Thursday, April 17, 2025

Alan Dershowitz Warns Central Park Five: Lawsuit Against Trump Will Backfire

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Alan Dershowitz Warns Central Park Five: Lawsuit Against Trump Will Backfire

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, issued a dire warning to the so-called Central Park Five after they filed a long-shot defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump. 

Dershowitz contends that the lawsuit, which he described as flawed, will backfire on the five men by potentially exposing their actions in Central Park on April 19, 1989—the same day Trisha Meili was assaulted and raped.

The five individuals were charged at the time and exonerated more than 10 years later. Before their exoneration, Trump emerged as one of the most vocal critics of the five men, with some of his recent statements prompting the defamation suit. 

“This is going to be a very hard case for the plaintiffs to win,” Dershowitz said Friday during an interview with Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren. “They were not innocent people. They were doing things in the park that certainly were not commendable, at least some of them were.” 

He added, “They did not admit their guilt. But it’s a much more complicated, nuanced case. And I think they will regret having brought it. Because if this case actually goes to trial, we’re going to get depositions that show exactly what they did and where they were every minute of time.” 

The five plaintiffs—Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise—filed the lawsuit in the fall of 2024 after Trump said they “pled guilty” to the 1989 offenses. Instead of entering guilty pleas, the men were convicted. They claim this small discrepancy constitutes defamation.

On Thursday, Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled the men presented enough evidence for the case now. However,  Dershowitz noted that proving defamation will be challenging because several of the men have become public figures. 

“These are all people now with political ambitions. They’re running for office. They’re presenting themselves as the most wonderful people on the face of the earth. They were not. And so the more we dig into this case, the more we’re going to see this as a case of gray area,” Dershowitz said. 

“And the big issue is going to be if they are public figures, if the plaintiffs are public figures and have to demonstrate that they were not only falsely accused, but they were falsely accused with reckless disregard of the truth. It’s not going to be so easy,” he continued.

 The Daily Caller was the first to report on Dershowitz’s comments.

Dem. Power Broker Jim Clyburn Trashes Kamala Campaign

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Dem. Power Broker Jim Clyburn Trashes Kamala Campaign

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., a longtime Biden ally, had nothing but bad words for former Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign—six months after President Donald Trump’s landslide victory in 2024. 

Clyburn claimed during a Friday interview on CNN News Central with host Kate Bolduan that Harris was ill-served by her campaign after she inherited the nomination from disgraced former President Joe Biden in the summer of 2024. 

“I will say this: I think that she is a tremendous talent. I think she ran a great campaign. I think she was ill-served in that campaign by people who should have listened to some of us who saw and felt things,” Clyburn said. 

“Listen to Bill Clinton when he told them what was going on. Listen to yours truly, when I was going around these rural communities, I knew what we needed to do and was not doing it,” he continued. 

Describing her as a “great candidate,” Clyburn said Harris still had a promising future. 

“I think she will make a great candidate in the future, whatever she decides to run for. But I’m not going to give any advice as to whether or not she should or should not,” he added. 

Clyburn’s comments came in response to Bolduan’s question about a New York Times article detailing Harris’s electoral loss in 2024. 

The Times reported that Harris is weighing a run for governor of California in 2026 or waiting until the 2028 presidential election. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is term-limited. 

After Biden stepped down from the 2024 race, several Democrat officials were understandably doubtful about Harris’s chances of winning the general election. 

 According to reports, former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were cautioned not to endorse Harris too quickly—likely in case other Democrats jumped into the race. 

Their concerns proved valid—Harris was resoundingly rejected by voters. 

Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Burn Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro Alive

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Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Burn Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro Alive

(Headline USA) A man scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion where he set a fire that left significant damage and forced Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, his family and guests to evacuate the building, authorities said Sunday.

The man, captured later in the day, will face charges of attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault, authorities said.

Shapiro said he, his wife, their four children, two dogs and another family had celebrated the Jewish holiday of Passover at the residence on Saturday and were awakened by state troopers pounding on their doors at about 2 a.m. Sunday. They fled and the fire was extinguished, officials said. No one was injured.

At a Sunday evening news conference in front of the badly damaged south wing of the governor’s residence, Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris identified the man in custody as Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg.

Paris emphasized that the investigation is continuing. Authorities did not disclose the man’s motive, but an emotional Shapiro — who is viewed as a potential White House contender for the Democratic Party in 2028 — said he is unbowed.

Authorities said the suspect hopped over a nearly 7-foot-high iron security fence surrounding the property, eluded officers who became aware of the breach and forcibly entered the residence before setting it on fire.

