In the days following the bizarre, seditious video put out by Senate Democrats like Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, Ruben Gallego, the junior senator from Arizona, put up a profanity laden rant video in which he lashed out at Trump and members of his administration.
Bill O’Reilly was not impressed.
In one of his recent monologues, Bill ripped Gallego over his video, calling him a moron and saying that the people of Arizona know he is an idiot.
O’REILLY: “No, you’re a moron. I’m sorry to be disrespectful, but he is. And you people in Arizona know it and I don’t know how he got elected. Number one, you don’t have to use the F-word. That’s beneath the dignity of a senator, OK. And if you can’t articulate better than that, resign. There are a lot of kids that watch the news. Number two, defending the Constitution of the United States. How so? In what way?
There’s no debate right now about an unlawful order to the military. What are you talking about? Something that might happen? You can do that all day long. Or maybe, you know — come on. But that’s what you get, just kind of irrational garbage complemented by the F-word. Boy, this guy.”
Watch the video below:
NEW: @BillOReilly *RIPS INTO* Dem Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego for his vulgar defense of Mark Kelly telling military to disobey TRUMP
“You’re a moron. I’m sorry to be disrespectful — but he is. And you people in Arizona know it. And I don’t know how he got elected.”
Ruben Gallego Under Fire After Leaked Texts Call Democrats A ‘Boring’ Party
U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, Ruben Gallego, made headlines after screenshots of some of his recent controversial text messages went viral. A RadarOnline report reveals that the kind of comments made by the 46-year-old were a direct insult to his party. Some of the remarks were downright derogatory — Gallego implied that Democratic men and women have become androgynous and unappealing. Ruben also whined about how the party has now lost its vibe of s–, drugs, rock and roll, and has become plain.
While chatting with an unidentified fellow Democrat, Gallego’s friend asked him about his future in the party. The person alleged that Ruben could perhaps be the one to rebuild and lead the Democrats, given the extensive media coverage he enjoys. This friend then shared a picture of the purple-haired Democratic congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and exclaimed, “This is how the world views many [Democrats]…”
Shockingly, the meme featuring Rosa had a derogatory description in itself, which read as “If erectile dysfunction had a face.” Adding fuel to the fire of controversies, Ruben agreed to the kind of statements made by his friend.
Hilarious. He basically got into trouble for telling the truth.
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass – Screencap of YouTube video.
A new documentary film that’s being released in December, examines the disaster of the wildfires in California a year ago and questions how and why it was handled so badly.
The film is not kind to California Governor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. It suggests that they basically did nothing as the city burned down around them. Both have been heavily criticized for this over the last year.
Bass wasn’t even in the country when the fires began, she was attending some event in Africa that had nothing to do with her job as mayor.
A new documentary shows how California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, the state legislature, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass either sat idly by or actually contributed directly to the conditions that allowed several wildfires to devastate L.A. and the Pacific Palisades in January of 2025.
The documentary, entitled Paradise Abandoned, shows one resident after another testifying on film to the failures of government officials to respond to the fires to save their homes, even though the Pacific Palisades in particular was already identified as “a region of maximum fire risk” and yet no extra fire trucks or resources were deployed or close at hand to respond to the fires.
The film chronicles the many failures that government officials at both state and local levels that directly contributed to the wholesale destruction of the homes and businesses of thousands of voters — a fire that burned more than 23,000 acres, razed nearly 7,000 buildings, and killed 12 people…
One man interviewed in the film pointed out that Mayor Bass and Gov. Newsom were seen walking down the street as the Chase Bank Building was burning. Yet none of the firefighters flanking the officials lifted a finger to put the fire out. The Chase building burned to the ground while Newsom held a press conference feet away.
Watch the trailer below:
Paradise Abandoned: Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire — Trailer
How did a single spark incinerate my hometown?
I watched outsiders squeeze our suffering into their simple little stories: climate change, an absent mayor, “diversity equity and inclusion,” the raw laws of… pic.twitter.com/66kec8CxgM
It is astounding that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still have their jobs. Their incompetence allowed thousands of homes and lives to be destroyed in a fire that never even should have been allowed to spread.
WATCH: Venezuela Issues Statement After President Trump Orders All Aircraft to Avoid Airspace
Rising tensions between Washington and Caracas escalated sharply today after President Donald Trump issued a direct and unequivocal warning to all civilian pilots, commercial airlines, and criminal networks operating near Venezuela’s borders.
