanding resources for law enforcement.

“Washington, D.C. has failed to do its job to secure our border,” the governor said.

“As a result, Texas has had to take unprecedented steps in responding to the crisis created by the Biden administration,” he added. “The Texas legislature has stepped up.”

That included allocating $5.1 billion to the state’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star. Last session, they allocated $4.5 billion.

In just two legislative sessions, Abbott said, Texas has spent nearly $10 billion “to deal with the crisis and chaos caused by the Biden administration.”

He said OLS has successfully blocked illegal entry to Texas using miles of concertina wire as border barriers supplemented by Texas Military Department and DPS officers. These strategies have “directly stopped people from entering Texas illegally,” he said.

“Even though we’ve done a lot, we recognize more must be done,” he said, including the six bills the legislature passed with bipartisan support.

More border security bills are expected to be called as part of a special legislative session, the governor has said, but only after the legislature agrees on how to provide $18 billion in property tax relief. The legislature remains at an impasse on the issue.

Abbott first signed S.B. 1900 into law, which designates Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. It builds on an executive order the governor issued last September to designate cartels as FTOs under state law.

The designation allows law enforcement and prosecutors to pursue higher penalties, including those related to delivering controlled substances or drugs or operating a stash house. It also allows FTOs to be added to law enforcement agency intelligence databases and local entities to seek public nuisance claims against FTOs operating in their communities.

He next signed SB 1484 into law. It creates a force multiplier by authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety to train local law enforcement officials “on cartel related activity as well as the best tactics to train on border crimes,” Gov. Abbott said.

It requires DPS to identify ways that local law enforcement can assist DPS to secure the border and expands collaborative efforts through Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star.

Abbott then signed SB 423 into law authorizing the Texas Military Department to use drones to secure the border. “They’ve been authorized to use them for various purposes but we wanted to make sure it’s crystal clear” they can do so to secure the border, the governor said.

He also signed SB 1403 into law authorizing the governor to develop and execute an interstate compact for border security among interested states without Congressional approval.

He also signed SB 1133, which authorizes the creation of a grant program to compensate certain property owners for damages caused by criminal activities on agricultural land. It allows “farmers and ranchers in border and rural counties much-needed relief from the damages caused by trafficking, smuggling, and bail-outs on their personal property,” the bill’s sponsor, Sen. César Blanco, D-El Paso, said prior to the bill passing.

The law allows Texas ranchers to receive up to $75,000 in reimbursement for damages per incident through the program.

Lastly, he signed SB 602 to authorize U.S. Border Patrol agents to arrest people for committing Texas crimes. “A request was made to the state of Texas by Border Patrol,” Gov. Abbott said.

The bill provides the authorization they requested, “giving them more tools to secure the border, powers of arrest and search and seizure for any felony offense under Texas law if the arrest, search or seizure is incident to a containment under federal law and occurs at a port of entry or at a Border Patrol checkpoint,” he said.

According to data from the governor’s office, since OLS was launched in April 2021, law enforcement officers have arrested over 29,000 criminals, including people wanted for murder.

They’ve also pushed back over 40,000 foreign nationals who’ve tried to enter Texas illegally and seized enough fentanyl to kill more than the entire United States population.

San Francisco to Consider Construction of $50M Office of Reparations

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San Francisco to Consider Construction of $50M Office of Reparations

(Leonard Robinson, The Center Square) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider establishing an office to oversee the city’s reparations rollout.

The ordinance, proposed to the board’s Budget and Finance Committee earlier this year, would appropriate $50 million from the city’s general fund to the Human Rights Commission for establishing the Office of Reparations to implement approved recommendations from the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee.

The measure was referred to the San Francisco Youth Commission earlier this year with no action conducted on the measure to date, according to the commission’s website. The issue is on the June 9 agenda of the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee.

Brent Jalipa, spokesperson for the Budget and Appropriations Committee, did not respond to the Center Square in time for publication.

According to a draft reparations plan released in December, approved recommendations include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Create and fund a Reparations Stakeholder Authority, or a committee of stakeholders independent of the City and County of San Francisco, to ensure policy initiatives meet the guidelines established by the city in support of racial equity

  • Provide a lump sum payment of $5 million to eligible Californians

  • Ensure that black Californians have a minimum income of $97,000 per year

  • Finance a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card and payday loans

  • Convert public housing units to condominiums to be sold for $1 to qualifying residents to boost homeownership

California became the first state in the nation to establish a reparations task force in 2020 under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.

