Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) threatened Wednesday to delay President Biden Joe Biden Mellman: Trump voters cling to 2020 tale FDA authorizes another batch of J&J vaccine Cotton warns of China collecting athletes' DNA at 2022 Olympics MORE ’s national security nominees, saying he would place a hold on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) positions until the president visits the southern border. Scott’s comments came as he noted his support for forwarding Biden’s nominee to lead DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “I clearly support Jen Easterly to be the director of CISA — she’s got the right background to be able to do the job. It has no reflection on her nomination, but I am going to hold all nominations including hers until the president visits the border, and I think the president needs to visit the border and tell us how he is going to address the crisis,” he said in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs … [Read more...]

The Biden Administration will prohibit donations of plasma by B-1/B-2 visa holders along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The Tuesday ruling could result in plasma and blood shortages affecting domestic and global supplies. Violating the prohibition will result in the cancellation of a guest visa. Historically, plasma donations from non-immigrant visa holders have sat in a bureaucratic grey area without any prior enforcement standards. In border cities from California to Texas, donation centers are prominently located within walking distances from ports of entry. The centers rely almost exclusively on legal border crossers. Donors can earn up to $800 a month. Compared to the minimum wage in Mexico, the trades are enticing. Border crossers can be seen flocking to donation centers daily to augment incomes. A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson issued the following statement to Breitbart Texas on Tuesday: Effective immediately, U.S. Customs and Border Protection advises that … [Read more...]

Former president Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he “accepted the invitation” to tour Texas’ southern border with Gov. Greg Abbott on June 30. “The Biden Administration inherited from me the strongest, safest, and most secure border in U.S history and in mere weeks they turned it into the single worst border crisis in U.S history. It’s an unmitigated disaster zone,” Trump said in a statement. RELATED: Abbott says he'll use crowdfunding for his plan to build a border wall Building a wall along the Texas-Mexico border was a key promise throughout Trump’s presidency, but he never fully delivered. His promise that Mexico would pay for the wall was unfulfilled, and the 450 miles of barrier he did build were mostly in Arizona and far less was completed in the Rio Grande Valley where border crossings are more prevalent, according to The Washington Post . Abbott announced last Thursday that Texas would take the matter into its own hands and build its own border wall to … [Read more...]

4 More than 200 employees at Google parent company Alphabet announced plans to form a union Monday, joining with the Communications Workers of America to organize full-time and contract workers alike. The move comes after public walkouts and controversies over employee dismissals at Google in recent years. Members and union founders pointed to recent high-profile firings at Google as well as its handling of pay equity and harassment at work, creating a need for the union. Disputes over government contracts, particularly work on drone technology with military applications, also created cause for pushing back, they said. “This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,” Nicki Anselmo, a program manager at Google and union member, said in a statement. “We’ve seen an increase of Google doing things that don’t align with the values that we signed up to be a part of,” said Raksha Muthukumar, a Google software engineer … [Read more...]

I was a liberal once upon a time and supported the American Civil Liberties Union when it defended Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. A lot of liberals understood that even vile members of our society have First Amendment rights. And that if you deprive them of their rights, then no one is safe. Skokie, Ill., was a big test for liberals. In the late 1970s, neo-Nazis wanted to march through the city, a place they picked precisely because many of its residents had survived Hitler’s Holocaust. Had my own grandparents not packed what little they had and got out of Eastern Europe before Hitler’s storm troopers marched in, they would have been among the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. But I still believed — as did the ACLU — that Nazis in America, despicable as they were, had the same rights as every other American. Now I learn from a recent story in the New York Times that old values at the ACLU are in the progressives’ crosshairs, that there are forces at the organization which … [Read more...]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved two of President Biden Joe Biden Mellman: Trump voters cling to 2020 tale FDA authorizes another batch of J&J vaccine Cotton warns of China collecting athletes' DNA at 2022 Olympics MORE 's nominees to serve in the nation's top cybersecurity positions. The committee approved former National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis to serve in the newly created national cyber director role at the White House, and approved former NSA official Jen Easterly to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). While the nominations advanced unanimously, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said following the vote that he intended to place a hold on Easterly’s nomination and others until Biden visits the U.S.-Mexico border to address a surge in migration. ADVERTISEMENT “I clearly support Jen Easterly to be the … [Read more...]

Two U.S. soldiers face human smuggling charges for allegedly trying to transport a pair of migrants through an immigration checkpoint. The soldiers were in uniform at the time of the alleged attempt. According to information released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 20-year-old Emmanuel Oppongagyare and 18-year-old Ralph Gregory Saint-Joie tried to drive two illegal immigrants from Mexico through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Hebbronville, Texas. Saint-Joie is active-duty while Oppongagyare is part of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Both are stationed at Fort Hood. During an initial hearing on Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Magistrate Judge Diana Song Quiroga notified both men of the charges against them and set their bonds at $75,000. The soldiers claimed to be driving from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, but when agents asked why they took a detour through Hebbronville, they reportedly said it was the GPS that sent them there, the criminal complaint revealed. The … [Read more...]

Following the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, actor and former wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has revealed he is also considering a bid for the presidency. “I think that it’s a real possibility,” Johnson told GQ in an interview.“A year ago, it started coming up more and more. There was a real sense of earnestness, which made me go home and think ‘Let me really rethink my answer and make sure I am giving an answer that is truthful and also respectful.’” Despite reportedly being a registered Republican, it is unclear whether Johnson would run on a party platform, or as an independent, having not endorsed any party or candidate in the 2016 race. However, Johnson stated his opposition to Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven terror prone countries, describing it as a “snap decision” that led to “heartache.” “I completely disagree with it. I believe in our national security to the core, but I don’t believe in a ‘ban’ that bans … [Read more...]

The meeting of the G7 nations proved that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is closer to a Green Party politician than an actual Conservative, said Brexit leader Nigel Farage. At the G7 meeting in Cornwall, Mr Johnson declared that the UK will look to be “building back better together, and building back greener, and building back fairer, and building back more equal, and… in a more gender-neutral, and perhaps a more feminine way”. Responding to the comments, Brexit’s Nigel Farage told Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade that Johnson’s tone reflected the beliefs of the “metropolitan liberal elite” rather than the working class, remarking that Johnson has virtually transformed the Conservative Party into “the Green Party”. “Whether this is his new wife who was an eco-warrior that’s had this influence, I don’t know. What I do know is this is not what conservative voters gave him a big majority for,” Farage said. The Brexiteer said that to him, Mr Johnson appears to be “easily influenced” by … [Read more...]

Actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson added more fuel to speculation surrounding his political future with an appearance on Good Morning America Thursday, during which he said he has the skill set required to run for President of the United States. “It’s really been the most flattering thing,” the 45-year-old San Andreas star said in response to media reports that suggested he would make a good president. When asked why he thinks he would make a good president, Johnson laughed off the question, and said he had never said that. “I don’t know if I would make a good president,” he added. “I know that I have a certain skill set, and I think it’s in that skill set that people see, and that people would want me to run. And I also think that’s reflective of them wanting to see a better leadership happening right now.” "I don't know if I would make a good President, but I know I have a certain skill set…" – Dwayne @TheRock Johnson on running for President … [Read more...]