Lt. Col. George Bivens said Balmer had a homemade incendiary device — he wouldn’t describe what kind — and appeared to have carefully planned the attack. He was inside the residence for about a minute before he escaped, Bivens said.

Bivens said Balmer was later arrested in the area.

The fire badly damaged the inside of the large room that is often used for entertaining crowds and art displays. Large west- and south-facing windows were completely missing their glass panes, shattered glass littered the pathways and doors stood ajar amid signs of charring. Window panes and brick around doors and windows were blackened and charred.

Inside, a charred piano, tables, walls, metal buffet serving dishes and more could be seen through broken windows and fire-blackened doors.

The Harrisburg Bureau of Fire was called to the residence and put out the fire at the Susquehanna Riverfront mansion. Shapiro and his family had been sleeping in a different

Yellow tape cordoned off an alleyway on the residence’s south side, where investigators dogs outside the iron security fence and sawed off a section from the top of the security fence. They wrapped it in heavy black plastic and took it away in a vehicle.

Shapiro splits his time between the mansion that has housed governors since it was built in the 1960s and a home in Abington, about 100 miles east. He posted a photograph on social media Saturday of the family’s Passover Seder table at the residence.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Ridiculed for White House Visit w/ Trump

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Michigan Gov. Whitmer Ridiculed for White House Visit w/ Trump

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has gone from faking her own kidnapping plot in 2020 as part of an October surprise against Donald Trump, to joining Trump in the White House some five years later—but she apparently doesn’t want you to know about it.

Whitmer was at Trump’s executive order signing at the White House on Wednesday, but she shielded her face from reporters with a blue binder.  The awkward gesture drew mockery from both sides of the aisle—with one side slamming her for cozying up to Trump and the other for hiding her face in the first place. 

Whitmer was in the White House for a private meeting on federal funding for an Air National Guard near Detroit and aid for constituents hit by a recent ice storm.  

However, White House aides ushered her into the Oval Office as Trump signed a flurry of pro-MAGA executive orders. 

X page Amuse described Whitmer’s presence as an example of an “EPIC TROLL.”  

Meanwhile, journalist Eric Daugherty mocked the bizarre scene, writing, “Trump Derangement Syndrome makes people go insane!” 

Conservative attorney Rogan O’Handley, known as DC Draino, blasted Whitmer for hiding her face after previously mocking the Holy Communion in a video. 

“Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hides from cameras when President Trump is signing executive orders on election fraud but loves the camera when she’s doing a Dorito soft core porn video,” O’Handley wrote. “Says it all.” 

Even left-wing commentators piled on, with MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart claiming Whitmer’s White House visit will “haunt her.” 

“The moment you start explaining why you were there in the Oval Office with the president of the United States, particularly this president of the United States, you’re already in trouble,” Capehart claimed during an MSNBC segment. 

In response to the backlash, a Whitmer spokesperson claimed she had been blindsided by the impromptu Oval Office event. 

“The governor was surprised that she was brought into the Oval Office during President Trump’s press conference without any notice of the subject matter. Her presence is not an endorsement of the actions taken or statements made at that event,” the spokesperson told the Daily Mail. 

Whitmer, a rumored 2028 contender, has long been a polarizing figure on the right, particularly after she attempted to tie the conservative movement to a government-manipulated kidnapping plot. 

In October 2020, just weeks before the election, the FBI announced the arrest of 13 men over an alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer. 

While the case was quickly labeled as an example of domestic terrorism, several details later undermined that narrative. 

One of the alleged leaders in the plot turned out to be an FBI informant—whose own questionable conduct had been ignored. The FBI also had several undercover agents involved in the plot. 

Critics argue the plot never would have materialized without the heavy involvement of undercover FBI agents and informants.  Five of the alleged kidnappers—Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, William Null, Michael Null and Eric Molitor—were ultimately acquitted of any wrongdoing.

Two other men, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., faced hung juries in their first trials but were later convicted in re-trials. 

Planned Parenthood Spends Big for Democrats, Faces Cuts under GOP Control

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Planned Parenthood Spends Big for Democrats, Faces Cuts under GOP Control

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Planned Parenthood’s political donations to Republicans have plummeted in the past decade, leaving the nation’s largest abortion provider with few friends on the right as it faces funding cuts under the Trump administration.

Planned Parenthood reports that about 34% of its funding comes from the federal government, usually through federal grants or reimbursements from Medicaid.

Planned Parenthood turns around and gives millions of dollars to Democrats each political cycle. In 2024, an analysis from the watchdog group Open Secrets, examining political donations from the large network of Planned Parenthood affiliates and political arms, the group donated $5,144,579, nearly all for liberal groups or Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid against President Donald Trump.