In a brief but forceful statement posted earlier today, President Trump wrote:
“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Within hours, the Venezuelan dictatorship released a furious, rambling communiqué accusing the United States of “colonialist threats,” denouncing Trump’s warning as an “extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression,” and portraying the announcement as an attempt to “give orders” to a sovereign country.
The statement, issued under Venezuela’s national seal, claims Trump’s message constitutes a “threat of force” in violation of international law.
But what the regime refuses to acknowledge is the context: Venezuela has become one of the world’s most active hubs for cocaine trafficking, illegal flights, cartel activity, and illicit air transport connected to criminal networks across Latin America.
U.S. officials have documented a surge in suspicious flight patterns in and around Venezuelan airspace over the past few days, including aircraft linked to the Venezuelan airforce operating close to American Naval forces.
Adding to the speculation, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted the following shortly after Trump’s announcement:
“Reminder, Congress has the sole power to declare war in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.”
Greene did not elaborate, but her decision to highlight Congress’s war powers immediately after the airspace closure has fueled assumptions that members of Congress may have been briefed on potential escalations.
If lawmakers are receiving classified updates, it would indicate that the situation is more serious than either government is openly acknowledging.
For now, no military action has been announced, and no confirmation has been provided that strikes are underway or imminent.
But Trump’s decision to shut down the airspace—combined with Venezuela’s aggressive reaction and Greene’s cryptic reminder—suggests that the standoff between Washington and Caracas may be entering a far more volatile phase.
In Venezuela’s statement, the regime accused the United States of attempting to “intimidate Venezuela” and framed Trump’s announcement as an attack on Latin America as a whole.
The press release ignored every factual concern raised by U.S. intelligence, including increased military involvement in cocaine transport and the regime’s long-standing partnership with the Cartel of the Suns.
Today’s outburst from the Maduro regime is another example of Venezuela deflecting blame while its role in regional crime expands.
Meanwhile, President Trump’s position is clear: protect international aviation, disrupt drug networks, and stop allowing a criminal regime to use its airspace as a staging ground.
Approx. 25.000 masked and violent far-left “Antifa” militants unsuccessfully tried to shut down the founding convention of the new youth arm of the patriotic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Giessen. The taxpayer-funded street militia blocked motorways and bridges, battled police, conducted checkpoints and caused a police horse to panic and fall down a steep incline. The animal may have to be put down, some observers speculated.
Witnesses reported the horse panicked after rocks were thrown near the main train station, while the police claimed there was “no external cause” and insisted horse and rider were “not injured”.
Das Pferd „stürzte“ also einfach so mir nichts dir nichts, weil die friedlichen Demonstranten den Anweisungen der Polizei sofort wehrlos Folge geleistet haben. Das entsprechende Videomaterial würde ich ja gerne einmal sehen. #Giessen#gi2911pic.twitter.com/qCezKIDk1Y
6000 law enforcement officers were called up nationwide to secure the founding convention of “Generation Germany,” but were not enough to secure access to the venue as leftist militants set up 19 road blocks leading to the venue.
Police does not remove antifa barriers on German highways at Giessen.
This happens if you don’t treat a terrorist organization like a terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/hiEn4sW1gz
“The intolerant and violent Left is gaining ground in Germany,” former US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell posted. “If they follow the U.S. left then they will promote deadly violence while also losing public support – and elections. But they won’t see the errors of their ways because the German left gets lots of support from the media in Germany. It’s publicly funded, too. The conservative media is small and timid – but growing fast.”
The intolerant and violent Left is gaining ground in Germany.
If they follow the U.S. left then they will promote deadly violence while also losing public support – and elections.
But they won’t see the errors of their ways because the German left gets lots of support from… https://t.co/e8kooseNQP
The protests were organized by leftist German labor union DGB, which has received €27 M taxpayer funding for its own “youth organization” to “protect democracy” since 2015, together with Soros-financed mobilization org Campact, the German version of MoveOn, which typically organizes busses and train tickets.
Union members could keep their receipts and get their travel expenses reimbursed, the DGB union announced.