The task force, last year, voted to limit reparations to those who are descendants of slaves, as opposed to all black Californians.

Los Angeles DA’s Office Flees Twitter, Cites ‘Vicious’ Attacks on Pride Posts

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Los Angeles DA’s Office Flees Twitter, Cites ‘Vicious’ Attacks on Pride Posts

(Headline USA) The Los Angeles county district attorney’s office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported.

The account, which went by the handle @LADAOffice, no longer exists on Twitter.

“Our decision to archive our Twitter account was not an easy one,” the office said in a statement. “It came after a series of distressing comments over time, culminating in a shocking response to photographs we posted celebrating LADA’s first known entry into a Pride parade.”

It said its Pride parade post was met with “a barrage of vicious and offensive comments that left us deeply troubled.”

The comments ranged from “homophobic and transphobic slurs to sexually explicit and graphic images,” the office said, adding that they remained visible in replies to the account more than 24 hours after they were reported to Twitter.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, although not openly gay, is regarded as one of the poster-children of wokeism gone awry.

The George Soros-backed prosecutor has led the way in coddling violent criminals with light sentences—if charges are even pursued. The backlash resulted in a recall effort that nearly succeeded but was thwarted after the county registrar claimed that some of the signatures were invalid.

Twitter, whose new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, started on Monday, did not respond to a message for comment.

Elon Musk, who purchased the company last year specifically in response to the censorship of conservative speech, has described himself as a “free-speech absolutist” who believes Twitter’s previous policies were too restricting.

He has since released a tranche of documents showing the social-media company actively colluded with powerful Democrats and federal agencies to suppress valid information on a range of issues including the coronavirus and the 2020 election.

Last week, Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, resigned after Musk criticized Twitter’s handling of tweets about Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman?, which questions medical treatment for transgender children and teens.

Musk tweeted the video to his followers with the message, “Every parent should watch this.”

The Los Angeles district attorney’s office said Thursday it will remain active on other mainstream social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok but said, referring to Twitter, that it “will not be complicit and utilize a platform that promotes such hateful rhetoric.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

N.Y. Lawyers Blame ChatGPT for Citing Fake Case Law

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(Headline USA) Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.

Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

Schwartz explained that he used the groundbreaking program as he hunted for legal precedents supporting a client’s case against the Colombian airline Avianca for an injury incurred on a 2019 flight.

The chatbot, which has fascinated the world with its production of essay-like answers to prompts from users, suggested several cases involving aviation mishaps that Schwartz hadn’t been able to find through usual methods used at his law firm.

The problem was, several of those cases weren’t real or involved airlines that didn’t exist.

Schwartz told U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel he was “operating under a misconception … that this website was obtaining these cases from some source I did not have access to.”

He said he “failed miserably” at doing follow-up research to ensure the citations were correct.

“I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases,” Schwartz said.

Microsoft has invested some $1 billion in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

Its success, demonstrating how artificial intelligence could change the way humans work and learn, has generated fears from some. Hundreds of industry leaders signed a letter in May that warns “ mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

Judge Castel seemed both baffled and disturbed at the unusual occurrence and disappointed the lawyers did not act quickly to correct the bogus legal citations when they were first alerted to the problem by Avianca’s lawyers and the court. Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing.

The judge confronted Schwartz with one legal case invented by the computer program. It was initially described as a wrongful death case brought by a woman against an airline only to morph into a legal claim about a man who missed a flight to New York and was forced to incur additional expenses.

“Can we agree that’s legal gibberish?” Castel asked.

Schwartz said he erroneously thought that the confusing presentation resulted from excerpts being drawn from different parts of the case.

When Castel finished his questioning, he asked Schwartz if he had anything else to say.

“I would like to sincerely apologize,” Schwartz said.

He added that he had suffered personally and professionally as a result of the blunder and felt “embarrassed, humiliated and extremely remorseful.”

He said that he and the firm where he worked—Levidow, Levidow & Oberman—had put safeguards in place to ensure nothing similar happens again.

LoDuca, another lawyer who worked on the case, said he trusted Schwartz and didn’t adequately review what he had compiled.

After the judge read aloud portions of one cited case to show how easily it was to discern that it was “gibberish,” LoDuca said: “It never dawned on me that this was a bogus case.”

He said the outcome “pains me to no end.”