No Republicans in the U.S. House or Senate received any donations from Planned Parenthood’s array of affiliates, according to Open Secrets.

At the federal level, Democrats received 99.83% of the political donations.

The nation’s largest abortion provider seems to have gone all in on one party, but that wasn’t always the case. A look back at the tenures of Barack Obama and George W. Bush showed Planned Parenthood gave to Republicans at the federal level as well. However, federal donation records show that the Trump era in Washington, D.C. is when donating to both sides came to an end.

Now, Trump is in charge of the executive branch and Republicans hold narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, which seems poised to make his tax cuts permanent and enact other parts of his agenda.

Among a wave of other cost-saving cuts, Trump’s Health and Human Services agency is reportedly cutting tens of millions of dollars in Title X funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in about two dozen states.

HHS Title X grants are long-standing funding sources from the HHS Office of Population Affairs to Planned Parenthood for family planning services. During his first term, Trump limited Title X recipients from referring for abortions, a measure that was overturned by the Biden administration. Now, the battle over the same funding is underway.

A coalition of 29 senators sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week demanding the funding be reinstated. Notably absent were any Republican signatures.

Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the group’s lobbying arm, blasted Trump for his recent cuts and defended the nonprofit’s work.

“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” McGill said.

But so far, it appears nobody is listening.

Meanwhile, in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering a case that involves South Carolina’s ban on Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funds because it performs abortions, even if those funds are not being used on abortions.

The Supreme Court case is not a direct challenge to South Carolina’s ban but whether private beneficiaries can sue to use their preferred provider, in this case Planned Parenthood.

The ruling involving South Carolina’s 2018 ban is expected in June. It could rebuff or pave the way for other states to ban Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood.

Republicans have eyed defunding Planned Parenthood for years, though without success, over the abortion issues. Now, Planned Parenthood has become a staunch advocate on transgender issues, a less popular tenet that has become the subject of scrutiny for Republicans and some moderates.

“Planned Parenthood” is really a collection of linked groups, not a single entity. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) provides medical services at hundreds of clinics around the country. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is one political arm. Planned Parenthood also has a SuperPAC called Planned Parenthood Votes. Affiliates around the country vary in their size, funding and political engagement.

On top of that, there are state and regional political arms of Planned Parenthood affiliates, similar to how labor unions have national political activity and then local activity carried out by local affiliates.

This series of graphics from Open Secrets, shows the political donations of Planned Parenthood’s affiliates and demonstrates the recent dropoff in support for even moderate Republicans. These figures include donations to members of presidential committees as well.

When defending their federal funding, Planned Parenthood advocates regularly point to the necessity of their healthcare services, like STI testing and cancer screenings in poorer areas.

In its 2022-2023 annual fiscal year report, Planned Parenthood boasted 392,715 abortions. It also conducted 1,721 adoption referrals.

A Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll in 2022 found that 71% of Americans support legal limits on abortion and 54% oppose taxpayer funding for abortions.

Under current federal law, Planned Parenthood cannot be reimbursed by the federal government for abortions via Medicaid or Medicare except in the cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother.

However, Planned Parenthood received about $700 million in one year from the government, according to its 2022-2023 report.

Critics argue that even with limitations to prevent federal funding from directly paying for most abortions, taxpayers are still propping up the nation’s largest abortion provider to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Defenders of Planned Parenthood say it helps underserved populations and provides abortions in places where recipients might otherwise struggle to obtain

CNN Jeopardizes Tulsi Gabbard’s Life w/ Scumbag Doxxing Tactic

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CNN Jeopardizes Tulsi Gabbard’s Life w/ Scumbag Doxxing Tactic

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The FBI arrested a 25-year-old man on Friday after he made “threatening communications” targeting Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—just two days after CNN published a lengthy article that doxxed Gabbard’s Texas residency. 

The suspect, Aliakbar Mohammed Amin, was taken into custody by Atlanta-based FBI agents. His threats were directed at Gabbard, President Donald Trump and the White House. 

“Bottom line, the FBI does not tolerate threats and will hold offenders fully accountable,” the FBI Atlanta office wrote on X. It also released a photo of federal agents in a parking lot at an undisclosed location. 

The FBI has not provided further details on the specific threats or how he targeted Gabbard.

DNI official Alexa Henning stated on X that she had warned CNN about active threats against her and her family. Despite this, CNN “went ahead and doxxed her address anyway.” 

