Some of these young women—part of a corps of thousands of young Mormons on assignment around the world, including the church’s own headquarters—sport U.S. flags, but on a recent weekday evening most did not, instead wearing flags from Malaysia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea, among others. As these international arrivals converge on Salt […]
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Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old charged with shooting two National Guard members the day before Thanksgiving, had participated in the Zero Units. The ensuing attention on the controversial CIA program—and, by proxy, the Afghan refugee committee—shifted the Trump administration’s attention in a cataclysmic way, according to community advocates and local leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth. The day […]
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Noem Spirals When Asked Who Let in Alleged National Guard Shooter
On Thursday, hours before the state Senate is set to vote, Trump issued another nasty missive, attacking more local leaders while threatening to back primary opponents for anyone who votes against his plan. This time, the ire of Trump’s focus was Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray, who has formed a coalition of allies averse […]
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Trump’s Crackdown on Afghan Refugees Will Have Dire Consequences
Not only are Afghans themselves confused about their legal status, the organizations that assist them as they navigate the process of resettling are working off of statements from administration officials without clear direction. “There’s so much uncertainty, and without any operational guidance, we as an organization are also feeling a little bit of a loss […]
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Trump Is Ready to Take ICE Barbie’s Advice on His Travel Ban
Hegseth wrote that he pulled the platoon aside after the briefing and told them, “I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I […]
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After National Guard Shooting, Trump Is Ready to Go to a New Extreme
Hegseth wrote that he pulled the platoon aside after the briefing and told them, “I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I […]
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Alleged National Guard Shooter Pleaded for Help From CIA
“Vetting is happening when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden’s administration. That’s the irresponsibility that has completely devastated our country, Kristen, put us in such a dangerous position,” Noem continued. “I don’t think people realized when Joe Biden was in the White House exactly how he was allowing […]
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Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
“Vetting is happening when they come into the country and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden’s administration. That’s the irresponsibility that has completely devastated our country, Kristen, put us in such a dangerous position,” Noem continued. “I don’t think people realized when Joe Biden was in the White House exactly how he was allowing […]
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ICE Barbie Panics When Asked About Vetting Alleged Guard Shooter
Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and […]
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Trump Cuts Refugee Admissions And Reserves Most Spots For White Afrikaners Who Are Not Refugees
Source: Samuel Corum / Getty Look, y’all — President Donald Trump is a white supremacist. That’s not hyperbole. It’s not my “Trump Derangement Syndrome” talking. If Trump using language straight out of the eugenics movement to say Black and Latino migrants have murder in their “genes” and are “poisoning the blood” of the country wasn’t already enough […]
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Trump Sets Lowest Refugee Cap in History—With Priority to White People
Riley previously worked as a partner at McKinsey & Company, and completed a Ph.D. in social policy and an M.Sc. in contemporary Chinese from Oxford, according to her LinkedIn. She joined the ranks at DOGE and was assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services, where Politico reported she pushed for massive layoffs earlier […]
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Trump Just Revoked Deportation Protections From Thousands of Refugees
Attorney and commentator Norm Eisen—who runs one such group, Democracy Defenders Action—has circulated a draft open letter, titled “An Open Letter Opposing Threats by the Administration Against Nonprofits & Charities,” among allies, reported Gabe Kaminsky, of the conservative digital publication The Free Press, on Friday. The statement, which begins by condemning Kirk’s murder, goes on […]
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‘It’s for White People’: Trump’s South African Refugee Program Confirms What We Already Knew
Source: Aninka Bongers-Sutherland / Getty I told y’all. Back in May, I warned that Donald Trump’s executive order launching a so-called “refugee” program specifically designed to fast-track white South Africans into the United States wasn’t about humanitarian relief. It was about rescuing whiteness. It was about giving apartheid a second passport and smuggling settler colonialism […]
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