Kilometerlang können Linksextreme über die Bundesstraße laufen. »Alle zusammen gegen den Faschismus« ist eine der harmloseren Parolen. Was hat das mit Demonstrations- oder Versammlungsrecht zu tun? Machtdemonstration der Antifa. #gi2911pic.twitter.com/CXhdCWHoii
While leftists had hoped to mobilize 50.000 violent militants and encouraged “Civil Disobedience” (committing crimes), apparently only about 25.000 street fighters turned up.
EMERGENCY: ANTIFA CIVIL WAR
Today, Antifa is tearing apart the entire city of Giessen in Germany to protest against the formation of an AfD youth group.
57,000 protesters are expected to show up under the motto “GIESSEN MUST BURN”.
Up to 6,000 police officers are being… pic.twitter.com/YlpZ17JfhC
AfD members were attacked in their car, as leftist anarchists smashed their rear window.
Von den USA als terroristische Vereinigung eingestuft, in Deutschland lässt die CDU der „Antifa“ weiter freien Lauf. Inakzeptabel! Wer die Demokratie bewahren will, wählt: AfD. Und allen Patrioten in Gießen: Starke Nerven! Wir gewinnen!pic.twitter.com/4u8dvJswaS
AfD Bundestag delegate Julian Schmidt and his bodyguard was attacked by a mob of about 20 masked militants, but the escort drove off the score of attackers with a well-placed haymaker. Schmidt had his nose broken and cuts and bruises in his face, he said.
Polizei in Gießen wird angegriffen und muss flüchten. Terror auf den Straßen, den man uns als Kampf für UNSERE DEMOKRATIE verkaufen will.
Währenddessen versuchen sich Unionspolitiker mit Pseudo Kampfansagen und Verurteilungen in Unschuld zu baden!
Reporter Vadim Derksen recorded Antifa boomers instituting road blocks and checkpoints to check ID.
Was nehmen sich die Leute raus, meinen Presseausweis kontrollieren zu müssen? Die Polizei weit und breit nicht zu sehen. Anrufe bringen nichts. Krankenschwestern kommen nicht ins Krankenhaus und flehen durchfahren zu können, und dann meint dieser „Herr“ noch, mich kontrollieren… pic.twitter.com/VeN5YvOnIO
Reporters of Junge Freiheit weekly were pelted with rocks from out of an anonymous masked mob.
Unfassbar! Hier sieht man die Antifa-Attacke auf anreisende AfD’ler
„Schweine!“, brüllen die Linksextremisten in einem der beiden Videos, die den Angriff zeigen. Gemeint sind AfD-Mitglieder und Sympathisanten, die zur Veranstaltung in Gießen wollten. Die Täter machen… pic.twitter.com/az6YUE7gMj
watch what is happening today in #Giessen. These radical protests against the formation of a new youth group of the AfD are being financed by the German government through NGOs.
Jen Psaki at the White House – Screencap of Twitter/X video.
Following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC by an Afghan refugee, many people are asking how we ended up with so many refugees from Afghanistan and why we had so little intel about them.
First, we were forced to take in thousands of these people because of the disastrous way Joe Biden withdrew our troops from the country. Secondly, things were done so quickly and with such chaos that we did not have time to properly vet everyone.
That, however, is not what we were told at the time. Then White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about this by a reporter and she said that all of these people were being vetted and screened ‘thoroughly.’
REPORTER: You’ve talked about this a little bit on this end as well, but there are, of course, concerns among lawmakers, experts who have tracked this, who are saying previous arrivals of large numbers of refugees from different parts of the world inevitably, there may be a handful, small handful, who are eventually deemed a security risk of some kind. What reassurances can you make about the screening process and the attempts to make sure that somebody like that doesn’t make his or her way here?
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY JEN PSAKI: I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process. And there are many individuals, as you noted, who have not been through that process, and they have gone to lily pad countries as that process has been completed. It doesn’t mean that that’s because there is a flag.
It means they have not completed their paperwork, and we were working to save tens of thousands of people. Hence, we evacuated them to these third countries.
Here’s the clip:
JEN PSAKI IN 2021: “I can absolutely ASSURE you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a THOROUGH screening and background check process.”
It’s amazing that this woman, now a host on MSNOW, has the audacity to go on TV and accuse Trump and his administration of being untruthful or of spreading misinformation. She stood at that podium and did nothing but lie for Joe Biden for years.
WATCH: The Disability-Rights Breakthrough That the DOE Keeps Undermining
On November 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law, reshaping the landscape of American education.
Before this legislation, millions of children with disabilities were denied access to public schools, forced into segregated classrooms, or left without any formal education.