Ronald Minkoff, an attorney for the law firm, told the judge that the submission “resulted from carelessness, not bad faith” and should not result in sanctions.

He said lawyers have historically had a hard time with technology, particularly new technology, “and it’s not getting easier.”

“Mr. Schwartz, someone who barely does federal research, chose to use this new technology. He thought he was dealing with a standard search engine,” Minkoff said. “What he was doing was playing with live ammo.”

Daniel Shin, an adjunct professor and assistant director of research at the Center for Legal and Court Technology at William & Mary Law School, said he introduced the Avianca case during a conference last week that attracted dozens of participants in person and online from state and federal courts in the U.S., including Manhattan federal court.

He said the subject drew shock and befuddlement at the conference.

“We’re talking about the Southern District of New York, the federal district that handles big cases, 9/11 to all the big financial crimes,” Shin said. “This was the first documented instance of potential professional misconduct by an attorney using generative AI.”

He said the case demonstrated how the lawyers might not have understood how ChatGPT works because it tends to hallucinate, talking about fictional things in a manner that sounds realistic but is not.

“It highlights the dangers of using promising AI technologies without knowing the risks,” Shin said.

The judge said he’ll rule on sanctions at a later date.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Quisling GOP Contenders Prey on Trump Indictment, Face Fierce Backlash

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Quisling GOP Contenders Prey on Trump Indictment, Face Fierce Backlash

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The condemnation of former President Donald Trump’s indictment Thursday by the Biden Justice Department was swift and fierce from leading conservative commentators, legal scholars and political pundits, but drew what was roasted as a disgraceful response from a RINO herd running for the GOP presidential nomination.

Bridgegate-disgraced former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refused to condemn the political targeting of a former president. The former Trump acolyte instead stumped for the weaponized DOJ’s indictment, and excused President Joe Biden’s egregious mishandling of documents, while disingenuously claiming he’d withhold judgement until he saw the Trump indictment.

“The problem with all of this is that it’s self-inflicted,” Christie told Fox News regarding Trump’s indictment.

“In the end, I don’t know that the government even knew that Joe Biden had those documents or not,” Christie said. “They did know Donald Trump did and in fact asked for them voluntarily for them for over a year and a quarter and got them back in dribs and drabs.”

Biden has come under heavy fire for stashing trunk loads of documents from his tenure as vice president, surfacing in unsecured locations and offices with deep ties to China operatives. None of which seemed to bother Christie.

“But if in fact, you’re keeping those things knowingly, even after the government has asked for you to bring them back, the excuses about, ‘oh, they were classified, declassified automatically when I left the office,’ well, that’s just wrong,” he said of Trump.

“Christie just lost any respect he might have had in the GOP,” said one commentator, while another noted that the turncoat “Chis Christy was the first republican candidate to endorse Trump in 2016.”

Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec advised Republicans to “Pay very close attention to ‘conservatives’ who are silent about the willful destruction of our entire system because they think it benefits their personal ambitions. Stand and be counted.”

The criticism was equally harsh for Asa Hutchinson, former governor of Arkansas, who many were surprised to learn was running for president. The Bush-era DEA chief and homeland security undersecretary was slammed for using the politically weaponized attack on Trump as a fundraising opportunity, while calling for Trump, who is leading the 2024 presidential pack by a wide margin, to withdraw from the campaign.

“While Donald Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence, the ongoing criminal proceedings will be a major distraction,” Hutchinson said. “This reaffirms the need for Donald Trump to respect the office and end his campaign.”

Other GOP presidential contenders either took a neutral stand on Trump while condemning the Biden DOJ, or offered strong support for the party frontrunner, with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy saying he would grant Trump a pardon if events unfolded in that direction.

“It would be much easier for me to win this election if Trump weren’t in the race, but I stand for principles over politics,” he said.

Calling the Trump indictment “an affront to every citizen,” Ramaswamy warned that American “cannot devolve into a banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest its political opponents.”

“I never thought we’d see the day when the U.S. President deputizes the DOJ to arrest his lead rival in the middle of an election,” Ramaswamy said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who in most polls trails a distant second to Trump, also ripped the Biden DOJ, declaring that “the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society.”

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., whose recent schooling of the leftists at The View saw his profile and popularity rise, strongly denounced the Trump indictment.

“What we’ve seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the Department [of] Justice against a former president,” Scott told Fox News on Thursday.