Henning’s comment refers to a CNN article reporting that Gabbard purchased a house outside Austin, Texas, while voting in Hawaii for the 2024 presidential election. 

CNN twisted the Texas residency into an issue, suggesting Gabbard may have committed voter fraud.

“Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity of state voting laws,” CNN reported. 

Gabbard’s attorneys, Jesse Binnall and Jason Greaves, issued a cease-and-desist letter to CNN—but the network proceeded to publish the article regardless. 

“Director Gabbard was, is, and intends to remain a Hawaii resident,” her attorneys wrote. “That is where she lives, pays taxes, and, of course, votes.” 

The article provided detailed information about the Texas county where Gabbard resides, prompting her to threaten legal action against CNN for its puzzling claims. 

“DNI Gabbard voted in Hawaii during the 2024 election because she is and has been a tax paying Hawaii resident,” DNI spokesperson Olivia Coleman said. “Her current status is no different than when she was a Member of Congress, where she maintained a mainland residence and a Hawaii residence as a tax-paying voter.” 

This is a developing story. 

Bill Maher Changes 10 Years of Rhetoric, Says Trump is a Nice Guy after Meeting Him

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Bill Maher Changes 10 Years of Rhetoric, Says Trump is a Nice Guy after Meeting Him

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) HBO host Bill Maher undercut the left’s narrative about President Donald Trump, describing him as gracious after a private Oval Office meeting and exposing the media’s exaggerated portrayal of Trump as somehow unhinged.  

“You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured,” Maher said on Friday’s episode of his Real Time show. “And why isn’t that in other settings—I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.” 

Earlier in the show, Maher ridiculed those who made a big fuss about his White House meeting with Trump. The meeting took place on March 31 at the recommendation of Kid Rock, who also participated in it. 

“Let me first say that to all the people who treated this like it was some kind of summit meeting, you’re ridiculous! Like, I was going to sign a treaty or something,” Maher said. “I have no power. I’m a f***ing comedian, and he’s the most powerful leader in the world!” 

“I’m not the leader of anything, except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute,” he added. 

Maher said Trump had a “good humor” throughout the meeting. 

“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened,” Maher continued.  

He said Trump “didn’t go MAGA” and even praised him when contrasting his behavior with that of other figures. 

“I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people who don’t look you in the eye, people don’t really listen because they just want to get to their next thing,” Maher stated. “None of that was him, and he mostly steered the conversation to ‘What do you think about this?’ I know, your mind is blown. So is mine.” 

FBI Official Who Approved of Bogus ‘Steele Dossier’ Placed on Administrative Leave

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FBI Official Who Approved of Bogus ‘Steele Dossier’ Placed on Administrative Leave

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The FBI has placed one of the central figures who concocted the Russiagate hoax on administrative leave—signaling what appears to be a long-overdue purge of officials who undermined President Donald Trump in his first term. 

The official, Brian Auten, was among the agents peddling the Russia collusion hoax during the 2016 presidential election. Equally damning, he worked on the FBI’s investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop—a probe that whistleblowers said did not receive proper scrutiny, likely in a bid to protect former President Joe Biden. 

Auten’s suspension, reported first on Friday by the liberal New York Times, comes as no surprise. 

During his FBI tenure, Auten would quickly rise to become the FBI’s top Russian analyst. In 2016 and 2017, he infamously cleared the Steele dossier— a collection of salacious allegations created for Hillary Clinton’s campaign which sought to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin. The dossier became the central piece of evidence used by the FBI to obtain warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Auten also never informed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the FBI’s longstanding concerns about FBI informant Igor Danchenko, who helped Christopher Steele compile his bogus dossier.

Auten was later suspended 30 days for that fiasco.

In Government Gangsters, Patel documents how more than 50 “corrupt actors” within the deep state actively worked to undermine Trump’s election and subsequent administration after 2016. 

“Yet just like his superiors, Auten has faced no real accountability in light of these findings,” Patel wrote, as quoted by The Times. “The fact that Auten was not fired from the F.B.I. and prosecuted for his part in the Russia Gate conspiracy is a national embarrassment.” 

According to Patel, the FBI attempted to “hide and spin” the “Biden family corruption” revealed by the laptop.  

For instance, communications within the laptop indicated that at least 10 percent of the payments received by Hunter during the Obama-Biden administration were earmarked for someone known as the “Big Guy.” 

Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter, testified before Congress that the “Big Guy” was none other than Biden. 

Biden would ultimately run for president in 2020, and later moved to pardon his son and siblings for their roles in influence-peddling schemes exposed by congressional investigators. 