Many states provided no legal protections, and families often had no recourse when schools refused to accommodate their children.
The new law marked the federal government’s first comprehensive guarantee that children with disabilities would receive a public education tailored to their needs.
The law required states receiving federal education funds to provide a “free appropriate public education” to every child with a disability.
It mandated individualized education programs, established due-process protections for families, and set standards for identifying and serving children with disabilities.
For the first time, parents became partners in their children’s educational planning, empowered to challenge school districts that failed to meet federal requirements.
This framework fundamentally changed how schools approached instruction, classroom placement, and support services for millions of students.
In 1990, Congress reauthorized and expanded the original law, renaming it the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.
The updated legislation broadened the definition of disability, emphasized the importance of preparing students for independent living and employment, and strengthened early-intervention provisions for infants and toddlers.
Later amendments added more accountability measures, increased focus on research-based instruction, and reinforced the expectation that students with disabilities should learn alongside their peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
Today, IDEA ensures that more than seven million infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities receive specialized services designed to meet their developmental and educational needs.
These services range from speech and occupational therapy to classroom accommodations, assistive technology, and behavioral support. Early-intervention programs now serve families from the moment disabilities are identified, often improving long-term outcomes by addressing developmental delays before children enter school.
Nearly 50 years after its signing, the law remains one of the most significant civil-rights victories in American education.
It codified the principle that disability cannot be a barrier to opportunity and that every child deserves a meaningful path toward learning and independence.
Although many school districts continue to struggle with staffing shortages, compliance gaps, and uneven implementation, IDEA established a national baseline that transformed expectations for students once marginalized by the system.
November 29 stands as a reminder that educational access did not happen by accident.
It was secured through legislation that recognized the dignity and potential of every child—legislation that continues to shape classrooms across the United States.
Despite the promise of IDEA, the persistent failures in implementation across states and districts reveal how ineffective the Department of Education has become at enforcing its own standards and ensuring equal access for the students who depend on these protections most.
Quebec says it will intensify its crackdown on public displays of religion in a sweeping new law that critics say pushes Canadian provinces into private spaces and disproportionately affects Muslims.
Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday, bans prayer in public institutions, including in colleges and universities.
It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks, with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition. Short public events with prior approval are exempt.
CAQ has made secularism a key legislative priority, passing the controversial Bill 21 – which bans some public sector employees from wearing religious symbol – in 2019.
It plans to extend that prohibition to anyone working in daycares, colleges, universities and private schools. Full face coverings would be banned for anyone in those institutions, including students.
Quebec’s secularism minister, Jean-François Roberge, said the laws were designed to accelerate his push toward secularization.
“It’s shocking to see people blocking traffic, taking possession of the public space without a permit, without warning, and then turning our streets, our parks, our public squares into places of worship,” he explained.
He added that schools are “are not temples or churches or those kinds of places.”
MAJOR BREAKING ..QUEBEC GOES ALL-IN
Quebec is moving to BAN halal & kosher menus, prayer rooms, and face coverings in all public institutions.
It also expands the ban on public prayers.
Love it or hate it — Quebec is doing what no other province will: drawing a hard… pic.twitter.com/dzSaZDZxhj
While it is mainly Muslims who are furious about the proposals, some Christian groups are also pushing back on the grounds it fringes their rights to religious freedom.
Quebeckers are standing up to protect their churches.
And they’re growing in numbers. Fast.
The Quebec government is also preparing to ban street prayer.
China’s Ministry of State Security insignia and headquarters building, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
If scammers stole your data, the Chinese government may now have it.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has identified a disturbing new pattern in China’s regional expansion: Beijing is exploiting Chinese criminal networks operating massive scam centers across Southeast Asia as a pretext to deploy its internal security forces and gather intelligence throughout the region. This strategy is called the inside-out approach.
The inside-out approach refers to how China builds influence and intelligence networks abroad by first embedding itself inside foreign criminal ecosystems and then pushing its reach outward into political, economic, and security spheres. Instead of starting with overt diplomatic or military tools, the CCP begins by cultivating relationships with Chinese triads, business fronts, brokers, and migrant networks already operating in a target country. These actors provide cover, logistics, and local access that Beijing cannot obtain through official channels.