“Today, what we see is a justice system where the scales are weighted. That seems to be the outcome of where we are today,” Scott said.

“You don’t have to be a Republican to see injustice and want to fix it. You don’t have to be a Democrat to see injustice and want to fix it,” he said. “You just have to be an American and stand up for the right thing.”

Did Tucker Drag Obama Out of the Closet?

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Did Tucker Drag Obama Out of the Closet?

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In the second drop of his runaway social media hit, Tucker Carlson again melted the internet with what many took as an apparent gay outing of former President Barack Obama.

As part of a larger and compelling monologue about the current crop of cancel cults and leftist narrative peddlers dictating social norms and taboos to seize “the power not simply to control people’s behavior, but to control how they think,” Carlson used as one example the changing standard of acceptable behavior for presidents.

“As recently as the 1992 presidential campaign adultery was considered disqualifying for anyone seeking higher office,” he said, noting that former President Bill Clinton’s aspirations were nearly derailed when he was forced to spin furiously over an affair with Gennifer Flowers.

“But he was the last presidential candidate who had to meet this standard,” Carlson said.

“By 2008, it was obvious to anybody who was paying attention that Barack Obama had a strange and highly creepy personal life. Yet nobody ever asked him about it.”

Carlson’s descriptor of “a strange and highly creepy personal life,” combined with long-running questions, allegations and theories about Obama’s alleged sexual orientation and partner preferences, lit up social media.

Kirk wasn’t alone in wondering, as Carlson made a covert case that the question, and answer, have been ignored by design.

“By that point, a leader’s behavior within his own marriage, the core relationship of his life, had been declared irrelevant,” Carlson said of the the sexual peculiarities of the president and, some contend alleged, First Lady Michelle.

“It was Barack Obama’s business, not yours,” Carlson said.

“Tucker insinuates that Obama is gay and Michelle is a man,” posited talkshow host Stew Peters.

The questions surrounding Obama’s alleged gay lifestyle, drug use and random homosexual romps resurfaced nationally last month with Larry Sinclair’s trip down memory lane. In 2008, Sinclair went public with claims that he had multiple drug-fueled, homosexual hook-ups with Obama.

“I performed fellatio on Senator Obama in the limousine during the time Senator Obama was smoking crack cocaine,” Sinclair said at the time. His claims were quickly swept away by mainstream media, but the questions of Obama’s sexual proclivities remain.

Joe Biden Received $5M Bribe in Criminal Scheme, Explosive FBI File Shows

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Joe Biden Received $5M Bribe in Criminal Scheme, Explosive FBI File Shows

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Several Republican lawmakers have made bombshell revelations about the FD-1023 informant file, which allegedly exposes a $5-million bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden.

The new details, brought to light by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., include a damning allegation that Biden himself received a multi-million-dollar payment from scandal-ridden Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings.

Taylor Greene held an unplanned press conference after gaining access to the infamous file and revealed that Burisma sought to influence the Obama-Biden administration by offering the bribe to Biden himself through his son Hunter.

“Back in 2015 – 2016, Burisma was looking to buy a U.S.-based oil and gas company, and this came from being advised by Hunter Biden and his partners,” Taylor Greene declared. “Biden said [Viktor] Shokin was corrupt. That was around the time of this meeting, [which] was when Joe Biden, as vice president had said that Prosecutor Shokin was corrupt. They hired Hunter on the board to make the problems go away.”

In a tweet that has since gone viral, Taylor Greene added, “Burisma said that Hunter was stupid and that his other business partner was smart. He also said that he paid $5 million to one Biden and he paid $5 million to another Biden, and it was all a bribery to get Shokin fired and end the investigation to Burisma.”

Boebert echoed Taylor Green’s assessment during an interview with Benny Johnson’s podcast, stating, “There was a $5 million dollar payment made to Joe Biden, not Hunter Biden, Joe Biden ‘the Big Guy.’” A fired-up Boebert slammed Democrats who claimed the Democrat president was not implicated in the payments. “They [Burisma] used Hunter Biden because he was ‘stupid’ and that he could go through his dad for protection and that it would all just go away.”

Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, came under fire when it was revealed that they had paid Hunter more than $50,000 per month for his role on their board. Several Republican lawmakers found these substantial payments questionable, considering the president’s crack-addict son’s lack of experience in gas and energy.