Doctors Remove Pig Kidney from an Alabama Woman after a Record 130 Days

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Doctors Remove Pig Kidney from an Alabama Woman after a Record 130 Days

(Headline USA) An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.”

“Though the outcome is not what anyone wanted, I know a lot was learned from my 130 days with a pig kidney – and that this can help and inspire many others in their journey to overcoming kidney disease,” Looney added.

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting.

Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs – two hearts and two kidneys that lasted no longer than two months. Those recipients, who were severely ill before the surgery, died.

Now researchers are attempting these transplants in slightly less sick patients, like Looney. A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in January is faring well and a rigorous study of pig kidney transplants is set to begin this summer. Chinese researchers also recently announced a successful kidney xenotransplant.

Looney had been on dialysis since 2016 and didn’t qualify for a regular transplant – her body was abnormally primed to reject a human kidney. So she sought out a pig kidney and it functioned well – she called herself “superwoman” and lived longer than anyone with a gene-edited pig organ before, from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April when her body began rejecting it.

NYU xenotransplant pioneer Dr. Robert Montgomery, Looney’s surgeon, said what triggered that rejection is being investigated. But he said Looney and her doctors agreed it would be less risky to remove the pig kidney than to try saving it with higher, riskier doses of anti-rejection drugs.

“We did the safe thing,” Montgomery told The Associated Press. “She’s no worse off than she was before (the xenotransplant) and she would tell you she’s better off because she had this 4½ month break from dialysis.”

Shortly before the rejection began, Looney had suffered an infection related to her prior time on dialysis and her immune-suppressing anti-rejection drugs were slightly lowered, Montgomery said. At the same time, her immune system was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.

Rejection is a common threat after transplants of human organs, too, and sometimes cost patients their new organ. Doctors face a balancing act in tamping down patients’ immune systems just enough to preserve the new organ while allowing them to fight infection.

It’s an even bigger challenge with xenotransplantation. While these pig organs have been altered to help prevent immediate rejection, patients still require immune-suppressing drugs. Which drugs are best to prevent different, later forms of rejection isn’t clear, said Dr. Tatsuo Kawai of Massachusetts General Hospital, another xenotransplant pioneer. Different research groups are using different combinations, he said.

“When we have more experience, we’ll know what kind of immunosuppression is really necessary for xenotransplant,” Kawai said

Montgomery said Looney’s experience offers valuable lessons for the upcoming clinical trial.

Making xenotransplant ultimately work “is going to be won with singles and doubles, not swinging for the fence every time we do one of these,” he said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Judge: Immigrants Biden Flew into the U.S. are Allowed to Stay, For Now

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Judge: Immigrants Biden Flew into the U.S. are Allowed to Stay, For Now

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal judge said Thursday that she will prevent the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that were flown into the country by the Biden administration to leave the country later this month.

The ruling is a significant, although perhaps temporary, setback for the administration as it dismantles Biden-era policies that directly flew third-world immigrants into the United States, generally for two years with work authorization.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said she would issue a stay on an order for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to leave the country, sparing them until the case advances to the next phase. Their permits were to be canceled April 24.

Humanitarian parole is a long-standing legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where there’s war or political instability to enter and temporarily live in the U.S.

However, the tool was abused by the Biden administration to parole some 30,000 migrants per month. Federal law allows the Homeland Security Secretary to grant parole to migrants only on a “case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

Last November, the House Judiciary Committee published a report on Biden’s abuse of the program.

“Through CHNV, each month up to 30,000 aliens, who otherwise have no basis to enter the country and who have ‘a supporter’ in the United States, can bypass the U.S. border and fly directly into the country ‘on commercial flights’ to be ‘granted parole’ for a period of two years by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,” the House report said last November, quoting DHS’s own press releases.

“As of ‘the end of September 2024, more than 531,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans’ had done so.”

Earlier in 2024, an internal DHS report found that the CHNV program was plagued with fraud. For example, the internal review found that the same social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers were being used hundreds of times in some cases.

The program was also found to have been exploited by sex traffickers. “In one such case, 21 supporter applications were submitted from the same IP address on behalf of 18 females and only three males. At least six of the females were under the age of 18,” the House report said.

After the fraud was found, the CHNV program was temporarily shuttered. But the Biden administration restarted it about a month later. More than 3 million CHNV applications have been filed and more than 600,000 were approved before Biden left office—meaning hundreds of thousands more Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans could have flown into the country before the DHS suspended the program Friday.

The DHS said on March 22 that parolees without a lawful basis to stay in the U.S. “must depart” before their parole termination date.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

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