Once embedded, China uses these transnational criminal organizations to gather intelligence, move money, map local power structures, and influence political actors, creating an informal but highly effective forward presence. This model is visible across Southeast Asia and Latin America, where Chinese criminal syndicates run casinos, online scam compounds, money-laundering hubs, and illicit finance networks.
Many of these groups maintain quiet links to Chinese police, intelligence officers, or United Front operatives. Their operations generate leverage over local elites and expand China’s regional situational awareness.
From there, the CCP layers in formal tools such as law-enforcement cooperation, security agreements, digital-surveillance exports, and Belt and Road (BRI) investments, converting an underworld foothold into a broader intelligence and influence network.
Chinese criminal networks operate industrial-scale scam centers across Southeast Asia that steal tens of billions of dollars every year, including more than $16 billion from Americans. These compounds function like modern slave camps. Criminal gangs lure workers with fake job offers, traffic them across borders, and imprison them inside fortified buildings where many are beaten, tortured, or forced to work under threat.
The UN estimates that more than 220,000 people have been held as forced laborers in scam centers in Cambodia and Burma. The centers rely on scams such as pig-butchering investment fraud, romance schemes, and phone calls impersonating banks or government officials.
Burma, Cambodia, and Laos are the epicenter of the industry, producing an estimated $43.8 billion in 2023 alone. Scam centers run on a steady supply of trafficked labor and easy access to electricity, telecom networks, and border crossings with Thailand. Despite limited crackdowns, the structures continue to expand because the profits are enormous and the criminal networks are deeply embedded with local power brokers.
For Beijing, these criminal ecosystems create the conditions for China’s inside-out approach, serving as both a justification and a vehicle for inserting Chinese police and intelligence personnel into neighboring countries.
Chinese criminal networks behind the scam centers have built ties, both overt and deniable, to the Chinese government through patriotic rhetoric, alignment with the Belt and Road Initiative, and the promotion of pro-Beijing propaganda overseas. As a result, Chinese crime syndicates have expanded across Southeast Asia with at least implicit backing from elements of the Chinese government.
A clear example is the case of She Zhijiang and his Yatai New City project in Shwe Kokko on the Thai-Burma border. She, a convicted criminal involved in illegal gambling operations in the Philippines and Cambodia, launched a multibillion-dollar project in 2017 that he promoted as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Despite her criminal background and early reports that the development was designed to host illicit activity, Chinese officials embraced it.
The Chinese government’s Xinhua news agency called Yatai New City a model for economic and cultural cooperation between China and Burma, and the Global Times, another Communist Party mouthpiece, praised it as an example of private entrepreneurs contributing to BRI. Senior Chinese Embassy officials attended the signing ceremony, which took place under a banner identifying the project as part of BRI, and multiple Chinese state-owned enterprises signed contracts to help build it.
By 2021, Shwe Kokko had become the largest hub for Chinese online scam syndicates in Southeast Asia, widely described as a city built on scams. Once the development became synonymous with transnational crime, Beijing retroactively denied that Yatai New City had any connection to BRI, and in 2022, China issued an international warrant for She Zhijiang’s arrest.
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Reports from Philippine authorities indicate that several scam centers in the country have been linked to Chinese espionage activity. Police have raided POGO facilities near Clark Air Base and Basa Air Force Base, two sites that are central to U.S.-Philippines security cooperation. Senator Risa Hontiveros said there is persuasive intelligence showing that these compounds were used for surveillance and hacking. Raids uncovered sophisticated listening equipment and evidence of Chinese state-sponsored hackers operating inside scam centers.
Beijing has used the growth of Chinese-run scam centers in Southeast Asia to pressure regional governments into accepting a larger Chinese security role. China has signed agreements with Laos, Cambodia, and the Lancang-Mekong group to expand joint operations, intelligence sharing, and law-enforcement cooperation, framing these moves as necessary to combat transnational crime. These arrangements allow Chinese police and security personnel to operate more freely across borders, giving Beijing deeper access to regional security services and information networks.
Thailand shows how this strategy works in practice. After a Chinese citizen was abducted in Thailand and trafficked into a Burmese scam center, Chinese tourist arrivals fell sharply, creating economic pressure. Thailand’s prime minister then met with Xi Jinping and pledged to strengthen law-enforcement cooperation.
Thai authorities soon permitted Chinese officials and security forces to take part in cross-border operations, leading to mass repatriations of Chinese nationals. Thai academics and opposition politicians later warned that allowing Chinese security forces to operate inside Thailand violated national sovereignty and gave Beijing unprecedented influence over Thai internal security.