The informant, whom Taylor Greene referred to as “highly credible,” provided detailed information about the alleged bribery scheme in the FD-1023 file. The file had been kept confidential by FBI Director Christopher Wray over concerns that releasing it could jeopardize the informant’s safety, including his life.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., with the assistance of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, issued a subpoena for the document, citing oversight responsibilities after a whistleblower raised concerns about the FBI’s inadequate investigation of the informant’s allegations.

Facing imminent charges of contempt of Congress, Wray reached an agreement with Comer, allowing all members of the Oversight Committee, including Greene and Boebert, to review the documents. In exchange, Comer agreed to withdraw the charges against Wray.

Pence Refuses to Say Whether He Would Pardon Trump if Elected President

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Pence Refuses to Say Whether He Would Pardon Trump if Elected President

(Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence refused to say this week whether he would pardon former President Donald Trump if Pence was elected president and the latter was convicted as a result of one of several investigations.

Pence, who announced his candidacy for the White House this week, sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for a town hall in front of a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday. Asked by Bash about a potential presidential pardon for Trump, Pence said: “I don’t want to speak about hypotheticals.”

“I’m not sure I’m going to be elected president of the United States,” Pence said. “I believe we have a fighting chance. I really believe we do.”

Pence’s comments were made prior to the reported DOJ indictment of Trump on Thursday.

Bash continued to press Pence on the question, but the former vice president quipped, “You’re as persistent as ever. CNN is living up to its reputation.”

He then again changed the subject.

“There are real issues the American people are facing, and rather than talking about that, I want to talk about what the people here in Iowa are talking about, which is the failed policies of the Biden administration and the need for us to have new leadership in the White House and in our party,” he said.

Trump is facing 34 felony charges related to an investigation launched by leftist Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into an alleged hush money payment made by Trump’s 2016 campaign to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump is also facing a reported indictment from a federal investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith into his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Pence did say during the CNN town hall that he hopes the grand jury hearing evidence against Trump in the classified documents case decides against indicting Trump, arguing that such an indictment would be a “drastic and divisive step.”

“I think it would also send a terrible message to the wider world,” Pence said. “I mean, we’re the emblem of democracy. We’re the symbol of justice in the world and this is a serious matter, which has already happened once in New York, of indicting a former president of the United States, it sends a terrible message to the world. I hope the DOJ thinks better of it or resolves these issues without an indictment.”

Open Border Scandal Exposes Easy Illegal Alien Smuggling w/ Phone App

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Open Border Scandal Exposes Easy Illegal Alien Smuggling w/ Phone App

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration, through the Department of Homeland Security, has unveiled a controversial plan to admit nearly 40,000 asylum-seekers each month through a smartphone app.

The DHS formally opened the southern border to an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants earlier this month. These immigrants will now be required to schedule appointments through a taxpayer-funded app called CBP One, according to CBS News.

Erin Heeter, a spokesperson for DHS, told the Epoch Times that CBP One increased the daily appointment capacity from 1,000 to 1,250, resulting in a total of nearly 40,000 applications. However, the Times cautioned that the actual number of asylum seekers could be even higher since DHS has not provided specific details about whether the appointments include families or married couples.

Under the previous CBP system, the Biden administration processed only 20,000 asylum-seekers per month. This move was seen as an effort by President Joe Biden to ease the chaotic influx of illegal border crossings caused his open border policies.

Heeter supported the increase in applications, stating, “This expansion of lawful pathways and opportunities, including CBP One appointments, is part of the Biden administration’s ongoing commitment to provide access to the United States through legal means.”

The newly developed program allegedly aimed to undercut smugglers, who abuse illegal migrants, including asylum seekers, through their border crossings. It also provides a “humane process for noncitizens to access ports of entry instead of attempting to enter the United States unlawfully,” according to Heeter.

This program primarily focuses on illegal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, as well as their immediate family members. However, it has faced intense criticism from House Republicans, who argue that Biden has made it easier for illegal aliens to enter the U.S.

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who chairs the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, torched the Biden administration’s use of the CBP One app, calling it “misleading by design.” The app, the lawmaker argued, undercount the real number of border crossings.

Mirroring the mobilization of the app, the Biden administration used tax dollars last year to gift more than 300,00 smart phones to illegal aliens, as part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “Alternatives to Detention” program, in a floundering effort to track them.

John Feere, former senior adviser for the Department of Homeland Security, called Biden’s tracking devices a “costly failure,” highlighting that the illegal aliens who received these devices have tossed them and remained in the country unlawfully.

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