According to Chinese government documents, when Chinese security forces participate in raids on scam centers in Southeast Asia, they often confiscate large quantities of devices used by scammers. In 2023, Chinese officials joined raids in Laos and seized at least 640 computers and phones. In August 2024, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that Chinese forces had taken part in a raid on scam centers in Burma and removed a large quantity of devices, all of which were taken back to China.
These devices likely contain valuable intelligence on Chinese criminal networks as well as sensitive financial and personal information belonging to victims, including Americans. China has been unwilling to share information recovered from these devices with partner governments.
The raids have not disrupted the scam industry. After compounds along the China–Burma border were shut down, many operators simply moved to the Thai-Burma border and resumed operations. Even when Thailand attempted to cut internet access to known scam centers across the river, some compounds switched to satellite internet and continued working.
First Lady Melania Trump announced on Friday that she has launched her own production outfit, Muse Films.
The announcement comes just weeks before the release of a major Amazon MGM Studios documentary centered on her life as Donald Trump’s other half and two-term first lady.
The film, simply titled Melania, is being directed by Brett Ratner and will be released U.S. theaters on January 30.
Following its limited international rollout, the documentary will then be distributed exclusively by Amazon Prime Video.
Melania announced Muse Films on her official social-media accounts, posting a sleek motion graphic of the company’s logo.
The film reportedly follows the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, told entirely from Melania’s perspective.
According to Amazon, the film takes viewers inside her world as she manages inauguration preparations, plays her role in the presidential transition, and steps back into public life with her family.
Though widely admired for her impeccable style and calm, understated presence, Melania has always been intensely private, keeping the inner workings of her life and her marriage to Donald Trump firmly out of public view.
The documentary promises unprecedented access to private meetings, confidential conversations, and environments the public has never seen.
Although the documentary doesn’t focus on Trump, the then-president-elect appears several times throughout.
Their only child together, 19-year-old Barron, is also said to make several brief on-screen appearances.
Melania serves as an executive producer alongside Fernando Sulichin of New Element Media. Production began in December 2024, just weeks after Trump won the presidential election.
She is also not the first First Lady to venture into media.
After leaving the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama launched Higher Ground Productions, which went on to win an Oscar for their first Netflix documentary, American Factory.
The film, which covered the tensions between American and Chinese workers at an Ohio glass factory, was directed by outspoken communist Julia Reichert.
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an Alert as part of Treasury’s effort to prevent the exploitation of the U.S. financial system by illegal aliens in the United States seeking to move illicitly obtained funds.
Annually over the past several years, the United States has witnessed a significant volume of cross-border funds transfers, including remittances from individuals located in the United States, and has taken multiple steps this year to highlight risks presented by cross-border financial activity.
This Alert is consistent with Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion.
Money services businesses (MSBs) are generally required to file a suspicious activity report for a transaction that involves at least $2,000 and that the MSBs know, suspect, or have reason to suspect is relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation.
This includes the cross-border transfer of funds derived from unlawful employment or otherwise derived from funds the MSB knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect were illicitly obtained in the United States.
“Money services businesses should be vigilant in identifying suspicious financial activity involving illegal aliens who present significant threats to national security and public safety,” said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley.
“At Treasury, we will continue to protect the American people by faithfully upholding the laws of the United States.”
The announcement comes as the Trump administration seeks to step up its efforts in deporting those residing in the U.S illegally, days after an Afghan national shot and killed two national guardsmen in Washington D.C.
The issue of taxing, limiting or outalright banning remittances has long been discussed as a potential option for accelerating the administraiton’s work to secure the country’s borders.
A huge share of people who enter the U.S. illegally end up working off-the-books and wiring their earnings back home.
These remittances are effectively propping up several Latin American economies, including Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Here’s a confidential CIA memo from 1983 on illegal immigration from Mexico. It says illegal immigrants send 1/3 of their earnings back home to Mexico in remittances, the Mexican economy is totally dependent on those remits, and that Mexico thinks we can’t politically stop it. pic.twitter.com/bEa2RtkRgW
According to official analyses, money sent from migrants abroad routinely exceeds foreign direct investment, dwarfs most development aid, and in some cases rivals the nation’s major export industries.
EMERGENCY: ANTIFA CIVIL WAR
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